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The workflow satisfiability problem is concerned with determining whether it is possible to find an allocation of authorized users to the steps in a workflow in such a way that all constraints are satisfied. The problem is NP-hard in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-16 J. Crampton , R. Crowston , G. Gutin , M. Jones , M. S. Ramanujan

We consider the all-pairs multicommodity network flow problem on a network with capacitated edges. The usual treatment keeps track of a separate flow for each source-destination pair on each edge; we rely on a more efficient formulation in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Fangzhao Zhang , Stephen Boyd

We study the following general disjoint paths problem: given a supply graph $G$, a set $T\subseteq V(G)$ of terminals, a demand graph $H$ on the vertices $T$, and an integer $k$, the task is to find a set of $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Dániel Marx , Paul Wollan

In this paper, we introduce a new class of parameterized problems, which we call XALP: the class of all parameterized problems that can be solved in $f(k)n^{O(1)}$ time and $f(k)\log n$ space on a non-deterministic Turing Machine with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Hans L. Bodlaender , Carla Groenland , Hugo Jacob , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We consider the problem of Data Flow Analysis over monotone data flow frameworks with a finite lattice. The problem of computing the Maximum Fixed Point (MFP) solution is shown to be P-complete even when the lattice has just four elements.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Gaurav Sood , K. Murali Krishnan

The Directed Traveling Salesman Problem (DTSP) is a variant of the classical Traveling Salesman Problem in which the edges in the graph are directed and a vertex and edge can be visited multiple times. The goal is to find a directed closed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Václav Blažej , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Foivos Fioravantes , Paweł Rzążewski , Ondřej Suchý

An unsplittable multiflow routes the demand of each commodity along a single path from its source to its sink node. As our main result, we prove that in series-parallel digraphs, any given multiflow can be expressed as a convex combination…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mohammed Majthoub Almoghrabi , Martin Skutella , Philipp Warode

We study the parameterized complexity of the problems of finding a maximum common (induced) subgraph of two given graphs. Since these problems generalize several NP-complete problems, they are intractable even when parameterized by strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tesshu Hanaka , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi , Lena Volk

We study the parameterized complexity of the classical Edge Hamiltonian Path problem and give several fixed-parameter tractability results. First, we settle an open question of Demaine et al. by showing that Edge Hamiltonian Path is FPT…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Michael Lampis , Kazuhisa Makino , Valia Mitsou , Yushi Uno

We introduce a family of graph parameters, called induced multipartite graph parameters, and study their computational complexity. First, we consider the following decision problem: an instance is an induced multipartite graph parameter $p$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Ryan L. Mann , Luke Mathieson , Catherine Greenhill

Throughput is a main performance objective in communication networks. This paper considers a fundamental maximum throughput routing problem -- the all-or-nothing multicommodity flow (ANF) problem -- in arbitrary directed graphs and in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anya Chaturvedi , Chandra Chekuri , Mengxue Liu , Andréa W. Richa , Mattias Rost , Stefan Schmid , Jamison Weber

We introduce a tree-based formulation for the minimum-cost multi-commodity flow problem that addresses large-scale instances. The method decomposes the source-based model by representing flows as convex combinations of trees rooted at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Simon Spoorendonk , Bjørn Petersen

We show fixed-parameter tractability of the Directed Multicut problem with three terminal pairs (with a randomized algorithm). This problem, given a directed graph $G$, pairs of vertices (called terminals) $(s_1,t_1)$, $(s_2,t_2)$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Meike Hatzel , Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Roohani Sharma , Manuel Sorge

A multiflow in a planar graph is uncrossed if its support paths do not cross. Recently such flows have played a role in approximation algorithms for maximum disjoint paths in "fully-planar" instances, where the combined supply-demand graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chandra Chekuri , Guyslain Naves , Joseph Poremba , F. Bruce Shepherd

We investigate two types of graph layouts, track layouts and layered path decompositions, and the relations between their associated parameters track-number and layered pathwidth. We use these two types of layouts to characterize leveled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Michael J. Bannister , William E. Devanny , Vida Dujmović , David Eppstein , David R. Wood

We present completeness results for inference in Bayesian networks with respect to two different parameterizations, namely the number of variables and the topological vertex separation number. For this we introduce the parameterized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Hans Bodlaender , Nils Donselaar , Johan Kwisthout

Multicommodity capacitated network design (MCND) models can be used to optimize the consolidation of shipments within e-commerce fulfillment networks. In practice, fulfillment networks require that shipments with the same origin and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Lacy M. Greening , Santanu S. Dey , Alan L. Erera

In this paper we present an algorithmic framework for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems on graphs with bounded pathwidth. The problems are NP-hard in general, but solvable in linear time on this type of graphs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

Given a directed graph $G$, a set of $k$ terminals and an integer $p$, the \textsc{Directed Vertex Multiway Cut} problem asks if there is a set $S$ of at most $p$ (nonterminal) vertices whose removal disconnects each terminal from all other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx

We consider the capacity problem for wireless networks. Networks are modeled as random unit-disk graphs, and the capacity problem is formulated as one of finding the maximum value of a multicommodity flow. In this paper, we develop a proof…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christina Peraki , Sergio D. Servetto