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We study a variant of Min Cost Flow in which the flow needs to be connected. Specifically, in the Connected Flow problem one is given a directed graph $G$, along with a set of demand vertices $D \subseteq V(G)$ with demands $\mathsf{dem}: D…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Isja Mannens , Jesper Nederlof , Céline Swennenhuis , Krisztina Szilágyi

A wide range of techniques exist for extracting the dominant flow dynamics and features about steady, or periodic base flows. However, there have been limited efforts in extracting the dominant dynamics about unsteady, aperiodic base flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-05 Alec J. Linot , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Yonghong Zhong , Kunihiko Taira

In communication networks structure and dynamics are tightly coupled. The structure controls the flow of information and is itself shaped by the dynamical process of information exchanged between nodes. In order to reconcile structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-08 Jan O. Haerter , Bjorn Jamtveit , Joachim Mathiesen

This paper addresses analytical aspects of deterministic, continuous-time dynamical systems defined on networks. The goal is to model and analyze certain phenomena which must be framed beyond the context of networked dynamical systems,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Ricardo Riaza

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 study the optimal power flow problem with switching (or, equivalently, the line expansion problem) under demand uncertainty. Specifically, we consider the line-use variables at the first stage and the current- or power-flow at the second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Jakub Marecek , Adam Ouorou , Guanglei Wang

This paper studies the problem of output agreement in networks of nonlinear dynamical systems under time-varying disturbances, using dynamic diffusive couplings. Necessary conditions are derived for general networks of nonlinear systems,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Mathias Bürger , Claudio De Persis

Networks with phase-valued nodal variables are central in modeling several important societal and physical systems, including power grids, biological systems, and coupled oscillator networks. One of the distinctive features of phase-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Saber Jafarpour , Elizabeth Y. Huang , Kevin D. Smith , Francesco Bullo

We study a dynamic routing game motivated by traffic flows. The base model for an edge is the Vickrey bottleneck model. That is, edges are equipped with a free flow transit time and a capacity. When the inflow into an edge exceeds its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shaul Rosner , Marc Schröder , Laura Vargas Koch

The maximum achievable capacity from source to destination in a network is limited by the min-cut max-flow bound; this serves as a converse limit. In practice, link capacities often fluctuate due to dynamic network conditions. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rivka Gitik , Alejandro Cohen

We introduce and investigate reroutable flows, a robust version of network flows in which link failures can be mitigated by rerouting the affected flow. Given a capacitated network, a path flow is reroutable if after failure of an arbitrary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Jannik Matuschke , S. Thomas McCormick , Gianpaolo Oriolo

Traffic flows in a distributed computing network require both transmission and processing, and can be interdicted by removing either communication or computation resources. We study the robustness of a distributed computing network under…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianan Zhang , Hyang-Won Lee , Eytan Modiano

In temporal planning, many different temporal network formalisms are used to model real world situations. Each of these formalisms has different features which affect how easy it is to determine whether the underlying network of temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Nikhil Bhargava , Brian Williams

We consider the problem of finding the value of a maximum flow over time in a network with uniform edge lengths where the edge capacities change at specific time instants. To solve this problem, we show how to construct a condensed version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shuchi Chawla , Kristin Sheridan

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) employed in fluid mechanics deal primarily with stationary boundaries. This hinders the capability to address a wide range of flow problems involving moving bodies. To this end, we propose a novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yongzheng Zhu , Weizhen Kong , Jian Deng , Xin Bian

The multicommodity flow problem is NP-hard already for two commodities over bipartite graphs. Nonetheless, using our recent theory of n-fold integer programming and extensions developed herein, we are able to establish the surprising…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Raymond Hemmecke , Shmuel Onn , Robert Weismantel

In this paper, we investigate some properties on capacity factors, which were proposed to investigate the link failure problem from network coding. A capacity factor (CF) of a network is an edge set, deleting which will cause the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Yuan Li , Yue Zhao , Haibin Kan

We derive a monotonicity property for general, transient flows of a commodity transferred throughout a network, where the flow is characterized by density and mass flux dynamics on the edges with density continuity and mass balance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Anatoly Zlotnik , Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray , Michael Chertkov

Strong resilience properties of dynamical flow networks are analyzed for distributed routing policies. The latter are characterized by the property that the way the inflow at a non-destination node gets split among its outgoing links is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Giacomo Como , Ketan Savla , Daron Acemoglu , Munther A. Dahleh , Emilio Frazzoli

This paper studies the fundamental problem of how to reroute $k$ unsplittable flows of a certain demand in a capacitated network from their current paths to their respective new paths, in a congestion-free manner and fast. This scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Szymon Dudycz , Mahmoud Parham , Stefan Schmid , Sebastian Wiederrecht