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Networked discrete dynamical systems are often used to model the spread of contagions and decision-making by agents in coordination games. Fixed points of such dynamical systems represent configurations to which the system converges. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zirou Qiu , Chen Chen , Madhav V. Marathe , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz , Richard E. Stearns , Anil Vullikanti

The well-studied DISPERSION problem is a fundamental coordination problem in distributed robotics, where a set of mobile robots must relocate so that each occupies a distinct node of a network. DISPERSION assumes that a robot can settle at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Himani , Supantha Pandit , Gokarna Sharma

Temporal graphs are graphs where the edge set can change in each time step, and the vertex set stays the same. Exploration of temporal graphs whose snapshot in each time step is a connected graph, called connected temporal graphs, has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Frank Kammer , Johannes Meintrup , William K. Moses

Embedding static graphs in low-dimensional vector spaces plays a key role in network analytics and inference, supporting applications like node classification, link prediction, and graph visualization. However, many real-world networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Claudio D. T. Barros , Matheus R. F. Mendonça , Alex B. Vieira , Artur Ziviani

This paper addresses the problem of online network topology inference for expanding graphs from a stream of spatiotemporal signals. Online algorithms for dynamic graph learning are crucial in delay-sensitive applications or when changes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Samuel Rey , Bishwadeep Das , Elvin Isufi

Networks observed in real world like social networks, collaboration networks etc., exhibit temporal dynamics, i.e. nodes and edges appear and/or disappear over time. In this paper, we propose a generative, latent space based, statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Shubham Gupta , Gaurav Sharma , Ambedkar Dukkipati

This paper deals with the classical problem of exploring a ring by a cohort of synchronous robots. We focus on the perpetual version of this problem in which it is required that each node of the ring is visited by a robot infinitely often.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Marjorie Bournat , Ajoy K. Datta , Swan Dubois

We consider the problem of collectively delivering some message from a specified source to a designated target location in a graph, using multiple mobile agents. Each agent has a limited energy which constrains the distance it can move.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Andreas Bärtschi , Jérémie Chalopin , Shantanu Das , Yann Disser , Barbara Geissmann , Daniel Graf , Arnaud Labourel , Matúš Mihalák

Graphs are widely used in various fields of computer science. They have also found application in unrelated areas, leading to a diverse range of problems. These problems can be modeled as relationships between entities in various contexts,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Davide Rucci

Various graph algorithms have been developed with multiple random walks, the movement of several independent random walkers on a graph. Designing an efficient graph algorithm based on multiple random walks requires investigating multiple…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yusuke Sakumoto , Hiroyuki Ohsaki

In this work we study the topological properties of temporal hypergraphs. Hypergraphs provide a higher dimensional generalization of a graph that is capable of capturing multi-way connections. As such, they have become an integral part of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Audun Myers , Cliff Joslyn , Bill Kay , Emilie Purvine , Gregory Roek , Madelyn Shapiro

Coordinating agents through hazardous environments, such as aid-delivering drones navigating conflict zones or field robots traversing deployment areas filled with obstacles, poses fundamental planning challenges. We introduce and analyze…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Šimon Schierreich , Nicholas Axel Tanujaya , Haifeng Xu

Physical social encounters are governed by a set of socio-psychological behavioral rules with a high degree of uniform validity. Past research has shown how these rules or the resulting properties of the encounters (e.g. the geometry of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Daniel Raumer , Christoph Fuchs , Georg Groh

The advantages of temporal networks in capturing complex dynamics, such as diffusion and contagion, has led to breakthroughs in real world systems across numerous fields. In the case of human behavior, face-to-face interaction networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nicolò Alessandro Girardini , Antonio Longa , Gaia Trebucchi , Giulia Cencetti , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Lepri

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

We consider multi-agent systems with cooperative interactions and study the convergence to consensus in the case of time-dependent connections, with possible communication failure. We prove a new condition ensuring consensus: we define a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Mohamed Bentaibi , Laura Caravenna , Jean-Paul A. Gauthier , Francesco Rossi

In this paper we propose an application of adaptive synchronization of chaos to detect changes in the topology of a mobile robotic network. We assume that the network may evolve in time due to the relative motion of the mobile robots and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Nicola Bezzo , Patricio J. Cruz Davalos , Francesco Sorrentino , Rafael Fierro

Interaction graphs, such as those recording emails between individuals or transactions between institutions, tend to be sparse yet structured, and often grow in an unbounded manner. Such behavior can be well-captured by structured,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Elahe Ghalebi , Hamidreza Mahyar , Radu Grosu , Graham W. Taylor , Sinead A. Williamson

Inferring the underlying graph topology that characterizes structured data is pivotal to many graph-based models when pre-defined graphs are not available. This paper focuses on learning graphs in the case of sequential data in dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Xiang Zhang