SAROJA   KANCHI , Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Phone : 810 762 7927     FAX : 810 792 9796      email: skanchi@kettering.edu
 
 

Graph Theory and Algorithms
 
                           A graph is a collection of nodes and edges. For example,  a computer network consisting of computers at each node and communication links as edges would form a graph. Other examples include, layout of
streets and signals in a city, electrical circuits, distances on a map and innumerable number of applications that involve representation of relationship between objects.  Natural questions relating to graphs include, shortest route between nodes, connectivity of the graph, reliability if links or nodes were removed, finding smaller structures in larger graphs,  specific cycles in graphs and drawing of graphs onto surfaces.

Consider drawing a graph onto a plane without edges crossing. A complete graph on 4 vertices, can be redrawn but a complete graph on five vertices cannot. Now consider the same graph drawing on higher dimensional surfaces such as torus, etc.  This  research attempts to answer questions such as:

 a) How many drawings of a graph (without edge crossing) is possible on a given surface?
 b) What is the complexity of algorithms that draw graphs on various surfaces?
 c)  Can one find if graphs are isomorphic by examining drawings on higher dimensional surfaces?
 and several other questions relating to graph drawing.
 
 

 Publications                           Journals                              Conferences(Upcoming and Old)
 

Conferences 
 

AGTIVE:Applications of Graph Transformation with Industrial Relevance
APPROX:Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
COCOON: Electronic Submissions for COCOON'99
ESA:European Symposium on Algorithms
FOCS Fundamentals of Computer Science
FST-TCS:Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
FUN: Fun with Algorithms
GD:Graph Drawing  Workshop
ICALP:International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
ICTCS: International  Conference  On Theoretical Computer Science
ISAAC: Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
MFCS:Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
SODA: Symposium On Discrete Algorithms
STACS: Symposium on Theoretical Computer Science
STOC: Symposium on Theory of Computing
SWATScandinavianWorkshop on Algorithmic Theory
TAGT : T
WADS: Workshop on Algorithms And Data Structures

WG: Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
 
Journals

ACMComputing Surveys
ArsCombinatoria
Algorithmica
Combinatorica
DiscreteApplied Mathematics
DiscreteMathematics 
DiscreteMathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
TheElectronic Journal of Combinatorics and World Combinatorics Exchange
European Journal of Combinatorics
Graphs and Combinatorics
Information and Computation
InformationProcessing Letters
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
Journalof the ACM
Journalof Algorithms
Journalof Complexity
Journalof Computer and System Sciences
Journalof Combinatorial Designs
Journalof Combinatorial Optimization
Journalof Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Journalof Combinatorial Theory, Series B
Journalof Graph Algorithms and Applications
Journalof Graph Theory
LMSJournal of Computation and Mathematics
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
NordicJournal of Computing
SIAMJournal on Computing
SIAMJournal on Discrete Mathematics
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
TheoreticalComputer Science
 

Publications  

1."  Graph Ear Decompositions and Imbeddings ", To appear in SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics.  (coauthor:  J.  Chen) , 1999.

2."A note on Approximating Graph Genus", In Information Processing Letters, 61, 1997, pp 317322 (coauthors:  J.  Chen and A.  Kanevsky)

3."Tight lower bound on maximum genus of simplicial graphs" In Discrete Mathematics, 156, 1996, pp83102.  (coauthors:  J.  Chen and J.L Gross)

4."Maximum Genus and Connectivity of a General Graph", Technical Report, Texas  A & M University, Submitted to Journal of Graph Theory, 1996.  (co-author: J.  Chen)

5."Tight Lower bound on 2-connected simplicial graphs" , Technical Report, Texas A & M University, 1996, Submitted to Discrete Mathematics. (coauthor:  J.  Chen)

6."Determining Isomorphism of graphs", In GMI Industry Symposium, 1996

7."Number of vertices of a graph with maximum genus k" Manuscript, GMI  Engineering & Management Institute, 1995, (coauthor:  Frank Harary)

8."Polynomial time Algorithm for embeddings of graphs with bounded genus "   Manuscript, GMI Engineering & Management Institute, 1994

9."Maximum genus and Trivalent graphs" , Manuscript, GMI Engineering and  Management Institute, 1994

10."Graph Imbeddings and Graph Ear Decompositions", In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 790, 1993, 376387, (coauthor:  J.  Chen)

11."On complexity of graph imbeddings", In Lecture Notes in Computer Science,709, 1993, pp 234245.  (coauthors:  J.  Chen and A.  Kanevsky)

12."On Graph Drawings with Smallest Number of Faces", in Graph Drawing, 1993, pp4043.  (coauthors:  J.  Chen and J.  L.  Gross)

13."Hamiltonian Circuit in 2-regular digraphs",In Open Problems, SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics Summer 1993.
 

 
 
Conference Home Pages
AGTIVE: Applications of Graph Transformation with Industrial Relevance
AGTIVE99

APPROX:Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
APPROX:Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
COCOON: Electronic Submissions for COCOON'99
COCOON: Electronic Submissions for COCOON'99
C I A C  ITALIAN CONFERENCE on  ALGORITHMS  AND COMPLEXITY

  ciac2000
CONCUR:International Conference on Concurrency Theory
CONCUR98
ESA:European Symposium on Algorithms
ESA98
GD:Graph Drawing  Workshop
GD96
ICALP:International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
  ICALP 99
ICALP (rest)
ICTCS: International  Conference  On Theoretical Computer Science
ICTCS: International  Conference  On Theoretical Computer Science
ISAAC: Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
 ISAAC99        ISAAC98               SAAC97         ISAAC96            ISAAC95
MFCS:Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
MFCS99
MFCS98
STACS: Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
STACS99
SWAT Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithmic Theory
SWAT Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithmic Theory
TAGT : T
TAGT : T
WADS: Workshop on Algorithms And Data Structures
WADS: Workshop on Algorithms And Data Structures
 WAE WorkShop on Algorithmic Engineering.
  WAE99
WG: Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science

WG: Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science