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This paper considers gossiping among mobile agents in graphs: agents move on the graph and have to disseminate their initial information to every other agent. We focus on self-stabilizing solutions for the gossip problem, where agents may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

We propose a distributed algorithm to solve a dynamic programming problem with multiple agents, where each agent has only partial knowledge of the state transition probabilities and costs. We provide consensus proofs for the presented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Nikolaus Vertovec , Kostas Margellos

In this paper, we revisit the problem of \textsc{Broadcast}, introduced by Das, Giachoudis, Luccio, and Markou [OPODIS, 2020], where $k+1$ agents are initially placed on an $n$ node dynamic graph, where $1$ agent has a message that must be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 William K. Moses , Amanda Redlich , Frederick Stock

The classical multi-agent rendezvous problem asks for a deterministic algorithm by which $n$ points scattered in a plane can move about at constant speed and merge at a single point, assuming each point can use only the locations of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Peter Hegarty , Anders Martinsson , Dmitry Zhelezov

We study partial and budgeted versions of the well studied connected dominating set problem. In the partial connected dominating set problem, we are given an undirected graph G = (V,E) and an integer n', and the goal is to find a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Samir Khuller , Manish Purohit , Kanthi Sarpatwar

Dispersion by mobile agents is a well studied problem in the literature on computing by mobile robots. In this problem, $l$ robots placed arbitrarily on nodes of a network having $n$ nodes are asked to relocate themselves autonomously so…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Brati Mondal , Pritam Goswami , Buddhadeb Sau

This paper considers fully dynamic graph algorithms with both faster worst case update time and sublinear space. The fully dynamic graph connectivity problem is the following: given a graph on a fixed set of n nodes, process an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-23 David Gibb , Bruce Kapron , Valerie King , Nolan Thorn

This paper considers the classic Online Steiner Forest problem where one is given a (weighted) graph $G$ and an arbitrary set of $k$ terminal pairs $\{\{s_1,t_1\},\ldots ,\{s_k,t_k\}\}$ that are required to be connected. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Étienne Bamas , Marina Drygala , Andreas Maggiori

Given a positive integer $k$, a $k$-dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set of vertices such that every vertex not in the set has at least $k$ neighbors in the set. A total $k$-dominating set, also known as a $k$-tuple total dominating set,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Nina Chiarelli , Tatiana Romina Hartinger , Valeria Alejandra Leoni , Maria Inés Lopez Pujato , Martin Milanič

In many real world networks, there already exists a (not necessarily optimal) $k$-partitioning of the network. Oftentimes, one aims to find a $k$-partitioning with a smaller cut value for such networks by moving only a few nodes across…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Majid Behbahani , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Elaheh Fata , Yuriy Nevmyvaka

The team formation and routing problem is a challenging optimization problem with several real-world applications in fields such as airport, healthcare, and maintenance operations. To solve this problem, exact solution methods based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Giacomo Dall'Olio , Rainer Kolisch , Yaoxin Wu

We study the awake complexity of graph problems that belong to the class O-LOCAL, which includes a subset of problems solvable by sequential greedy algorithms, such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring and maximal independent set. It is known from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Alkida Balliu , Pierre Fraigniaud , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie

We consider a scenario in which leaders are required to recruit teams of followers. Each leader cannot recruit all followers, but interaction is constrained according to a bipartite network. The objective for each leader is to reach a state…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Lorenzo Coviello , Massimo Franceschetti

We introduce a variant of the deterministic rendezvous problem for a pair of heterogeneous agents operating in an undirected graph, which differ in the time they require to traverse particular edges of the graph. Each agent knows the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Dariusz Dereniowski , Ralf Klasing , Adrian Kosowski , Łukasz Kuszner

We initiate a general study of what we call orientation completion problems. For a fixed class C of oriented graphs, the orientation completion problem asks whether a given partially oriented graph P can be completed to an oriented graph in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Joergen Bang-Jensen , J. Huang , Xuding Zhu

The expected meeting time of two random walkers on an undirected graph of size $N$, where at each time step one walker moves and the process stops when they collide, satisfies a system of $\binom{N}{2}$ linear equations. Na\"{i}vely,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Alex McAvoy

The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

We consider several problems related to packing forests in graphs. The first one is to find $k$ edge-disjoint forests in a directed graph $G$ of maximal size such that the indegree of each vertex in these forests is at most $k$. We describe…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Pavel Arkhipov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

We study a distributed coordination mechanism for uniform agents located on a circle. The agents perform their actions in synchronised rounds. At the beginning of each round an agent chooses the direction of its movement from clockwise,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Leszek Gasieniec , Tomasz Jurdzinski , Russell Martin , Grzegorz Stachowiak

Most networks are not static objects, but instead they change over time. This observation has sparked rigorous research on temporal graphs within the last years. In temporal graphs, we have a fixed set of nodes and the connections between…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Davide Bilò , Sarel Cohen , Tobias Friedrich , Hans Gawendowicz , Nicolas Klodt , Pascal Lenzner , George Skretas