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Sequential decision problems in applications such as manipulation in warehouses, multi-step meal preparation, and routing in autonomous vehicle networks often involve reasoning about uncertainty, planning over discrete modes as well as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Shushman Choudhury , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree of minimum cost under a hop constraint which requires the depth of the tree to be at most $k$. Our main result is an exact algorithm for metrics induced by graphs with bounded treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Martin Böhm , Ruben Hoeksma , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon

We propose the k-Shortest-Path (k-SP) constraint: a novel constraint on the agent's trajectory that improves the sample efficiency in sparse-reward MDPs. We show that any optimal policy necessarily satisfies the k-SP constraint. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Sungryull Sohn , Sungtae Lee , Jongwook Choi , Harm van Seijen , Mehdi Fatemi , Honglak Lee

We combine the well known Shortest Paths (SP) problem and the Bottleneck Paths (BP) problem to introduce a new problem called the Shortest Paths for All Flows (SP-AF) problem that has relevance in real life applications. We first solve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is a well-known optimization problem in manufacturing, where the goal is to determine the optimal sequence of jobs across different machines to minimize a given objective. In this work, we focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Laurie Boveroux , Damien Ernst , Quentin Louveaux

The Multi-objective Shortest Path (MOSP) problem is a classic network optimization problem that aims to find all Pareto-optimal paths between two points in a graph with multiple edge costs. Recent studies on multi-objective search with A*…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Saman Ahmadi , Nathan R. Sturtevant , Andrea Raith , Daniel Harabor , Mahdi Jalili

Shortest paths problems are subject to extensive studies in classic distributed models such as the CONGEST or Congested Clique. These models dictate how nodes may communicate in order to determine shortest paths in a distributed input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Philipp Schneider

The resource-constrained shortest path problem (RCSPP) is a fundamental NP-hard optimization challenge with broad applications, from network routing to autonomous navigation. This problem involves finding a path that minimizes a primary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nuno Soares , António Grilo

We introduce a variant of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that is encountered in sensor networks for scientific data collection. Consider an undirected graph $G=(V \cup \{\mathbf{sink}\},E)$. Each vertex $v \in V$ holds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-23 John Augustine , Qi Han , Philip Loden , Sachin Lodha , Sasanka Roy

This paper investigates the problem of computing the shortest path between two states under resource constraints in environments with resource-replenishment regions. Namely, the length of the path is limited by a budget that can be restored…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Khaled Surur , Melkior Ornik

This paper presents an integrated approach for efficient path planning and energy management in hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (HUAVs) equipped with dual fuel-electric propulsion systems. These HUAVs operate in environments that include…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Saurabh Belgaonkar , Deepak Prakash Kumar , Sivakumar Rathinam , Swaroop Darbha , Trevor Bihl

Given a connected, undirected graph whose edges are labelled (or coloured), the minimum labelling spanning tree (MLST) problem seeks a spanning tree whose edges have the smallest number of distinct labels (or colours). In recent work, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Sergio Consoli , Nenad Mladenovic , Jose Andres Moreno-Perez

Querying the shortest path between two vertexes is a fundamental operation in a variety of applications, which has been extensively studied over static road networks. However, in reality, the travel costs of road segments evolve over time,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zengyang Gong , Yuxiang Zeng , Lei Chen

We study the hop-constrained s-t path enumeration (HcPE) problem, which takes a graph $G$, two distinct vertices $s,t$ and a hop constraint $k$ as input, and outputs all paths from $s$ to $t$ whose length is at most $k$. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Shixuan Sun , Yuhang Chen , Bingsheng He , Bryan Hooi

The purpose of this work is to introduce and characterize the Bounded Acceleration Shortest Path (BASP) problem, a generalization of the Shortest Path (SP) problem. This problem is associated to a graph: the nodes represent positions of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Mattia Laurini , Marco Locatelli

Path planning is a fundamental problem in road networks, with the goal of finding a path that optimizes objectives such as shortest distance or minimal travel time. Existing methods typically use graph indexing to ensure the efficiency of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hanzhang Chen , Xiangzhi Zhang , Shufeng Gong , Feng Yao , Song Yu , Yanfeng Zhang , Ge Yu

With the pervasiveness of Stochastic Shortest-Path (SSP) problems in high-risk industries, such as last-mile autonomous delivery and supply chain management, robust planning algorithms are crucial for ensuring successful task completion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Clinton Enwerem , Erfaun Noorani , John S. Baras , Brian M. Sadler

Navigating rigid body objects through crowded environments can be challenging, especially when narrow passages are presented. Existing sampling-based planners and optimization-based methods like mixed integer linear programming (MILP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mingxin Yu , Chuchu Fan

Network design problems aim to compute low-cost structures such as routes, trees and subgraphs. Often, it is natural and desirable to require that these structures have small hop length or hop diameter. Unfortunately, optimization problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Goran Zuzic

Offline map matching involves aligning historical trajectories of mobile objects, which may have positional errors, with digital maps. This is essential for applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), such as route analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ruilin Xu , Yuchen Song , Kaijie Li , Xitong Gao , Kejiang Ye , Fan Zhang , Juanjuan Zhao