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We study the so-called dynamic coverage problem by agents located in some topological graph. The agents must visit all regions of interest but they also should stay connected to the base via multi-hop. We prove that the algorithmic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Tristan Charrier , François Schwarzentruber , Eva Soulier

We consider the task of graph exploration. An $n$-node graph has unlabeled nodes, and all ports at any node of degree $d$ are arbitrarily numbered $0,\dots, d-1$. A mobile agent has to visit all nodes and stop. The exploration time is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Barun Gorain , Andrzej Pelc

A temporal graph is a graph in which the edge set can change from one time step to the next. The temporal graph exploration problem TEXP is the problem of computing a foremost exploration schedule for a temporal graph, i.e., a temporal walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Frank Kammer

In this paper, we study collision-free graph exploration in an anonymous pot labeled network. Two identical mobile agents, starting from different nodes in $G$ have to explore the nodes of $G$ in such a way that for every node $v$ in $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sajal K. Das , Amit Kumar Dhar , Barun Gorain , Madhuri Mahawar

Network decontamination is a well-known problem, in which the aim of the mobile agents should be to decontaminate the network (i.e., both nodes and edges). This problem comes with an added constraint, i.e., of \emph{monotonicity}, in which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Rajashree Bar , Daibik Barik , Adri Bhattacharya , Partha Sarathi Mandal

The gathering problem requires a set of mobile agents, arbitrarily positioned at different nodes of a network to group within finite time at the same location, not fixed in advanced. The extensive existing literature on this problem shares…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

Recently, B\"ockenhauer, Frei, Unger, and Wehner (SIROCCO 2023) introduced a novel variant of the graph exploration problem in which a single memoryless agent must visit all nodes of an unknown, undirected, and connected graph before…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shota Takahashi , Haruki Kanaya , Shoma Hiraoka , Ryota Eguchi , Yuichi Sudo

We study the problem of patrolling the nodes of a network collaboratively by a team of mobile agents, such that each node of the network is visited by at least one agent once in every $I(n)$ time units, with the objective of minimizing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Shantanu Das , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Leszek A. Gasieniec

In the Travelling Salesman Problem, every vertex of an edge-weighted graph has to be visited by an agent who traverses the edges of the graph. In this problem, it is usually assumed that the costs of each edge are given in advance, making…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Matthias Gehnen , Ralf Klasing , Émile Naquin

In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

We consider collaborative graph exploration with a set of $k$ agents. All agents start at a common vertex of an initially unknown graph and need to collectively visit all other vertices. We assume agents are deterministic, vertices are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Yann Disser , Frank Mousset , Andreas Noever , Nemanja Škorić , Angelika Steger

This paper considers the Hamiltonian walk problem in the multi-agent coordination framework, referred to as $k$-agents Hamiltonian walk problem ($k$-HWP). In this problem, a set of $k$ connected agents collectively compute a spanning walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Saswata Jana , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Partha Sarathi Mandal

We study the computability and complexity of the exploration problem in a class of highly dynamic graphs: periodically varying (PV) graphs, where the edges exist only at some (unknown) times defined by the periodic movements of carriers.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Paola Flocchini , Bernard Mans , Nicola Santoro

We study the dispersion problem in anonymous port-labeled graphs: $k \leq n$ mobile agents, each with a unique ID and initially located arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, must autonomously relocate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

We define the following parameter of connected graphs. For a given graph $G$ we place one agent in each vertex of $G$. Every pair of agents sharing a common edge is declared to be acquainted. In each round we choose some matching of $G$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Itai Benjamini , Igor Shinkar , Gilad Tsur

We consider the problem of exploration of networks, some of whose edges are faulty. A mobile agent, situated at a starting node and unaware of which edges are faulty, has to explore the connected fault-free component of this node by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-04 David Caissy , Andrzej Pelc

A graph environment must be explored by a collection of mobile robots. Some of the robots, a priori unknown, may turn out to be unreliable. The graph is weighted and each node is assigned a deadline. The exploration is successful if each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Jurek Czyzowicz , Maxime Godon , Evangelos Kranakis , Arnaud Labourel , Euripides Markou

Consider a group of autonomous mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily placed at some nodes of a dynamic but always connected ring. The agents neither have any knowledge about the size of the ring nor have a common notion…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Archak Das , Kaustav Bose , Buddhadeb Sau

We consider the problem of exploring an unknown tree with a team of $k$ initially colocated mobile agents. Each agent has limited energy and cannot, as a result, traverse more than $B$ edges. The goal is to maximize the number of nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Evangelos Bampas , Jérémie Chalopin , Shantanu Das , Jan Hackfeld , Christina Karousatou

We study a very restrictive graph exploration problem. In our model, an agent without persistent memory is placed on a vertex of a graph and only sees the adjacent vertices. The goal is to visit every vertex of the graph, return to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Fabian Frei , Walter Unger , David Wehner