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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf18309</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2007.188</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Recognition Algorithm for Diamond-Free Graphs</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Talmaciu</surname><given-names>Mihai</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:mihaitalmaciu@yahoo.com">mihaitalmaciu@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Nechita</surname><given-names>Elena</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:elenechita@yahoo.com">elenechita@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Bacău, 8 Spiru Haret str., 600114 Bacău, Romania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2007</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>457</fpage><lpage>462</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>05</month><year>2006</year></date></history><abstract><p>In this paper we recall the notion of weakly decomposition, we recall some necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to admit such a decomposition, we introduce the recognition algorithm for the diamond-free graphs which keeps the combinatorial structure of the graph by means of the decomposition, as well as an easy possibility to determine the clique number for the diamond-free graphs.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>diamond graph</kwd><kwd>weakly decomposition</kwd><kwd>recognition algorithm</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>