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Relationship between agents can be conveniently represented by graphs. When these relationships have different modalities, they are better modelled by multilayer graphs where each layer is associated with one modality. Such graphs arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

We consider the stable assignment problem on a graph with nonnegative real capacities on the edges and quotas on the vertices, in which the preferences of agents are given via diversifying choice functions. We prove that for any input of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Alexander V. Karzanov

We consider directed graph algorithms in a streaming setting, focusing on problems concerning orderings of the vertices. This includes such fundamental problems as topological sorting and acyclicity testing. We also study the related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Andrew McGregor , Sofya Vorotnikova

Finding communities in graphs is one of the most well-studied problems in data mining and social-network analysis. In many real applications, the underlying graph does not have a clear community structure. In those cases, selecting a single…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Nikolaj Tatti , Aristides Gionis

This paper proposes graph analysis methods to fully automate the fault location identification task in power distribution systems. The proposed methods take basic unordered data from power distribution systems as input, including branch…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ali Shakeri Kahnamouei , Saeed Lotfifard

Many natural and man-made network systems need to maintain certain patterns, such as working at equilibria or limit cycles, to function properly. Thus, the ability to stabilize such patterns is crucial. Most of the existing studies on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Alberto Maria Nobili , Yuzhen Qin , Carlo Alberto Avizzano , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

The linear-quadratic controller is one of the fundamental problems in control theory. The optimal solution is a linear controller that requires access to the state of the entire system at any given time. When considering a network system,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Fernando Gama , Somayeh Sojoudi

We consider the problem of inferring graph topology from smooth graph signals in a novel but practical scenario where data are located in distributed clients and prohibited from leaving local clients due to factors such as privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xiang Zhang , Qiao Wang

Motivated by the increasing interest in the explicit representation and handling of various "preference" structures arising in modern digital economy, this work introduces a new class of "one-to-many stable-matching" problems where a set of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Spyros Reveliotis , Eva Robillard

Distributed parameter estimation for large-scale systems is an active research problem. The goal is to derive a distributed algorithm in which each agent obtains a local estimate of its own subset of the global parameter vector, based on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Tianju Sui , Damián Marelli , Minyue Fu , Renquan Lu

The real world is awash with multi-agent problems that require collective action by self-interested agents, from the routing of packets across a computer network to the management of irrigation systems. Such systems have local incentives…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michiel A. Bakker , Richard Everett , Laura Weidinger , Iason Gabriel , William S. Isaac , Joel Z. Leibo , Edward Hughes

This paper studies the traffic monitoring problem in a road network using a team of aerial robots. The problem is challenging due to two main reasons. First, the traffic events are stochastic, both temporally and spatially. Second, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Behzad Khamidehi , Elvino S. Sousa

In this paper we consider complex dynamical networks modeled by means of state space systems running in discrete time. We assume that the dependency structure of the variables within the (nonlinear) network equations is known and use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Jacob van der Woude

Networks such as organizational network of a global company play an important role in a variety of knowledge management and information diffusion tasks. The nodes in these networks correspond to individuals who are self-interested. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Swapnil Dhamal , Y. Narahari

We study a novel graph path planning problem for multiple agents that may crash at runtime, and block part of the workspace. In our setting, agents can detect neighboring crashed agents, and change followed paths at runtime. The objective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Keisuke Okumura , Sébastien Tixeuil

This paper addresses the distributed consensus design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed communication graphs and external disturbances. Both the cases with strongly connected communication graphs and leader-follower…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan

Given a flow network with variable suppliers and fixed consumers, the minimax flow problem consists in minimizing the maximum flow between nodes, subject to flow conservation and capacity constraints. We solve this problem over acyclic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Marco Coraggio , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo , Mario di Bernardo

Network topology inference is a cornerstone problem in statistical analyses of complex systems. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeates benefits from convex optimization and graph signal processing, to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this letter, we study the leader-synchronization problem for a class of partial differential equations with boundary control and in-domain coupling. We describe the problem in an abstract formulation and we specialize it to a network of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Abbas Kabalan , Francesco Ferrante , Giacomo Casadei , Andrea Cristofaro , Christophe Prieur