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The Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem (EST) seeks a minimum-cost tree interconnecting a given set of terminal points in the Euclidean plane, allowing the use of additional intersection points. In this paper, we consider two variants that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Simon Bartlmae , Paul J. Jünger , Elmar Langetepe

We consider a new Steiner tree problem, called vertex-cover-weighted Steiner tree problem. This problem defines the weight of a Steiner tree as the minimum weight of vertex covers in the tree, and seeks a minimum-weight Steiner tree in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Takuro Fukunaga , Takanori Maehara

Uniform cost-distance Steiner trees minimize the sum of the total length and weighted path lengths from a dedicated root to the other terminals. They are applied when the tree is intended for signal transmission, e.g. in chip design or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Josefine Foos , Stephan Held , Yannik Kyle Dustin Spitzley

We study the NP-complete Minimum Shared Edges (MSE) problem. Given an undirected graph, a source and a sink vertex, and two integers p and k, the question is whether there are p paths in the graph connecting the source with the sink and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Till Fluschnik , Stefan Kratsch , Rolf Niedermeier , Manuel Sorge

We study the Steiner tree problem on map graphs, which substantially generalize planar graphs as they allow arbitrarily large cliques. We obtain a PTAS for Steiner tree on map graphs, which builds on the result for planar edge weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jarosław Byrka , Mateusz Lewandowski , Syed Mohammad Meesum , Joachim Spoerhase , Sumedha Uniyal

In the classical Steiner tree problem, given an undirected, connected graph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative edge costs and a set of \emph{terminals} $T\subseteq V$, the objective is to find a minimum-cost tree $E' \subseteq E$ that spans the…

In this paper, we reduce Prize-Collecting Steiner TSP (PCTSP), Prize-Collecting Stroll (PCS), Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST), Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest (PCSF) and more generally Submodular Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest (SPCSF)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-23 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

The Secluded Path problem models a situation where a sensitive information has to be transmitted between a pair of nodes along a path in a network. The measure of the quality of a selected path is its exposure, which is the total weight of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Nikolay Karpov , Alexander S. Kulikov

In the \emph{budgeted rooted node-weighted Steiner tree} problem, we are given a graph $G$ with $n$ nodes, a predefined node $r$, two weights associated to each node modelling costs and prizes. The aim is to find a tree in $G$ rooted at $r$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Esmaeil Delfaraz

The Steiner Forest problem, also known as the Generalized Steiner Tree problem, is a fundamental optimization problem on edge-weighted graphs where, given a set of vertex pairs, the goal is to select a minimum-cost subgraph such that each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ali Ahmadi , Iman Gholami , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Mohammad Mahdavi

We consider the k-outconnected directed Steiner tree problem (k-DST). Given a directed edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E,w)$, where $V=\{r\}\cup S \cup T$, and an integer $k$, the goal is to find a minimum cost subgraph of $G$ in which there are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Sarel Cohen , Lior Kamma , Aikaterini Niklanovits

We give a dynamic programming solution to find the minimum cost of a diameter constrained Steiner tree in case of directed graphs. Then we show a simple reduction from undirected version to the directed version to realize an algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Prashanth Amireddy , Chetan Sai Digumarthi

The \emph{Steiner tree} problem is one of the fundamental and classical problems in combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we study this problem in the $\mathcal{CONGESTED}$ $\mathcal{CLIQUE}$ model of distributed computing and present…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Parikshit Saikia , Sushanta Karmakar

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

{\em Reoptimization} is a setting in which we are given an (near) optimal solution of a problem instance and a local modification that slightly changes the instance. The main goal is that of finding an (near) optimal solution of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Davide Bilò

The Steiner tree problem is one of the classic and most fundamental $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems: given an arbitrary weighted graph, seek a minimum-cost tree spanning a given subset of the vertices (terminals). Byrka \emph{et al}. proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Chi-Yeh Chen

We study the Equitable Connected Partition (ECP for short) problem, where we are given a graph G=(V,E) together with an integer p, and our goal is to find a partition of V into p parts such that each part induces a connected sub-graph of G…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Václav Blažej , Dušan Knop , Jan Pokorný , Šimon Schierreich

In this article, we study the Euclidean minimum spanning tree problem in an imprecise setup. The problem is known as the \emph{Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with Neighborhoods} in the literature. We study the problem where the neighborhoods…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sanjana Dey , Ramesh K. Jallu , Subhas C. Nandy

We consider the \textsc{Steiner Orientation} problem, where we are given as input a mixed graph $G=(V,E,A)$ and a set of $k$ demand pairs $(s_i,t_i)$, $i\in[k]$. The goal is to orient the undirected edges of $G$ in a way that the resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Nikolaos Melissinos , Edouard Nemery , Hirotaka Ono , Manolis Vasilakis