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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Malte Luttermann , Marcel Wienöbst , Maciej Liśkiewicz

Several modern applications involve huge graphs and require fast answers to reachability queries. In more than two decades since first proposals, several approaches have been presented adopting on-line searches, hop labelling or transitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Nicolas Boria , Gianpiero Cabodi , Paolo Camurati , Marco Palena , Paolo Pasini , Stefano Quer

In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model: (i) grid graph connectivity, (ii) approximate Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (EMST), and (iii) approximate DBSCAN. Our first result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Junhao Gan , Anthony Wirth , Zhuo Zhang

The success of modern parallel paradigms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, or Spark, has attracted a significant attention to the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model over the past few years, especially on graph problems. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Richard M. Karp

Distributed Arithmetic Coding (DAC) has emerged as a feasible solution to the Slepian-Wolf problem, particularly in scenarios with non-stationary sources and for data sequences with lengths ranging from small to medium. Due to the inherent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Junwei Zhou , HaoYun Xiao , Jianwen Xi , Qiuzhen Lin

We consider the PC-algorithm Spirtes et. al. (2000) for estimating the skeleton of a very high-dimensional acyclic directed graph (DAG) with corresponding Gaussian distribution. The PC-algorithm is computationally feasible for sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Markus Kalisch , Peter Buehlmann

We devise a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the maximization version of the edge-disjoint paths problem if the supply graph together with the demand edges form a planar graph. By planar duality this is equivalent to packing cuts…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chien-Chung Huang , Mathieu Mari , Claire Mathieu , Kevin Schewior , Jens Vygen

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

We study the communication complexity of the Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem on general graphs within the \(k\)-party one-way communication model. Edges of an arbitrary \(n\)-vertex graph are distributed among \(k\) parties. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mahsa Derakhshan , Andisheh Ghasemi , Rajmohan Rajaraman

A fundamental question that shrouds the emergence of massively parallel computing (MPC) platforms is how can the additional power of the MPC paradigm be leveraged to achieve faster algorithms compared to classical parallel models such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sepehr Assadi , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

The article studies edge coverage for control flow graphs extended with explicit constraints. Achieving a given level of white-box coverage for a given code is a classic problem in software testing. We focus on designing test sets that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jakub Ruszil , Artur Polański , Adam Roman , Jakub Zelek

Several classical combinatorial problems have been considered and analysed on temporal graphs. Recently, a variant of Vertex Cover on temporal graphs, called MinTimelineCover, has been introduced to summarize timeline activities in social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Riccardo Dondi , Manuel Lafond

In a graph, a perfect matching cut is an edge cut that is a perfect matching. Perfect Matching Cut (PMC) is the problem of deciding whether a given graph has a perfect matching cut, and is known to be NP-complete. We revisit the problem and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Van Bang Le , Jan Arne Telle

The quantum query complexity of subgraph-containment problems, which ask whether a given subgraph $H$ is present in an input graph $G$, has been the subject of considerable study. However, even for relatively simple subgraphs, such as paths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Arjan Cornelissen , Amin Shiraz Gilani , Subhasree Patro

In this thesis, we present new techniques to deal with fundamental algorithmic graph problems where graphs are directed and partially dynamic, i.e. undergo either a sequence of edge insertions or deletions: - Single-Source Reachability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

Some classical graph problems such as finding minimal spanning tree, shortest path or maximal flow can be done efficiently. We describe slight variations of such problems which are shown to be NP-complete. Our proofs use straightforward…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Per Alexandersson

We provide a comprehensive study of a natural geometric optimization problem motivated by questions in the context of satellite communication and astrophysics. In the problem Minimum Scan Cover with Angular Costs (MSC), we are given a graph…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Sándor P. Fekete , Linda Kleist , Dominik Krupke

Given a digraph $D$, the Minimum Leaf Out-Branching problem (MinLOB) is the problem of finding in $D$ an out-branching with the minimum possible number of leaves, i.e., vertices of out-degree 0. We prove that MinLOB is polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-14 G. Gutin , I. Razgon , E. J. Kim

Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles (AUGV) is still a challenge, especially in difficult, off-road, critical situations. Automatic planning can be used to reach mission objectives, to perform navigation or maneuvers. Most of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kevin Osanlou , Christophe Guettier , Andrei Bursuc , Tristan Cazenave , Eric Jacopin

This paper presents a new approach to solve linear and nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) problems that requires small memory footprint and throughput and is particularly suitable when the model and/or controller parameters change at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Nilay Saraf , Alberto Bemporad