The on-line shortest path problem is considered under partial monitoring scenarios. At each round, a decision maker has to choose a path between two distinguished vertices of a weighted directed acyclic graph whose edge weights can change in an arbitrary (adversarial) way such that the loss of the chosen path (defined as the sum of the weights of its composing edges) be small. In the multi-arme...

The shortest path (SP) problem in a network with nonnegative arc lengths can be solved easily by Dijkstra’s labeling algorithm in polynomial time. In the case of significant uncertainty of the arc lengths, a robustness approach is more appropriate. In this paper, we study the SP problem under arc length uncertainties. A scenario approach is adopted to characterize uncertainties. Two robustness ...

The shortest path problem is solved and applied to the calculations of half lives with respect to spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei. The dynamical programming method of Bellman and Kalaba is used to find the fission path in the d-dimensional space of deformation parameters. Fission half lives of heavy isotopes (100<Z<110) are shown and compared to the experimental data. 1. Introductory remark...

In this study, we propose an approach to determine the shortest path length between a pair of specified nodes s and t on a network whose edge weights are represented by trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to show the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach. Keywords—trapezoidal fuzzy neutrosophic sets; score function; Shortest path pro...

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We solve a shortest path problem that is motivated by recent interest in pricing networks or other computational resources. Informally, how much is an edge in a network worth to a user who wants to send data between two nodes along a shortest path? If the network is a decentralized entity, such as the Internet, in which multiple self-interested agents own different parts of the network, then au...

The quadratic shortest path (QSP) problem is to find a path from a node to another node in a given network such that the total cost includes two kinds of costs, say direct cost and interactive cost, is minimum. The direct cost is the cost associated with each arc and the interactive cost occurs when two arcs appear simultaneously in the shortest path. In this paper, the concept of the quadratic...

The single vehicle routing problem with multiple routes is a variant of the vehicle routing problem where the vehicle can be dispatched to several routes during its workday to serve a number of customers. In this paper we propose a goal programming model for multi-objective single vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple routes. To solve the model, we present a heuristic method wh...

We consider a generalization of the point-to-point (and single-source) shortest path problem to instances where the shortest path must satisfy a formal language constraint. Given an alphabet Σ, a (directed) network G whose edges are weighted and Σ-labeled, and a regular grammar L ⊆ Σ, the Regular Language Constrained Shortest Path problem consists of finding a shortest path p in G complying wit...

In an attempt to understand how the brain encodes tactile stimuli, neuroscientists commonly investigate how rodents translate whisker motion into a sensory percept. Analysis of whisker dynamics is a challenging task. Rats, have about 30 whiskers per side and in single-viewing angle experiments, occlusion and intersection occur frequently. In this paper we present an unsupervised method for whis...