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All-Pairs Minimum Cut (APMC) is a fundamental graph problem that asks to find a minimum $s,t$-cut for every pair of vertices $s,t$. A recent line of work on fast algorithms for APMC has culminated with a reduction of APMC to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

The Max-Flow Min-Cut theorem is the classical duality result for the Max-Flow problem, which considers flow of a single commodity. We study a multiple commodity generalization of Max-Flow in which flows are composed of real-valued k-vectors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Matthew Broussard , Bala Krishnamoorthy

We study a multi-commodity Freeway Network Control (FNC) problem aiming at achieving optimal operation of a transportation network through the use of ramp metering and variable speed limits. Straightforward formulations of both single- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Davide Sipione , Giacomo Como , Gustav Nilsson

An improved fully polynomial-time approximation scheme and a greedy heuristic for the fractional length-bounded maximum multicommodity flow problem with unit edge-lengths are proposed. Computational experiments are carried out on benchmark…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Pavel Borisovsky , Anton Eremeev , Sergei Hrushev , Vadim Teplyakov , Mikhail Vorozhtsov

Transmission-constrained problems in power systems can be cast as polynomial optimization problems whose coefficients vary over time. We consider the complications therein and suggest several approaches. On the example of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Jie Liu , Antonio Bellon , Andrea Simonetto , Martin Takac , Jakub Marecek

Problem definition: We study efficient exact solution approaches to solve chance-constrained multicommodity network design problems under demand uncertainty, an important class of network design problems. The chance constraint requires us…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Niels A. Wouda , Ward Romeijnders , Evrim Ursavas

Stable flows generalize the well-known concept of stable matchings to markets in which transactions may involve several agents, forwarding flow from one to another. An instance of the problem consists of a capacitated directed network, in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Ágnes Cseh , Jannik Matuschke

In this work, we investigate a multi-source multi-cast network with the aid of an arbitrary number of relays, where it is assumed that no direct link is available at each S-D pair. The aim is to find the fundamental limit on the maximal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Z. Chen , P. Fan , K. B. Letaief

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

The Integer Multicommodity Flow problem has been studied extensively in the literature. However, from a parameterised perspective, mostly special cases, such as the Disjoint Paths problem, have been considered. Therefore, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hans L. Bodlaender , Isja Mannens , Jelle J. Oostveen , Sukanya Pandey , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The classical optimal power flow problem optimizes the power flow in a power network considering the associated flow and operating constraints. In this paper, we investigate optimal power flow in the context of utility-maximizing demand…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Majid Khonji , Chi-Kin Chau , Khaled Elbassioni

The purpose of this work is to develop an algorithmic optimization approach for a capacitated Multi-Commodity flow problem, where the objective is to minimize the total link costs, where the cost of each arc increases convexly with its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guillaume Beraud-Sudreau , Lucas Létocart , Youcef Magnouche , Sébastien Martin

We consider the capacity problem for wireless networks. Networks are modeled as random unit-disk graphs, and the capacity problem is formulated as one of finding the maximum value of a multicommodity flow. In this paper, we develop a proof…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christina Peraki , Sergio D. Servetto

Routing and scheduling problems are fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization, and also have many applications. Most variations of these problems are NP-Hard, so we need to use heuristics to solve these problems on large instances,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Arindam Pal

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is fundamental in power system operations and planning. Large-scale renewable penetration in distribution networks calls for real-time feedback control, and hence the need for fast and distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Qiuyu Peng , Steven H. Low

In this paper, we will consider the Look-Ahead Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow (LASCOPF) problem looking forward multiple dispatch intervals, in which the load demand varies over dispatch intervals according to some forecast. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-19 Sambuddha Chakrabarti , Ross Baldick

This paper presents an iterated local search for the fixed-charge uncapacitated network design problem with user-optimal flow (FCNDP-UOF), which concerns routing multiple commodities from its origin to its destination by signing a network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Pedro Henrique González , Luidi Simonetti , Philippe Michelon , Carlos Martinhon , Edcarllos Santos

This thesis employs statistical learning technique to analyze, predict and solve the fixed charge network flow (FCNF) problem, which is common encountered in many real-world network problems. The cost structure for flows in the FCNF…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Weili Zhang

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics that asks us to compute collision-free paths for a team of agents, all moving across a shared map. Although many works appear on this topic, all current algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Jiaoyang Li , Peter J. Stuckey