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Optimal power flow (OPF) is the central optimization problem in electric power grids. Although solved routinely in the course of power grid operations, it is known to be strongly NP-hard in general, and weakly NP-hard over tree networks. In…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Michael Chertkov , Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray

This paper presents a distributed algorithm for finding near optimal dominating sets on grids. The basis for this algorithm is an existing centralized algorithm that constructs dominating sets on grids. The size of the dominating set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Elaheh Fata , Stephen L. Smith , Shreyas Sundaram

The transmission switching problem aims to determine the optimal network topology that minimizes the operating costs of a power system. This problem is typically formulated as a mixed-integer optimization model, which involves big-M…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Marina Aguilar-Moreno , Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales

This paper deals with distributed control of microgrids composed of storages, generators, renewable energy sources, critical and controllable loads. We consider a stochastic formulation of the optimal control problem associated to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Andrea Camisa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Several problems such as network intrusion, community detection, and disease outbreak can be described by observations attributed to nodes or edges of a graph. In these applications presence of intrusion, community or disease outbreak is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-25 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

The upper and lower Nordhaus-Gaddum bounds over all graphs for the power domination number follow from known bounds on the domination number and examples. In this note we improve the upper sum bound for the power domination number…

The application of graph neural networks (GNNs) to the domain of electrical power grids has high potential impact on smart grid monitoring. Even though there is a natural correspondence of power flow to message-passing in GNNs, their…

In this note, we find a monomization of a certain power ideal associated to a directed graph. This power ideal has been studied in several settings. The combinatorial method described here extends earlier work of other, and will work on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-25 Craig Desjardins

In this paper we study combinatorial and algorithmic resp. complexity questions of upper domination, i.e., the maximum cardinality of a minimal dominating set in a graph. We give a full classification of the related maximisation and…

This work studies the parameterized complexity of finding secluded solutions to classical combinatorial optimization problems on graphs such as finding minimum s-t separators, feedback vertex sets, dominating sets, maximum independent sets,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-14 René van Bevern , Till Fluschnik , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Manuel Sorge , Ondřej Suchý

Clustering bipartite graphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In the high-dimensional regime where the number of rows $n_1$ and the number of columns $n_2$ of the associated adjacency matrix are of different order, existing methods…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi

As the energy transition transforms power grids across the globe, it poses several challenges regarding grid design and control. In particular, high levels of intermittent renewable generation complicate the task of continuously balancing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Randall Martyr , Benjamin Schaefer , Christian Beck , Vito Latora

Flexible grid topology has become a key enabler of flexibility in modern power grids, particularly for congestion management. Studying the effects of combinatorial topological changes is therefore of significant interest, though it remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Antoine Marot , Noureddine Henka , Benjamin Donnot , Sami Tazi

We consider the scheduling of arbitrary wireless links in the physical model of interference to minimize the time for satisfying all requests. We study here the combined problem of scheduling and power control, where we seek both an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Magnus M. Halldorsson

We completely determine the complexity status of the dominating set problem for hereditary graph classes defined by forbidden induced subgraphs with at most five vertices.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-02 D. S. Malyshev

We establish exact values for the $2$-limited broadcast domination number of various grid graphs, in particular $C_m\square C_n$ for $3 \leq m \leq 6$ and all $n\geq m$, $P_m \square C_3$ for all $m \geq 3$, and $P_m \square C_n$ for $4\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Aaron Slobodin , Gary MacGillivray , Wendy Myrvold

We present an algorithm that efficiently computes nearly-optimal solutions to a class of combinatorial reconfiguration problems on weighted, undirected graphs. Inspired by societally relevant applications in networked infrastructure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Samuel Talkington , Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii , Daniel K. Molzahn

The transient response of power grids to external disturbances influences their stable operation. This paper studies the effect of topology in linear time-invariant dynamics of different power grids. For a variety of objective functions, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Deepjyoti Deka , Harsha Nagarajan , Scott Backhaus

The undirected power graph (or simply power graph) of a group $G$, denoted by $P(G)$, is a graph whose vertices are the elements of the group $G$, in which two vertices $u$ and $v$ are connected by an edge between if and only if either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Pallabi Manna , Peter J. Cameron , Ranjit Mehatari

Power circuits are data structures which support efficient algorithms for highly compressed integers. Using this new data structure it has been shown recently by Myasnikov, Ushakov and Won that the Word Problem of the one-relator Baumslag…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Volker Diekert , Jürn Laun , Alexander Ushakov