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Presentation 2015-12-01 10:30
A Fast Method for Solving Constrained Shortest Path Problems on Directed Acyclic Graphs
Fumito Takeuchi (Hokkaido Univ.), Masaaki Nishino (NTT), Norihito Yasuda (Hokkaido Univ.), Takuya Akiba (NII), Shin-ichi Minato (Hokkaido Univ.), Masaaki Nagata (NTT) COMP2015-31
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(in English) This paper deals with shortest path problems on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), under logical constraints posed between edges. In this setting, a shortest path to each intermediate node does not always appear in a graph-wide shortest path that contains the node. Thus naive approaches will suffer from exponentially many paths. To avoid this problem, an algorithm called BDD-Constraint Search (BCS) is known. This method represents logical constraints as a Binary Decision Diagram (BDD), and solves the problem by refering BDDs to merge equivalent candidate partial paths. However, since BCS has to generate all possible combinations of DAG nodes and BDD nodes, it becomes slow when the BDD representing constraints is large. Since the shortest path problem without logical constraints is a relaxed problem of the constrained one, we propose an A* search method for BCS that exploits solutions of the original shortest path problem as a heuristic function. Moreover, since the shortest path problem on the BDD is also a relaxation of the constrained shortest path problem, our A* search method can also use the solutions of the shortest path problem on a BDD as a heuristic function. We can use the combination of the above two heuristic functions as another heuristic function.
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(in English) directed acyclic graph / shortest path / A* search / Binary Decision Diagram / dynamic programming / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 344, COMP2015-31, pp. 9-16, Dec. 2015.
Paper # COMP2015-31 
Date of Issue 2015-11-24 (COMP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-01 
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Conference Code 2015-12-COMP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) A Fast Method for Solving Constrained Shortest Path Problems on Directed Acyclic Graphs 
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Keyword(1) directed acyclic graph  
Keyword(2) shortest path  
Keyword(3) A* search  
Keyword(4) Binary Decision Diagram  
Keyword(5) dynamic programming  
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1st Author's Name Fumito Takeuchi  
1st Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masaaki Nishino  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
3rd Author's Name Norihito Yasuda  
3rd Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ.)
4th Author's Name Takuya Akiba  
4th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Informatics (NII)
5th Author's Name Shin-ichi Minato  
5th Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ.)
6th Author's Name Masaaki Nagata  
6th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
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Date Time 2015-12-01 10:30:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for COMP 
Paper # COMP2015-31 
Volume (vol) vol.115 
Number (no) no.344 
Page pp.9-16 
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Date of Issue 2015-11-24 (COMP) 


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