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We consider the bilevel minimum spanning tree (BMST) problem where the leader and the follower choose a spanning tree together, according to different objective functions. By showing that this problem is NP-hard in general, we answer an…

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Graphs with bounded thinness were defined in 2007 as a generalization of interval graphs. In this paper we introduce the concept of proper thinness, such that graphs with bounded proper thinness generalize proper interval graphs. We study…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Flavia Bonomo , Diego de Estrada

Budgeted uncertainty sets have been established as a major influence on uncertainty modeling for robust optimization problems. A drawback of such sets is that the budget constraint only restricts the global amount of cost increase that can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Marc Goerigk , Stefan Lendl

Motivated by the need to extract meaning from large amounts of complex structured data, we consider three critical problems on graphs: localization, decomposition, and dictionary learning of piecewise-constant signals. These graph-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Siheng Chen , Yaoqing Yang , José. M. F. Moura , Jelena Kovačević

Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) are a widely used framework for modeling systems whose probabilistic structure evolves over time. Standard inference methods focus on local conditional distributions and can miss larger-scale patterns in how…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Will Bales , Carmen Rovi

A rich line of work has been addressing the computational complexity of locally checkable labelings (LCLs), illustrating the landscape of possible complexities. In this paper, we study the landscape of LCL complexities under bandwidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Alkida Balliu , Keren Censor-Hillel , Yannic Maus , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

The local tree-width of a graph G=(V,E) is the function ltw^G: N -> N that associates with every natural number r the maximal tree-width of an r-neighborhood in G. Our main graph theoretic result is a decomposition theorem for graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe

A central theme in distributed network algorithms concerns understanding and coping with the issue of locality. Inspired by sequential complexity theory, we focus on a complexity theory for distributed decision problems. In the context of…

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Logic-Based Benders Decomposition (LBBD) and its Branch-and-Cut variant, namely Branch-and-Check, enjoy an extensive applicability on a broad variety of problems, including scheduling. Although LBBD offers problem-specific cuts to impose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Ioannis Avgerinos , Ioannis Mourtos , Stavros Vatikiotis , Georgios Zois

We investigate the connections between the fields of distributed computing and measurable combinatorics by considering complexity classes of locally checkable labeling problems on regular forests. We show that the most important…

Understanding the local behaviour of structured multi-dimensional data is a fundamental problem in various areas of computer science. As the amount of data is often huge, it is desirable to obtain sublinear time algorithms, and specifically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Simon Korman , Daniel Reichman

A locating-dominating set $D$ of a graph $G$ is a dominating set of $G$ where each vertex not in $D$ has a unique neighborhood in $D$, and the Locating-Dominating Set problem asks if $G$ contains such a dominating set of bounded size. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Márcia R. Cappelle , Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos

Several variants of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem have been proposed and investigated in the literature for modelling those scenarios where solutions are associated with some given costs. Within these frameworks computing an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Georg Gottlob , Gianluigi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are an important formal framework for the uniform treatment of various prominent AI tasks, e.g., coloring or scheduling problems. Solving CSPs is, in general, known to be NP-complete and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Hubie Chen , Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

This paper addresses the problem of bearing-based network localization, which aims to localize all the nodes in a static network given the locations of a subset of nodes termed anchors and inter-node bearings measured in a common reference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Shiyu Zhao , Daniel Zelazo

We develop a linear systems theory that coincides with the existing theories for continuous and discrete dynamical systems, but that also extends to linear systems defined on nonuniform time domains. The approach here is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-03 John M. Davis , Ian A. Gravagne , Billy J. Jackson , Robert J. Marks

The Integer Multicommodity Flow problem has been studied extensively in the literature. However, from a parameterised perspective, mostly special cases, such as the Disjoint Paths problem, have been considered. Therefore, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hans L. Bodlaender , Isja Mannens , Jelle J. Oostveen , Sukanya Pandey , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

This work is devoted to the study of the relationships between graph theory and the qualitative analysis of ordinary differential equations, with a special focus on two-dimensional systems. In particular, we reinterpret classical results…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Marcos Masip

In this paper, we propose a novel graph kernel method for the wireless link scheduling problem in device-to-device (D2D) networks on Riemannian manifold. The link scheduling problem can be considered as a binary classification problem since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Rashed Shelim , Ahmed S. Ibrahim