Algebraic and Computer-based Methods in the Undirected Degree/diameter Problem - a Brief Survey

This paper discusses the most popular algebraic techniques and computational methods that have been used to construct large graphs with given degree and diameter

Radially Moore graphs of radius three and large odd degree

Extremal graphs which are close related to Moore graphs have been defined in different ways. Radially Moore graphs are one of these examples of extremal graphs. Although it is proved that radially Moore graphs exist for radius two, the general problem remains open. Knor, and independently Exoo, gives some constructions of these extremal graphs for radius three and small degrees. As far as we know, some few examples have been found for other small values of the degree and the radius. Here, we consider the existence problem of radially Moore graphs of radius three. We use the generalized undirected de Bruijn graphs to give a general construction of radially Moore graphs of radius three and large odd degree.Peer Reviewe

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Optimal Networks Topologies IWONT 2010

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HSAGA and its application for the construction of near-Moore digraphs

The degree/diameter problem is to determine the largest graphs or digraphs of given maximum degree and given diameter. This paper deals with directed graphs. General upper bounds, called Moore bounds, exist for the largest possible order of such digraphs of maximum degree d and given diameter k. It is known that simulated annealing and genetic algorithm are effective techniques to identify global optimal solutions. This paper describes our attempt to build a Hybrid Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm (HSAGA) that can be used to construct large digraphs. We present our new results obtained by HSAGA, as well as several related open problems