RESEARCH NEWS | A group of researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences authored a paper that investigated the connected outer-hop independent domination in some families of graphs and graphs under some binary operations. Said paper was authored by Jahiri U. Manditong (alumnus), Prof. Javier A. Hassan, PhD, Prof. Ladznar S. Laja, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Amy A. Laja, Assoc. Prof. Nurijam Hanna M. Mohammad and Assoc. Prof. Sisteta U. Kamdon, and has been published in the European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, a Scopus-indexed journal. Review the full paper here:
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Connected Outer-Hop Independent Dominating Sets in Graphs Under Some Binary Operations
By: Jahiri U. Manditong, Prof. Javier A. Hassan, PhD, Prof. Ladznar S. Laja, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Amy A. Laja, Assoc. Prof. Nurijam Hanna M. Mohammad and Assoc. Prof. Sisteta U. Kamdon
Published: August 23, 2023
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By: Jahiri U. Manditong, Prof. Javier A. Hassan, PhD, Prof. Ladznar S. Laja, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Amy A. Laja, Assoc. Prof. Nurijam Hanna M. Mohammad and Assoc. Prof. Sisteta U. Kamdon
August 23, 2023
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