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We study the SHORTEST PATH problem with positive disjunctive constraints from the perspective of parameterized complexity. For positive disjunctive constraints, there are certain pair of edges such that any feasible solution must contain at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Susobhan Bandopadhyay , Suman Banerjee , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Fahad Panolan

Given a directed graph $G = (V,E)$, undergoing an online sequence of edge deletions with $m$ edges in the initial version of $G$ and $n = |V|$, we consider the problem of maintaining all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) in $G$. Whilst this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Jacob Evald , Viktor Fredslund-Hansen , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in a polygon $P$ with $m$ vertices. The geodesic unit-disk graph $G(S)$ induced by $S$ has vertex set $S$ and contains an edge between two vertices whenever their geodesic distance in $P$ is at most one. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bruce W. Brewer , Haitao Wang

We consider a Min-Power Bounded-Hops Symmetric Connectivity problem that consists in the construction of communication spanning tree on a given graph, where the total energy consumption spent for the data transmission is minimized and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Roman Plotnikov , Adil Erzin

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

We consider the all pairs all shortest paths (APASP) problem, which maintains the shortest path dag rooted at every vertex in a directed graph G=(V,E) with positive edge weights. For this problem we present a decremental algorithm (that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Meghana Nasre , Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

The shortest path problem is a typical problem in graph theory with wide potential applications. The state-of-the-art single-source shortest paths algorithm on the weight graph is the $\Delta$-stepping algorithm, which can efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yelai Feng

Graph theory is increasingly commonly utilised in genetics, proteomics and neuroimaging. In such fields, the data of interest generally constitute weighted graphs. Analysis of such weighted graphs often require the integration of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-09 Cedric E. Ginestet , Andrew Simmons

The all pairs shortest path problem is a fundamental optimization problem in graph theory. We deal with re-calculating the all-pairs shortest path (APSP) matrix after a minor modification of a weighted dense graph, e.g., adding a node,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Gangli Liu

Reconfiguring two shortest paths in a graph means modifying one shortest path to the other by changing one vertex at a time so that all the intermediate paths are also shortest paths. This problem has several natural applications, namely:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kshitij Gajjar , Agastya Vibhuti Jha , Manish Kumar , Abhiruk Lahiri

Python implementation of selected weighted graph algorithms is presented. The minimal graph interface is defined together with several classes implementing this interface. Graph nodes can be any hashable Python objects. Directed edges are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-11 A. Kapanowski , Ł. Gałuszka

It is a critical issue to compute the shortest paths between nodes in networks. Exact algorithms for shortest paths are usually inapplicable for large scale networks due to the high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Shi-nan Gong , Duan-bing Chen , Hui Gao , Guan-nan Wang , Liang-wei Wang

We consider a constrained shortest path problem with two resources. These two resources can be converted into each other in a particular manner. Our practical application is the energy optimal routing of hybrid vehicles. Due to the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Christian Schwan , Martin Strehler

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

We study the design of fixed-parameter algorithms for problems already known to be solvable in polynomial time. The main motivation is to get more efficient algorithms for problems with unattractive polynomial running times. Here, we focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios , Rolf Niedermeier

In this paper we prove that Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm, if implemented with a sufficiently efficient heap, is universally optimal in its running time, and with suitable small additions is also universally optimal in its number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Václav Rozhoň , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

Given an undirected, weighted graph, the minimum spanning tree (MST) is a tree that connects all of the vertices of the graph with minimum sum of edge weights. In real world applications, network designers often seek to quickly find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 David A. Bader , Paul Burkhardt

Standard algorithms for finding the shortest path in a graph require that the cost of a path be additive in edge costs, and typically assume that costs are deterministic. We consider the problem of uncertain edge costs, with potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Michael P. Wellman , Matthew Ford , Kenneth Larson

In this paper, we present efficient algorithms for the single-source shortest path problem in weighted disk graphs. A disk graph is the intersection graph of a family of disks in the plane. Here, the weight of an edge is defined as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shinwoo An , Eunjin Oh , Jie Xue