Solving Steiner trees: Recent advances, challenges, and perspectives

I Ljubić - Networks, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Steiner tree problem (STP) in graphs is one of the most studied problems in
combinatorial optimization. Since its inception in 1970, numerous articles published in the …

Customized bus service design for jointly optimizing passenger-to-vehicle assignment and vehicle routing

LC Tong, L Zhou, J Liu, X Zhou - Transportation Research Part C …, 2017 - Elsevier
Emerging transportation network services, such as customized buses, hold the promise of
expanding overall traveler accessibility in congested metropolitan areas. A number of …

Chapter 10: Vehicle routing problems with profits

C Archetti, MG Speranza, D Vigo - Vehicle routing: Problems, methods, and …, 2014 - SIAM
10.1▪ Introduction The key characteristic of the class of Vehicle Routing Problems with Profits
(VRPPs) is that, contrary to what happens for the most classical vehicle routing problems …

An improved LP-based approximation for Steiner tree

J Byrka, F Grandoni, T Rothvoß, L Sanita - Proceedings of the forty …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental NP-hard problems: given a
weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum-cost tree …

Steiner tree approximation via iterative randomized rounding

J Byrka, F Grandoni, T Rothvoß, L Sanità - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2013 - dl.acm.org
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental NP-hard problems: given a
weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum-cost tree …

Underwater data collection using robotic sensor networks

GA Hollinger, S Choudhary, P Qarabaqi… - IEEE Journal on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We examine the problem of utilizing an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to collect
data from an underwater sensor network. The sensors in the network are equipped with …

A Systematic Review of Approximability Results for Traveling Salesman Problems leveraging the TSP-T3CO Definition Scheme

S Saller, J Koehler, A Karrenbauer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00604, 2023 - arxiv.org
The traveling salesman (or salesperson) problem, short TSP, is a problem of strong interest
to many researchers from mathematics, economics, and computer science. Manifold TSP …

Event detection in activity networks

P Rozenshtein, A Anagnostopoulos, A Gionis… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
With the fast growth of smart devices and social networks, a lot of computing systems collect
data that record different types of activities. An important computational challenge is to …

Improving Christofides' algorithm for the st path TSP

HC An, R Kleinberg, DB Shmoys - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present a deterministic (1+√ 5/2)-approximation algorithm for the st path TSP for an
arbitrary metric. Given a symmetric metric cost on n vertices including two prespecified …

Autonomous data collection using a self-organizing map

J Faigl, GA Hollinger - IEEE transactions on neural networks …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The self-organizing map (SOM) is an unsupervised learning technique providing a
transformation of a high-dimensional input space into a lower dimensional output space. In …