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We present a queuing model of parking dynamics and a model-based prediction method to provide real-time probabilistic forecasts of future parking occupancy. The queuing model has a non-homogeneous arrival rate and time-varying service time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Hamidreza Tavafoghi , Kameshwar Poolla , Pravin Varaiya

We investigate simple strategies that embody the decisions that one faces when trying to park near a popular destination. Should one park far from the target (destination), where finding a spot is easy, but then be faced with a long walk,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-25 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

In this paper, the parking problem of a swarm of mobile robots has been studied. The robots are deployed at the nodes of an infinite grid, which has a subset of prefixed nodes marked as parking nodes. Each parking node p_i has a capacity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Abhinav Chakraborty , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

We introduce a rather natural family of non-uniform distributions on $PF_n$, $n\in\mathbb{N}$, the set of parking functions of length $n$. One of the motivations for this comes from a similar situation in the context of integer partitions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Ross G. Pinsky

Recently, the authors extended the notion of parking functions to parking sequences, which include cars of different sizes, and proved a product formula for the number of such sequences. We here give a refinement of that result involving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Richard Ehrenborg , Alex Happ

Parking accurately and safely in highly constrained spaces remains a critical challenge. Unlike structured driving environments, parking requires executing complex maneuvers such as frequent gear shifts and steering saturation. Recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Han Zheng , Zikang Zhou , Guli Zhang , Zhepei Wang , Kaixuan Wang , Peiliang Li , Shaojie Shen , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Our paper approaches the parking assistance service in urban environments as an instance of service provision in non-cooperative network environments. We propose normative abstractions for the way drivers pursue parking space and the way…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Evangelia Kokolaki , Merkouris Karaliopoulos , Ioannis Stavrakakis

A monotone function interval is the set of monotone functions that lie pointwise between two fixed monotone functions. We characterize the set of extreme points of monotone function intervals and apply this to a number of economic settings.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-16 Kai Hao Yang , Alexander K. Zentefis

In this paper, we study the total displacement statistic of parking functions from the perspective of cooperative game theory. We introduce parking games, which are coalitional cost-sharing games in characteristic function form derived from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Jennifer Elder , Pamela E. Harris , Jan Kretschmann , J. Carlos Martínez Mori

We show that the number of parking functions of length $n$ with zero secondary dinv is equal to the number of ordered cycle decompositions of permutations of $[n]$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Susanna Fishel , Luis Pena

Several machine learning models are defined for inputs of any size, such as graphs with different numbers of nodes and point clouds containing varying numbers of points. The universality properties of such any-dimensional models remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengtai Yao , Eitan Levin , Mateo Díaz

This paper introduces a novel motion planning algorithm for stochastic scenarios. We extend the concept of a navigation function to such scenarios. Our main idea is to consider both the Gaussian distribution probabilities of the players'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Shlomi Hacohen , Shraga Shoval , Nir Shvalb

We introduce Lehmer parking functions and study their set of parking outcomes. Our main results establish that the number of outcomes of Lehmer parking functions of length $n$ is given by a Bell number, which is exactly the number of set…

We consider a natural generalization of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan. In our extension the set of jobs is partitioned into several classes and a machine requires a setup whenever it switches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Alexander Mäcker

We study three natural types of restrictions on Fubini rankings and unit interval parking functions, which are motivated by their correspondence with ordered set partitions. For each restriction type, we define the corresponding subset of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Camilo Barreto , Pamela Harris , José L. Ramírez , Samuel Ramírez , Julio C. Vasquez

We show that a minimal triangulation of the associahedron (Stasheff polytope) of dimension n is made of (n+1)^{n-1} simplices. We construct a natural bijection with the set of parking functions from a new interpretation of parking functions…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Louis Loday

We investigate parking in a one-dimensional lot, where cars enter at a rate $\lambda$ and each attempts to park close to a target at the origin. Parked cars also depart at rate 1. An entering driver cannot see beyond the parked cars for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-07 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

The parking issue is central in transport policies and drivers' concerns, but the determinants of the parking search time remain relatively poorly understood. The question is often handled in a fairly ad hoc way, or by resorting to crude…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-12 Léo Bulckaen , Nilankur Dutta , Alexandre Nicolas

We recall the occupancy problem introduced by Konheim & Weiss in 1966 and we consider parking functions as hash maps. Each car $c_i$ prefers parking space $p_i$ (the hash map $c_i \mapsto p_i$ with $c_i$ is a key and $p_i$ an index into an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jean-Baptiste Priez

In systems where one coordinate undergoes periodic oscillation, the net displacement in any other coordinate over a single period is shown to be given by differentiation of the action integral associated with the oscillating coordinate.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rory J. Perkins , Paul M. Bellan