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The problem of packing as many subgraphs isomorphic to $H \in \mathcal H$ as possible in a graph for a class $\mathcal H$ of graphs is well studied in the literature. Both vertex-disjoint and edge-disjoint versions are known to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Tatsuya Gima , Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi , Tomohito Shirai , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Xiao Zhou

Network applications, such as multimedia streaming and video conferencing, impose growing requirements over Quality of Service (QoS), including bandwidth, delay, jitter, etc. Meanwhile, networks are expected to be load-balanced,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Hong Shen , Peng Li

We investigate the Minimum Eccentricity Shortest Path problem in some structured graph classes. It asks for a given graph to find a shortest path with minimum eccentricity. Although it is NP-hard in general graphs, we demonstrate that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Feodor F. Dragan , Arne Leitert

We consider the NP-complete problem of tracking paths in a graph, first introduced by Banik et. al. [3]. Given an undirected graph with a source $s$ and a destination $t$, find the smallest subset of vertices whose intersection with any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , James A. Liu , Pedro Matias

We study the problem of maximizing the number of spanning trees in a connected graph by adding at most $k$ edges from a given candidate edge set. We give both algorithmic and hardness results for this problem: - We give a greedy algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huan Li , Stacy Patterson , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang

A subgraph $T$ of a digraph $D$ is an {\em out-branching} if $T$ is an oriented spanning tree with only one vertex of in-degree zero (called the {\em root}). The vertices of $T$ of out-degree zero are {\em leaves}. In the {\sc Directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-18 Jean Daligault , Gregory Gutin , Eun Jung Kim , Anders Yeo

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

We study "space efficient" FPT algorithms for graph problems with limited memory. Let n be the size of the input graph and k be the parameter. We present algorithms that run in time f(k)*poly(n) and use g(k)*polylog(n) working space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sheikh Shakil Akhtar , Pranabendu Misra , Geevarghese Philip

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a minimum weight spanning tree that contains each vertex in a given subset $V_{\rm NT}$ of vertices as an internal vertex. This problem, called Minimum Weight Non-Terminal Spanning Tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi

introduce {\sc Planar Disjoint Paths Completion}, a completion counterpart of the Disjoint Paths problem, and study its parameterized complexity. The problem can be stated as follows: given a, not necessarily connected, plane graph $G,$ $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Isolde Adler , Stavros G. Kolliopoulos , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

A variant of the well-known Shortest Path Problem is studied in this paper, where pairs of conflicting arcs are provided, and for each conflicting pair a penalty is paid once neither or both of the arcs are selected. This configures a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

Shortest paths in complex networks play key roles in many applications. Examples include routing packets in a computer network, routing traffic on a transportation network, and inferring semantic distances between concepts on the World Wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

We study the parameterized complexity of various classic vertex-deletion problems such as Odd cycle transversal, Vertex planarization, and Chordal vertex deletion under hybrid parameterizations. Existing FPT algorithms for these problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michał Włodarczyk

We consider the problem of computing shortest paths in a dense motion-planning roadmap $\mathcal{G}$. We assume that~$n$, the number of vertices of $\mathcal{G}$, is very large. Thus, using any path-planning algorithm that directly searches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Shushman Choudhury , Oren Salzman , Sanjiban Choudhury , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

In this paper we describe an algorithm that embeds a graph metric $(V,d_G)$ on an undirected weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ into a distribution of tree metrics $(T,D_T)$ such that for every pair $u,v\in V$, $d_G(u,v)\leq d_T(u,v)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We give almost-linear-time algorithms for approximating rooted minimum cut and maximum arborescence packing in directed graphs, two problems that are dual to each other [Edm73]. More specifically, for an $n$-vertex, $m$-edge directed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yonggang Jiang , Yaowei Long , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

The shortest path problem is among the most fundamental combinatorial optimization problems to answer reachability queries. It is hard to deter-mine which vertices or edges are visited during shortest path traversals. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Waqas Nawaz , Kifayat Ullah Khan , Young-Koo Lee

In this paper we introduce a new algorithm for the \emph{$k$-Shortest Simple Paths} (\kspp{k}) problem with an asymptotic running time matching the state of the art from the literature. It is based on a black-box algorithm due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Pedro Maristany de las Casas , Antonio Sedeño-Noda , Ralf Borndörfer , Max Huneshagen

Segment Routing is a recent network technology that helps optimizing network throughput by providing finer control over the routing paths. Instead of routing directly from a source to a target, packets are routed via intermediate waypoints.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Cristina Bazgan , Morgan Chopin , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

In this paper, we study the complexity of the periodic temporal graph realization problem with respect to upper bounds on the fastest path durations among its vertices. This constraint with respect to upper bounds appears naturally in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis