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Chain graphs combine directed and undirected graphs and their underlying mathematics combines properties of the two. This paper gives a simplified definition of chain graphs based on a hierarchical combination of Bayesian (directed) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Wray L. Buntine

We present algorithms and experiments for the visualization of directed graphs that focus on displaying their reachability information. Our algorithms are based on the concepts of the path and channel decomposition as proposed in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Panagiotis Lionakis , Giacomo Ortali , Ioannis G. Tollis

Simplicial complexes are extensively studied in the field of algebraic topology. They have gained attention in recent time due to their applications in fields like theoretical distributed computing and simplicial neural networks. Graphs are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sukrit Chakraborty , Prasanta Choudhury , Arindam Mukherjee

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently become the standard approach for learning with graph-structured data. Prior work has shed light into their potential, but also their limitations. Unfortunately, it was shown that standard GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Gaspard Michel , Giannis Nikolentzos , Johannes Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances in processing structured data. However, most of them primarily adopted a model-centric approach, which simplifies graphs by converting them into undirected formats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Henan Sun , Xunkai Li , Daohan Su , Junyi Han , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

For the first time proposed: a method for representing the projections of a graph in computer memory and a description based on it of a quick search for shortest paths in unweighted dynamic graphs. The spatial complexity of the projection…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-10 V. A. Melent'ev

An important tool in analyzing complex social and information networks is s-t simple path counting, which is known to be #P-complete. In this paper, we study efficient s-t simple path counting in directed graphs. For a given pair of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Complex networks or graphs are ubiquitous in sciences and engineering: biological networks, brain networks, transportation networks, social networks, and the World Wide Web, to name a few. Spectral graph theory provides a set of useful…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay , Kaijun Wang

We consider the problem of routing on a network in the presence of line segment constraints (i.e., obstacles that edges in our network are not allowed to cross). Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane and let $S$ be a set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Prosenjit Bose , Matias Korman , André van Renssen , Sander Verdonschot

A graph is a mathematical object consisting of a set of vertices and a set of edges connecting vertices. Graphs can be drawn on paper in various ways, but until recently all published methods of drawing graphs have had undesirable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Bob Blakley , G R Blakley , Sean M Blakley

We describe various path homology theories constructed for a directed hypergraph. We introduce the category of directed hypergraphs and the notion of a homotopy in this category. Also, we investigate the functoriality and the homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Yuri Muranov , Anna Szczepkowska , Vladimir Vershinin

Finding a simple path of even length between two designated vertices in a directed graph is a fundamental NP-complete problem known as the EvenPath problem. Nedev proved in 1999, that for directed planar graphs, the problem can be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Archit Chauhan , Samir Datta , Chetan Gupta , Vimal Raj Sharma

We state the graph-theoretic computational problem of finding tight paths in a directed, edge-weighted graph, as well as its simplification of finding tight pairs. These problems are motivated by the need of algorithms that find so-called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-12 José Luis Balcázar

Directed acyclic graphs are a fundamental class of networks that includes citation networks, food webs, and family trees, among others. Here we define a random graph model for directed acyclic graphs and give solutions for a number of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-23 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

We present an algorithm to compute path homology for simple digraphs, and use it to topologically analyze various small digraphs en route to an analysis of complex temporal networks which exhibit such digraphs as underlying motifs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Samir Chowdhury , Steve Huntsman , Matvey Yutin

Graph searching is one of the simplest and most widely used tools in graph algorithms. Every graph search method is defined using some particular selection rule, and the analysis of the corresponding vertex orderings can aid greatly in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Matjaž Krnc , Nevena Pivač

For a given collection G of directed graphs we define the join-reachability graph of G, denoted by J(G), as the directed graph that, for any pair of vertices a and b, contains a path from a to b if and only if such a path exists in all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Loukas Georgiadis , Stavros D. Nikolopoulos , Leonidas Palios

Directed graphs naturally model systems with asymmetric, ordered relationships, essential to applications in biology, transportation, social networks, and visual understanding. Generating such graphs enables tasks such as simulation, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alba Carballo-Castro , Manuel Madeira , Yiming Qin , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

In this paper we present a characterisation, by an infinite family of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs, of proper circular arc graphs which are intersection graphs of paths on a grid, where each path has at most one bend (turn).

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Esther Galby , Maria Pia Mazzoleni , Bernard Ries