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A mobile agent equipped with a compass and a measure of length has to find an inert treasure in the Euclidean plane. Both the agent and the treasure are modeled as points. In the beginning, the agent is at a distance at most $D>0$ from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc , Franck Petit

In this paper, we investigate the explicit deterministic treasure hunt problem in a $n$-vertex network. This problem was firstly introduced by Ta-Shma and Zwick in \cite{TZ07} [SODA'07]. Note also it is a variant of the well known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Qin Xin

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node. Agents are anonymous (identical), execute the same deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc

Two mobile agents, starting at arbitrary, possibly different times from arbitrary nodes of an unknown network, have to meet at some node. Agents move in synchronous rounds: in each round an agent can either stay at the current node or move…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Samir Elouasbi , Andrzej Pelc

In the rendezvous problem, two computing entities (called \emph{agents}) located at different vertices in a graph have to meet at the same vertex. In this paper, we consider the synchronous \emph{neighborhood rendezvous problem}, where the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ryota Eguchi , Naoki Kitamura , Taisuke Izumi

The task of rendezvous (also called {\em gathering}) calls for a meeting of two or more mobile entities, starting from different positions in some environment. Those entities are called mobile agents or robots, and the environment can be a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Andrzej Pelc

We consider the problem of finding a treasure at an unknown point of an $n$-dimensional infinite grid, $n\geq 3$, by initially collocated finite state agents (scouts/robots). Recently, the problem has been well characterized for 2…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Stefan Dobrev , Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny , Denis Pankratov

Two anonymous mobile agents navigate synchronously in an anonymous graph and have to meet at a node, using a deterministic algorithm. This is a symmetry breaking task called rendezvous, equivalent to the fundamental task of leader election…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Andrzej Pelc , Ram Narayan Yadav

The aim of rendezvous in a graph is meeting of two mobile agents at some node of an unknown anonymous connected graph. In this paper, we focus on rendezvous in trees, and, analogously to the efforts that have been made for solving the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Pierre Fraigniaud , Andrzej Pelc

In the rendezvous problem, two parties with different labelings of the vertices of a complete graph are trying to meet at some vertex at the same time. It is well-known that if the parties have predetermined roles, then the strategy where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Varsha Dani , Thomas P. Hayes , Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

Consider an agent exploring an unknown graph in search of some goal state. As it walks around the graph, it learns the nodes and their neighbors. The agent only knows where the goal state is when it reaches it. How do we reach this goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Anupam Gupta , Zhouzi Li

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

A mobile agent has to find an inert target in some environment that can be a graph or a terrain in the plane. This task is known as treasure hunt. We consider deterministic algorithms for treasure hunt in trees. Our goal is to establish the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sébastien Bouchard , Arnaud Labourel , Andrzej Pelc

A group of mobile agents is given a task to explore an edge-weighted graph $G$, i.e., every vertex of $G$ has to be visited by at least one agent. There is no centralized unit to coordinate their actions, but they can freely communicate…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Dorota Osula

Temporal graphs are graphs where the edge set can change in each time step, and the vertex set stays the same. Exploration of temporal graphs whose snapshot in each time step is a connected graph, called connected temporal graphs, has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Frank Kammer , Johannes Meintrup , William K. Moses

We consider a new type of asymmetric rendezvous search problem in which Agent II needs to give Agent I a `gift' which can be in the form of information or material. The gift can either be transfered upon meeting, as in traditional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Leone , Steve Alpern

This paper explores the application of quantum non-locality, a renowned and unique phenomenon acknowledged as a valuable resource. Focusing on a novel application, we demonstrate its quantum advantage for mobile agents engaged in specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Giuseppe Viola , Piotr Mironowicz

Blind rendezvous is a fundamental problem in cognitive radio networks. The problem involves a collection of agents (radios) that wish to discover each other in the blind setting where there is no shared infrastructure and they initially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Sixia Chen , Alexander Russell , Abhishek Samanta , Ravi Sundaram

Graph Exploration problems ask a searcher to explore an unknown environment. The environment is modeled as a graph, where the searcher needs to visit each vertex beginning at some vertex. Treasure Hunt problems are a variation of Graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Janosch Fuchs , Christoph Grüne , Tom Janßen

A graph environment must be explored by a collection of mobile robots. Some of the robots, a priori unknown, may turn out to be unreliable. The graph is weighted and each node is assigned a deadline. The exploration is successful if each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Jurek Czyzowicz , Maxime Godon , Evangelos Kranakis , Arnaud Labourel , Euripides Markou