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Maximizing Diversity in (Near-)Median String Selection

Authors: Diptarka Chakraborty, Rudrayan Kundu, Nidhi Purohit, and Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)


Abstract
Given a set of strings over a specified alphabet, identifying a median or consensus string that minimizes the total distance to all input strings is a fundamental data aggregation problem. When the Hamming distance is considered as the underlying metric, this problem has extensive applications, ranging from bioinformatics to pattern recognition. However, modern applications often require the generation of multiple (near-)optimal yet diverse median strings to enhance flexibility and robustness in decision-making. In this study, we address this need by focusing on two prominent diversity measures: sum dispersion and min dispersion. We first introduce an exact algorithm for the diameter variant of the problem, which identifies pairs of near-optimal medians that are maximally diverse. Subsequently, we propose a (1-ε)-approximation algorithm (for any ε > 0) for sum dispersion, as well as a bi-criteria approximation algorithm for the more challenging min dispersion case, allowing the generation of multiple (more than two) diverse near-optimal Hamming medians. Our approach primarily leverages structural insights into the Hamming median space and also draws on techniques from error-correcting code construction to establish these results.

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Diptarka Chakraborty, Rudrayan Kundu, Nidhi Purohit, and Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana. Maximizing Diversity in (Near-)Median String Selection. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 12:1-12:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{chakraborty_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.12,
  author =	{Chakraborty, Diptarka and Kundu, Rudrayan and Purohit, Nidhi and Ruwanpathirana, Aravinda Kanchana},
  title =	{{Maximizing Diversity in (Near-)Median String Selection}},
  booktitle =	{37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-420-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{369},
  editor =	{Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259382},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Diversity maximization, Hamming median, diameter, dispersion, approximation algorithms}
}
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An ETH-Tight FPT Algorithm for Rejection-Proof Set Packing with Applications to Kidney Exchange

Authors: Bart M. P. Jansen, Jeroen S. K. Lamme, and Ruben F. A. Verhaegh

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 358, 20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025)


Abstract
We study the parameterized complexity of a recently introduced multi-agent variant of the Kidney Exchange problem. Given a directed graph G and integers d and k, the standard problem asks whether G contains a packing of vertex-disjoint cycles, each of length ≤ d, covering at least k vertices in total. In the multi-agent setting we consider, the vertex set is partitioned over several agents who reject a cycle packing as solution if it can be modified into an alternative packing that covers more of their own vertices. A cycle packing is called rejection-proof if no agent rejects it and the problem asks whether such a packing exists that covers at least k vertices. We exploit the sunflower lemma on a set packing formulation of the problem to give a kernel for this Σ₂^P-complete problem that is polynomial in k for all constant values of d. We also provide a 2^𝒪(k log k) + n^𝒪(1) algorithm based on it and show that this FPT algorithm is asymptotically optimal under the ETH. Further, we generalize the problem by including an additional positive integer c in the input that naturally captures how much agents can modify a given cycle packing to reject it. For every constant c, the resulting problem simplifies from being Σ₂^P-complete to NP-complete. The super-exponential lower bound already holds for c = 2, though. We present an ad-hoc single-exponential algorithm for c = 1. These results reveal an interesting discrepancy between the classical and parameterized complexity of the problem and give a good view of what makes it hard.

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Bart M. P. Jansen, Jeroen S. K. Lamme, and Ruben F. A. Verhaegh. An ETH-Tight FPT Algorithm for Rejection-Proof Set Packing with Applications to Kidney Exchange. In 20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 358, pp. 9:1-9:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{jansen_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.9,
  author =	{Jansen, Bart M. P. and Lamme, Jeroen S. K. and Verhaegh, Ruben F. A.},
  title =	{{An ETH-Tight FPT Algorithm for Rejection-Proof Set Packing with Applications to Kidney Exchange}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-407-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{358},
  editor =	{Agrawal, Akanksha and van Leeuwen, Erik Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251414},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parameterized complexity, Multi-agent kidney exchange, Kernelization, Set packing}
}
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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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Scheduling (Dagstuhl Seminar 25121)

Authors: Claire Mathieu, Nicole Megow, Benjamin J. Moseley, Frits C. R. Spieksma, and Alexander Lindermayr

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2025)


Abstract
This report documents the program and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 25121, "Scheduling". The seminar focused on bridging traditional algorithmic scheduling with the emerging field of fairness in resource allocation. Scheduling is a longstanding research area that has been studied from both practical and theoretical perspectives in computer science, mathematical optimization, and operations research for over 70 years. Fairness has become a key concern in recent years, particularly in the context of resource allocation and scheduling, where it naturally arises in applications such as kidney exchange, school choice, and political districting. The seminar centered on three main themes: (1) fair allocation, (2) fairness versus quality of service, and (3) modeling aspects of fairness in scheduling.

