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With the rapid development of social network applications, social network has become an important medium for people to interact. For the minimum distance computation of all pairs in networks, Alon N[4] proposed an algorithm with matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Dezhou Shen

Given a set of points in the plane, the \textsc{General Position Subset Selection} problem is that of finding a maximum-size subset of points in general position, i.e., with no three points collinear. The problem is known to be ${\rm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Adrian Dumitrescu

We consider the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex tree with one shortcut in order to minimize the diameter of the resulting graph. The tree is embedded in an unknown space and we have access to an oracle that, when queried on a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Davide Bilò

We consider the classical Minimum Crossing Number problem: given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, compute a drawing of $G$ in the plane, while minimizing the number of crossings between the images of its edges. This is a fundamental and extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Julia Chuzhoy , Zihan Tan

Let $P$ be a set of $2n$ points in convex position, such that $n$ points are colored red and $n$ points are colored blue. A non-crossing alternating path on $P$ of length $\ell$ is a sequence $p_1, \dots, p_\ell$ of $\ell$ points from $P$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wolfgang Mulzer , Pavel Valtr

In this paper we present algorithms for a number of problems in geometric pattern matching where the input consist of a collections of segments in the plane. Our work consists of two main parts. In the first, we address problems and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alon Efrat , Piotr Indyk , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We study approximation algorithms for the following geometric version of the maximum coverage problem: Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a set of $n$ weighted points in the plane. Let $D$ represent a planar object, such as a rectangle, or a disk. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Kai Jin , Jian Li , Haitao Wang , Bowei Zhang , Ningye Zhang

This research studies a non-convex geometric optimization problem arising from the field of optical wireless power transfer. In the considered optimization problem, the cost function is a sum of negatively and fractionally powered distances…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Dinh Hoa Nguyen , Kaname Matsue

We consider the problem of reconfiguring non-crossing spanning trees on point sets. For a set $P$ of $n$ points in general position in the plane, the flip graph $F(P)$ has a vertex for each non-crossing spanning tree on $P$ and an edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Joseph Dorfer , Linda Kleist , Torsten Ueckerdt , Birgit Vogtenhuber

We study noncrossing geometric graphs and their disjoint compatible geometric matchings. Given a cycle (a polygon) P we want to draw a set of pairwise disjoint straight-line edges with endpoints on the vertices of P such that these new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Alexander Pilz , Jonathan Rollin , Lena Schlipf , André Schulz

Given an $n$-vertex non-negatively real-weighted graph $G$, whose vertices are partitioned into a set of $k$ clusters, a \emph{clustered network design problem} on $G$ consists of solving a given network design optimization problem on $G$,…

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Let $G$ be an $n$-node simple directed planar graph with nonnegative edge weights. We study the fundamental problems of computing (1) a global cut of $G$ with minimum weight and (2) a~cycle of $G$ with minimum weight. The best previously…

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This paper considers the \textit{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem in the Congested Clique model and presents an algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds, with high probability. Prior to this, the fastest MST algorithm in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

In this paper, we study the non-bipartite maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model has received a significant amount of attention lately. While the problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

In a directed graph $G$ with non-correlated edge lengths and costs, the \emph{network design problem with bounded distances} asks for a cost-minimal spanning subgraph subject to a length bound for all node pairs. We give a bi-criteria…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Markus Chimani , Joachim Spoerhase

The orienteering problem is a route optimization problem which consists in finding a simple cycle that maximizes the total collected profit subject to a maximum distance limitation. In the last few decades, the occurrence of this problem in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Gorka Kobeaga , María Merino , Jose A. Lozano

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

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