A characterization of strongly chordal graphs
In this paper, we present a simple charactrization of strongly chordal graphs. A chordal graph is strongly chordal if and only if every cycle on six or more vertices has an induced triangle with exactly two edges of the triangle as the chords of the cycle.

title: Characterization of eccentric digraphs
abstract: The eccentric digraphED(G) of a digraph G represents the binary relation, defined on the vertex set of G, of being 'eccentric'; that is, there is an arc from u to v in ED(G) if and only if v is at maximum distance from u in G. A digraph G is said to be eccentric if there exists a digraph H such that G=ED(H). This paper is devoted to the study of the following two questions: what digraphs are eccentric and when the relation of being eccentric is symmetric. We present a characterization of eccentric digraphs, which in the undirected case says that a graph G is eccentric iff its complement graph G@? is either self-centered of radius two or it is the union of complete graphs. As a consequence, we obtain that all trees except those with diameter 3 are eccentric digraphs. We also determine when ED(G) is symmetric in the cases when G is a graph or a digraph that is not strongly connected.

title: Mod sum number of wheels

title: Minimum Diameter of Diregular Digraphs of Degree 2
abstract: Etude de certaines relations entre le nombre de sommets, degre et diametre de graphes finis diregulaires. Les trois problemes consideres sont N(d,k), K(u,d) et D(u, k) ou, autrement dit, trouver le nombre maximum possible de sommets etant donnes le degre d et le diametre k; trouver le diametre minimum possible etant donnes le nombre de sommets n et le degre d et trouver le degre minimum possible etant donnes le nombre de sommets n et le diametre k respectivement

title: On d-antimagic labelings of prisms

title: Digraphs of degree two which miss the Moore bound by two
abstract: It is well known that Moore digraphs do not exist except for trivial cases (degree one or diameter one). Consequently, for a given maximum out-degree d and a given diameter, we wish to find a digraph whose order misses the Moore bound by the smallest possible ‘defect’. For diameter two and arbitrary degree there are digraphs which miss the Moore bound by one. No examples of such digraphs of diameter at least three are known, although several necessary conditions for their existence have been obtained. In the case of degree two, it has been shown that there are no digraphs of diameter greater than two and defect one. There are five nonisomorphic digraphs of degree two, diameter two and defect two. In this paper we prove that digraphs of degree two and diameter k ⩾3 which miss the Moore bound by two do not exist.

title: Exploring the Energy-Latency Trade-Off for Broadcasts in Energy-Saving Sensor Networks
abstract: Networking protocols for multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are required to simultaneously minimize resource usage as well as optimize performance metrics such as latency and reliability. This paper explores the energy-latency-reliability trade-off for broadcast in multi-hop WSNs, by presenting a new protocol called PBBF (probability-based broadcast forwarding). PBBF works at the MAC layer and can be integrated into any sleep scheduling protocol. For a given application-defined level of reliability for broadcasts, the energy required and latency obtained are found to be inversely related to each other. Our analysis and simulation study quantify this relationship at the reliability boundary, as well as performance numbers to be expected from a deployment. PBBF essentially offers a WSN application designer considerable flexibility in choice of desired operation points

title: Consecutive magic graphs
abstract: Let G be a graph of order n and size e. A vertex-magic total labeling is an assignment of the integers 1,2,...,n+e to the vertices and the edges of G, so that at each vertex, the vertex label and the labels on the edges incident at that vertex, add to a fixed constant, called the magic number of G. Such a labeling is a-vertex consecutive magic if the set of the labels of the vertices is {a+1,a+2,...,a+n}, and is b-edge consecutive magic if the set of labels of the edges is {b+1,b+2,...,b+e}. In this paper we prove that if an a-vertex consecutive magic graph has isolated vertices then the order and the size satisfy (n-1)^2+n^2=(2e+1)^2. Moreover, we show that every tree with even order is not a-vertex consecutive magic and, if a tree of odd order is a-vertex consecutive then a=n-1. Furthermore, we show that every a-vertex consecutive magic graph has minimum degree at least two if a=0, or both 2e>=6n^2-2n+1 and 2a==10n^2-6n+1+4a and 2a=

title: On the degrees of a strongly vertex-magic graph
abstract: Let G=(V,E) be a finite graph, where |V|=n>=2 and |E|=e>=1. A vertex-magic total labeling is a bijection @l from V@?E to the set of consecutive integers {1,2,...,n+e} with the property that for every v@?V, @l(v)+@?"w"@?"N"("v")@l(vw)=h for some constant h. Such a labeling is strong if @l(V)={1,2,...,n}. In this paper, we prove first that the minimum degree of a strongly vertex-magic graph is at least two. Next, we show that if 2e>=10n^2-6n+1, then the minimum degree of a strongly vertex-magic graph is at least three. Further, we obtain upper and lower bounds of any vertex degree in terms of n and e. As a consequence we show that a strongly vertex-magic graph is maximally edge-connected and hamiltonian if the number of edges is large enough. Finally, we prove that semi-regular bipartite graphs are not strongly vertex-magic graphs, and we provide strongly vertex-magic total labeling of certain families of circulant graphs.

title: Logical Secrets

title: Objects in Concurrent Logic Programming Languages
abstract: Concurrent Prolog supports object-oriented programming with a clean semantics and additional programming constructs such as incomplete messages, unification, direct broadcasting, and concurrency synchronization [Shapiro 1983a]. While it provides excellent computational support, we claim it does not provide good notation for expressing the abstractions of object-oriented programming. We describe a preprocessor that remedies this problem. The resulting language, Vulcan, is then used as a behicle for exploring new variants of object-oriented programming which become possible in this framework.