Najiba Sbihi

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Najiba Sbihi (born 1953) [1] is a Moroccan mathematician and operations researcher, known for her contributions to graph theory and graph algorithms.

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Education and career

Sbihi earned a degree from the Faculty of Sciences of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco in 1973. She continued her studies in France at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, first in computer science in which she earned a bachelor's degree in 1975. Continuing in operations research, she earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1976, [2] a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1978 under the supervision of Michel Sakarovitch, [1] and a doctorat d'état in 1987, supervised by Jean Fonlupt. [3] Her doctoral study also included research in Canada with Jack Edmonds at the University of Waterloo and with Václav Chvátal at McGill University. [2]

She worked with the Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research until, in 1992, becoming a professor of industrial engineering in the Mohammadia School of Engineering in Rabat. She headed the Department of Industrial Engineering from 1995 to 1997. [2]

Contributions

Sbihi's contributions to graph theory and graph algorithms include the discovery that the maximum independent set problem can be solved in polynomial time on claw-free graphs. [A] With Chvátal, she proved a special case of the strong perfect graph theorem, for the graphs that have no bull graph as an induced subgraph. [B] Their work in this area introduced a type of graph decomposition that was central to the eventual proof of the full strong perfect graph theorem. [4] She and Chvátal also devised efficient algorithms for recognizing the claw-free perfect graphs, [C] and later she and Bruce Reed showed how to recognize the Bull-free perfect graphs. [D]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 Étude des stables dans les graphes sans étoile, Joseph Fourier University, 1978, retrieved 2024-10-16
  2. 1 2 3 Or_Afri_Icons 6: Pr. Najiba Sbihi, OR@AFRICA, 2024, retrieved 2024-10-16 via Linkedin
  3. Sbihi, Najiba; Fonlupt, Jean (January 1987), "Contribution à l'étude des stables dans un graphe par une approche algorithmique", Theses.fr, retrieved 2024-10-16
  4. Avis, David; Bondy, Adrian; Cook, William; Reed, Bruce (June 2007), "Vašek Chvátal: A Very Short Introduction" (PDF), Graphs and Combinatorics, 23 (S1): 41–65, doi:10.1007/s00373-007-0721-4