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Random walk centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changan Liu , Zixuan Xie , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

Logistics and transportation networks require a large amount of resources to realize necessary connections between locations and minimizing these resources is a vital aspect of planning research. Since such networks have dynamic connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit

The computation of short paths in graphs with arc lengths is a pillar of graph algorithmics and network science. In a more diverse world, however, not every short path is equally valuable. For the setting where each vertex is assigned to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Matthias Bentert , Leon Kellerhals , Rolf Niedermeier

We propose an exact algorithm for solving the longest simple path problem between two given vertices in undirected weighted graphs. By using graph partitioning and dynamic programming, we obtain an algorithm that is significantly faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Kai Fieger , Tomas Balyo , Christian Schulz , Dominik Schreiber

A shortest-path algorithm finds a path containing the minimal cost between two vertices in a graph. A plethora of shortest-path algorithms is studied in the literature that span across multiple disciplines. This paper presents a survey of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Amgad Madkour , Walid G. Aref , Faizan Ur Rehman , Mohamed Abdur Rahman , Saleh Basalamah

Temporal graphs are commonly used to represent time-resolved relations between entities in many natural and artificial systems. Many techniques were devised to investigate the evolution of temporal graphs by comparing their state at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

The problem Orienteering asks whether there exists a walk which visits a number of sites without exceeding some fuel budget. In the variant of the problem we consider, the cost of each edge in the walk is dependent on the time we depart one…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Timothée Corsini , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks

We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path or cycle with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. We study the complexity for graph width parameters for which the ordinary problems…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jesse Beisegel , Katharina Klost , Kristin Knorr , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

We introduce and study the complexity of Path Packing. Given a graph $G$ and a list of paths, the task is to embed the paths edge-disjoint in $G$. This generalizes the well known Hamiltonian-Path problem. Since Hamiltonian Path is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jan Dreier , Janosch Fuchs , Tim A. Hartmann , Philipp Kuinke , Peter Rossmanith , Bjoern Tauer , Hung-Lung Wang

Vertex centrality measures are a multi-purpose analysis tool, commonly used in many application environments to retrieve information and unveil knowledge from the graphs and network structural properties. However, the algorithms of such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Felipe Grando , Luis C. Lamb

In a temporal graph, each edge is available at specific points in time. Such an availability point is often represented by a ''temporal edge'' that can be traversed from its tail only at a specific departure time, for arriving in its head…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Filippo Brunelli , Laurent Viennot

The Maximum Betweenness Centrality problem (MBC) can be defined as follows. Given a graph find a $k$-element node set $C$ that maximizes the probability of detecting communication between a pair of nodes $s$ and $t$ chosen uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-23 Martin Fink , Joachim Spoerhase

The betweenness centrality of graphs using random walk paths instead of geodesics is studied. A scaling collapse with no adjustable parameters is obtained as the graph size $N$ is varied; the scaling curve depends on the graph model. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-04 O. Narayan , I. Saniee

This paper deals with the problem of finding a collection of vertex-disjoint paths in a given graph G=(V,E) such that each path has at least four vertices and the total number of vertices in these paths is maximized. The problem is NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Zhaohui Zhan

Finding the Time-Optimal Parameterization of a Path (TOPP) subject to second-order constraints (e.g. acceleration, torque, contact stability, etc.) is an important and well-studied problem in robotics. In comparison, TOPP subject to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Hung Pham , Quang-Cuong Pham

This paper introduces two new closely related betweenness centrality measures based on the Randomized Shortest Paths (RSP) framework, which fill a gap between traditional network centrality measures based on shortest paths and more recent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Ilkka Kivimäki , Bertrand Lebichot , Jari Saramäki , Marco Saerens

Betweenness centrality lies at the core of both transport and structural vulnerability properties of complex networks, however, it is computationally costly, and its measurement for networks with millions of nodes is near impossible. By…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Zoltan Toroczkai

Temporal graphs are graphs whose edges are only present at certain points in time. Reachability in these graphs relies on temporal paths, where edges are traversed chronologically. A temporal graph that offers all-pairs reachability is said…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Arnaud Casteigts , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz

We initiate the study of a fundamental combinatorial problem: Given a capacitated graph $G=(V,E)$, find a shortest walk ("route") from a source $s\in V$ to a destination $t\in V$ that includes all vertices specified by a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Stefan Schmid

Betweenness centrality (BC) is a crucial graph problem that measures the significance of a vertex by the number of shortest paths leading through it. We propose Maximal Frontier Betweenness Centrality (MFBC): a succinct BC algorithm based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Edgar Solomonik , Maciej Besta , Flavio Vella , Torsten Hoefler