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We study the problem of determining the worst optimal value and characterizing the corresponding worst-case scenarios in minimum cost network flow problems with interval uncertainty in arc capacities. In this setting, each capacity can take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Miroslav Rada , Milan Hladík , Elif Radová Garajová , Francesco Carrabs , Raffaele Cerulli , Ciriaco D'Ambrosio

I introduce a new approach to the maximum flow problem by a simple algorithm with a slightly better runtime. This approach is based on sorting arcs insight of vertices on a residual graph. This new approach leads to an O(mn^0.5) time bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Björn Hlava

We study the unsplittable flow on a path problem (UFP) where we are given a path with non-negative edge capacities and tasks, which are characterized by a subpath, a demand, and a profit. The goal is to find the most profitable subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Aris Anagnostopoulos , Fabrizio Grandoni , Stefano Leonardi , Andreas Wiese

The paper presents a dynamic solution method for dynamic minimum parametric networks flow. The solution method solves the problem for a special parametric dynamic network with linear lower bound functions of a single parameter. Instead…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Mircea Parpalea , Nicoleta Avesalon , Eleonor Ciurea

We give an $O(n^{1.5} \log n)$ algorithm that, given a directed planar graph with arc capacities, a set of source nodes and a single sink node, finds a maximum flow from the sources to the sink . This is the first subquadratic-time strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Philip N. Klein , Shay Mozes

We consider the following node-capacitated network design problem. The input is an undirected graph, set of demands, uniform node capacity and arbitrary node costs. The goal is to find a minimum node-cost subgraph that supports all demands…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Viswanath Nagarajan , Kirk Pruhs , Cliff Stein

We propose an exact polynomial algorithm for a resource allocation problem with convex costs and constraints on partial sums of resource consumptions, in the presence of either continuous or integer variables. No assumption of strict…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Thibaut Vidal , Patrick Jaillet , Nelson Maculan

In 2010s Fleiner introduced a notion of stable flows in directed networks and showed that such a flow always exists and can be found by use of a reduction to the stable allocation problem due to Baiou and Balinski. Recently Cseh and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alexander Karzanov

Many engineered systems, such as energy and transportation infrastructures, are networks governed by non-linear physical laws. A primary challenge for operators of these networks is to achieve optimal utilization while maintaining safety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Tillmann Weisser , Line Roald , Sidhant Misra

In this paper, we present a new push-relabel algorithm for the maximum flow problem on flow networks with $n$ vertices and $m$ arcs. Our algorithm computes a maximum flow in $O(mn)$ time on sparse networks where $m = O(n)$. To our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Rahul Mehta

We present a new strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization that is significantly simpler and faster than the previous strongly polynomial algorithm [V\'egh16]. For the uncapacitated problem formulation, the complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Neil Olver , László A. Végh

In the {\em capacitated} survivable network design problem (Cap-SNDP), we are given an undirected multi-graph where each edge has a capacity and a cost. The goal is to find a minimum cost subset of edges that satisfies a given set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chandra Chekuri , Sanjeev Khanna , Nitish Korula

We study a delay-sensitive information flow problem where a source streams information to a sink over a directed graph G(V,E) at a fixed rate R possibly using multiple paths to minimize the maximum end-to-end delay, denoted as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Qingyu Liu , Lei Deng , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

In this paper, we study a set of combinatorial optimization problems on weighted graphs: the shortest path problem with negative weights, the weighted perfect bipartite matching problem, the unit-capacity minimum-cost maximum flow problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Michael B. Cohen , Aleksander Madry , Piotr Sankowski , Adrian Vladu

We give a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with $n$ vertices and edge capacities from $\{1,\dots,U\}$ in $\tilde{O}(n^{2}\log U)$ time, which is near-optimal on dense graphs. This shaves an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Aaron Bernstein , Joakim Blikstad , Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ta-Wei Tu

We give a deterministic algorithm for finding the minimum (weight) cut of an undirected graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges using $\text{polylog}(n)$ calls to any maximum flow subroutine. Using the current best deterministic maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

In this paper, we propose new algorithms for evacuation problems defined on dynamic flow networks. A dynamic flow network is a directed graph in which source nodes are given supplies (i.e., the number of evacuees) and a single sink node is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yuya Higashikawa , Naoki Katoh , Junichi Teruyama , Yuki Tokuni

We give a short overview of advantages and drawbacks of the classical formulation of minimum cost network flow problems and solution techniques, to motivate a reformulation of classical static minimum cost network flow problems as optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Onur Tanil Doganay , Kathrin Klamroth , Bruno Lang , Michael Stiglmayr , Claudia Totzeck

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize the total energy consumption of all users including transmission energy and local computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Zhaohui Yang , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we propose a novel solution for the distributed unconstrained optimization problem where the total cost is the summation of time-varying local cost functions of a group networked agents. The objective is to track the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Amir-Salar Esteki , Solmaz S. Kia