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We address the problem of testing whether a dynamic graph is temporally connected, i.e. a temporal path ({\em journey}) exists between all pairs of vertices. We consider a discrete version of the problem, where the topology is given as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Matthieu Barjon , Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Colette Johnen , Yessin M. Neggaz

We consider the problem of assigning appearing times to the edges of a digraph in order to maximize the (average) temporal reachability between pairs of nodes. Motivated by the application to public transit networks, where edges cannot be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

I introduce a new approach to the maximum flow problem by a simple algorithm with a slightly better runtime. This approach is based on sorting arcs insight of vertices on a residual graph. This new approach leads to an O(mn^0.5) time bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Björn Hlava

Stable flows generalize the well-known concept of stable matchings to markets in which transactions may involve several agents, forwarding flow from one to another. An instance of the problem consists of a capacitated directed network, in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Ágnes Cseh , Jannik Matuschke

Logistics and transportation networks require a large amount of resources to realize necessary connections between locations and minimizing these resources is a vital aspect of planning research. Since such networks have dynamic connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit

In a temporal network with discrete time-labels on its edges, entities and information can only ``flow'' along sequences of edges whose time-labels are non-decreasing (resp. increasing), i.e. along temporal (resp. strict temporal) paths.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-29 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Malte Renken , Paul G. Spirakis , Philipp Zschoche

In this paper we consider generalized flow problems where there is an $m$-edge $n$-node directed graph $G = (V,E)$ and each edge $e \in E$ has a loss factor $\gamma_e >0$ governing whether the flow is increased or decreased as it crosses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shunhua Jiang , Michael Kapralov , Lawrence Li , Aaron Sidford

This article focuses on a biobjective extension of the maximum flow network interdiction problem, where each arc in the network is associated with two capacity values. Two maximum flows from a source to a sink are to be computed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Luca E. Schäfer , Stefan Ruzika , Sven O. Krumke , Carlos M. Fonseca

In inland waterways, the efficient management of water lock operations impacts the level of congestion and the resulting uncertainty in inland waterway transportation. To achieve reliable and efficient traffic, schedules should be easy to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Julian Golak , Alexander Grigoriev , Freija van Lent , Tom van der Zanden

In this paper, we address the minimum-cost node-capacitated multiflow problem in an undirected network. For this problem, Babenko and Karzanov (2012) showed strongly polynomial-time solvability via the ellipsoid method. Our result is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Hiroshi Hirai , Motoki Ikeda

Algorithms for computing fractional solutions to the quickest transshipment problem have been significantly improved since Hoppe and Tardos first solved the problem in strongly polynomial time. For integral solutions, runtime improvements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mariia Anapolska , Dario van den Boom , Christina Büsing , Timo Gersing

This paper focuses on the problem of coflow scheduling with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chi-Yeh Chen

We study a delay-sensitive information flow problem where a source streams information to a sink over a directed graph G(V,E) at a fixed rate R possibly using multiple paths to minimize the maximum end-to-end delay, denoted as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Qingyu Liu , Lei Deng , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

In this paper, we generalize the minimum flow decomposition problem (MFD) to incorporate uncertain edge capacities and tackle it from the perspective of robust optimization. In the classical flow decomposition problem, a network flow is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Moritz Stinzendörfer , Philine Schiewe , Fabricio Oliveira

We consider an off-line optimisation problem where $k$ robots must service $n$ requests on a single line. A request $i$ has weight $w_i$ and takes place at time $t_i$ at location $d_i$ on the line. A robot can service a request and collect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 A. Gkikas , T. Radzik

Temporal interaction networks capture the history of activities between entities along a timeline. At each interaction, some quantity of data (money, information, kbytes, etc.) flows from one vertex of the network to another. Flow-based…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

Modern manufacturing systems must meet hard delivery deadlines while coping with stochastic task durations caused by process noise, equipment variability, and human intervention. Traditional deterministic schedules break down when reality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ioan Hedea

A dynamic flow network consists of a directed graph, where nodes called sources represent locations of evacuees, and nodes called sinks represent locations of evacuation facilities. Each source and each sink are given supply representing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yuya Higashikawa , Ayano Nishii , Junichi Teruyama , Yuki Tokuni

In 2010s Fleiner introduced a notion of stable flows in directed networks and showed that such a flow always exists and can be found by use of a reduction to the stable allocation problem due to Baiou and Balinski. Recently Cseh and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alexander Karzanov

We analyze the problem of scheduling in wireless networks to meet end-to-end service guarantees. Using network slicing to decouple the queueing dynamics between flows, we show that the network's ability to meet hard throughput and deadline…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano