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Given an undirected, anonymous, port-labeled graph of $n$ memory-less nodes, $m$ edges, and degree $\Delta$, we consider the problem of dispersing $k\leq n$ robots (or tokens) positioned initially arbitrarily on one or more nodes of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Gokarna Sharma

Ad hoc teamwork is the challenging problem of designing an autonomous agent which can adapt quickly to collaborate with teammates without prior coordination mechanisms, including joint training. Prior work in this area has focused on closed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Arrasy Rahman , Niklas Höpner , Filippos Christianos , Stefano V. Albrecht

Graph pebbling is a game played on graphs with pebbles on their vertices. A pebbling move removes two pebbles from one vertex and places one pebble on an adjacent vertex. A configuration $C$ is a supply of pebbles at various vertices of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Matheus Adauto , Viktoriya Bardenova , Yunus Bidav , Glenn Hurlbert

An incidence of a graph $G$ is a pair $(v,e)$ where $v$ is a vertex of $G$ and $e$ an edge incident to $v$. Two incidences $(v,e)$ and $(w,f)$ are adjacent whenever $v = w$, or $e = f$, or $vw = e$ or $f$. The incidence coloring game [S.D.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Clément Charpentier , Eric Sopena

We present a novel graph neural network we call AgentNet, which is designed specifically for graph-level tasks. AgentNet is inspired by sublinear algorithms, featuring a computational complexity that is independent of the graph size. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Karolis Martinkus , Pál András Papp , Benedikt Schesch , Roger Wattenhofer

\emph{Temporal graphs} are a generalisation of (static) graphs, defined by a sequence of \emph{snapshots}, each a static graph defined over a common set of vertices. \emph{Exploration} problems are one of the most fundamental and most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Duncan Adamson , Paul G Spirakis

We study a distributed coordination mechanism for uniform agents located on a circle. The agents perform their actions in synchronised rounds. At the beginning of each round an agent chooses the direction of its movement from clockwise,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Leszek Gasieniec , Tomasz Jurdzinski , Russell Martin , Grzegorz Stachowiak

We investigated the computational power of a single mobile agent in an $n$-node graph with storage (i.e., node memory). Generally, a system with one-bit agent memory and $O(1)$-bit storage is as powerful as that with $O(n)$-bit agent memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Taichi Inoue , Naoki Kitamura , Taisuke Izumi , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

The problem of diffusion control on networks has been extensively studied, with applications ranging from marketing to controlling infectious disease. However, in many applications, such as cybersecurity, an attacker may want to attack a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sixie Yu , Leonardo Torres , Scott Alfeld , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

This paper considers a two-dimensional persistent monitoring problem by controlling movements of second-order agents to minimize some uncertainty metric associated with targets in a dynamic environment. In contrast to common sensing models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Yan-Wu Wang , Ming-Jie Zhao , Wu Yang , Nan Zhou , Christos G. Cassandras

We consider an agent-based model in which two types of agents interact locally over a graph and have a common intolerance threshold $\tau$ for changing their types with exponentially distributed waiting times. The model is equivalent to an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Hamed Omidvar , Massimo Franceschetti

We propose an approach to solve multi-agent path planning (MPP) problems for complex environments. Our method first designs a special pebble graph with a set of feasibility constraints, under which MPP problems have feasibility guarantee.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xifeng Gao , Zherong Pan , Ruiqi Ni

In this paper, we revisit the problem of \textsc{Broadcast}, introduced by Das, Giachoudis, Luccio, and Markou [OPODIS, 2020], where $k+1$ agents are initially placed on an $n$ node dynamic graph, where $1$ agent has a message that must be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 William K. Moses , Amanda Redlich , Frederick Stock

Vizing's theorem states that any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly edge colored with at most $\Delta+1$ colors. In the online setting, it has been a matter of interest to find an algorithm that can properly edge color any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aditi Dudeja , Rashmika Goswami , Michael Saks

In collective tree exploration, a team of $k$ mobile agents is tasked to go through all edges of an unknown tree as fast as possible. An edge of the tree is revealed to the team when one agent becomes adjacent to that edge. The agents start…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Romain Cosson

The Cops and Robber game is played on undirected finite graphs. A number of cops and one robber are positioned on vertices and take turns in sliding along edges. The cops win if they can catch the robber. The minimum number of cops needed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Nancy E. Clarke , Samuel Fiorini , Gwenaël Joret , Dirk Oliver Theis

A graph puzzle ${\rm Puz}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as follows. A configuration of ${\rm Puz}(G)$ is a bijection from the set of vertices of a board graph to the set of vertices of a pebble graph, both graphs being isomorphic to some…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tatsuoki Kato , Tomoki Nakamigawa , Tadashi Sakuma

In dynamic graphs, edges may be added or deleted in each synchronous round. Various connectivity models exist based on constraints on these changes. One well-known model is the $T$-Interval Connectivity model, where the graph remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ashish Saxena , Kaushik Mondal

A graph is called $P_t$-free} if it does not contain a $t$-vertex path as an induced subgraph. While $P_4$-free graphs are exactly cographs, the structure of $P_t$-free graphs for $t \geq 5$ remains little understood. On one hand, classic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Andrzej Grzesik , Tereza Klimošová , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

The main topic of this paper is motivated by a localization problem in cellular networks. Given a graph $G$ we want to localize a walking agent by checking his distance to as few vertices as possible. The model we introduce is based on a…