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Networks created and maintained by social processes, such as the human friendship network and the World Wide Web, appear to exhibit the property of navigability: namely, not only do short paths exist between any pair of nodes, but such…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore

We use a set of four theoretical navigability indices for street maps to investigate the shape of the resulting street networks, if they are grown by optimizing these indices. The indices compare the performance of simulated navigators…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-25 Sang Hoon Lee , Petter Holme

Today we rely on networks that are created and maintained by smart devices. For such networks, there is no governing central authority but instead the network structure is shaped by the decisions of selfish intelligent agents. A key…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Julian Berger , Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Paraskevi Machaira , Janosch Ruff

Large scale decentralized communication systems have introduced the new trend towards online routing where routing decisions are performed based on a limited and localized knowledge of the network. Geometrical greedy routing has been among…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-03-31 M. Ghaffari , B. Hariri , S. Shirmohammadi

In this paper, we design a greedy routing on networks of mobile agents. In the greedy routing algorithm, every time step a packet in agent $i$ is delivered to the agent $j$ whose distance from the destination is shortest among searched…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Han-Xin Yang , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Bing-Hong Wang

Network routing is a distributed decision problem which naturally admits numerical performance measures, such as the average time for a packet to travel from source to destination. OLPOMDP, a policy-gradient reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nigel Tao , Jonathan Baxter , Lex Weaver

The advent of online social networks has facilitated fast and wide spread of information. However, some users, especially members of minority groups, may be less likely to receive information spreading on the network, due to their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Changan Liu , Xiaotian Zhou , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

We consider the resource allocation problem in cooperative wireless networks wherein nodes perform mutual information accumulation. We consider a unicast setting and arbitrary arrival processes at the source node. Source arrivals can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Yanpei Liu , Jing Yang , Stark. C. Draper

Despite significant advances in autonomous web navigation, current methods remain far from human-level performance in complex web environments. We argue that this limitation stems from Topological Blindness, where agents are forced to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xuanwang Zhang , Yuteng Han , Jinnan Qi , Mulong Xie , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

We study navigation with limited information in networks and demonstrate that many real-world networks have a structure which can be described as favoring communication at short distance at the cost of constraining communication at long…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rosvall , P. Minnhagen , K. Sneppen

The growth in data traffic and the increased demand for quality of service had generated a large demand for network systems to be more efficient. The introduction of improved routing systems to meet the increasing demand and varied…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-08 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Abhijith , Kavitha Sooda

Freight forwarding plays a crucial role in facilitating global trade and logistics. However, as the freight forwarding market is extremely fragmented, freight forwarders often face the issue of not being able to fill the available shipping…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pang-Jin Tan , Shih-Fen Cheng , Richard Chen

How can a system designer exploit system-level knowledge to derive incentives to optimally influence social behavior? The literature on network routing contains many results studying the application of monetary tolls to influence behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bryce L. Ferguson , Philip N. Brown , Jason R. Marden

Recent results from statistical physics show that large classes of complex networks, both man-made and of natural origin, are characterized by high clustering properties yet strikingly short path lengths between pairs of nodes. This class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rui A. Costa , Joao Barros

The complexity of navigation in cities has increased with the expansion of urban areas, creating challenging transportation problems that drive many studies on the navigability of networks. However, due to the lack of individual mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-16 Zhuojun Jiang , Lei Dong , Lun Wu , Yu Liu

In the world of big data, many people find it difficult to access the information they need quickly and accurately. In order to overcome this, research on the system that recommends information accurately to users is continuously conducted.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Keum Gang Cha , Soo-Ryeon Lee , Jung-Woo Lee , Seung Bin Baik

Interacting with human agents in complex scenarios presents a significant challenge for robotic navigation, particularly in environments that necessitate both collision avoidance and collaborative interaction, such as indoor spaces. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lingfeng Sun , Yixiao Wang , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Xiang Zhang , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

For automated driving, predicting the future trajectories of other road users in complex traffic situations is a hard problem. Modern neural networks use the past trajectories of traffic participants as well as map data to gather hints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Jan Strohbeck , Sebastian Maschke , Max Mertens , Michael Buchholz

More often than not, bad decisions are bad regardless of where and when they are made. Information sharing might thus be utilized to mitigate them. Here we show that sharing the information about strategy choice between players residing on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-16 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Designing spatial networks, such as transport networks, commonly deals with the problem of how to best connect a set of locations through a set of links. In practice, it can be crucial to order the implementation of the links in a way that…