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In the decremental single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem, the input is an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges undergoing edge deletions, together with a fixed source vertex $s\in V$. The goal is to maintain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Julia Chuzhoy , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We introduce stronger notions for approximate single-source shortest-path distances, show how to efficiently compute them from weaker standard notions, and demonstrate the algorithmic power of these new notions and transformations. One…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Václav Rozhoň , Bernhard Haeupler , Anders Martinsson , Christoph Grunau , Goran Zuzic

We study the vertex-decremental Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with lengths $\ell(e)\geq 1$ on its edges and a source vertex $s$, we need to support (approximate) shortest-path queries in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

Dijkstra's algorithm is the standard method for computing shortest paths on arbitrary graphs. However, it is slow for large graphs, taking at least linear time. It has been long known that for real world road networks, creating a hierarchy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sébastien Collette , John Iacono

We present an algorithm for the k shortest simple path problem on weighted directed graphs (kSSP) that is based on Eppstein's algorithm for a similar problem in which paths are allowed to contain cycles. In contrast to most other algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Denis Kurz , Petra Mutzel

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classic path planning method, which operates in a discrete graph space to determine the shortest path from a specified source point to a target node or all other nodes based on non-negative edge weights. Numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Song Yang

We show how to combine two techniques for efficiently computing shortest paths in directed planar graphs. The first is the linear-time shortest-path algorithm of Henzinger, Klein, Subramanian, and Rao [STOC'94]. The second is Fakcharoenphol…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Shay Mozes , Yahav Nussbaum , Oren Weimann

Generic Dijkstra is a novel algorithm for finding the optimal shortest path in both wavelength-division multiplexed networks (WDM) and elastic optical networks (EON), claimed to outperform known algorithms considerably. Because of its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Piotr Jurkiewicz , Edyta Biernacka , Jerzy Domżał , Robert Wójcik

In this paper, we propose a new method for path planning to a point for robot in environment with obstacles. The resulting algorithm is implemented as a simple variation of Dijkstra's algorithm. By adding a constraint to the shortest-path,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Jalil Rasekhi

We present an algorithm for the Single Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem in \emph{$H$-minor free} graphs. For every fixed $H$, if $G$ is a graph with $n$ vertices having integer edge lengths and $s$ is a designated source vertex of $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-18 Raphael Yuster

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem is one of the fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. It asks to compute the distance matrix of a given $n$-vertex graph. We revisit the classical problem of maintaining the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xiao Mao

Dijkstra's algorithm is one of the most popular classic path planning algorithms, achieving optimal solutions across a wide range of challenging tasks. However, it only calculates the shortest distance from one vertex to another, which is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ziren Xiao , Ruxin Xiao , Chang Liu , Honghao Gao , Xiaolong Xu , Shan Luo , Xinheng Wang

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

Utilizing graph algorithms is a common activity in computer science. Algorithms that perform computations on large graphs are not always efficient. This work investigates the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, which is considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ahmed Shokry

In this article, we study the Adjacent Quadratic Shortest Path Problem (AQSPP), which consists in finding the shortest path on a directed graph when its total weight component also includes the impact of consecutive arcs. We provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-09 João Vilela , Bruno Fanzeres , Rafael Martinelli , Claudio Contardo

In the age of real-time online traffic information and GPS-enabled devices, fastest-path computations between two points in a road network modeled as a directed graph, where each directed edge is weighted by a "travel time" value, are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Renjie Chen , Craig Gotsman

We present a very simple and intuitive algorithm to find balanced sparse cuts in a graph via shortest-paths. Our algorithm combines a new multiplicative-weights framework for solving unit-weight multi-commodity flows with standard ball…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva

Consider the following distance query for an $n$-node graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions: given two sets of nodes $I$ and $J$, return the distances between every pair of nodes in $I\times J$. This query is rather general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jan van den Brand , Danupon Nanongkai

Study the general single-source shortest path problem. Firstly, define a path function on a set of some path with same source on a graph, and develop a kind of general single-source shortest path problem (GSSSP) on the defined path…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Cong-Dian Cheng

In this paper we show a deterministic parallel all-pairs shortest paths algorithm for real-weighted directed graphs. The algorithm has $\tilde{O}(nm+(n/d)^3)$ work and $\tilde{O}(d)$ depth for any depth parameter $d\in [1,n]$. To the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Adam Karczmarz , Piotr Sankowski