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Today's networks consist of many autonomous entities that follow their own objectives, i.e., smart devices or parts of large AI systems, that are interconnected. Given the size and complexity of most communication networks, each entity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Pascal Lenzner , Paraskevi Machaira

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node. Agents are anonymous (identical), execute the same deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc

We consider an Anonymous Multi-Agent Path-Finding (AMAPF) problem where the set of agents is confined to a graph, a set of goal vertices is given and each of these vertices has to be reached by some agent. The problem is to find an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

We consider discrete dynamical systems of "ant-like" agents engaged in a sequence of pursuits on a graph environment. The agents emerge one by one at equal time intervals from a source vertex $s$ and pursue each other by greedily attempting…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Michael Amir , Alfred M. Bruckstein

We study deterministic exploration by a single agent in $T$-interval-connected graphs, a standard model of dynamic networks in which, for every time window of length $T$, the intersection of the graphs within the window is connected. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yuichi Sudo , Naoki Kitamura , Masahiro Shibata , Junya Nakamura , Sébastien Tixeuil , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Koichi Wada

Graph embedding provides an efficient solution for graph analysis by converting the graph into a low-dimensional space which preserves the structure information. In contrast to the graph structure data, the i.i.d. node embedding can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

The following optimal stopping problem is considered. The vertices of a graph $G$ are revealed one by one, in a random order, to a selector. He aims to stop this process at a time $t$ that maximizes the expected number of connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Fabrício Siqueira Benevides , Małgorzata Sulkowska

The trapping problem on graph (or network) as a typical focus of great interest has attracted more attention from various science fields, including applied mathematics and theoretical computer science, in the past. Here, we first study this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Fei Ma , Ping Wang

Searching in the Internet for some object characterised by its attributes in the form of data, such as a hotel in a certain city whose price is less than something, is one of our most common activities when we access the Web. We discuss…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erol Gelenbe , Omer H. Abdelrahman

Many graph processing algorithms require determination of shortest-path distances between arbitrary numbers of node pairs. Since computation of exact distances between all node-pairs of a large graph, e.g., 10M nodes and up, is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Deepak Ajwani , W. Sean Kennedy , Alessandra Sala , Iraj Saniee

The gathering problem requires a set of mobile agents, arbitrarily positioned at different nodes of a network to group within finite time at the same location, not fixed in advanced. The extensive existing literature on this problem shares…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

In this work we consider temporal graphs, i.e. graphs, each edge of which is assigned a set of discrete time-labels drawn from a set of integers. The labels of an edge indicate the discrete moments in time at which the edge is available. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Paul G. Spirakis , Eleni Ch. Akrida

This paper studies the discovery of approximate rules in property graphs. We propose a semantically meaningful measure of error for mining graph entity dependencies (GEDs) at almost hold, to tolerate errors and inconsistencies that exist in…

We give lower bounds for various natural node- and edge-based local strategies for exploring a graph. We consider this problem both in the setting of an arbitrary graph as well as the abstraction of a geometric exploration of a space by a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Aditya Kumar Akash , Sandor P. Fekete , Seoung Kyou Lee , Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz , Daniela Maftuleac , James McLurkin

We consider the problem of recovering a latent graph where the observations at each node are \emph{aliased}, and transitions are stochastic. Observations are gathered by an agent traversing the graph. Aliasing means that multiple nodes emit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla , Ishan Deshpande , Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan , Meet Dave , Dileep George

We consider the problem of searching for an unknown target vertex $t$ in a (possibly edge-weighted) graph. Each \emph{vertex-query} points to a vertex $v$ and the response either admits $v$ is the target or provides any neighbor $s\not=v$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Dariusz Dereniowski , Stefan Tiegel , Przemysław Uznański , Daniel Wolleb-Graf

We analyze the query complexity of finding a local minimum in $t$ rounds on general graphs. More precisely, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and oracle access to an unknown function $f : V \to \mathbb{R}$, the goal is to find a local minimum--a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Simina Brânzei , Ioannis Panageas , Dimitris Paparas

We consider the dispersion problem for mobile agents. Initially, k agents are located at arbitrary nodes in an undirected graph. Agents can migrate from node to node via an edge in the graph synchronously. Our goal is to let the k agents be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Takahiro Shintaku , Yuichi Sudo , Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

To investigate the performance of quantum information tasks on networks whose topology changes in time, we study the spatial search algorithm by continuous time quantum walk to find a marked node on a random temporal network. We consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Serena Di Giorgio , Yasser Omar

Consider a group of autonomous mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily placed at some nodes of a dynamic but always connected ring. The agents neither have any knowledge about the size of the ring nor have a common notion…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Archak Das , Kaustav Bose , Buddhadeb Sau