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The Spanning Tree Congestion (STC) problem is the following NP-hard problem: given a graph $G$, construct a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ minimizing its maximum edge congestion where the congestion of an edge $e\in T$ is the number of edges $uv$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Petr Kolman

This paper summarizes the work on implementing few solutions for the Steiner Tree problem which we undertook in the PAAL project. The main focus of the project is the development of generic implementations of approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Krzysztof Ciebiera , Piotr Godlewski , Piotr Sankowski , Piotr Wygocki

We study the query complexity of the metric Steiner Tree problem, where we are given an $n \times n$ metric on a set $V$ of vertices along with a set $T \subseteq V$ of $k$ terminals, and the goal is to find a tree of minimum cost that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Zihan Tan

We study the problem of constructing universal Steiner trees for undirected graphs. Given a graph $G$ and a root node $r$, we seek a single spanning tree $T$ of minimum {\em stretch}, where the stretch of $T$ is defined to be the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Costas Busch , Chinmoy Dutta , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan

We introduce a graph partitioning problem motivated by computational topology and propose two algorithms that produce approximate solutions. Specifically, given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, we desire to find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Abdel-Rahman Madkour , Phillip Nadolny , Matthew Wright

Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V, E), a set X \subseteq V(G), and integers k and p, STEINER SUBGRAPH EXTENSION problem asks if there exists a set S \supseteq X with at most k vertices such that G[S] is p-edge-connected. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eduard Eiben , Diptapriyo Majumdar , M. S. Ramanujan

We present a new exact algorithm for the Steiner tree problem in edge-weighted graphs. Our algorithm improves the classical dynamic programming approach by Dreyfus and Wagner. We achieve a significantly better practical performance via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Stefan Hougardy , Jannik Silvanus , Jens Vygen

In the k-Connected Directed Steiner Tree problem (k-DST), we are given a directed graph G=(V, E) with edge (or vertex) costs, a root vertex r, a set of q terminals T, and a connectivity requirement k>0; the goal is to find a minimum-cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Chun-Hsiang Chan , Bundit Laekhanukit , Hao-Ting Wei , Yuhao Zhang

Graph neural networks have been successful in many learning problems and real-world applications. A recent line of research explores the power of graph neural networks to solve combinatorial and graph algorithmic problems such as subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Reyan Ahmed , Md Asadullah Turja , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Mithun Ghosh , Keaton Hamm , Stephen Kobourov

We introduce a temporal Steiner network problem in which a graph, as well as changes to its edges and/or vertices over a set of discrete times, are given as input; the goal is to find a minimal subgraph satisfying a set of $k$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Alex Khodaverdian , Benjamin Weitz , Jimmy Wu , Nir Yosef

In the laminar-constrained spanning tree problem, the goal is to find a minimum-cost spanning tree which respects upper bounds on the number of times each cut in a given laminar family is crossed. This generalizes the well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Nathan Klein , Neil Olver

We initiate the study of degree-bounded network design problems in the online setting. The degree-bounded Steiner tree problem { which asks for a subgraph with minimum degree that connects a given set of vertices { is perhaps one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Sina Dahghani , Soheil Ehsani , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Vahid Liaghat , Harald Racke

In the Steiner Forest problem, we are given a graph and a collection of source-sink pairs, and the goal is to find a subgraph of minimum total length such that all pairs are connected. The problem is APX-Hard and can be 2-approximated by,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Martin Groß , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Jannik Matuschke , Daniel R. Schmidt , Melanie Schmidt , José Verschae

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

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and an input line $\gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, we present an algorithm that runs in optimal $\Theta(n\log n)$ time and $\Theta(n)$ space to solve a restricted version of the $1$-Steiner tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Prosenjit Bose , Anthony D'Angelo , Stephane Durocher

For a given graph $G=(V,\, E)$ with a terminal set $S$ and a selected root $r\in S$, a positive integer cost and a delay on every edge and a delay constraint $D\in Z^{+}$, the shallow-light Steiner tree (\emph{SLST}) problem is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao

In this paper we design and prove correct a fully dynamic distributed algorithm for maintaining an approximate Steiner tree that connects via a minimum-weight spanning tree a subset of nodes of a network (referred as Steiner members or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Lélia Blin , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$, we wish to compute a spanning tree whose maximum vertex degree, i.e. tree degree, is as small as possible. Computing the exact optimal solution is known to be NP-hard, since it generalizes the Hamiltonian path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ran Duan , Haoqing He , Tianyi Zhang

Given an edge-weighted graph and a set of known seed vertices, a network scientist often desires to understand the graph relationships to explain connections between the seed vertices. When the seed set is 3 or larger Steiner minimal tree -…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Tahsin Reza , Geoffrey Sanders , Roger Pearce

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