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Trajectory planning is crucial in multi-robot systems, particularly in environments with numerous obstacles. While extensive research has been conducted in this field, the challenge of coordinating multiple robots to flow collectively from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Han Liu , Yu Jin , Mingyue Cui , Boyang Li , Tianjiang Hu , Kai Huang

We propose new abstract and unified perspectives on a range of scheduling and graph coloring problems with general min-sum objectives. Specifically, we consider various problems where the objective function is the weighted sum of completion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexander Lindermayr , Zhenwei Liu , Nicole Megow

The DistFlow model accurately represents power flows in distribution systems, but the model's nonlinearities result in computational challenges for many applications. Accordingly, a linear approximation known as \mbox{LinDistFlow} (and its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Babak Taheri , Rahul K. Gupta , Daniel K. Molzahn

Interval scheduling is a basic problem in the theory of algorithms and a classical task in combinatorial optimization. We develop a set of techniques for partitioning and grouping jobs based on their starting and ending times, that enable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Spencer Compton , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

In this work, we design and analyze novel distributed scheduling algorithms for multi-user MIMO systems. In particular, we consider algorithms which do not require sending channel state information to a central processing unit, nor do they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Joseph Kampeas , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

Typical topology optimization methods require complex iterative calculations, which cannot meet the requirements of fast computing applications. The neural network is studied to reduce the time of computing the optimization result, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Ce Guan , Jianyu Zhang , Zhen Li , Yongbo Deng

We study the general scheduling problem (GSP) which generalizes and unifies several well-studied preemptive single-machine scheduling problems, such as weighted flow time, weighted sum of completion time, and minimizing the total weight of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alexander Armbruster , Lars Rohwedder , Andreas Wiese

Conventional wisdom for minimizing the average flow completion time (AFCT) in the datacenter network (DCN), where flow sizes are highly variable, would suggest scheduling every individual flow. However, we show that considering scheduling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Soheil Abbasloo , Yang Xu , H. Jonathan Chao

We consider the classic scheduling problem of minimizing the total weighted flow-time on a single machine (min-WPFT), when preemption is allowed. In this problem, we are given a set of $n$ jobs, each job having a release time $r_j$, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Uriel Feige , Janardhan Kulkarni , Shi Li

We give optimally fast $O(\log p)$ time (per processor) algorithms for computing round-optimal broadcast schedules for message-passing parallel computing systems. This affirmatively answers difficult questions posed in a SPAA 2022 BA and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jesper Larsson Träff

We present a strongly polynomial-time algorithm to generate bandwidth optimal allgather/reduce-scatter on any network topology, with or without switches. Our algorithm constructs pipeline schedules achieving provably the best possible…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Liangyu Zhao , Arvind Krishnamurthy

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

Inter-datacenter networks connect dozens of geographically dispersed datacenters and carry traffic flows with highly variable sizes and different classes. Adaptive flow routing can improve efficiency and performance by assigning paths to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Mohammad Noormohammadpour , Cauligi S. Raghavendra

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to study large-scale molecular systems. HPC systems are ideal platforms to run these studies, however, reaching the necessary simulation timescale to detect rare processes is challenging,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Tu Mai Anh Do , Loïc Pottier , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Frédéric Suter , Silvina Caíno-Lores , Michela Taufer , Ewa Deelman

In this paper, we study the following batch scheduling model: find a schedule that minimizes total flow time for $n$ uniform length jobs, with release times and deadlines, where the machine is only actively processing jobs in at most $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

We study the shared processor scheduling problem with a single shared processor where a unit time saving (weight) obtained by processing a job on the shared processor depends on the job. A polynomial-time optimization algorithm has been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak

FPGAs are well-suited for dataflow architectures that process data in a streaming or pipelined manner, thus satisfying the high computational and communication demands of emerging applications. However, manually implementing an efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Weichuang Zhang , Yiquan Wang , Xinzhou Zhang , Chi Zhang , Yu Feng , Xiaofeng Hou , Chao Li , Jieru Zhao , Minyi Guo

The utility of domain-specific knowledge for modeling, simulation, and optimization has been demonstrated for various research problem domains, including power systems. The concept of Equivalent Circuit Programming was previously developed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Marko Jereminov , Larry Pileggi

Daily streamflow forecasting through data-driven approaches is traditionally performed using a single machine learning algorithm. Existing applications are mostly restricted to examination of few case studies, not allowing accurate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-24 Hristos Tyralis , Georgia Papacharalampous , Andreas Langousis