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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.8
Parameterized Algorithms for the Drone Delivery Problem

Authors: Simon Bartlmae, Andreas Hene, Joshua Könen, and Heiko Röglin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 359, 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)

Abstract
Timely delivery and optimal routing remain fundamental challenges in the modern logistics industry. Building on prior work that considers single-package delivery across networks using multiple types of collaborative agents with restricted movement areas (e.g., drones or trucks), we examine the complexity of the problem under structural and operational constraints. Our focus is on minimizing total delivery time by coordinating agents that differ in speed and movement range across a graph. This problem formulation aligns with the recently proposed Drone Delivery Problem with respect to delivery time (DDT), introduced by Erlebach et al. [ISAAC 2022]. We first resolve an open question posed by Erlebach et al. [ISAAC 2022] by showing that even when the delivery network is a path graph, DDT admits no polynomial-time approximation within any polynomially encodable factor a(n), unless P=NP. Additionally, we identify the intersection graph of the agents, where nodes represent agents and edges indicate an overlap of the movement areas of two agents, as an important structural concept. For path graphs, we show that DDT becomes tractable when parameterized by the treewidth w of the intersection graph, and we present an exact FPT algorithm with running time f(w)⋅poly(n,k), for some computable function f. For general graphs, we give an FPT algorithm with running time f(Δ,w)⋅poly(n,k), where Δ is the maximum degree of the intersection graph. In the special case where the intersection graph is a tree, we provide a simple polynomial-time algorithm.
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Simon Bartlmae, Andreas Hene, Joshua Könen, and Heiko Röglin. Parameterized Algorithms for the Drone Delivery Problem. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 8:1-8:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bartlmae_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.8,
  author =	{Bartlmae, Simon and Hene, Andreas and K\"{o}nen, Joshua and R\"{o}glin, Heiko},
  title =	{{Parameterized Algorithms for the Drone Delivery Problem}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-408-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{359},
  editor =	{Chen, Ho-Lin and Hon, Wing-Kai and Tsai, Meng-Tsung},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249162},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Complexity, Delivery, FPT algorithms, Graph Theory}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.7
A Novel Algorithm for the All-Best-Swap-Edge Problem on Tree Spanners

Authors: Davide Bilò and Kleitos Papadopoulos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 123, 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)

Abstract
Given a 2-edge connected, unweighted, and undirected graph G with n vertices and m edges, a sigma-tree spanner is a spanning tree T of G in which the ratio between the distance in T of any pair of vertices and the corresponding distance in G is upper bounded by sigma. The minimum value of sigma for which T is a sigma-tree spanner of G is also called the stretch factor of T. We address the fault-tolerant scenario in which each edge e of a given tree spanner may temporarily fail and has to be replaced by a best swap edge, i.e. an edge that reconnects T-e at a minimum stretch factor. More precisely, we design an O(n^2) time and space algorithm that computes a best swap edge of every tree edge. Previously, an O(n^2 log^4 n) time and O(n^2+m log^2n) space algorithm was known for edge-weighted graphs [Bilò et al., ISAAC 2017]. Even if our improvements on both the time and space complexities are of a polylogarithmic factor, we stress the fact that the design of a o(n^2) time and space algorithm would be considered a breakthrough.
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Davide Bilò and Kleitos Papadopoulos. A Novel Algorithm for the All-Best-Swap-Edge Problem on Tree Spanners. In 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 123, pp. 7:1-7:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{bilo_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.7,
  author =	{Bil\`{o}, Davide and Papadopoulos, Kleitos},
  title =	{{A Novel Algorithm for the All-Best-Swap-Edge Problem on Tree Spanners}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-094-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{123},
  editor =	{Hsu, Wen-Lian and Lee, Der-Tsai and Liao, Chung-Shou},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-99557},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Transient edge failure, best swap edges, tree spanner}
}
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