This paper investigates relationship between algebraic expressions and graphs. Our intent is to simplify graph expressions and eventually find their shortest representations. We prove the monotonicity results allowing...
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This paper investigates relationship between algebraic expressions and graphs. Our intent is to simplify graph expressions and eventually find their shortest representations. We prove the monotonicity results allowing to assert that the length of a shortest expression of any subgraph of a given graph is not greater than the length of a shortest expression of the graph. We describe the decomposition method for generating expressions of complete st-dags (two-terminal directed acyclic graphs) and estimate the ( ) corresponding expression complexities. Using these findings, we present an 2(O(log2 n)) upper bound for the length of a shortest expression for every n-vertex st-dag. (C) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We study core stability and some related properties of flow games defined on simple networks (all edge capacities are equal) from an algorithmic point of view. We first present a sufficient and necessary condition tha...
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We study core stability and some related properties of flow games defined on simple networks (all edge capacities are equal) from an algorithmic point of view. We first present a sufficient and necessary condition that can be tested efficiently for a simple flow game to have a stable core. We also prove the equivalence of the properties of core largeness, extendability, and exactness of simple flow games and provide an equivalent graph theoretic characterization which allows us to decide these properties in polynomial time.
Keywords Flow network - series-parallel graph - imputation - cooperative game
MSC 91A12 - 91A46 - 05C57
This work analyzes the minimum tollbooth problem in atomic network congestion games with unsplittable flows. The goal is to place tolls on edges, such that there exists a pure Nash equilibrium in the tolled game that ...
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This work analyzes the minimum tollbooth problem in atomic network congestion games with unsplittable flows. The goal is to place tolls on edges, such that there exists a pure Nash equilibrium in the tolled game that is a social optimum in the untolled one. Additionally, we require the number of tolled edges to be the minimum. This problem has been extensively studied in non-atomic games, however, to the best of our knowledge, it has not been considered for atomic games before. By a reduction from the weighted CNF SAT problem, we show both the NP-hardness of the problem and the W[2]-hardness when parameterizing the problem with the number of tolled edges. On the positive side, we present a polynomial time algorithm for networks on series-parallel graphs that turns any given state of the untolled game into a pure Nash equilibrium of the tolled game with the minimum number of tolled edges.
In this paper we consider single-machine scheduling problems with position-dependent processing times, i.e., jobs whose processing times are an increasing or decreasing function of their positions in a processing sequ...
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In this paper we consider single-machine scheduling problems with position-dependent processing times, i.e., jobs whose processing times are an increasing or decreasing function of their positions in a processing sequence. In addition, the jobs are related by parallel chains and a series-parallel graph precedence constraints, respectively. It is shown that for the problems of minimization of the makespan polynomial algorithms exist. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
In this paper we consider single-machine scheduling problems with decreasing start-time-dependent processing times, i.e., jobs whose processing times are a decreasing function of their starting times. In addition, the...
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In this paper we consider single-machine scheduling problems with decreasing start-time-dependent processing times, i.e., jobs whose processing times are a decreasing function of their starting times. In addition, the jobs are related by parallel chains and a series-parallel graph precedence constraint, respectively. It is shown that, for the problems of minimization of the total weighted completion time, polynomial algorithms exist.
Topological sorting is, given with a directed acyclic graph G = (V,E), to find a total ordering of the vertices such that if (u,v) is an element of E then u is ordered before v. Instead of finding total orderings, we ...
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Topological sorting is, given with a directed acyclic graph G = (V,E), to find a total ordering of the vertices such that if (u,v) is an element of E then u is ordered before v. Instead of finding total orderings, we wish to find out how many total orderings exist in a given directed acyclic graph G = (V, E). Here we call a total ordering as legal sequence and the problem as legal sequence number problem. In this paper, we first propose theorems on equivalent transformation of graphs with respect to legal sequence number. Then we give a formula to calculate legal sequence number of basic series-parallel digraphs and a way of the calculation for general series-parallel digraphs. Finally we apply our results to show how to obtain legal sequence number for a class of extended series-parallel digraphs.
Given an undirected network G = (V, E), a vector of nonnegative integers r = (r(nu) : nu is an element of V) associated with the nodes of G and weights on the edges of G, the survivable network design problem is to de...
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Given an undirected network G = (V, E), a vector of nonnegative integers r = (r(nu) : nu is an element of V) associated with the nodes of G and weights on the edges of G, the survivable network design problem is to determine a mininium-weight subnetwork of G such that between every two nodes u, v of V, there are at least min {r (u), r(nu)} edge-disjoint paths. In this paper we study the polytope associated with the solutions to that problem. We show that when the underlying network is series-parallel and r(nu) is even for all nu is an element of V, the polytope is completely described by the trivial constraints and the so-called cut constraints. As a consequence, we obtain a polynomial time algorithm for the survivable network design problem in that class of networks. This generalizes and unifies known results in the literature. We also obtain a linear description of the polyhedron associated with the problem in the same class of networks when the use of more than one copy of an edge is allowed. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper presents a bicriterion analysis of time/cost trade-offs for the single-machine scheduling problem where both job processing times and release dates are controllable by the allocation of a continuously nonre...
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This paper presents a bicriterion analysis of time/cost trade-offs for the single-machine scheduling problem where both job processing times and release dates are controllable by the allocation of a continuously nonrenewable resource. Using the bicriterion approach, we distinguish between our sequencing criterion, namely the makespan, and the cost criterion, the total resource consumed, in order to construct an efficient time/cost frontier. Although the computational complexity of the problem of constructing this frontier remains an open question, we show that the optimal job sequence is independent of the total resource being used;thereby we were able to reduce the problem to a sequencing one. We suggest an exact dynamic programming algorithm for solving small to medium sizes of the problem, while for large-scale problems we present some heuristic algorithms that turned out to be very efficient. Five different special cases that are solvable by using polynomial time algorithms are also presented. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Let G be a simple graph in which each vertex v has a positive integer weight b(v) and each edge (v, w) has a nonnegative integer weight b(v, w). A bandwidth consecutive multicoloring of G assigns each vertex v a speci...
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Let G be a simple graph in which each vertex v has a positive integer weight b(v) and each edge (v, w) has a nonnegative integer weight b(v, w). A bandwidth consecutive multicoloring of G assigns each vertex v a specified number b(v) of consecutive positive integers so that, for each edge (v, w), all integers assigned to vertex v differ from all integers assigned to vertex w by more than b(v, w). The maximum integer assigned to a vertex is called the span of the coloring. In the paper, we first investigate fundamental properties of such a coloring. We then obtain a pseudo polynomial-time exact algorithm and a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for the problem of finding such a coloring of a given series-parallel graph with the minimum span. We finally extend the results to the case where a given graph G is a partial k-tree, that is, G has a bounded tree-width. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Motivated by previous results on distance constrained labelings and coloring of squares of K-4-minor free graphs, we show that for every p >= q >= 1 there exists Delta(0) such that every K-4-minor free graph G w...
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Motivated by previous results on distance constrained labelings and coloring of squares of K-4-minor free graphs, we show that for every p >= q >= 1 there exists Delta(0) such that every K-4-minor free graph G with maximum degree Delta >= Delta(0) has an L(p, q)-labeling of span at most qleft perpendicular3 Delta(G)/2right perpendicular. The obtained bound is the best possible. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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