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Most transportation networks are inherently temporal: Connections (e.g. flights, train runs) are only available at certain, scheduled times. When transporting passengers or commodities, this fact must be considered for the the planning of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Eugen Füchsle , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

In real-time systems, in addition to the functional correctness recurrent tasks must fulfill timing constraints to ensure the correct behavior of the system. Partitioned scheduling is widely used in real-time systems, i.e., the tasks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jian-Jia Chen , Nikhil Bansal , Samarjit Chakraborty , Georg von der Brüggen

We consider a vehicle routing problem which seeks to minimize cost subject to service level constraints on several groups of deliveries. This problem captures some essential challenges faced by a logistics provider which operates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Teobaldo Bulhões , Minh Hoàng Hà , Rafael Martinelli , Thibaut Vidal

This paper develops a graph reinforcement learning approach to online planning of the schedule and destinations of electric aircraft that comprise an urban air mobility (UAM) fleet operating across multiple vertiports. This fleet scheduling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Steve Paul , Jhoel Witter , Souma Chowdhury

In this letter, we consider a transportation network with a 100\% penetration rate of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and present an optimal routing approach that takes into account the efficiency achieved in the network by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Heeseung Bang , Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Combinatorial optimization algorithms for graph problems are usually designed afresh for each new problem with careful attention by an expert to the problem structure. In this work, we develop a new framework to solve any combinatorial…

Routing problems are often faced by companies who serve costumers through vehicles. Such problems have a challenging structure to optimize, despite the recent advances in combinatorial optimization. The goal of this project is to study and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Felipe F. Müller , Luis A. A. Meira

Oblivious routing is an attractive paradigm for large distributed systems in which centralized control and frequent reconfigurations are infeasible or undesired (e.g., costly). Over the last almost 20 years, much progress has been made in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid

This study presents an in-depth computational analysis of four well-known Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) formulations with polynomial number of subtour elimination constraints: a node-based formulation and three arc-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Deniz Aksen , Temel Oncan , Mir Ehsan Hesam Sadati

We consider the $k$-Median problem on planar graphs: given an edge-weighted planar graph $G$, a set of clients $C \subseteq V(G)$, a set of facilities $F \subseteq V(G)$, and an integer parameter $k$, the task is to find a set of at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

The problem of routing in graphs using node-disjoint paths has received a lot of attention and a polylogarithmic approximation algorithm with constant congestion is known for undirected graphs [Chuzhoy and Li 2016] and [Chekuri and Ene…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Timothy Carpenter , Ario Salmasi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

The Bayesian online selection problem aims to design a pricing scheme for a sequence of arriving buyers that maximizes the expected social welfare (or revenue) subject to different structural constraints. Inspired by applications with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Nima Anari , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli

In autonomous mobility-on-demand systems, effectively managing vehicle flows to mitigate induced congestion and ensure efficient operations is imperative for system performance and positive customer experience. Against this background, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Antonio Coppola , Gerhard Hiermann , Dario Paccagnan , Maximilian Schiffer

The maximum traveling salesman problem (Max TSP) consists of finding a Hamiltonian cycle with the maximum total weight of the edges in a given complete weighted graph. This problem is APX-hard in the general metric case but admits…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Vladimir Shenmaier

We study the complexity of the directed periodic temporal graph realization problem. This work is motivated by the design of periodic schedules in public transport with constraints on the quality of service. Namely, we require that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Julia Meusel , Matthias Müller-Hannemann , Klaus Reinhardt

Crowdsourcing data from connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is a cost-efficient way to achieve high-definition maps with up-to-date transient road information. Achieving the map with deterministic latency performance is, however,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yongjie Xue , Yuru Zhang , Qiang Liu , Dawei Chen , Kyungtae Han

In this paper, we present improved approximation algorithms for the (unsplittable) Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) in general metrics. In CVRP, introduced by Dantzig and Ramser (1959), we are given a set of points (clients) $V$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Zachary Friggstad , Ramin Mousavi , Mirmahdi Rahgoshay , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

In this paper, we study the complexity of the periodic temporal graph realization problem with respect to upper bounds on the fastest path durations among its vertices. This constraint with respect to upper bounds appears naturally in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis

In the constrained planarity setting, we ask whether a graph admits a planar drawing that additionally satisfies a given set of constraints. These constraints are often derived from very natural problems; prominent examples are Level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Simon D. Fink , Ignaz Rutter

In the Cumulative Vehicle Routing Problem (Cu-VRP), we need to find a feasible itinerary for a capacitated vehicle located at the depot to satisfy customers' demand, as in the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), but the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao