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The symmetric Virtual Private Network Design (VPND) problem is concerned with buying capacity on links (edges) in a communication network such that certain traffic demands can be met. We investigate a natural generalization of VPND where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-15 Samuel Fiorini , Gianpaolo Oriolo , Laura Sanità , Dirk Oliver Theis

Understanding the flow of yield stress fluids in porous media is a major challenge. In particular, experiments and extensive numerical simulations report a non-linear Darcy law as a function of the pressure gradient. In this letter, we…

We study spatial networks that are designed to distribute or collect a commodity, such as gas pipelines or train tracks. We focus on the cost of a network, as represented by the total length of all its edges, and its efficiency in terms of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael T. Gastner , M. E. J. Newman

We derive conditions for monotonicity properties that characterize general flows of a commodity over a network, where the flow is described by potential and flow dynamics on the edges, as well as potential continuity and Kirchhoff-Neumann…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray , Anatoly Zlotnik

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

We introduce temporal flows on temporal networks, i.e., networks the links of which exist only at certain moments of time. Such networks are ephemeral in the sense that no link exists after some time. Our flow model is new and differs from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Eleni C. Akrida , Jurek Czyzowicz , Leszek Gasieniec , Lukasz Kuszner , Paul G. Spirakis

We consider a linear transport equation on the edges of a network with time-varying coefficients. Using methods for non-autonomous abstract Cauchy problems, we obtain well-posedness of the problem and describe the asymptotic profile of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Fatih Bayazit , Britta Dorn , Marjeta Kramar Fijavž

We demonstrate the effective use of randomized methods for linear algebra to perform network-based analysis of complex vortical flows. Network theoretic approaches can reveal the connectivity structures among a set of vortical elements and…

We study the minimum-concave-cost flow problem on a two-dimensional grid. We characterize the computational complexity of this problem based on the number of rows and columns of the grid, the number of different capacities over all arcs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Shabbir Ahmed , Qie He , Shi Li , George Nemhauser

We introduce a flow-dependent version of the quadratic Steiner tree problem in the plane. An instance of the problem on a set of embedded sources and a sink asks for a directed tree $T$ spanning these nodes and a bounded number of Steiner…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Marcus Brazil , Charl Ras , Doreen Thomas

Understanding the flow dynamics of yield stress fluids in porous media presents a substantial challenge. Both experiments and extensive numerical simulations frequently show a non-linear relationship between the flow rate and the pressure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-15 Stéphane Munier , Alberto Rosso

We introduce a methodology to study the possible matter flows of an ecosystem defined by observational biomass data and realistic biological constraints. The flows belong to a polyhedron in a multi dimensional space making statistical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-04 Jean-Guy Caputo , Valerie Girardin , Arnaud Knippel , Hieu Nguyen , Nathalie Niquil , Quentin Nogues

We study first passage percolation on the configuration model (CM) having power-law degrees with exponent $\tau\in [1,2)$. To this end we equip the edges with exponential weights. We derive the distributional limit of the minimal weight of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Shankar Bhamidi , Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

The model by Hu and Cai [Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 111(13) (2013)] describes the self-organization of vascular networks for transport of fluids from source to sinks. Diameters, and thereby conductances, of vessel segments evolve so as to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-11-20 Konstantin Klemm , Erik Andreas Martens

We present a machine-learning based Volume Of Fluid method to simulate multi-material flows on three-dimensional domains. One of the novelties of the method is that the flux fraction is computed by evaluating a previously trained neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Moreno Pintore , Bruno Després

We present a flow-based approach to the optimal transport (OT) problem between two continuous distributions $\pi_0,\pi_1$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, of minimizing a transport cost $\mathbb{E}[c(X_1-X_0)]$ in the set of couplings $(X_0,X_1)$ whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-30 Qiang Liu

When planning transportation whose operation requires non-consumable resources, the peak demand for allocated resources is often of higher interest than the duration of resource usage. For instance, it is more cost-effective to deliver…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mariia Anapolska , Emma Ahrens , Christina Büsing , Felix Engelhardt , Timo Gersing , Corinna Mathwieser , Sabrian Schmitz , Sophia Wrede

The minimum cost-flow problems have been attracted recently in optimization because of their applications in several areas of applied science and real life. Therefore, finding optima solution of these problems would be significant. Although…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Eghbal Hosseini

Given a graph with non-negative edge weights, there are various ways to interpret the edge weights and induce a metric on the vertices of the graph. A few examples are shortest-path, when interpreting the weights as lengths; resistance…

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