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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

We consider the problem of online min-cost perfect matching with concave delays. We begin with the single location variant. Specifically, requests arrive in an online fashion at a single location. The algorithm must then choose between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Yossi Azar , Runtian Ren , Danny Vainstein

We introduce a tree-based formulation for the minimum-cost multi-commodity flow problem that addresses large-scale instances. The method decomposes the source-based model by representing flows as convex combinations of trees rooted at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Simon Spoorendonk , Bjørn Petersen

In this paper, we derive a number of interesting properties and extensions of the convex flow problem from the perspective of convex geometry. We show that the sets of allowable flows always can be imbued with a downward closure property,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Theo Diamandis , Guillermo Angeris

In a temporal graph, each edge is available at specific points in time. Such an availability point is often represented by a ''temporal edge'' that can be traversed from its tail only at a specific departure time, for arriving in its head…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Filippo Brunelli , Laurent Viennot

This paper addresses the problem of enumerating all supported efficient solutions for a linear multi-objective integer minimum cost flow problem (MOIMCF). It derives an output-polynomial time algorithm to determine all supported efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 David Könen , Michael Stiglmayr

For $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer polynomially-bounded costs and capacities, we provide a randomized parallel algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem with $\tilde O(m+n^ {1.5})$ work and $\tilde O(\sqrt{n})$ depth. On…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jan van den Brand , Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang , Tijn de Vos

We give an $O(n^{1.5} \log n)$ algorithm that, given a directed planar graph with arc capacities, a set of source nodes and a single sink node, finds a maximum flow from the sources to the sink . This is the first subquadratic-time strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Philip N. Klein , Shay Mozes

We present a nearly-linear time algorithm for finding a minimum-cost flow in planar graphs with polynomially bounded integer costs and capacities. The previous fastest algorithm for this problem is based on interior point methods (IPMs) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sally Dong , Yu Gao , Gramoz Goranci , Yin Tat Lee , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

Recent work has shown that machine-learned predictions can provably improve the performance of classic algorithms. In this work, we propose the first minimum-cost network flow algorithm augmented with a dual prediction. Our method is based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhiyang Chen , Hailong Yao , Xia Yin

This paper focuses on cascading line failures in the transmission system of the power grid. Recent large-scale power outages demonstrated the limitations of percolation- and epid- emic-based tools in modeling cascades. Hence, we study…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Saleh Soltan , Dorian Mazauric , Gil Zussman

We study the problem of finding the cycle of minimum cost-to-time ratio in a directed graph with $ n $ nodes and $ m $ edges. This problem has a long history in combinatorial optimization and has recently seen interesting applications in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Karl Bringmann , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Sebastian Krinninger

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines with conflict constraints, where certain jobs cannot be scheduled simultaneously on different machines. We focus on the case where conflicts can be represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Lydia Aoudia , Mourad Boudhar

Reduced-order models (ROMs) are widely used in fluid engineering to enable rapid prediction of flow fields for parametric analysis, design optimization, and control applications. Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is commonly employed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yuto Nakamura , Shintaro Sato , Naofumi Ohnishi

We address the facility location problems on dynamic flow path networks. A dynamic flow path network consists of an undirected path with positive edge lengths, positive edge capacities, and positive vertex weights. A path can be considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yuya Higashikawa , Naoki Katoh , Junichi Teruyama , Koji Watase

Consider a transportation problem with sets of sources and sinks. There are profits and prices on the edges. The goal is to maximize the profit while meeting the following constraints; the total flow going out of a source must not exceed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-26 S. Kapoor , M. Sarwat

We consider some flow-time minimization problems in the unrelated machines setting. In this setting, there is a set of $m$ machines and a set of $n$ jobs, and each job $j$ has a machine dependent processing time of $p_{ij}$ on machine $i$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Nikhil Bansal , Janardhan Kulkarni

We introduce an algorithm design technique for a class of combinatorial optimization problems with concave costs. This technique yields a strongly polynomial primal-dual algorithm for a concave cost problem whenever such an algorithm exists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Thomas L. Magnanti , Dan Stratila

This paper proposes an arc-search interior-point algorithm for the nonlinear constrained optimization problem. The proposed algorithm uses the second-order derivatives to construct a search arc that approaches the optimizer. Because the arc…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Yaguang Yang

A numerical algorithm for solving mantle convection problems with strongly variable viscosity is presented. Equations for conservation of mass and momentum for highly viscous and incompressible fluids are solved iteratively by a multigrid…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Kameyama , Akira Kageyama , Tetsuya Sato