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We study the Steiner Tree problem, in which a set of terminal vertices needs to be connected in the cheapest possible way in an edge-weighted graph. This problem has been extensively studied from the viewpoint of approximation and also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Pavel Dvořák , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar , Pavel Veselý

In this experimental study we consider Steiner tree approximations that guarantee a constant approximation of ratio smaller than $2$. The considered greedy algorithms and approaches based on linear programming involve the incorporation of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Stephan Beyer , Markus Chimani

In this paper, we consider the Uniform Cost-Distance Steiner Tree Problem in metric spaces, a generalization of the well-known Steiner tree problem. Cost-distance Steiner trees minimize the sum of the total length and the weighted path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Stephan Held , Yannik Kyle Dustin Spitzley

The Steiner Forest problem is an important generalization of the Steiner Tree problem. We are given an undirected graph with nonnegative edge costs and a collection of pairs of vertices. The task is to compute a cheapest forest with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jarosław Byrka , Fabrizio Grandoni , Vera Traub

Our main result is a full classification, for every connected graph $H$, of the computational complexity of Steiner Forest on $H$-subgraph-free graphs. To obtain this dichotomy, we establish the following new algorithmic, hardness, and…

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and an input line $\gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, we present an algorithm that runs in optimal $\Theta(n\log n)$ time and $\Theta(n)$ space to solve a restricted version of the $1$-Steiner tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Prosenjit Bose , Anthony D'Angelo , Stephane Durocher

The $k$-center problem is a classical clustering problem in which one is asked to find a partitioning of a point set $P$ into $k$ clusters such that the maximum radius of any cluster is minimized. It is well-studied. But what if we add up…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lukas Drexler , Annika Hennes , Abhiruk Lahiri , Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

Euclidean Steiner trees are relevant to model minimal networks in real-world applications ubiquitously. In this paper, we study the feasibility of a hierarchical approach embedded with bundling operations to compute multiple and mutually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Victor Parque

The Steiner tree problem is one of the classic and most fundamental $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems: given an arbitrary weighted graph, seek a minimum-cost tree spanning a given subset of the vertices (terminals). Byrka \emph{et al}. proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Chi-Yeh Chen

Let P be a set of n points in the Euclidean plane and let O be the origin point in the plane. In the k-tour cover problem (called frequently the capacitated vehicle routing problem), the goal is to minimize the total length of tours that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Anna Adamaszek , Artur Czumaj , Andrzej Lingas

The 1-Steiner tree problem, the problem of constructing a Steiner minimum tree containing at most one Steiner point, has been solved in the Euclidean plane by Georgakopoulos and Papadimitriou using plane subdivisions called oriented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Marcus N. Brazil , Charl J. Ras , Konrad J. Swanepoel , Doreen A. Thomas

The geometric bottleneck Steiner network problem on a set of vertices $X$ embedded in a normed plane requires one to construct a graph $G$ spanning $X$ and a variable set of $k\geq 0$ additional points, such that the length of the longest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-22 M. Brazil , C. J. Ras , D. A. Thomas

In the node-weighted prize-collecting Steiner tree problem (NW-PCST) we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, non-negative costs $c(v)$ and penalties $\pi(v)$ for each $v \in V$. The goal is to find a tree $T$ that minimizes the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Jochen Könemann , Sina Sadeghian , Laura Sanità

Uniform cost-distance Steiner trees minimize the sum of the total length and weighted path lengths from a dedicated root to the other terminals. They are applied when the tree is intended for signal transmission, e.g. in chip design or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Josefine Foos , Stephan Held , Yannik Kyle Dustin Spitzley

r-gathering problem is a variant of facility location problems. In this problem, we are given a set of users and a set of facilities on same metric space. We open some of the facilities and assign each user to an open facility, so that at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Soh Kumabe , Takanori Maehara

We study the Steiner $k$-eccentricity on trees, which generalizes the previous one in the paper [X.~Li, G.~Yu, S.~Klav\v{z}ar, On the average Steiner 3-eccentricity of trees, arXiv:2005.10319, 2020]. To support the algorithm, we achieve…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Xingfu Li , Guihai Yu , Sandi Klavžar , Jie Hu , Bo Li

In this work we consider the Metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time model. Given a set $V$ of $n$ points in a metric space where distances are provided by means of query access to an $n\times n$ distance matrix, along with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sepideh Mahabadi , Mohammad Roghani , Jakub Tarnawski , Ali Vakilian

Let $P$ and $S$ be two disjoint sets of $n$ and $m$ points in the plane, respectively. We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree whose Steiner vertices belong to $S$, in which each point of $P$ is a leaf, and whose longest edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

We study the problem of finding small trees. Classical network design problems are considered with the additional constraint that only a specified number $k$ of nodes are required to be connected in the solution. A prototypical example is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-25 R. Ravi , R. Sundaram , Madhav V. Marathe , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz

We provide a general framework for getting expected linear time constant factor approximations (and in many cases FPTASs) to several well-known problems in Computational Geometry, such as $k$-center clustering and farthest nearest neighbor.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sariel Har-Peled , Banjamin Raichel