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Flexible network design deals with building a network that guarantees some connectivity requirements between its vertices, even when some of its elements (like vertices or edges) fail. In particular, the set of edges (resp. vertices) of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dylan Hyatt-Denesik , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Laura Sanita

This study considers the (soft) capacitated vertex cover problem in a dynamic setting. This problem generalizes the dynamic model of the vertex cover problem, which has been intensively studied in recent years. Given a dynamically changing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hao-Ting Wei , Wing-Kai Hon , Paul Horn , Chung-Shou Liao , Kunihiko Sadakane

Horiyama et al. (AAAI 2024) studied the problem of generating graph instances that possess a unique minimum vertex cover under specific conditions. Their approach involved pre-assigning certain vertices to be part of the solution or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Foivos Fioravantes , Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Michal Opler , Manolis Vasilakis

For a network formed by nodes and undirected links between pairs of nodes, the network optimal attack problem aims at deleting a minimum number of target nodes to break the network down into many small components. This problem is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-20 Salomon Mugisha , Hai-Jun Zhou

This paper considers optimization problems over networks where agents have individual objectives to meet, or individual parameter vectors to estimate, subject to subspace constraints that require the objectives across the network to lie in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

We provide a unifying framework for distributed convex optimization over time-varying networks, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty, features that are typically treated separately in the literature. We adopt a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Kostas Margellos , Alessandro Falsone , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

In this paper we devise an extremely efficient fully dynamic distributed algorithm for maintaining sparse spanners. Our resuls also include the first fully dynamic centralized algorithm for the problem with non-trivial bounds for both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Michael Elkin

The maximal matching problem has received considerable attention in the self-stabilizing community. Previous work has given different self-stabilizing algorithms that solves the problem for both the adversarial and fair distributed daemon,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Fredrik Manne , Morten Mjelde , Laurence Pilard , Sébastien Tixeuil

In the study of deterministic distributed algorithms it is commonly assumed that each node has a unique $O(\log n)$-bit identifier. We prove that for a general class of graph problems, local algorithms (constant-time distributed algorithms)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Mika Göös , Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela

We present a fully-distributed self-healing algorithm DEX, that maintains a constant degree expander network in a dynamic setting. To the best of our knowledge, our algorithm provides the first efficient distributed construction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Amitabh Trehan

Network analysis has played a key role in knowledge discovery and data mining. In many real-world applications in recent years, we are interested in mining multilayer networks, where we have a number of edge sets called layers, which encode…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi , Hanna Sumita

We present a uniform self-stabilizing algorithm, which solves the problem of distributively finding a minimum diameter spanning tree of an arbitrary positively real-weighted graph. Our algorithm consists in two stages of stabilizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Franck Butelle , Christian Lavault , Marc Bui

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

This paper studies the stability and dynamic control of underlay mobile edge networks. First, the stability region for a multiuser edge network is obtained under the assumption of full channel state information. This result provides a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Y. Sarikaya , H. Inaltekin , T. Alpcan , J. S. Evans

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

The Connected Vertex Cover problem, where the goal is to compute a minimum set of vertices in a given graph which forms a vertex cover and induces a connected subgraph, is a fundamental combinatorial problem and has received extensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Diptapriyo Majumdar , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for joint clock skew and offset estimation in wireless sensor networks based on belief propagation. In the proposed algorithm, each node can estimate its clock skew and offset in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

A stable or locally-optimal cut of a graph is a cut whose weight cannot be increased by changing the side of a single vertex. In this paper we study Minimum Stable Cut, the problem of finding a stable cut of minimum weight. Since this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Michael Lampis

A spatially distributed system contains a large amount of agents with limited sensing, data processing, and communication capabilities. Recent technological advances have opened up possibilities to deploy spatially distributed systems for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Cheng Cheng , Yingchun Jiang , Qiyu Sun

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to solve this class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano