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We provide faster strongly polynomial time algorithms solving maximum flow in structured $n$-node $m$-arc networks. Our results imply an $n^{\omega + o(1)}$-time strongly polynomial time algorithms for computing a maximum bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Daniel Dadush , James B. Orlin , Aaron Sidford , László A. Végh

A \emph{co-bipartite chain} graph is a co-bipartite graph in which the neighborhoods of the vertices in each clique can be linearly ordered with respect to inclusion. It is known that the maximum cut problem (MaxCut) is NP-Hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Arman Boyacı , Tınaz Ekim , Mordechai Shalom

A clique in an undirected graph G= (V, E) is a subset V' V of vertices, each pair of which is connected by an edge in E. The clique problem is an optimization problem of finding a clique of maximum size in graph. The clique problem is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-04 Murali Krishna P , Sabu . M Thampi

In this paper, we address the minimum-cost node-capacitated multiflow problem in an undirected network. For this problem, Babenko and Karzanov (2012) showed strongly polynomial-time solvability via the ellipsoid method. Our result is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Hiroshi Hirai , Motoki Ikeda

The bottleneck network flow problem (BNFP) is a generalization of several well-studied bottleneck problems such as the bottleneck transportation problem (BTP), bottleneck assignment problem (BAP), bottleneck path problem (BPP), and so on.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Abraham P. Punnen , Ruonan Zhang

We consider the general problem of blocking all solutions of some given combinatorial problem with only few elements. For example, the problem of destroying all maximum cliques of a given graph by forbidding only few vertices. Problems of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Christoph Grüne , Lasse Wulf

In this article, we study a biobjective extension of the shortest path network interdiction problem. Each arc in the network is associated with two integer length values and two players compute their respective shortest paths from source to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Simon Busam , Luca E. Schäfer , Stefan Ruzika

Dynamic network flows, sometimes called flows over time, extend the notion of network flows to include a transit time for each edge. While Ford and Fulkerson showed that certain dynamic flow problems can be solved via a reduction to static…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Thomas Bläsius , Adrian Feilhauer , Jannik Westenfelder

The MaxClique problem, finding the largest complete subgraph in an Erd{\"o}s-R{\'e}nyi $G(N,p)$ random graph in the large $N$ limit, is a well-known example of a simple problem for which finding any approximate solution within a factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

When a flow is not allowed to be reoriented the Maximum Residual Flow Problem with $k$-Arc Destruction is known to be $NP$-hard for $k=2$. We show that when a flow is allowed to be adaptive the problem becomes polynomial for every fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Thomas Ridremont , Dimitri Watel , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Christophe Picouleau

We consider the routing flow shop problem with two machines on an asymmetric network. For this problem we discuss properties of an optimal schedule and present a polynomial time algorithm assuming the number of nodes of the network to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ilya Chernykh , Alexander Kononov , Sergey Sevastyanov

In this paper, we relate the problem of finding a maximum clique to the intersection number of the input graph (i.e. the minimum number of cliques needed to edge cover the graph). In particular, we consider the maximum clique problem for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-19 S. Nikoletseas , C. Raptopoulos , P. G. Spirakis

We study a delay-sensitive information flow problem where a source streams information to a sink over a directed graph G(V,E) at a fixed rate R possibly using multiple paths to minimize the maximum end-to-end delay, denoted as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Qingyu Liu , Lei Deng , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

Given simple undirected graph G = (V, E), the Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is that of finding a maximum-cardinality subset Q of V such that any two vertices in Q are adjacent. We present a modified local search algorithm for this problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Lavnikevich Nikolay

We address the problem of efficient data gathering in a wireless network through multi-hop communication. We focus on the objective of minimizing the maximum flow time of a data packet. We prove that no polynomial time algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Vincenzo Bonifaci , Peter Korteweg , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Leen Stougie

We consider the problem of Data Flow Analysis over monotone data flow frameworks with a finite lattice. The problem of computing the Maximum Fixed Point (MFP) solution is shown to be P-complete even when the lattice has just four elements.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Gaurav Sood , K. Murali Krishnan

Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides highly effective tools for interpreting and handling human language, offering a broad spectrum of applications. In this paper, we address a classic combinatorial problem -- finding graph partitions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Marco D'Elia , Irene Finocchi , Maurizio Patrignani

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

In this article we consider a certain sub class of Integer Equal Flow problem, which are known NP hard [8]. Currently there exist no direct solutions for the same. It is a common problem in various inventory management systems. Here we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Sasikanth Goteti , Swapnil Kumar