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The shortest path problem is a typical problem in graph theory with wide potential applications. The state-of-the-art single-source shortest paths algorithm on the weight graph is the $\Delta$-stepping algorithm, which can efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yelai Feng

Let G be a weighted (directed) graph with n vertices and m edges. Given a source vertex s, Dijkstra's algorithm computes the shortest path lengths from s to all other vertices in O(m + n log n) time. This bound is known to be worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann

Efficient solution of the single source shortest path (SSSP) problem on road networks is an important requirement for numerous real-world applications. This paper introduces an algorithm for the SSSP problem using compression method. Owning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Jingwei Sun , Guangzhong Sun

Finding the shortest route in wireless mesh networks is an important aspect. Many techniques are used to solve this problem like dynamic programming, evolutionary algorithms, weighted-sum techniques, and others. In this paper, we use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Sabreen Mahmood Shukr , Nuha Abdul Sahib Alwan , Ibraheem Kassim Ibraheem

The textbook algorithm for real-weighted single-source shortest paths takes $O(m n)$ time on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices. The breakthrough algorithm by Fineman [Fin24] takes $\tilde{O}(m n^{8/9})$ randomized time. The running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yufan Huang , Peter Jin , Kent Quanrud

The betweenness centrality (BC) of a node in a network (or graph) is a measure of its importance in the network. BC is widely used in a large number of environments such as social networks, transport networks, security/mobile networks and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

This paper reviews the overview of the dynamic shortest path routing problem and the various neural networks to solve it. Different shortest path optimization problems can be solved by using various neural networks algorithms. The routing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-01 R. Nallusamy , K. Duraiswamy

The GC problem is to identify a pre-determined number of center vertices such that the distances or costs from (or to) the centers to (or from) other vertices is minimized. The bottleneck of a path is the minimum capacity of edges on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

The current paper deals with the subject of shortest path routing in transportation networks (in terms of travelling time), where the speed in several of the network's roads is a function of the time interval. The main contribution of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Costas K. Constantinou , Georgios Ellinas , Christos Panayiotou , Marios Polycarpou

In a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with a capacity on every edge, a \emph{bottleneck path} (or \emph{widest path}) between two vertices is a path maximizing the minimum capacity of edges in the path. For the single-source all-destination version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Ran Duan , Kaifeng Lyu , Hongxun Wu , Yuanhang Xie

Dijkstra's algorithm is one of the most popular classic path planning algorithms, achieving optimal solutions across a wide range of challenging tasks. However, it only calculates the shortest distance from one vertex to another, which is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ziren Xiao , Ruxin Xiao , Chang Liu , Honghao Gao , Xiaolong Xu , Shan Luo , Xinheng Wang

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classical method for solving the shortest path problem on weighted graphs. There are several variations of the Dijkstra algorithm, including algorithms for the widest path problem and for two-player games. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Takahiro Sanada , Yoàv Montacute , Kittiphon Phalakarn , Ichiro Hasuo

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) is an important graph algorithm that has wide ranging applications in the areas of computer networks, VLSI routing, wireless communications among others. Today virtually every computer is built out of multi-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

We show how to combine two techniques for efficiently computing shortest paths in directed planar graphs. The first is the linear-time shortest-path algorithm of Henzinger, Klein, Subramanian, and Rao [STOC'94]. The second is Fakcharoenphol…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Shay Mozes , Yahav Nussbaum , Oren Weimann

The problem of identifying the k-shortest paths KSPs for short in a dynamic road network is essential to many location-based services. Road networks are dynamic in the sense that the weights of the edges in the corresponding graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ziqiang Yu , Xiaohui Yu , Nick Koudas , Yueting Chen , Yang Liu

Due to the computational complexity of finding almost shortest simple paths, we propose that identifying a larger collection of (nonbacktracking) paths is more efficient than finding almost shortest simple paths on positively weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-08 David Burstein , Leigh Metcalf

Motivated by the massive deployment of power-hungry data centers for service provisioning, we examine the problem of routing in optical networks with the aim of minimizing traffic-driven power consumption. To tackle this issue, routing must…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Aris L. Moustakas , Anna Tzanakaki

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

This work addresses a route planning problem constrained by a bus road network that includes the schedules of all buses. Given a query with a starting bus stop and a set of Points of Interest (POIs) to visit, our goal is to find an optimal…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Simu Liu , Kailin Jiao , Junping Du , Yawen Li , Zhe Xue , Xiaoyang Sean Wang , Ziqiang Yu , Yunchuan Shi

In this paper, we propose a new method for path planning to a point for robot in environment with obstacles. The resulting algorithm is implemented as a simple variation of Dijkstra's algorithm. By adding a constraint to the shortest-path,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Jalil Rasekhi