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The Maker-Breaker domination game (MBD game) is a two-player game played on a graph $G$ by Dominator and Staller. They alternately select unplayed vertices of $G$. The goal of Dominator is to form a dominating set with the set of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Athira Divakaran , Tanja Dravec , Tijo James , Sandi Klavžar , Latha S Nair

The Maker-Breaker domination game is played on a graph $G$ by two players, called Dominator and Staller. They alternately select an unplayed vertex in $G$. Dominator wins the game if he forms a dominating set while Staller wins the game if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Pakanun Dokyeesun

The domination game on a graph $G$ (introduced by B. Bre\v{s}ar, S. Klav\v{z}ar, D.F. Rall \cite{BKR2010}) consists of two players, Dominator and Staller, who take turns choosing a vertex from $G$ such that whenever a vertex is chosen by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Hovhannes G. Tananyan

In m-eternal domination attacker and defender play on a graph. Initially, the defender places guards on vertices. In each round, the attacker chooses a vertex to attack. Then, the defender can move each guard to a neighboring vertex and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

We consider the following one-player game called Dundee. We are given a deck consisting of s_i cards of Value i, where i=1,...,v, and an integer m\le s_1+...+s_v. There are m rounds. In each round, the player names a number between 1 and v…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-06 Kevin Liwack , Oleg Pikhurko , Suporn Pongnumkul

Domination game [SIAM J.\ Discrete Math.\ 24 (2010) 979--991] and total domination game [Graphs Combin.\ 31 (2015) 1453--1462] are by now well established games played on graphs by two players, named Dominator and Staller. In this paper,…

We analyze the computational complexity of the popular computer games Threes!, 1024!, 2048 and many of their variants. For most known versions expanded to an m x n board, we show that it is NP-hard to decide whether a given starting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Stefan Langerman , Yushi Uno

We study the complexity of computing the commuting-operator value $\omega^*$ of entangled XOR games with any number of players. We introduce necessary and sufficient criteria for an XOR game to have $\omega^* = 1$, and use these criteria to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Adam Bene Watts , Aram W. Harrow , Gurtej Kanwar , Anand Natarajan

We focus on an online 2-stage problem, motivated by the following situation: consider a system where students shall be assigned to universities. There is a first round where some students apply, and a first (stable) matching $M_1$ has to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Evripidis Bampis , Bruno Escoffier , Paul Youssef

We study Maker--Breaker total domination game played by two players, Dominator and Staller, on the connected cubic graphs. Staller (playing the role of Maker) wins if she manages to claim an open neighbourhood of a vertex. Dominator wins…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jovana Forcan , Mirjana Mikalački

In the domination game studied here, Dominator and Staller alternately choose a vertex of a graph $G$ and take it into a set $D$. The number of vertices dominated by the set $D$ must increase in each single turn and the game ends when $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Csilla Bujtás

The orienteering problem is a well-studied and fundamental problem in transportation science. In the problem, we are given a graph with prizes on the nodes and lengths on the edges, together with a budget on the overall tour length. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda , Markus Sinnl , Kübra Tanınmış

We study different domination problems of attacking and non-attacking rooks and queens on polyominoes and polycubes of all dimensions. Our main result proves that maximum independent domination is NP-complete for non-attacking queens and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Alexis Langlois-Rémillard , Mia Müßig , Érika Róldan

A large class of Positional Games are defined on the complete graph on $n$ vertices. The players, Maker and Breaker, take the edges of the graph in turns, and Maker wins iff his subgraph has a given -- usually monotone -- property. Here we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 József Balogh , Ryan R. Martin , András Pluhár

We study the m-Eternal Domination problem, which is the following two-player game between a defender and an attacker on a graph: initially, the defender positions k guards on vertices of the graph; the game then proceeds in turns between…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Neeldhara Misra , Saraswati G. Nanoti , Giacomo Paesani

In this paper we introduce and study the domination game on hypergraphs. This is played on a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ by two players, namely Dominator and Staller, who alternately select vertices such that each selected vertex enlarges the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Csilla Bujtás , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza , Máté vizer

In 2010, Bre\v{s}ar, Klav\v{z}ar and Rall introduced the optimization variant of the graph domination game and the game domination number, which was proved PSPACE-hard by Bre\v{s}ar et al. in 2016. In 2024, Leo Versteegen obtained the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 João Marcos Brito , Thiago Marcilon , Nicolas Martins , Rudini Sampaio

Positional games have been introduced by Hales and Jewett in 1963 and have been extensively investigated in the literature since then. These games are played on a hypergraph where two players alternately select an unclaimed vertex of it. In…

In the domination game, introduced by Bre\v{s}ar, Klav\v{z}ar and Rall in 2010, Dominator and Staller alternately select a vertex of a graph $G$. A move is legal if the selected vertex $v$ dominates at least one new vertex -- that is, if we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Csilla Bujtás

We consider spatial voting where candidates are located in the Euclidean $d$-dimensional space, and each voter ranks candidates based on their distance from the voter's ideal point. We explore the case where information about the location…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Aviram Imber , Jonas Israel , Markus Brill , Hadas Shachnai , Benny Kimelfeld