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A stable or locally-optimal cut of a graph is a cut whose weight cannot be increased by changing the side of a single vertex. In this paper we study Minimum Stable Cut, the problem of finding a stable cut of minimum weight. Since this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Michael Lampis

We study the following variant of the 15 puzzle. Given a graph and two token placements on the vertices, we want to find a walk of the minimum length (if any exists) such that the sequence of token swappings along the walk obtains one of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Hironori Kiya , Yuto Okada , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi

We study a distributed learning problem in which $n$ agents, each with potentially heterogeneous local data, collaboratively minimize the sum of their local cost functions via peer-to-peer communication. We propose a novel algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Runze You , Shi Pu

We study a combinatorial model of the spread of influence in networks that generalizes existing schemata recently proposed in the literature. In our model, agents change behaviors/opinions on the basis of information collected from their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Luisa Gargano , Pavol Hell , Joseph G. Peters , Ugo Vaccaro

Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) are characterized by a possible absence of end-to-end communication routes at any instant. Still, connectivity can generally be established over time and space. The optimality of a temporal path (journey) in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Arnaud Casteigts , Paola Flocchini , Bernard Mans , Nicola Santoro

Network properties govern the rate and extent of spreading processes on networks, from simple contagions to complex cascades. Recent advances have extended the study of spreading processes from static networks to temporal networks, where…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-05 Eun Lee , James Moody , Peter J. Mucha

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines with conflict constraints, where certain jobs cannot be scheduled simultaneously on different machines. We focus on the case where conflicts can be represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Lydia Aoudia , Mourad Boudhar

We propose a novel framework for learning time-varying graphs from spatiotemporal measurements. Given an appropriate prior on the temporal behavior of signals, our proposed method can estimate time-varying graphs from a small number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Haruki Yokota , Koki Yamada , Yuichi Tanaka , Antonio Ortega

In wireless networks characterized by dense connectivity, the significant signaling overhead generated by distributed link scheduling algorithms can exacerbate issues like congestion, energy consumption, and radio footprint expansion. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhongyuan Zhao , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

A \emph{temporal graph} is, informally speaking, a graph that changes with time. When time is discrete and only the relationships between the participating entities may change and not the entities themselves, a temporal graph may be viewed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Othon Michail

Distributed optimization is an important direction of research in modern optimization theory. Its applications include large scale machine learning, distributed signal processing and many others. The paper studies decentralized min-max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Dmitry Metelev , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

We introduce temporal flows on temporal networks, i.e., networks the links of which exist only at certain moments of time. Such networks are ephemeral in the sense that no link exists after some time. Our flow model is new and differs from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Eleni C. Akrida , Jurek Czyzowicz , Leszek Gasieniec , Lukasz Kuszner , Paul G. Spirakis

We present a new algorithm for exactly solving decision making problems represented as influence diagrams. We do not require the usual assumptions of no forgetting and regularity; this allows us to solve problems with simultaneous decisions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Denis Deratani Mauá , Cassio Polpo de Campos , Marco Zaffalon

The popularity of online social media platforms provides an unprecedented opportunity to study real-world complex networks of interactions. However, releasing this data to researchers and the public comes at the cost of potentially exposing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Luca Rossi , Mirco Musolesi , Andrea Torsello

We consider a wireless network with a set of transmitter-receiver pairs, or links, that share a common channel, and address the problem of emptying finite traffic volume from the transmitters in minimum time. This, so called, minimum-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Qing He , Vangelis Angelakis , Anthony Ephremides , Di Yuan

A graph is temporally connected if there exists a strict temporal path, i.e. a path whose edges have strictly increasing labels, from every vertex $u$ to every other vertex $v$. In this paper we study temporal design problems for undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Paul G. Spirakis

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

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Path cover is a well-known intractable problem that finds a minimum number of vertex disjoint paths in a given graph to cover all the vertices. We show that a variant, where the objective function is not the number of paths but the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yinhui Cai , Guangting Chen , Yong Chen , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin , Longcheng Liu , An Zhang