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Robust network flows are a concept for dealing with uncertainty and unforeseen failures in the network infrastructure. They and their dual counterpart, network flow interdiction, have received steady attention within the operations research…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Yann Disser , Jannik Matuschke

When a flow is not allowed to be reoriented the Maximum Residual Flow Problem with $k$-Arc Destruction is known to be $NP$-hard for $k=2$. We show that when a flow is allowed to be adaptive the problem becomes polynomial for every fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Thomas Ridremont , Dimitri Watel , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Christophe Picouleau

In the Network Flow Interdiction problem an adversary attacks a network in order to minimize the maximum s-t-flow. Very little is known about the approximatibility of this problem despite decades of interest in it. We present the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Stephen R. Chestnut , Rico Zenklusen

Network interdiction can be viewed as a game between two players, an "interdictor" and a "flow player". The flow player wishes to send as much material as possible through a network, while the interdictor attempts to minimize the amount of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ebrahim Nasrabadi , James B. Orlin

Due to the importance of robustness in many real-world optimization problems, the field of robust optimization has gained a lot of attention over the past decade. We concentrate on maximum flow problems and introduce a novel robust…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Jannik Matuschke , S. Thomas McCormick , Gianpaolo Oriolo , Britta Peis , Martin Skutella

The robust minimum cost flow problem under consistent flow constraints (RobMCF$\equiv$) is a new extension of the minimum cost flow (MCF) problem. In the RobMCF$\equiv$ problem, we consider demand and supply that are subject to uncertainty.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Christina Büsing , Arie M. C. A. Koster , Sabrina Schmitz

Real world networks are often subject to severe uncertainties which need to be addressed by any reliable prescriptive model. In the context of the maximum flow problem subject to arc failure, robust models have gained particular attention.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Fabian Mies , Britta Peis , Andreas Wierz

We introduce and investigate reroutable flows, a robust version of network flows in which link failures can be mitigated by rerouting the affected flow. Given a capacitated network, a path flow is reroutable if after failure of an arbitrary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Jannik Matuschke , S. Thomas McCormick , Gianpaolo Oriolo

This article focuses on a biobjective extension of the maximum flow network interdiction problem, where each arc in the network is associated with two capacity values. Two maximum flows from a source to a sink are to be computed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Luca E. Schäfer , Stefan Ruzika , Sven O. Krumke , Carlos M. Fonseca

Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanxiao Liu , Shenghao Yang , Cheuk Ting Li

We study dynamic network flows with uncertain input data under a robust optimization perspective. In the dynamic maximum flow problem, the goal is to maximize the flow reaching the sink within a given time horizon $T$, while flow requires a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Corinna Gottschalk , Arie M. C. A. Koster , Frauke Liers , Britta Peis , Daniel Schmand , Andreas Wierz

Network flow interdiction analysis studies by how much the value of a maximum flow in a network can be diminished by removing components of the network constrained to some budget. Although this problem is strongly NP-complete on general…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-14 Rico Zenklusen

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is integral to the functioning of power systems, aiming to optimize generation dispatch while adhering to technical and operational constraints. These constraints are far from straightforward; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andrew Rosemberg , Mathieu Tanneau , Bruno Fanzeres , Joaquim Garcia , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Throughput is a main performance objective in communication networks. This paper considers a fundamental maximum throughput routing problem -- the all-or-nothing multicommodity flow (ANF) problem -- in arbitrary directed graphs and in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anya Chaturvedi , Chandra Chekuri , Mengxue Liu , Andréa W. Richa , Mattias Rost , Stefan Schmid , Jamison Weber

We study an incremental network design problem, where in each time period of the planning horizon an arc can be added to the network and a maximum flow problem is solved, and where the objective is to maximize the cumulative flow over the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Thomas Kalinowski , Dmytro Matsypura , Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

The Langberg-M\'edard multiple unicast conjecture claims that for any strongly reachable $k$-pair network, there exists a multi-flow with rate $(1,1,\dots,1)$. In a previous work, through combining and concatenating the so-called elementary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Kai Cai , Guangyue Han

This paper looks at two problems, minimum constrained input selection and minimum cost constrained input selection for state space structured systems. The input matrix is constrained in the sense that the set of states that each input can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Shana Moothedath , Prasanna Chaporkar , Madhu N. Belur

We consider the robust version of a multi-commodity network flow problem. The robustness is defined with respect to the deletion, or failure, of edges. While the flow problem itself is a polynomially-sized linear program, its robust version…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Artyom Klyuchikov , Roland Hildebrand , Sergei Protasov , Alexander Rogozin , Alexei Chernov

The Reactive Optimal Power Flow (ROPF) problem consists in computing an optimal power generation dispatch for an alternating current transmission network that respects power flow equations and operational constraints. Some means of action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Julie Sliwak , Miguel Anjos , Lucas Létocart , Emiliano Traversi

We study the problem of determining the worst optimal value and characterizing the corresponding worst-case scenarios in minimum cost network flow problems with interval uncertainty in arc capacities. In this setting, each capacity can take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Miroslav Rada , Milan Hladík , Elif Radová Garajová , Francesco Carrabs , Raffaele Cerulli , Ciriaco D'Ambrosio
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