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This paper considers a generalization of the network design problem for On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems (ODMTS). An ODMTS consists of a selection of hubs served by high frequency buses, and passengers are connected to the hubs by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Kevin Dalmeijer , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The construction of a cost minimal network for flows obeying physical laws is an important problem for the design of electricity, water, hydrogen, and natural gas infrastructures. We formulate this problem as a mixed-integer non-linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Pascal Börner , Max Klimm , Annette Lutz , Marc E. Pfetsch , Martin Skutella , Lea Strubberg

We study the following Two-Sets Cut-Uncut problem on planar graphs. Therein, one is given an undirected planar graph $G$ and two sets of vertices $S$ and $T$. The question is, what is the minimum number of edges to remove from $G$, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Matthias Bentert , Pål Grønås Drange , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen

Minimum cuts have been closely related to shortest paths in planar graphs via planar duality - so long as the graphs are undirected. Even maximum flows are closely related to shortest paths for the same reason - so long as the source and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Glencora Borradaile , Anna Harutyunyan

The study of nonplanar drawings of graphs with restricted crossing configurations is a well-established topic in graph drawing, often referred to as beyond-planar graph drawing. One of the most studied types of drawings in this area are the…

We present a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with $n$ vertices and edge capacities from $\{1,\dots,U\}$ in $n^{2+o(1)}\log U$ time, which is almost optimal in dense graphs. Our algorithm is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aaron Bernstein , Joakim Blikstad , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ta-Wei Tu

A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that each of its edges is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper we decompose the set of all 1-planar graphs into three classes $\mathcal C_0, \mathcal C_1$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Július Czap , Peter Šugerek

We study the computational complexity of optimally solving multi-robot path planning problems on planar graphs. For four common time- and distance-based objectives, we show that the associated path optimization problems for multiple robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingjin Yu

We combine the work of Garg and Konemann, and Fleischer with ideas from dynamic graph algorithms to obtain faster (1-eps)-approximation schemes for various versions of the multicommodity flow problem. In particular, if eps is moderately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Aleksander Madry

We have a set of processors (or agents) and a set of graph networks defined over some vertex set. Each processor can access a subset of the graph networks. Each processor has a demand specified as a pair of vertices $<u, v>$, along with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Sambuddha Roy , Yogish Sabharwal

An outer-1-planar graph is a graph admitting a drawing in the plane so that all vertices appear in the outer region of the drawing and every edge crosses at most one other edge. This paper establishes the local structure of outer-1-planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yan Li , Xin Zhang

An extended formulation of a polytope is a linear description of this polytope using extra variables besides the variables in which the polytope is defined. The interest of extended formulations is due to the fact that many interesting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Samuel Fiorini , Kanstantsin Pashkovich

In this paper we give upper bounds on the number of minimal separators and potential maximal cliques of graphs w.r.t. two graph parameters, namely vertex cover ($\operatorname{vc}$) and modular width ($\operatorname{mw}$). We prove that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Mathieu Liedloff , Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

We present an alternative and simpler method for computing principal typings of flow networks. When limited to planar flow networks, the method can be made to run in fixed-parameter linear-time -- where the parameter not to be exceeded is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Assaf Kfoury

We present novel oblivious routing algorithms for both splittable and unsplittable multicommodity flow. Our algorithm for minimizing congestion for \emph{unsplittable} multicommodity flow is the first oblivious routing algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Michael Schapira , Gal Shahaf

We consider the \textsc{Edge Multiway Cut} problem on planar graphs. It is known that this can be solved in $n^{O(\sqrt{t})}$ time [Klein, Marx, ICALP 2012] and not in $n^{o(\sqrt{t})}$ time under the Exponential Time Hypothesis [Marx,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sukanya Pandey , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We consider upward-planar layered drawings of directed graphs, i.e., crossing-free drawings in which each edge is drawn as a y-monotone curve going upward from its tail to its head, and the y-coordinates of the vertices are integers. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Patrizio Angelini , Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo , Fabrizio Frati , Philipp Kindermann , Ignaz Rutter , Johannes Zink

Since the development of efficient linear program solvers in the 80s, all major improvements for solving multi-commodity flows to high accuracy came from improvements to general linear program solvers. This differs from the single commodity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jan van den Brand , Daniel Zhang

We study straight-line drawings of graphs where the vertices are placed in convex position in the plane, i.e., \emph{convex drawings}. We consider two families of graph classes with convex drawings: \emph{outer $k$-planar} graphs, where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Steven Chaplick , Myroslav Kryven , Giuseppe Liotta , Andre Löffler , Alexander Wolff

A graph $G$ is a non-separating planar graph if there is a drawing $D$ of $G$ on the plane such that (1) no two edges cross each other in $D$ and (2) for any cycle $C$ in $D$, any two vertices not in $C$ are on the same side of $C$ in $D$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Hooman R. Dehkordi , Graham Farr