(Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2013-08) Gönen, Mehmet Emin; Kaygun, Atabey
In this thesis, we count and list a special class of directed graphs. We consider directed
graphs which are transitively reduced and do not contain cycles. These directed graphs
have also unique sources and unique sinks. In the text, we called such directed graphs
as “admissible digraphs”. Such directed graphs find applications in bioinformatics and
network flow theory. We constructed explicit algorithms to count and list admissible
digraphs with a specific number of vertices. Our counting algorithm is not exact, it gives
us an upper bound on the number of admissible digraphs with a certain number of vertices.
On the other hand, our listing algorithm is exact and list all admissible digraphs of certain
vertex set size.