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New dominating sets in social networks

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Motivated by applications in social networks, a new type of dominating set has been studied in the literature. In this paper, we present results regarding the complexity and approximation in general graphs.

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Correspondence to Donghyun Kim.

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This research was jointly supported by MEST, Korea under WCU (R33-2008-000-10044-0), by the KOSEF grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. R01- 2007-000-11203-0), by KRF Grant funded by (KRF-2008- 314-D00354), and by MKE, Korea under ITRC IITA-2009- (C1090-0902-0046) and IITA-2009-(C1090-0902-0007).

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Zhu, X., Yu, J., Lee, W. et al. New dominating sets in social networks. J Glob Optim 48, 633–642 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-009-9511-2

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