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Edge-Geodetic Sets play a crucial role in network monitoring and optimization, wherein the goal is to strategically place monitoring stations on vertices of a network, represented as a graph, to ensure complete coverage of edges and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Giordano Colli

We study the problem of selecting a subset of vectors from a large set, to obtain the best signal representation over a family of functions. Although greedy methods have been widely used for tackling this problem and many of those have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ehsan Tohidi , Mario Coutino , David Gesbert

A linear inverse problem is proposed that requires the determination of multiple unknown signal vectors. Each unknown vector passes through a different system matrix and the results are added to yield a single observation vector. Given the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Adam C. Zelinski , Vivek K Goyal , Elfar Adalsteinsson

Multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where pursuers aim to capture evaders, poses a key challenge for UAV swarm intelligence. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has demonstrated potential in modeling cooperative behaviors, but most RL-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiayu Chen , Chao Yu , Guosheng Li , Wenhao Tang , Shilong Ji , Xinyi Yang , Botian Xu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

We consider a weak adversarial network approach to numerically solve a class of inverse problems, including electrical impedance tomography and dynamic electrical impedance tomography problems. We leverage the weak formulation of PDE in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Gang Bao , Xiaojing Ye , Yaohua Zang , Haomin Zhou

In this manuscript, we consider the problems of channel assignment in wireless networks and data migration in heterogeneous storage systems. We show that a soft edge coloring approach to both problems gives rigorous approximation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Chadi Kari

In the Exact Matching Problem (EM), we are given a graph equipped with a fixed coloring of its edges with two colors (red and blue), as well as a positive integer $k$. The task is then to decide whether the given graph contains a perfect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Nicolas El Maalouly , Raphael Steiner

Given a pair of graphs with the same number of vertices, the inexact graph matching problem consists in finding a correspondence between the vertices of these graphs that minimizes the total number of induced edge disagreements. We study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Jesús Arroyo , Daniel L. Sussman , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

In this work, we study the reduction by a Lie group of symmetries of variational collision avoidance probelms of multiple agents evolving on a Riemannian manifold and derive necessary conditions for the reduced extremals. The problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Jacob R. Goodman , Leonardo J. Colombo

Jump Markov linear models consists of a finite number of linear state space models and a discrete variable encoding the jumps (or switches) between the different linear models. Identifying jump Markov linear models makes for a challenging…

Computation · Statistics 2015-02-17 Andreas Svensson , Thomas B. Schön , Fredrik Lindsten

We study the parameterized complexity of interdiction problems in graphs. For an optimization problem on graphs, one can formulate an interdiction problem as a game consisting of two players, namely, an interdictor and an evader, who…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Jiong Guo , Yash Raj Shrestha

A critical metric of the coverage quality in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the Minimal Exposure Path (MEP), a path through the environment that least exposes an intruder to the sensor detecting nodes. Many approaches have been proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Armando Alves Neto , Víctor C. da Silva Campos , Douglas G. Macharet

This paper addresses a multi-pursuer single-evader pursuit-evasion game where the free-moving evader moves faster than the pursuers. Most of the existing works impose constraints on the faster evader such as limited moving area and moving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Xu Fang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

We consider the online planning problem for a team of agents to discover and track an unknown and time-varying number of moving objects from onboard sensor measurements with uncertain measurement-object origins. Since the onboard sensors…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hoa Van Nguyen , Ba-Ngu Vo , Ba-Tuong Vo , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

The problem of target localization with ideal binary detectors is considered in one dimensional space. The problem is investigated in both a censored and non-censored scheme. In the censored setting, the problem is equivalent to estimating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Arian Shoari

Bobkov, Houdr\'e, and the last author [2000] introduced a Poincar\'e-type functional parameter, $\lambda_\infty$, of a graph and related it to connectivity of the graph via Cheeger-type inequalities. A work by the second author,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Majid Farhadi , Anand Louis , Mohit Singh , Prasad Tetali

We introduce the problem of minimal actuator placement in a linear control system so that a bound on the minimum control effort for a given state transfer is satisfied while controllability is ensured. We first show that this is an NP-hard…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Vasileios Tzoumas , Mohammad Amin Rahimian , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental motion coordination problem arising in multi-agent systems with a wide range of applications. The problem's intractability has led to extensive research on improving the scalability of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Tzvika Geft

This paper studies a 3D multiplayer reach-avoid differential game with a goal region and a play region. Multiple pursuers defend the goal region by consecutively capturing multiple evaders in the play region. The players have heterogeneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Rui Yan , Xiaoming Duan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong , Francesco Bullo

Object detection techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Nonetheless, adversarial patches generated by existing algorithms in the UAV domain pay very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Dehong Kong , Siyuan Liang , Wenqi Ren