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We show how to combine two techniques for efficiently computing shortest paths in directed planar graphs. The first is the linear-time shortest-path algorithm of Henzinger, Klein, Subramanian, and Rao [STOC'94]. The second is Fakcharoenphol…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Shay Mozes , Yahav Nussbaum , Oren Weimann

Paths are important structural elements in complex networks because they are finite (unlike walks), related to effective node coverage (minimum spanning trees), and can be understood as being dual to star connectivity. This article…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-05 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

A new path planning method for Mobile Robots (MR) has been developed and implemented. On the one hand, based on the shortest path from the start point to the goal point, this path planner can choose the best moving directions of the MR,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hoc Thai Nguyen , Hai Xuan Le

Numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on curved domains, as well as the associated geodesic distance, arises in a broad range of applications across digital geometry processing, scientific computing, computer graphics, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Keenan Crane , Marco Livesu , Enrico Puppo , Yipeng Qin

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classic path planning method, which operates in a discrete graph space to determine the shortest path from a specified source point to a target node or all other nodes based on non-negative edge weights. Numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Song Yang

The calculation of shortest-path distances in road networks is a core operation in navigation systems, location-based services, and spatial analytics. Although classical algorithms, e.g., Dijkstra's algorithm, provide exact answers, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Gautam Choudhary , Libin Zhou , Yeasir Rayhan , Walid G. Aref

In this article, we present an approximation algorithm for solving the Weighted Region Problem amidst a set of $ n $ non-overlapping weighted disks in the plane. For a given parameter $ \varepsilon \in (0,1]$, the length of the approximate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Guillermo Esteban , Anil Maheshwari

Finding diverse solutions in combinatorial problems recently has received considerable attention (Baste et al. 2020; Fomin et al. 2020; Hanaka et al. 2021). In this paper we study the following type of problems: given an integer $k$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , See Woo Lee , Yota Otachi

The problem of finding the shortest path in a graph G(V, E) has been widely studied. However, in many applications it is necessary to compute an arbitrary number of them, k. Even though the problem has raised a lot of interest from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Carlos Linares López , Ian Herman

Finding shortest paths in a given network (e.g., a computer network or a road network) is a well-studied task with many applications. We consider this task under the presence of an adversary, who can manipulate the network by perturbing its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

In this work, we solve a discrete optimal transport problem in a nonuniform environment. To solve the optimal transport problem, we build the cost matrix and then use classical solvers for discrete optimal transport. The challenge is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

Route choice is often modelled as a two-step procedure in which travellers choose their routes from small sets of promising candidates. Many methods developed to identify such choice sets rely on assumptions about the mechanisms behind the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Samuel M. Fischer

Finding a shortest path in a graph is one of the most classic problems in algorithmic and graph theory. While we dispose of quite efficient algorithms for this ordinary problem (like the Dijkstra or Bellman-Ford algorithms), some slight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Abderrahim Bendahi , Adrien Fradin

We introduce a communication model for hybrid networks, where nodes have access to two different communication modes: a local mode where communication is only possible between specific pairs of nodes, and a global mode where communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 John Augustine , Kristian Hinnenthal , Fabian Kuhn , Christian Scheideler , Philipp Schneider

A novel multi-robot path planning approach is presented in this paper. Based on the standard Dijkstra, the algorithm looks for the optimal paths for a formation of robots, taking into account the possibility of split and merge. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Estefanía Pereyra , Gastón Araguás , Miroslav Kulich

This paper is concerned with determining the shortest path for a pursuer aiming to intercept a moving target travelling at a constant speed. To address this challenge, we introduce an efficient mathematical model outlined as an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 M. Akter , M. M. Rizvi , M. Forkan

Considering a graph with unknown weights, can we find the shortest path for a pair of nodes if we know the minimal Steiner trees associated with some subset of nodes? That is, with respect to a fixed latent decision-making system (e.g., a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Guangmo Tong , Peng Zhao , Mina Samizadeh

Constructing a shortest path between two network nodes is a fundamental task in distributed computing. This work develops schemes for the construction of shortest paths in randomized beeping networks between a predetermined source node and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Fabien Dufoulon , Yuval Emek , Ran Gelles

In this paper, we present two tensor network quantum-inspired algorithms to solve the knapsack and the shortest path problems, and enables to solve some of its variations. These methods provide an exact equation which returns the optimal…

Complex systems of interacting components often can be modeled by a simple graph $\mathcal{G}$ that consists of a set of $n$ nodes and a set of $m$ edges. Such a graph can be represented by an adjacency matrix $A\in\R^{n\times n}$, whose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-17 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel