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In this work we consider algorithms for reconstructing time-varying data into a finite sum of discrete trajectories, alternatively, an off-the-grid sparse-spikes decomposition which is continuous in time. Recent work showed that this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Vincent Duval , Robert Tovey

In this paper, we consider a large-scale instance of the classical Pickup-and-Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem (PDVRP) that must be solved by a network of mobile cooperating robots. Robots must self-coordinate and self-allocate a set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Andrea Camisa , Andrea Testa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

The recent end-to-end neural solvers have shown promise for small-scale routing problems but suffered from limited real-time scaling-up performance. This paper proposes GLOP (Global and Local Optimization Policies), a unified hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Haoran Ye , Jiarui Wang , Helan Liang , Zhiguang Cao , Yong Li , Fanzhang Li

Energy consumption is the major contributor associated with large and growing transportation cost in logistics. Optimal vehicle routing approaches can provide solutions to reduce their operating costs and address implications on energy.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Harshavardhan Desai , Ben Remer , Behdad Chalaki , Liuhui Zhao , Andreas Malikopoulos , Jackeline Rios-Torres

We introduce a novel approach of using important cuts which allowed us to design significantly faster fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms for the following routing problems: the Mixed Chinese Postman Problem parameterized by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Bin Sheng , Gregory Gutin

Planning problems are hard, motion planning, for example, isPSPACE-hard. Such problems are even more difficult in the presence of uncertainty. Although, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a formal framework for such problems, finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Carlos E. Guestrin , Dirk Ormoneit

Given a distributed network represented by a weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices, and a parameter $k$, we devise a distributed algorithm that computes a routing scheme in $(n^{1/2+1/k}+D)\cdot n^{o(1)}$ rounds, where $D$ is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman

We study the parameterized complexity of a generalization of the coordinated motion planning problem on graphs, where the goal is to route a specified subset of a given set of $k$ robots to their destinations with the aim of minimizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , M. S. Ramanujan

A rich vehicle routing problem is considered, allowing multiple trips of heterogeneous vehicles stationed at geographically distributed vehicle depots having access to different modes of transportation. The problem arises from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Santanu Banerjee , Goutam Sen , Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay

Finding optimal join orders is among the most crucial steps to be performed by query optimisers. Though extensively studied in data management research, the problem remains far from solved: While query optimisers rely on exhaustive search…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Manuel Schönberger , Immanuel Trummer , Wolfgang Mauerer

Motivated by multi-domain service function chain (SFC) orchestration, we define the shortest-longest path (SLP) problem, prove its hardness, and design an efficient fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) using the dynamic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jianwei Zhang

Inventory management, vehicle routing, and delivery scheduling decisions are simultaneously considered in the context of the inventory routing problem. This paper focuses on the continuous-time version of this problem where, unlike its more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Akang Wang , Xiandong Li , Jeffrey E. Arbogast , Zachary Wilson , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly prevalent nowadays, with studies highlighting their potential as mobile energy storage systems to provide grid support. Realising this potential requires effective charging coordination,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Jun Kang Yap , Vishnu Monn Baskaran , Wen Shan Tan , Ze Yang Ding , Hao Wang , David L. Dowe

In this work we compare several new computational approaches to an inventory routing problem, in which a single product is shipped from a warehouse to retailers via an uncapacitated vehicle. We survey exact algorithms for the Traveling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Yasemin Malli , Marco Laumanns , Roberto Rossi , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

Cutting planes for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are typically computed in rounds by iteratively solving optimization problems, the so-called separation. Instead, we reframe the problem of finding good cutting planes as a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Pierre Bonami , Sanjeeb Dash , Anton Derkach , Andrea Lodi

This paper considers max-min fair rate allocation and routing in energy harvesting networks where fairness is required among both the nodes and the time slots. Unlike most previous work on fairness, we focus on multihop topologies and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Jelena Marasevic , Cliff Stein , Gil Zussman

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

The labeled MRPP (Multi-Robot Path Planning) problem involves routing robots from start to goal configurations efficiently while avoiding collisions. Despite progress in solution quality and runtime, its complexity and industrial relevance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Teng Guo