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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 prove the NP-completeness of the integer multiflow problem in planar graphs, with the following restrictions: there are only two demand edges, both lying on the infinite face of the routing graph. This was one of the open challenges…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-11-17 Guyslain Naves

Many well-known NP-hard algorithmic problems on directed graphs resist efficient parametrisations with most known width measures for directed graphs, such as directed treewidth, DAG-width, Kelly-width and many others. While these focus on…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Raphael Steiner , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) finds conflict-free paths for multiple agents from their respective start to goal locations. MAPF is challenging as the joint configuration space grows exponentially with respect to the number of agents.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Lakshay Virmani , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

The Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem involves finding a set of conflict-free paths for a group of agents confined to a graph. In typical MAPF scenarios, the graph and the agents' starting and ending vertices are known beforehand,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

The problem of finding the maximum number of vertex-disjoint uni-color paths in an edge-colored graph (called MaxCDP) has been recently introduced in literature, motivated by applications in social network analysis. In this paper we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Riccardo Dondi , Florian Sikora

In this work, the ability to distinguish digraphs from the output response of some observing agents in a multi-agent network under the agreement protocol has been studied. Given a fixed observation point, it is desired to find sufficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-01 M. Amin Rahimian , Amir Ajorlou , Amir G. Aghdam

The shortest path problem in graphs is fundamental to AI. Nearly all variants of the problem and relevant algorithms that solve them ignore edge-weight computation time and its common relation to weight uncertainty. This implies that taking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Eyal Weiss , Ariel Felner , Gal A. Kaminka

This paper deals with the recoverable robust shortest path problem under the interval uncertainty representation. The problem is known to be strongly NP-hard and not approximable in general digraphs. Polynomial time algorithms for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Marcel Jackiewicz , Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

In general the problem of finding a miminum spanning tree for a weighted directed graph is difficult but solvable. There are a lot of differences between problems for directed and undirected graphs, therefore the algorithms for undirected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-16 V. A. Buslov , V. A. Khudobakhshov

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma

Dynamic complexity is concerned with updating the output of a problem when the input is slightly changed. We study the dynamic complexity of Dyck reachability problems in directed and undirected graphs, where updates may add or delete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Patricia Bouyer , Vincent Jugé

We examine the problem of gathering $k \geq 2$ agents (or multi-agent rendezvous) in dynamic graphs which may change in every synchronous round but remain always connected ($1$-interval connectivity) [KLO10]. The agents are identical and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Othon Michail , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

We study the inapproximability of the induced disjoint paths problem on an arbitrary $n$-node $m$-edge undirected graph, which is to connect the maximum number of the $k$ source-sink pairs given in the graph via induced disjoint paths. It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Gaoxiu Dong , Weidong Chen

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has been widely studied in recent years. However, most existing MAPF algorithms assume that an agent occupies only a single grid in a grid-based map. This assumption limits their applicability in many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zhuo Yao

We study the computational complexity of routing multiple objects through a network in such a way that only few collisions occur: Given a graph $G$ with two distinct terminal vertices and two positive integers $p$ and $k$, the question is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Till Fluschnik , Marco Morik , Manuel Sorge

We study the problem of optimizing a guidance policy capable of dynamically guiding the agents for lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding based on real-time traffic patterns. Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) focuses on moving multiple agents from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hongzhi Zang , Yulun Zhang , He Jiang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey , Jiaoyang Li

Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks the optimal set of paths for multiple agents from respective start to goal locations such that no paths conflict. We address the MAPF problem for a fleet of hybrid-fuel unmanned aerial vehicles which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Drew Scott , Satyanarayana G. Manyam , David W. Casbeer , Manish Kumar , Isaac E. Weintraub

Graph theory is a promising approach in handling the problem of estimating the connectivity probability of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). With a communication network represented as graph, graph connectivity indicators become valid for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Samar Elaraby , Sherif M. Abuelenin