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Claire Mathieu, Nicole Megow, Benjamin J. Moseley, Frits C. R. Spieksma, and Alexander Lindermayr. Scheduling (Dagstuhl Seminar 25121). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 94-112, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{mathieu_et_al:DagRep.15.3.94,
  author =	{Mathieu, Claire and Megow, Nicole and Moseley, Benjamin J. and Spieksma, Frits C. R. and Lindermayr, Alexander},
  title =	{{Scheduling (Dagstuhl Seminar 25121)}},
  pages =	{94--112},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{15},
  number =	{3},
  editor =	{Mathieu, Claire and Megow, Nicole and Moseley, Benjamin J. and Spieksma, Frits C. R. and Lindermayr, Alexander},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.15.3.94},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248981},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.15.3.94},
  annote =	{Keywords: scheduling, fairness, mathematical optimization, algorithms and complexity, uncertainty}
}
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Practically Feasible Proof Logging for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization

Authors: Wietze Koops, Daniel Le Berre, Magnus O. Myreen, Jakob Nordström, Andy Oertel, Yong Kiam Tan, and Marc Vinyals

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 340, 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)


Abstract
Certifying solvers have long been standard for decision problems in Boolean satisfiability (SAT), allowing for proof logging and checking with very limited overhead, but developing similar tools for combinatorial optimization has remained a challenge. A recent promising approach covering a wide range of solving paradigms is pseudo-Boolean proof logging, but this has mostly consisted of proof-of-concept works far from delivering the performance required for real-world deployment. In this work, we present an efficient toolchain based on VeriPB and CakePB for formally verified pseudo-Boolean optimization. We implement proof logging for the full range of techniques in the state-of-the-art solvers RoundingSat and Sat4j, including core-guided search and linear programming integration with Farkas certificates and cut generation. Our experimental evaluation shows that proof logging and checking performance in this much more expressive paradigm is now quite close to the level of SAT solving, and hence is clearly practically feasible.

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Wietze Koops, Daniel Le Berre, Magnus O. Myreen, Jakob Nordström, Andy Oertel, Yong Kiam Tan, and Marc Vinyals. Practically Feasible Proof Logging for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization. In 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 340, pp. 21:1-21:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{koops_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2025.21,
  author =	{Koops, Wietze and Le Berre, Daniel and Myreen, Magnus O. and Nordstr\"{o}m, Jakob and Oertel, Andy and Tan, Yong Kiam and Vinyals, Marc},
  title =	{{Practically Feasible Proof Logging for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-380-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{340},
  editor =	{de la Banda, Maria Garcia},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-238825},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: proof logging, certifying algorithms, combinatorial optimization, certification, pseudo-Boolean solving, 0-1 integer linear programming}
}
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Multi-League Sports Scheduling with Team Interdependencies: An Optimization Model

Authors: Nils Weidmann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 340, 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)


Abstract
Every year, a large number of matches must be scheduled for professional and amateur sports teams. Several constraints have to be considered, including the overall capacity of venues and interdependencies between teams of the same club. As interdependent teams of a club play in different leagues, finding an optimal solution is very challenging for practitioners. While the problem of respecting capacity restrictions is well-addressed in prior work, interdependencies between teams are widely neglected, despite being a problem of major importance in practice. This paper enhances the formal definition of the multi-league-sports scheduling problem to take team interdependencies into account. We create an optimization problem to be solved by means of integer linear programming, and prove the corresponding decision problem to be NP-complete by a polynomial reduction from 3-SAT. An implementation which was used to schedule German table tennis leagues of a certain district demonstrates the practical applicability of the approach.

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Nils Weidmann. Multi-League Sports Scheduling with Team Interdependencies: An Optimization Model. In 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 340, pp. 37:1-37:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{weidmann:LIPIcs.CP.2025.37,
  author =	{Weidmann, Nils},
  title =	{{Multi-League Sports Scheduling with Team Interdependencies: An Optimization Model}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)},
  pages =	{37:1--37:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-380-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{340},
  editor =	{de la Banda, Maria Garcia},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.37},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-238986},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.37},
  annote =	{Keywords: sports scheduling, linear optimization, constraint programming}
}
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Analysis of EDF for Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems with Resource Sharing

Authors: Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, Jeremy T. Fineman, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, and Jinhao Zhao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 335, 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025)


Abstract
The classic Earliest Deadline First (EDF) algorithm is widely studied and used due to its simplicity and strong theoretical performance, but has not been rigorously analyzed for systems where jobs may execute critical sections protected by shared locks. Analyzing such systems is often challenging due to unpredictable delays caused by contention. In this paper, we propose a straightforward generalization of EDF, called EDF-Block. In this generalization, the critical sections are executed non-preemptively, but scheduling and lock acquisition priorities are based on EDF. We establish lower bounds on the speed augmentation required for any non-clairvoyant scheduler (EDF-Block is an example of non-clairvoyant schedulers) and for EDF-Block, showing that EDF-Block requires at least 4.11× speed augmentation for jobs and 4× for tasks. We then provide an upper bound analysis, demonstrating that EDF-Block requires speedup of at most 6 to schedule all feasible job and task sets.

