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This paper presents a tensor-recovery method to solve probabilistic power flow problems. Our approach generates a high-dimensional and sparse generalized polynomial-chaos expansion that provides useful statistical information. The result…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Zheng Zhang , Hung Dinh Nguyen , Konstantin Turitsyn , Luca Daniel

We explore here surprising links between the time-cost-tradeoff problem and the minimum cost flow problem that lead to fast, strongly polynomial, algorithms for both problems. One of the main results is a new algorithm for the unit capacity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Dorit S. Hochbaum

We study the single pair capacitated network design problem and the budget constrained max flow problem on undirected series-parallel graphs. These problems were well studied on directed series-parallel graphs, but little is known in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ishan Bansal , Ryan Mao , Avhan Mishra

In this paper, we study a set of combinatorial optimization problems on weighted graphs: the shortest path problem with negative weights, the weighted perfect bipartite matching problem, the unit-capacity minimum-cost maximum flow problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Michael B. Cohen , Aleksander Madry , Piotr Sankowski , Adrian Vladu

Millions of flows are routed concurrently through a modern data-center. These networks are often built as Clos topologies, and flow demands are constrained only by the link capacities at the ingress and egress points. The minimum congestion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Miguel Ferreira , Nirav Atre , Justine Sherry , Michael Dinitz , João Luís Sobrinho

The Quickest Transshipment Problem is to route flow as quickly as possible from sources with supplies to sinks with demands in a network with capacities and transit times on the arcs. It is of fundamental importance for numerous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Miriam Schlöter , Martin Skutella , Khai Van Tran

We present faster approximation algorithms for generalized network flow problems. A generalized flow is one in which the flow out of an edge differs from the flow into the edge by a constant factor. We limit ourselves to the lossy case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Samuel I. Daitch , Daniel A. Spielman

The paper deals with the distributed minimum sharing problem: a set of decision-makers compute the minimum of some local quantities of interest in a distributed and decentralized way by exchanging information through a communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Michelangelo Bin , Thomas Parisini

We provide a new algebraic technique to solve the sequential flow problem in polynomial space. The task is to maximise the flow through a graph where edge capacities can be changed over time by choosing a sequence of capacity labelings from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Hugo Gimbert , Corto Mascle , Patrick Totzke

The solution of potential-driven steady-state flow in large networks is required in various engineering applications, such as transport of natural gas or water through pipeline networks. The resultant system of nonlinear equations depends…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shriram Srinivasan , Kaarthik Sundar

We consider a routing problem which plays an important role in several applications, primarily in communication network planning and VLSI layout design. The original underlying graph algorithmic task is called Disjoint Paths problem. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Rupei Xu , András Faragó

In this paper, we study weakly dynamic undirected graphs, that can be used to represent some logistic networks. The goal is to deliver all the delivery points in the network. The network exists in a mostly stable environment, except for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Moustafa Nakechbandi , Jean-Yves Colin , Hervé Mathieu

We investigate the complexity and approximability of the budget-constrained minimum cost flow problem, which is an extension of the traditional minimum cost flow problem by a second kind of costs associated with each edge, whose total value…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Michael Holzhauser , Sven O. Krumke , Clemens Thielen

Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) is the NP-hard problem of finding a smallest decomposition of a network flow/circulation $X$ on a directed graph $G$ into weighted source-to-sink paths whose superposition equals $X$. We show that, for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Manuel Cáceres , Massimo Cairo , Andreas Grigorjew , Shahbaz Khan , Brendan Mumey , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Lucia Williams

We provide an algorithm which, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate maximum flow on an undirected graph undergoing $m$-edge additions in amortized $m^{o(1)} \epsilon^{-3}$ time per update. To obtain this result, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva , Aaron Sidford

The shortest path problem is a typical problem in graph theory with wide potential applications. The state-of-the-art single-source shortest paths algorithm on the weight graph is the $\Delta$-stepping algorithm, which can efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yelai Feng

We study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Keerti Choudhary , Amit Kumar , Lakshay Saggi

The maximum capacity path problem is to find a path from a source to a sink which has the maximum capacity among all paths. This paper addresses an extension of this problem which considers loss factors. It is called the generalized maximum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Adrian Marius Deaconu , Javad Tayyebi , Mihai-Lucian Rîtan

This paper applies a discrete adjoint gradient computation method for a multi-class traffic flow model on road networks. Vehicle classes are characterized by their specific velocity functions, which depend on the total traffic density,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Paola Goatin , Axel Klar , Carmen Mezquita-Nieto

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