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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2300</article-id>
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        <article-title>Metric dimension of linear polyomino chain</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Naeem</surname>
            <given-names>Aqsa</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Rawalpindi Women University, Rawalpindi, 46000, Pakistan</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Hameed</surname>
            <given-names>Sarah Abdul</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Kufa, Najaf, 540011, Iraq</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alobaidi</surname>
            <given-names>Hussam  Majid Shihab</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Administrative and Financial Affairs, Al-Iraqia University, Baghdad, 10071, Iraq</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Afzal</surname>
            <given-names>Deeba</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Rawalpindi Women University, Rawalpindi, 46000, Pakistan</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Farahani</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammad  Reza</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16844, Iran</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Alaeiyan</surname>
            <given-names>Mehdi</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, Tehran, 16844, Iran</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Cancan</surname>
            <given-names>Murat</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>11</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>04</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>Metric dimension has applications in real life including robots, fiber optics, network designs, chemical structures etc. Metric dimension of graph is minimum amount of vertices required to construct resolving set by independently determining each other’s distances. The set is known as graph’s resolving set if each pair of vertices in G has unique representation. In this work, we find metric dimension of linear polyomino chain.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Resolving sets</kwd>
        <kwd>Metric dimension</kwd>
        <kwd>Metric basis</kwd>
        <kwd>Linear polyomino chain</kwd>
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