The competition graph of a digraph was introduced by Cohen in 1968 associat
ed with the study of ccosystems. Since then, the competition graph has been
widely studied and many variations have been introduced. In this paper, we
define and study the m-step competition graph of a digraph which is anothe
r generalization of competition graph. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All r
ights reserved.