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Motivated by evacuation scenarios arising in extreme events such as flooding or forest fires, we study the problem of smoothly scheduling a set of paths in graphs where connections become impassable at some point in time. A schedule is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Till Fluschnik , Amela Pucic , Malte Renken

Given a graph with edge costs and vertex profits and given a budget B, the Orienteering Problem asks for a walk of cost at most B of maximum profit. Additionally, each profit may be given with a time window within it can be collected by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kevin Buchin , Mart Hagedoorn , Guangping Li , Carolin Rehs

Covering all edges of a graph by a small number of vertices, this is the NP-complete Vertex Cover problem. It is among the most fundamental graph-algorithmic problems. Following a recent trend in studying temporal graphs (a sequence of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Till Fluschnik , Rolf Niedermeier , Valentin Rohm , Philipp Zschoche

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

A temporal graph is a graph in which edges are assigned a time label. Two nodes u and v of a temporal graph are connected one to the other if there exists a path from u to v with increasing edge time labels. We consider the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alkida Balliu , Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Dennis Olivetti , Laurent Viennot

Coordinating agents through hazardous environments, such as aid-delivering drones navigating conflict zones or field robots traversing deployment areas filled with obstacles, poses fundamental planning challenges. We introduce and analyze…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Šimon Schierreich , Nicholas Axel Tanujaya , Haifeng Xu

In this paper we present the first deterministic polynomial time algorithm for determining the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle and finding a Hamiltonian cycle in general graphs. Our algorithm can also solve the Hamiltonian path problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Aimin Hou

An edge-colored directed graph is \emph{observable} if an agent that moves along its edges is able to determine his position in the graph after a sufficiently long observation of the edge colors. When the agent is able to determine his…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raphael M. Jungers , Vincent D. Blondel

In this paper, a novel approach is introduced which utilizes a Rapidly-exploring Random Graph to improve sampling-based autonomous exploration of unknown environments with unmanned ground vehicles compared to the current state of the art.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Marco Steinbrink , Philipp Koch , Bernhard Jung , Stefan May

Optimal curve methods provide a fundamental framework for tubular centerline tracking. Point-wise approaches, such as minimal paths, are theoretically elegant but often suffer from shortcut and short-branch combination problems in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chong Di , Jinglin Zhang , Zhenjiang Li , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Da Chen , Laurent D. Cohen

Graph jobs represent a wide variety of computation-intensive tasks in which computations are represented by graphs consisting of components (denoting either data sources or data processing) and edges (corresponding to data flows between the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Minghui LiWang , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Zhibin Gao , Yuliang Tang , Lianfen Huang , Huaiyu Dai

In this paper we study the problem of exploring a temporal graph (i.e. a graph that changes over time), in the fundamental case where the underlying static graph is a star. The aim of the exploration problem in a temporal star is to find a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Eleni C. Akrida , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis

For the first time proposed: a method for representing the projections of a graph in computer memory and a description based on it of a quick search for shortest paths in unweighted dynamic graphs. The spatial complexity of the projection…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-10 V. A. Melent'ev

We study a non-linear and non-local evolution equation for curves obtained as the sharp interface limit of a phase-field model for crawling motion of eukaryotic cells on a substrate. We establish uniqueness of solutions to the sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Matthew S. Mizuhara , Peng Zhang

We consider a class of fixed-charge transportation problems over graphs. We show that this problem is strongly NP-hard, but solvable in pseudo-polynomial time over trees using dynamic programming. We also show that the LP formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Gustavo Angulo , Mathieu Van Vyve

We review recent progress in the study of the vertex-cover problem (VC). VC belongs to the class of NP-complete graph theoretical problems, which plays a central role in theoretical computer science. On ensembles of random graphs, VC…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander K. Hartmann , Martin Weigt

Cascade processes are responsible for many important phenomena in natural and social sciences. Simple models of irreversible dynamics on graphs, in which nodes activate depending on the state of their neighbors, have been successfully…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-16 Fabrizio Altarelli , Alfredo Braunstein , Luca Dall'Asta , Riccardo Zecchina

With the introduction of the graph-theoretic time-inconsistent planning model due to Kleinberg and Oren, it has been possible to investigate the computational complexity of how a task designer best can support a present-biased agent in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Fedor V. Fomin , Torstein J. F. Strømme

Given a graph $G$, the longest path problem asks to compute a simple path of $G$ with the largest number of vertices. This problem is the most natural optimization version of the well known and well studied Hamiltonian path problem, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-04-27 George B. Mertzios , Derek G. Corneil

We study the Universal Solvability of Robot Motion Planning on Graphs (USolR) problem: given an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ and $p$ robots, determine whether any arbitrary configuration of the robots can be transformed into any other…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Anubhav Dhar , Pranav Nyati , Tanishq Prasad , Ashlesha Hota , Sudeshna Kolay