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We consider a scenario where N users try to access a common base station. Associated with each user is its channel state and a finite queue which varies with time. Each user chooses his power and the admission control variable in a dynamic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Prashant Narayanan , Vinod Sharma

We consider a discrete time simple symmetric random walk on Z^d, d>=1, where the path of the walk is perturbed by inserting deterministic jumps. We show that for any time n and any deterministic jumps that we insert, the expected number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Lung-Chi Chen , Rongfeng Sun

We study the problem of finding Stackelberg equilibria in games with a massive number of players. So far, the only known game instances in which the problem is solved in polynomial time are some particular congestion games. However, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Alberto Marchesi , Matteo Castiglioni , Nicola Gatti

We study stochastic two-player turn-based games in which the objective of one player is to ensure several infinite-horizon total reward objectives, while the other player attempts to spoil at least one of the objectives. The games have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Romain Brenguier , Vojtěch Forejt

Games on graphs provide a natural model for reactive non-terminating systems. In such games, the interaction of two players on an arena results in an infinite path that describes a run of the system. Different settings are used to model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow

Given an edge-weighted undirected graph and a list of k source-sink pairs of vertices, the well-known minimum multicut problem consists in selecting a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal leaves no path between every source and its…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Cédric Bentz

This paper considers the Hamiltonian walk problem in the multi-agent coordination framework, referred to as $k$-agents Hamiltonian walk problem ($k$-HWP). In this problem, a set of $k$ connected agents collectively compute a spanning walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Saswata Jana , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Partha Sarathi Mandal

Among the most important variants of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) are those relaxing the constraint that every locus should necessarily get visited, rather taking into account a revenue (prize) for visiting customers. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Enrico Angelelli , Renata Mansini , Romeo Rizzi

We study a two-player game played on undirected graphs called {\sc Trail Trap}, which is a variant of a game known as {\sc Partizan Edge Geography}. One player starts by choosing any edge and moving a token from one endpoint to the other;…

The $k$-th power of the adjacency matrix of a simple undirected graph represents the number of walks with length $k$ between pairs of nodes. As a walk where no node repeats, a path is a walk where each node is only visited once. The set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Ivan Jokić , Piet Van Mieghem

A temporal graph is a graph in which edges are assigned a time label. Two nodes u and v of a temporal graph are connected one to the other if there exists a path from u to v with increasing edge time labels. We consider the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alkida Balliu , Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Dennis Olivetti , Laurent Viennot

Multiplayer games on graphs are at the heart of theoretical descriptions of key evolutionary processes that govern vital social and natural systems. However, a comprehensive theoretical framework for solving multiplayer games with an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Chaoqian Wang , Matjaž Perc , Attila Szolnoki

It is well known that many local graph problems, like Vertex Cover and Dominating Set, can be solved in 2^{O(tw)}|V|^{O(1)} time for graphs G=(V,E) with a given tree decomposition of width tw. However, for nonlocal problems, like the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Hans L. Bodlaender , Marek Cygan , Stefan Kratsch , Jesper Nederlof

The Temporal Graph Exploration problem (TEXP) takes as input a temporal graph, i.e., a sequence of graphs $(G_i)_{i\in \mathbb{N}}$ on the same vertex set, and asks for a walk of shortest length visiting all vertices, where the $i$-th step…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Samuel Baguley , Andreas Göbel , Nicolas Klodt , George Skretas , John Sylvester , Viktor Zamaraev

Numerous tasks in program analysis and synthesis reduce to deciding reachability in possibly infinite graphs such as those induced by Petri nets. However, the Petri net reachability problem has recently been shown to require non-elementary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Michael Blondin , Christoph Haase , Philip Offtermatt

We consider open quantum walks on a graph, and consider the random variables defined as the passage time and number of visits to a given point of the graph. We study in particular the probability that the passage time is finite, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 Ivan Bardet , Denis Bernard , Yan Pautrat

We extend the motion-planning-through-gadgets framework to several new scenarios involving various numbers of robots/agents, and analyze the complexity of the resulting motion-planning problems. While past work considers just one robot or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Hayashi Ani , Michael Coulombe , Erik D. Demaine , Jenny Diomidova , Timothy Gomez , Dylan Hendrickson , Jayson Lynch

We develop value iteration-based algorithms to solve in a unified manner different classes of combinatorial zero-sum games with mean-payoff type rewards. These algorithms rely on an oracle, evaluating the dynamic programming operator up to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xavier Allamigeon , Stéphane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz , Mateusz Skomra

Classic reachability games on graphs are zero-sum games, where the goal of one player, Eve, is to visit a vertex from a given target set, and that of other player, Adam, is to prevent this. Generalised reachability games, studied by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Sougata Bose , Daniel Hausmann , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Tansholpan Zhanabekova

Random walks on graphs are an essential primitive for many randomised algorithms and stochastic processes. It is natural to ask how much can be gained by running $k$ multiple random walks independently and in parallel. Although the cover…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolás Rivera , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester