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We introduce and study the general problem of finding a most "scale-free-like" spanning tree of a connected graph. It is motivated by a particular problem in epidemiology, and may be useful in studies of various dynamical processes in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Yury Orlovich , Kirill Kukharenko , Volker Kaibel , Pavel Skums

In general the problem of finding a miminum spanning tree for a weighted directed graph is difficult but solvable. There are a lot of differences between problems for directed and undirected graphs, therefore the algorithms for undirected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-16 V. A. Buslov , V. A. Khudobakhshov

This work describes probabilistic methods for utilizing random spanning trees generated via a random walk process. Goyal et al. showed that the union of random spanning trees approximates the expansion of every cut of a graph. First, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Shlomi Dolev , Daniel Khankin

We introduce a flow-dependent version of the quadratic Steiner tree problem in the plane. An instance of the problem on a set of embedded sources and a sink asks for a directed tree $T$ spanning these nodes and a bounded number of Steiner…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Marcus Brazil , Charl Ras , Doreen Thomas

We consider the indirect covering subtree problem (Kim et al., 1996). The input is an edge weighted tree graph along with customers located at the nodes. Each customer is associated with a radius and a penalty. The goal is to locate a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Joachim Spoerhase

In the \emph{budgeted rooted node-weighted Steiner tree} problem, we are given a graph $G$ with $n$ nodes, a predefined node $r$, two weights associated to each node modelling costs and prizes. The aim is to find a tree in $G$ rooted at $r$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Esmaeil Delfaraz

In the length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) problem, we are given an $n$-node edge-weighted graph $G$ and a length constraint $h \geq 1$. Our goal is to find a spanning tree of $G$ whose diameter is at most $h$ with minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-17 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang

The expansion of Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) networks creates high costs due to expensive excavation procedures. Optimizing the planning process and minimizing the cost of the earth excavation work therefore lead to large savings.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Tobias Müller , Kyrill Schmid , Daniëlle Schuman , Thomas Gabor , Markus Friedrich , Marc Geitz

Graph neural networks have been successful in many learning problems and real-world applications. A recent line of research explores the power of graph neural networks to solve combinatorial and graph algorithmic problems such as subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Reyan Ahmed , Md Asadullah Turja , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Mithun Ghosh , Keaton Hamm , Stephen Kobourov

Given a directed graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with a special vertex $s$, the directed minimum degree spanning tree problem requires computing a incoming spanning tree rooted at $s$ whose maximum tree in-degree is the smallest among all such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ran Duan , Tianyi Zhang

We consider the probability that a spanning tree chosen uniformly at random from a graph can be partitioned into a fixed number $k$ of trees of equal size by removing $k-1$ edges. In that case, the spanning tree is called {\em splittable}.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-25 David Gillman , Jacob Platnick , Dana Randall

A spanning tree of a network or graph is a subgraph that connects all nodes with the least number or weight of edges. The spanning tree is one of the most straightforward techniques for network simplification and sampling, and for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lovro Šubelj

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$, we wish to compute a spanning tree whose maximum vertex degree, i.e. tree degree, is as small as possible. Computing the exact optimal solution is known to be NP-hard, since it generalizes the Hamiltonian path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ran Duan , Haoqing He , Tianyi Zhang

Motivated by applications to sensor networks, as well as to many other areas, this paper studies the construction of minimum-degree spanning trees. We consider the classical node-register state model, with a weakly fair scheduler, and we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Lélia Blin , Pierre Fraigniaud

For a weighted graph $G = (V, E, w)$ and a designated source vertex $s \in V$, a spanning tree that simultaneously approximates a shortest-path tree w.r.t. source $s$ and a minimum spanning tree is called a shallow-light tree (SLT).…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hung Le , Shay Solomon , Cuong Than , Csaba D. Tóth , Tianyi Zhang

We address the problem of efficiently gathering correlated data from a wired or a wireless sensor network, with the aim of designing algorithms with provable optimality guarantees, and understanding how close we can get to the known…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-03 Jian Li , Amol Deshpande , Samir Khuller

Given an undirected weighted graph $G(V,E)$, a constrained sketch over a terminal set $T\subset V$ is a subgraph $G'$ that connects the terminal vertices while satisfying a given set of constraints. Examples include Steiner trees…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Reyan Ahmed , Keaton Hamm , Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli , Stephen Kobourov , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Richard Spence

In this paper the minimum spanning tree problem with uncertain edge costs is discussed. In order to model the uncertainty a discrete scenario set is specified and a robust framework is adopted to choose a solution. The min-max, min-max…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

The problem considered is the following. Given a graph with edge weights satisfying the triangle inequality, and a degree bound for each vertex, compute a low-weight spanning tree such that the degree of each vertex is at most its specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. Fekete , S. Khuller , M. Klemmstein , B. Raghavachari , Neal E. Young

Net-trees are a general purpose data structure for metric data that have been used to solve a wide range of algorithmic problems. We give a simple randomized algorithm to construct net-trees on doubling metrics using $O(n\log n)$ time in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Mahmoodreza Jahanseir , Donald R. Sheehy