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Path planning is a fundamental problem in road networks, with the goal of finding a path that optimizes objectives such as shortest distance or minimal travel time. Existing methods typically use graph indexing to ensure the efficiency of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hanzhang Chen , Xiangzhi Zhang , Shufeng Gong , Feng Yao , Song Yu , Yanfeng Zhang , Ge Yu

We study the classic problem in which a Searcher must locate a hidden point, also called the Hider in a network, starting from a root point. The network may be either bounded or unbounded, thus generalizing well-known settings such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Spyros Angelopoulos , Thomas Lidbetter

In this work, we develop a distributed source routing algorithm for topology discovery suitable for ISP transport networks, that is however inspired by opportunistic algorithms used in ad hoc wireless networks. We propose a plug-and-play…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-02 Christophe Betoule , Thomas Bonald , Remi Clavier , Dario Rossi , Giuseppe Rossini , Gilles Thouenon

Parallelization of A* path planning is mostly limited by the number of possible motions, which is far less than the level of parallelism that modern processors support. In this paper, we go beyond the limitations of traditional parallelism…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohammad Bakhshalipour , Mohamad Qadri , Dominic Guri

Conventional local planners frequently become trapped in a locally optimal trajectory, primarily due to their inability to traverse obstacles. Having a larger number of topologically distinctive paths increases the likelihood of finding the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhuo Yao , Wei Wang

A* is a best-first search algorithm for finding optimal-cost paths in graphs. A* benefits significantly from parallelism because in many applications, A* is limited by memory usage, so distributed memory implementations of A* that use all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Alex Fukunaga , Adi Botea , Yuu Jinnai , Akihiro Kishimoto

This paper proposes two novel path planning algorithms, Roadmap Hybrid A* and Waypoints Hybrid A*, for car-like autonomous vehicles in logistics and industrial contexts with obstacles (e.g., pallets or containers) and narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Alessandro Bonetti , Simone Guidetti , Lorenzo Sabattini

Prime path coverage is a powerful structural testing criterion, but generating all prime paths in a directed graph remains computationally challenging due to the potentially exponential number of them. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jakub Zelek , Jakub Ruszil , Adam Roman , Artur Polański

Optimization algorithms are pivotal in advancing various scientific and industrial fields but often encounter obstacles such as trapping in local minima, saddle points, and plateaus (flat regions), which makes the convergence to reasonable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Amir M. Vahedi , Horea T. Ilies

Path planning plays a crucial role in various autonomy applications, and RRT* is one of the leading solutions in this field. In this paper, we propose the utilization of vertex-based networks to enhance the sampling process of RRT*, leading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Yuanhang Zhang , Jundong Liu

A successive continuation method for locating connecting orbits in parametrized systems of autonomous ODEs was considered in [9]. In this paper we present an improved algorithm for locating and continuing connecting orbits, which includes a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. W. Demmel , L. Dieci , M. J. Friedman

This paper presents an enhanced version of the Interactive Voting-Based Map Matching algorithm, designed to efficiently process trajectories with varying sampling rates. The main aim is to reconstruct GPS trajectories with high accuracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 William Alemanni , Arianna Burzacchi , Davide Colombi , Elena Giarratano

Path planning is an essential component of mobile robotics. Classical path planning algorithms, such as wavefront and rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) are used heavily in autonomous robots. With the recent advances in machine learning,…

In this work, we propose a novel adaptive grid mapping approach, the Adaptive Patched Grid Map, which enables a situational aware grid based perception for autonomous vehicles. Its structure allows a flexible representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Thomas Wodtko , Thomas Griebel , Michael Buchholz

The classic Resource Constrained Shortest Path (RCSP) problem aims to find a cost optimal path between a pair of nodes in a network such that the resources used in the path are within a given limit. Having been studied for over a decade,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Saman Ahmadi , Andrea Raith , Guido Tack , Mahdi Jalili

Join ordering is the NP-hard problem of selecting the most efficient order in which to evaluate joins (conjunctive, binary operators) in a database query. Because query execution performance critically depends on this choice, join ordering…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tim Schwabe , Maribel Acosta

Communication and networking research introduces new protocols and standards with an increasing number of researchers relying on real experiments rather than simulations to evaluate the performance of their new protocols. A number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Yaser A. Elnakieb , Michael Azmy , Mustafa ElNainay

The design of compact deep neural networks is a crucial task to enable widespread adoption of deep neural networks in the real-world, particularly for edge and mobile scenarios. Due to the time-consuming and challenging nature of manually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Andrew Hryniowski , Francis Li , Zhong Qiu Lin , Alexander Wong

Point-feature label placement (PFLP) is a major area of interest within the filed of automated cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and computer graphics. The objective of a label placement problem is to assign a label to each…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Yasemin Ozkan Aydin , Kemal Leblebicioglu

The Multi-objective Shortest Path (MOSP) problem is a classic network optimization problem that aims to find all Pareto-optimal paths between two points in a graph with multiple edge costs. Recent studies on multi-objective search with A*…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Saman Ahmadi , Nathan R. Sturtevant , Andrea Raith , Daniel Harabor , Mahdi Jalili