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A communication network can be modeled as a directed connected graph with edge weights that characterize performance metrics such as loss and delay. Network tomography aims to infer these edge weights from their pathwise versions measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Mahmood Ettehad , Nick Duffield , Gregory Berkolaiko

Given a hypergraph with uncertain node weights following known probability distributions, we study the problem of querying as few nodes as possible until the identity of a node with minimum weight can be determined for each hyperedge.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Evripidis Bampis , Christoph Dürr , Thomas Erlebach , Murilo S. de Lima , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

This paper focuses on finding a spanning tree of a graph to maximize the number of its internal vertices. We present an approximation algorithm for this problem which can achieve a performance ratio $\frac{4}{3}$ on undirected simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Xingfu Li , Daming Zhu

We consider the problem of exploring an unknown tree with a team of $k$ initially colocated mobile agents. Each agent has limited energy and cannot, as a result, traverse more than $B$ edges. The goal is to maximize the number of nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Evangelos Bampas , Jérémie Chalopin , Shantanu Das , Jan Hackfeld , Christina Karousatou

An algorithm on weighted graphs is called universally optimal if it is optimal for every input graph, in the worst case taken over all weight assignments. Informally, this means the algorithm is competitive even with algorithms that are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn

We study the problem of exploring all vertices of an undirected weighted graph that is initially unknown to the searcher. An edge of the graph is only revealed when the searcher visits one of its endpoints. Beginning at some start node, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Robin Fritsch

We study connectivity relations among points, where the precise location of each input point lies in a region of uncertainty. We distinguish two fundamental scenarios under which uncertainty arises. In the favorable Best-Case Uncertainty…

Random spanning trees of a graph $G$ are governed by a corresponding probability mass distribution (or "law"), $\mu$, defined on the set of all spanning trees of $G$. This paper addresses the problem of choosing $\mu$ in order to utilize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Nathan Albin , Jason Clemens , Derek Hoare , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Brandon Sit , Sarah Tymochko

This work considers the robustness of uncertain consensus networks. The first set of results studies the stability properties of consensus networks with negative edge weights. We show that if either the negative weight edges form a cut in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Daniel Zelazo , Mathias Bürger

This paper studies constructive heuristics for the minimum labelling spanning tree (MLST) problem. The purpose is to find a spanning tree that uses edges that are as similar as possible. Given an undirected labeled connected graph (i.e.,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Sergio Consoli , Jose Andres Moreno-Perez , Kenneth Darby-Dowman , Nenad Mladenovic

Stabilization of graphs has received substantial attention in recent years due to its connection to game theory. Stable graphs are exactly the graphs inducing a matching game with non-empty core. They are also the graphs that induce a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Corinna Gottschalk , Jochen Könemann , Britta Peis , Daniel Schmand , Andreas Wierz

Network reliability measures the probability that a target node is reachable from a source node in an uncertain graph, i.e., a graph where every edge is associated with a probability of existence. In this paper, we investigate the novel and…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiangyu Ke , Arijit Khan , Mohammad Al Hasan , Rojin Rezvansangsari

We present a Las Vegas algorithm for dynamically maintaining a minimum spanning forest of an $n$-node graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. Our algorithm guarantees an $O(n^{o(1)})$ worst-case update time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In this paper, we consider a coverage problem for uncertain points in a tree. Let T be a tree containing a set P of n (weighted) demand points, and the location of each demand point P_i\in P is uncertain but is known to appear in one of m_i…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Haitao Wang , Jingru Zhang

Consider~\(n\) nodes~\(\{X_i\}_{1 \leq i \leq n}\) independently distributed in the unit square~\(S,\) each according to a distribution~\(f.\) Nodes~\(X_i\) and~\(X_j\) are joined by an edge if the Euclidean distance~\(d(X_i,X_j)\) is less…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

In the Properly Colored Spanning Tree problem, we are given an edge-colored undirected graph and the goal is to find a spanning tree in which any two adjacent edges have distinct colors. Since finding such a tree is NP-hard in general,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuhang Bai , Kristóf Bérczi

Motivated by the exact weight perfect matching problem and recent parameterized algorithms for finding an $\ell$-th smallest perfect matching, we study structural properties of edge-weight symmetries in graphs. Recent work by El Maalouly et…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Kristóf Bérczi , Viktor Csaplár , Yutaro Yamaguchi

A novel approach for non-intrusive uncertainty propagation is proposed. Our approach overcomes the limitation of many traditional methods, such as generalised polynomial chaos methods, which may lack sufficient accuracy when the quantity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Yous van Halder , Benjamin Sanderse , Barry Koren

This paper studies a fundamental algorithmic problem related to the design of demand-aware networks: networks whose topologies adjust toward the traffic patterns they serve, in an online manner. The goal is to strike a tradeoff between the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Chen Avin , Kaushik Mondal , Stefan Schmid

In the spanning tree congestion problem, given a connected graph $G$, the objective is to compute a spanning tree $T$ in $G$ that minimizes its maximum edge congestion, where the congestion of an edge $e$ of $T$ is the number of edges in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Huong Luu , Marek Chrobak