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Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, Jeremy T. Fineman, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, and Jinhao Zhao. Analysis of EDF for Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems with Resource Sharing. In 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 335, pp. 15:1-15:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2025.15,
  author =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Baruah, Sanjoy and Fineman, Jeremy T. and Marchetti-Spaccamela, Alberto and Zhao, Jinhao},
  title =	{{Analysis of EDF for Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems with Resource Sharing}},
  booktitle =	{37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:26},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-377-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{335},
  editor =	{Mancuso, Renato},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-235932},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Real-Time Scheduling, Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling, EDF, Competitive Analysis, Shared Resources}
}
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Partitioning Vectors into Quadruples: Worst-Case Analysis of a Matching-Based Algorithm

Authors: Annette M. C. Ficker, Thomas Erlebach, Matús Mihalák, and Frits C. R. Spieksma

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


Abstract
Consider a problem where 4k given vectors need to be partitioned into k clusters of four vectors each. A cluster of four vectors is called a quad, and the cost of a quad is the sum of the component-wise maxima of the four vectors in the quad. The problem is to partition the given 4k vectors into k quads with minimum total cost. We analyze a straightforward matching-based algorithm and prove that this algorithm is a 3/2-approximation algorithm for this problem. We further analyze the performance of this algorithm on a hierarchy of special cases of the problem and prove that, in one particular case, the algorithm is a 5/4-approximation algorithm. Our analysis is tight in all cases except one.

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Annette M. C. Ficker, Thomas Erlebach, Matús Mihalák, and Frits C. R. Spieksma. Partitioning Vectors into Quadruples: Worst-Case Analysis of a Matching-Based Algorithm. In 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 123, pp. 45:1-45:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{ficker_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.45,
  author =	{Ficker, Annette M. C. and Erlebach, Thomas and Mihal\'{a}k, Mat\'{u}s and Spieksma, Frits C. R.},
  title =	{{Partitioning Vectors into Quadruples: Worst-Case Analysis of a Matching-Based Algorithm}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)},
  pages =	{45:1--45:12},
  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.2018.45},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-99933},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.45},
  annote =	{Keywords: approximation algorithm, matching, clustering problem}
}
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The Lockmaster's problem

Authors: Sofie Coene and Frits C. R. Spieksma

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 20, 11th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (2011)


Abstract
Inland waterways form a natural network that is an existing, congestion free infrastructure with capacity for more traffic. The European commission promotes the transportation of goods by ship as it is a reliable, efficient and environmental friendly way of transport. A bottleneck for transportation over water are the locks that manage the water level. The lockmaster's problem concerns the optimal strategy for operating such a lock. In the lockmaster's problem we are given a lock, a set of ships coming from downstream that want to go upstream, and another set of ships coming from upstream that want to go downstream. We are given the arrival times of the ships and a constant lockage time; the goal is to minimize total waiting time of the ships. In this paper a dynamic programming algorithm (DP) is proposed that solves the lockmaster's problem in polynomial time. We extend this DP to different generalizations that consider weights, water usage, capacity, and (a fixed number of) multiple chambers. Finally, we prove that the problem becomes strongly NP-hard when the number of chambers is part of the input.

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Sofie Coene and Frits C. R. Spieksma. The Lockmaster's problem. In 11th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 20, pp. 27-37, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)


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@InProceedings{coene_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2011.27,
  author =	{Coene, Sofie and Spieksma, Frits C. R.},
  title =	{{The Lockmaster's problem}},
  booktitle =	{11th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems},
  pages =	{27--37},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-33-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{20},
  editor =	{Caprara, Alberto and Kontogiannis, Spyros},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2011.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-32647},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2011.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: lock scheduling, batch scheduling, dynamic programming, complexity}
}
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Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits

Authors: Thijs Dewilde, Dirk Cattrysse, Sofie Coene, Frits C. R. Spieksma, and Pieter Vansteenwegen

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 14, 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10) (2010)


Abstract
In the traveling repairman problem with profits, a repairman (also known as the server) visits a subset of nodes in order to collect time-dependent profits. The objective consists of maximizing the total collected revenue. We restrict our study to the case of a single server with nodes located in the Euclidean plane. We investigate properties of this problem, and we derive a mathematical model assuming that the number of visited nodes is known in advance. We describe a tabu search algorithm with multiple neighborhoods, and we test its performance by running it on instances based on TSPLIB. We conclude that the tabu search algorithm finds good-quality solutions fast, even for large instances.

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Thijs Dewilde, Dirk Cattrysse, Sofie Coene, Frits C. R. Spieksma, and Pieter Vansteenwegen. Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 34-44, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{dewilde_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.34,
  author =	{Dewilde, Thijs and Cattrysse, Dirk and Coene, Sofie and Spieksma, Frits C. R. and Vansteenwegen, Pieter},
  title =	{{Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{34--44},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27489},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: Traveling Repairman, Profits, Latency, Tabu Search, Relief Efforts}
}
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