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Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

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Dense networks with weighted connections often exhibit a community like structure, where although most nodes are connected to each other, different patterns of edge weights may emerge depending on each node's community membership. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-27 Benjamin Leinwand , Vladas Pipiras

Probabilistic message-passing algorithms are developed for routing transmissions in multi-wavelength optical communication networks, under node and edge-disjoint routing constraints and for various objective functions. Global routing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-25 Yi-Zhi Xu , Ho Fai Po , Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

In a seminal paper, Chen, Roughgarden and Valiant studied cost sharing protocols for network design with the objective to implement a low-cost Steiner forest as a Nash equilibrium of an induced cost-sharing game. One of the most intriguing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Tobias Harks , Anja Huber , Manuel Surek

In view of the node importance in weighted networks, weighted expected method (WEM), was proposed in this paper, which take an advantages of uncertain graph algorithm. First, a weight processing method is proposed based on the relationship…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Linjie Chen , Na Zhao , Jie Li , Zhen Long , Ming Jing , Jian Wang

The minimum and maximum cuts of an undirected edge-weighted graph are classic problems in graph theory. While the Min-Cut Problem can be solved in P, the Max-Cut Problem is NP-Complete. Exact and heuristic methods have been developed for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Justo Puerto , José L. Sainz-Pardo

We describe a novel protocol for computing the egocentric betweenness centrality of a node when relevant edge information is spread between two mutually distrusting parties such as two telecommunications providers. While each node belongs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-27 Leyla Roohi , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Vanessa Teague

Given a network represented by a weighted directed graph G, we consider the problem of finding a bounded cost set of nodes S such that the influence spreading from S in G, within a given time bound, is as large as possible. The dynamic that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Ferdinando Cicalese , Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Martin Milanic , Joseph Peters , Ugo Vaccaro

Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

Consensus strategies find a variety of applications in distributed coordination and decision making in multi-agent systems. In particular, average consensus plays a key role in a number of applications and is closely associated with two…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Themistoklis Charalambous , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We introduce a variant of the multiway cut that we call the min-max connected multiway cut. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $\Gamma\subseteq V$ of $t$ terminals, partition $V$ into $t$ parts such that each part is connected and contains…

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We consider the following "multiway cut packing" problem in undirected graphs: we are given a graph G=(V,E) and k commodities, each corresponding to a set of terminals located at different vertices in the graph; our goal is to produce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-06 Siddharth Barman , Shuchi Chawla

In communication field, an important issue is to group users and base stations to as many as possible subnetworks satisfying certain interference constraints. These problems are usually formulated as a graph partition problems which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Chicheng Ma , Yucong Tang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan , Bo Bai

A fundamental problem in studying and modeling economic and financial systems is represented by privacy issues, which put severe limitations on the amount of accessible information. Here we introduce a novel, highly nontrivial method to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-10 Giulio Cimini , Tiziano Squartini , Andrea Gabrielli , Diego Garlaschelli

We introduce a class of budgeted prize-collecting covering subgraph problems. For an input graph with prizes on the vertices and costs on the edges, the aim of these problems is to find a connected subgraph such that the cost of its edges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Nicola Morandi , Roel Leus , Hande Yaman

Due to the advent of the expressions of data other than tabular formats, the topological compositions which make samples interrelated came into prominence. Analogically, those networks can be interpreted as social connections, dataflow…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Hacı İsmail Aslan , Chang Choi , Hoon Ko

We consider the problem of data exchange by a group of closely-located wireless nodes. In this problem each node holds a set of packets and needs to obtain all the packets held by other nodes. Each of the nodes can broadcast the packets in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Parastoo Sadeghi

Graph clustering aims to partition nodes into distinct clusters based on their similarity, thereby revealing relationships among nodes. Nevertheless, most existing methods do not fully utilize these edge weights. Leveraging edge weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haobing Liu , Yinuo Zhang , Tingting Wang , Ruobing Jiang , Yanwei Yu

Due to the greater path loss, shadowing, and increased effect of blockage in millimeter wave cellular networks, base station sharing among network service providers has the potential to significantly improve overall network capacity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Shahram Shahsavari , Fraida Fund , Elza Erkip , Shivendra S Panwar