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\emph{Temporal graphs} are a generalisation of (static) graphs, defined by a sequence of \emph{snapshots}, each a static graph defined over a common set of vertices. \emph{Exploration} problems are one of the most fundamental and most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Duncan Adamson , Paul G Spirakis

We consider the problem of designing succinct data structures for interval graphs with $n$ vertices while supporting degree, adjacency, neighborhood and shortest path queries in optimal time in the $\Theta(\log n)$-bit word RAM model. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hüseyin Acan , Sankardeep Chakraborty , Seungbum Jo , Srinivasa Rao Satti

We study the design of small cost temporally connected graphs, under various constraints. We mainly consider undirected graphs of $n$ vertices, where each edge has an associated set of discrete availability instances (labels). A journey…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Eleni C. Akrida , Leszek Gasieniec , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring unknown environments with autonomous agents. We model the environment as a graph with edge weights and analyze the task of visiting all vertices of the graph at least once. The hardness of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Janosch Fuchs , Ulla Karhumäki , Walter Unger

We study the problem of collective tree exploration in which a team of $k$ mobile agents must collectively visit all nodes of an unknown tree in as few moves as possible. The agents all start from the root and discover adjacent edges as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Romain Cosson , Laurent Massoulié

A mobile agent navigating along edges of a simple connected graph, either finite or countably infinite, has to find an inert target (treasure) hidden in one of the nodes. This task is known as treasure hunt. The agent has no a priori…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Arnaud Labourel , Andrzej Pelc

The dispersion problem on graphs requires $k$ robots placed arbitrarily at the $n$ nodes of an anonymous graph, where $k \leq n$, to coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration in which each robot is at a distinct node of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Faizan Ali

We consider the problem of timely exchange of updates between a central station and a set of ground terminals $V$, via a mobile agent that traverses across the ground terminals along a mobility graph $G = (V, E)$. We design the trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Vishrant Tripathi , Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

We show how to construct an overlay network of constant degree and diameter $O(\log n)$ in time $O(\log n)$ starting from an arbitrary weakly connected graph. We assume a synchronous communication network in which nodes can send messages to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Thorsten Götte , Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

Two mobile agents, starting from different nodes of a network modeled as a graph, and woken up at possibly different times, have to meet at the same node. This problem is known as rendezvous. We consider deterministic distributed rendezvous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc

Temporal graphs are a class of graphs defined by a constant set of vertices and a changing set of edges, each of which is known as a timestep. These graphs are well motivated in modelling real-world networks, where connections may change…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Duncan Adamson

Consider a group of autonomous mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily placed at some nodes of a dynamic but always connected ring. The agents neither have any knowledge about the size of the ring nor have a common notion…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Archak Das , Kaustav Bose , Buddhadeb Sau

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning an unknown graph via queries on groups of nodes, with the result indicating whether or not at least one edge is present among those nodes. While learning arbitrary graphs with $n$ nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zihan Li , Matthias Fresacher , Jonathan Scarlett

Motivated by privacy preservation for outsourced data, data-oblivious external memory is a computational framework where a client performs computations on data stored at a semi-trusted server in a way that does not reveal her data to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Michael T. Goodrich , Joseph A. Simons

A group of mobile agents is given a task to explore an edge-weighted graph $G$, i.e., every vertex of $G$ has to be visited by at least one agent. There is no centralized unit to coordinate their actions, but they can freely communicate…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Dorota Osula

We consider the problem of finding an edge in a hidden undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, in a model where we only allowed queries that ask whether or not a subset of vertices contains an edge. We study the non-adaptive model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ron Kupfer , Noam Nisan

We spot a hole in the area of succinct data structures for graph classes from a universe of size at most $n^n$. Very often, the input graph is labeled by the user in an arbitrary and easy-to-use way, and the data structure for the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Christian Engels , Seungbum Jo , Mingmou Liu

In a temporal graph the edge set dynamically changes over time according to a set of time-labels associated with each edge that indicates at which time-steps the edge is available. Two vertices are connected if there is a path connecting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Daniele Carnevale , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Martin Olsen

A memoryless routing algorithm is one in which the decision about the next edge on the route to a vertex t for a packet currently located at vertex v is made based only on the coordinates of v, t, and the neighbourhood, N(v), of v. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Dan Chen , Luc Devroye , Vida Dujmovic , Pat Morin

We consider the problem of exploring an anonymous unoriented ring of size $n$ by $k$ identical, oblivious, asynchronous mobile robots, that are unable to communicate, yet have the ability to sense their environment and take decisions based…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Anissa Lamani , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil