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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
938 Views
21 Pages

Integrated Scheduling Algorithm Based on the Improved Floyd Algorithm

  • Yingxin Wei,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Zhiqiang Xie,
  • Ming Sun and ,
  • Zhenjiang Tan and
  • Wangcheng Cao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 April 2025

In the research and practice of integrated scheduling problems, the tree structure of complex products usually presents an asymmetric and complex form. This asymmetry is mainly reflected in the hierarchical relationship between the various components...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,646 Views
13 Pages

Floyd–Warshall Algorithm for Sparse Graphs

  • Dani Zugan,
  • Rok Požar and
  • Andrej Brodnik

4 December 2025

The Floyd–Warshall algorithm, which uses a classic dynamic programming approach, provides a solution to the all-pairs shortest paths problem. However, for sparse graphs, iteratively applying Dijkstra’s, or some other similar algorithm fro...

(This article belongs to the Section Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,959 Views
19 Pages

4 September 2025

Floyd–Warshall’s algorithm is a widely-known procedure for computing all-pairs shortest paths in a graph of n vertices in Θ(n3) time complexity. A simplified version of the same algorithm computes the transitive closure of the graph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph and Hypergraph Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,794 Views
19 Pages

Modelling the Shortest Path for Inner Warehouse Travelling Using the Floyd–Warshall Algorithm

  • Noraimi Azlin Mohd Nordin,
  • S. Sarifah Radiah Shariff,
  • Siti Suzlin Supadi and
  • Ilyas Masudin

29 August 2024

Order picking is referred as a critical process of selecting items requested by a customer in a warehouse. Meeting the demand of every customer is the main objective in this area. Large warehouses pose a challenge since the order-picking process is s...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,916 Views
15 Pages

Identification of the Potential Critical Slip Surface for Fractured Rock Slope Using the Floyd Algorithm

  • Shengyuan Song,
  • Mingyu Zhao,
  • Chun Zhu,
  • Fengyan Wang and ,
  • Chen Cao,
  • Haojie Li and
  • Muye Ma
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 March 2022

A rock slope can be characterized by tens of persistent discontinuities. A slope can be massive. The slip surface of the slope is usually easier to expand along with the discontinuities because the shear strength of the discontinuities is substantial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Comprehensive Risk Assessment Methods and Hazards Early Warning System of Geological Hazards in the Mountain Area)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
943 Views
30 Pages

17 March 2026

Sustainable tourist route design is a critical challenge in industrial heritage planning. While prior tourism routing algorithms predominantly minimize physical distance, and conventional heritage planning focuses on the static preservation of abando...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
504 Views
18 Pages

Distribution Route Optimization in Tier 1 Automotive Industry Suppliers Using Floyd–Warshall Algorithm

  • Johana Medina-Zárate,
  • Georgina Elizabeth Riosvelasco-Monroy,
  • Iván Juan Carlos Pérez-Olguín,
  • Uriel Ángel Gómez-Rivera and
  • Consuelo Catalina Fernández-Gaxiola

15 May 2026

The automotive industry in Mexico faces significant logistical challenges in optimizing distribution routes, particularly in border regions, where traffic variability directly affects operational performance. This study proposes a multiperiod route o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Operations Research and Decision Making)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,155 Views
12 Pages

A Performance Comparison of Shortest Path Algorithms in Directed Graphs

  • Fatima Sapundzhi,
  • Kristiyan Danev,
  • Antonina Ivanova,
  • Metodi Popstoilov and
  • Slavi Georgiev

This study examines the performance characteristics of four commonly used short-path algorithms, including Dijkstra, Bellman–Ford, Floyd–Warshall, and Dantzig, on randomly generated directed graphs. We analyze theoretical computational co...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 14th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2025—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,514 Views
15 Pages

17 February 2023

This paper studies the distribution of emergency relief for electric vehicles (EVs), which considers energy saving, multi-depot, and vehicle routing problems with time windows, and the named energy saving-oriented multi-depot vehicle routing problem...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,658 Views
21 Pages

Document-Level Relation Extraction with Local Relation and Global Inference

  • Yiming Liu,
  • Hongtao Shan,
  • Feng Nie,
  • Gaoyu Zhang and
  • George Xianzhi Yuan

27 June 2023

The current popular approach to the extraction of document-level relations is mainly based on either a graph structure or serialization model method for the inference, but the graph structure method makes the model complicated, while the serializatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,352 Views
19 Pages

Heuristic Greedy-Gradient Route Search Method for Finding an Optimal Traffic Distribution in Telecommunication Networks

  • Konstantin Gaipov,
  • Daniil Tausnev,
  • Sergey Khodenkov,
  • Natalya Shepeta and ,
  • Dmitry Malyshev,
  • Aleksey Popov and
  • Lev Kazakovtsev
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 December 2023

Rapid growth in the volume of transmitted information has lead to the emergence of new wireless networking technologies with variable heterogeneous topologies. With limited radio frequency resources, optimal routing problems arise, both at the networ...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,435 Views
17 Pages

12 January 2019

Aiming at the complex structure of the space information networks (SIN) and the dynamic change of network topology, in order to design an efficient routing strategy, this paper establishes a SIN management architecture based on Software-defined Netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,830 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2021

As fully automated valet parking systems are being developed, there is a transition period during which both human-operated vehicles (HVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) are present in the same parking infrastructure. This paper addresses the problem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Challenges in Robotic Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
401 Views
30 Pages

Rapid Recovery and Self-Healing Strategies for Power Distribution Systems Based on Dynamic Mesh Networks

  • Ye Tian,
  • Taiyu Gu,
  • Rui Li,
  • Jie Zhao and ,
  • Fugen He,
  • Yidong Zhu and
  • Kejian Shi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

With the increasing integration of distributed energy sources, fault restoration in power distribution systems faces challenges in terms of real-time performance and adaptability. To effectively manage the uncertainty and volatility of distributed ge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimizing Control Strategies for Multi-Microgrid and Power Distribution Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,395 Views
13 Pages

Identifying the Shortest Path of a Semidirected Graph and Its Application

  • Rakhi Das,
  • Laxminarayan Sahoo,
  • Sovan Samanta,
  • Vladimir Simic and
  • Tapan Senapati

17 December 2022

The basic goal of this research is to find the shortest path of a semidirected graph and apply it to the road network system. In the field of graph theory, networks are described as directed graphs, undirected graphs, or a combination of both. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,721 Views
16 Pages

ACD: An Adaptable Approach for RFID Cloning Attack Detection

  • Weiqing Huang,
  • Yanfang Zhang and
  • Yue Feng

22 April 2020

With the rapid development of the internet of things, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology plays an important role in various fields. However, RFID systems are vulnerable to cloning attacks. This is the fabrication of one or more replicas...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
27 Pages

22 September 2026

We give a detailed description of the process that is used to obtain the regular periodic continued fraction that represents D, where D is a non-square positive integer. We give a new combinatorial proof of Lagrange’s theorem, showing that this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,145 Views
21 Pages

23 August 2024

The optimization of emergency logistical transportation is crucial for the timely dispatch of aid and support to affected areas. By incorporating practical constraints into emergency logistics, this study establishes a multi-objective shortest path m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,545 Views
29 Pages

Optimization of Water Quantity Allocation in Multi-Source Urban Water Supply Systems Using Graph Theory

  • Jinxin Zhang,
  • Xinhai Zhang,
  • Hanze Li,
  • Yazhou Fan and ,
  • Zhenzhu Meng,
  • Dan Liu and
  • Suli Pan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 December 2024

The optimization of urban multi-source water supply systems is essential for addressing the growing challenges of water allocation, cost management, and system resilience in modern cities. This study introduces a graph-theory-based optimization model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization–Simulation Modeling of Sustainable Water Resource)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,063 Views
18 Pages

We aimed to research the design and path-planning methods of an intelligent disinfection-vehicle system. A ROS (robot operating system) system was utilized as the control platform, and SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) technology was used...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,157 Views
21 Pages

3D Cruise Trajectory Optimization Inspired by a Shortest Path Algorithm

  • Alejandro Murrieta-Mendoza,
  • Charles Romain and
  • Ruxandra Mihaela Botez

Aircrafts require a large amount of fuel in order to generate enough power to perform a flight. That consumption causes the emission of polluting particles such as carbon dioxide, which is implicated in global warming. This paper proposes an algorith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aircraft Trajectory Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,322 Views
29 Pages

Parallel Privacy-Preserving Shortest Path Algorithms

  • Mohammad Anagreh,
  • Peeter Laud and
  • Eero Vainikko

In this paper, we propose and present secure multiparty computation (SMC) protocols for single-source shortest distance (SSSD) and all-pairs shortest distance (APSD) in sparse and dense graphs. Our protocols follow the structure of classical algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,175 Views
25 Pages

The Republic of Korea (ROK) has four distinct seasons. Such an environment provides many benefits, but also brings some major problems when using new and renewable energies. The rainy season or typhoons in summer become the main causes of inconsisten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Design: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,088 Views
15 Pages

Path Planning of Mecanum Wheel Chassis Based on Improved A* Algorithm

  • Huimin Xu,
  • Gaohong Yu,
  • Yimiao Wang,
  • Xiong Zhao and ,
  • Yijin Chen and
  • Jiangang Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study is concerned with path planning in a structured greenhouse, in contrast to much of the previous research addressing applications in outdoor fields. The prototype mainly comprises an independently driven Mecanum wheel, a lidar measuring mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
703 Views
11 Pages

Implementation and Evaluation of the Shortest-Path Algorithm for GIS Network Routing

  • Ventsislav Stanchev,
  • Antonina Ivanova,
  • Fatima Sapundzhi and
  • Slavi Georgiev

This work examines the implementation and evaluation of shortest-path algorithm in a Geographic Information System environment integrating QGIS with a PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial database. Spatial edge and junction layers stored in the PostgreSQL/Post...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 15th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2026—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,418 Views
20 Pages

Trajectory Planning of Dual-Robot Cooperative Assembly

  • Xuyang Chen,
  • Xiaojun You,
  • Jinchao Jiang,
  • Jinhua Ye and
  • Haibin Wu

13 August 2022

Efficiency can be improved through the cooperation of a dual-robot during assembly. However, how to effectively plan a simple and smooth path in a dynamic environment is a prominent problem in the process of dual-robot cooperative assembly. In this p...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,749 Views
18 Pages

A Study on Price-Based Charging Strategy for Electric Vehicles on Expressways

  • Lixing Chen,
  • Zhong Chen,
  • Xueliang Huang and
  • Long Jin

19 May 2016

With the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) on expressways, the exploration of a guiding-based charging method to effectively adjust interactions between EVs and the fast charging stations (CSs) is urgently needed. This paper proposes a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Storage Systems for Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Vehicle to Power Grid Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,425 Views
20 Pages

16 June 2023

The low-carbon economy and sustainable development have become a widespread consensus. Chain supermarkets should pay attention to path optimization in the process of distribution to reduce carbon emissions. This study takes chain supermarkets as the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Analytics: Mining, Analysis, Optimization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,935 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2024

This article addresses the common issues of insufficient computing power and path congestion for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in real-world production environments, as well as the shortcomings of traditional path-planning algorithms that mainly c...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,591 Views
22 Pages

BDPS: An Efficient Spark-Based Big Data Processing Scheme for Cloud Fog-IoT Orchestration

  • Rakib Hossen,
  • Md Whaiduzzaman,
  • Mohammed Nasir Uddin,
  • Md. Jahidul Islam and ,
  • Nuruzzaman Faruqui,
  • Alistair Barros,
  • Mehdi Sookhak and
  • Md. Julkar Nayeen Mahi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 December 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) has seen a surge in mobile devices with the market and technical expansion. IoT networks provide end-to-end connectivity while keeping minimal latency. To reduce delays, efficient data delivery schemes are required for di...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,571 Views
25 Pages

A Contribution of Shortest Paths Algorithms to the NetworkX Python Library

  • Miguel Cruz,
  • Rui Carvalho,
  • André Costa,
  • Luis Pinto and ,
  • Luis Dias,
  • Paulino Cerqueira,
  • Rodrigo Machado,
  • Tiago Batista,
  • Pedro Castro and
  • Jorge Ribeiro
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

25 July 2025

NetworkX is a free Python library for graphs and networks and is used in many applications and projects to find the shortest path in path planning scenarios. For dense graphs, the library provides the Floyd–Warshall algorithm for shortest paths...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,760 Views
12 Pages

Ndist2vec: Node with Landmark and New Distance to Vector Method for Predicting Shortest Path Distance along Road Networks

  • Xu Chen,
  • Shaohua Wang,
  • Huilai Li,
  • Fangzheng Lyu and ,
  • Haojian Liang,
  • Xueyan Zhang and
  • Yang Zhong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The ability to quickly calculate or query the shortest path distance between nodes on a road network is essential for many real-world applications. However, the traditional graph traversal shortest path algorithm methods, such as Dijkstra and Floyd&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,333 Views
27 Pages

26 December 2025

Forestry environments—such as logging sites, transport trails, and resource monitoring areas—are characterized by rugged terrain and irregularly distributed obstacles, which pose substantial challenges for AGV route planning. This poses c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Harvesting, Processing and Management of Specialty Forest Products and Biomass)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,683 Views
21 Pages

AOEHO: A New Hybrid Data Replication Method in Fog Computing for IoT Application

  • Ahmed awad Mohamed,
  • Laith Abualigah,
  • Alhanouf Alburaikan and
  • Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa

15 February 2023

Recently, the concept of the internet of things and its services has emerged with cloud computing. Cloud computing is a modern technology for dealing with big data to perform specified operations. The cloud addresses the problem of selecting and plac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,759 Views
15 Pages

A Regional Protection Partition Strategy Considering Communication Constraints and Its Implementation Techniques

  • Zhenxing Li,
  • Yang Gong,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Hong Tan and ,
  • Prominent Lovet Kativu and
  • Pengfei Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2018

Regional protection based on multisource information of a regional power network depends on communication technology. A partition strategy considering communication constraints and implementation techniques must be considered to realize the regional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,037 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2022

Identifying the key components of CNC lathe and analyzing the fault propagation behavior is a powerful guarantee for the fault diagnosis and health maintenance of CNC lathe. The traditional key component identification studies are mostly based on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics Volume III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,412 Views
17 Pages

25 January 2021

Forest fires are undesirable situations with tremendous impacts on wildlife and people’s lives. Reaching them quickly is essential to slowing down their expansion and putting them out in an effective manner. This work proposes an optimized dist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Disaster Prediction Based on Intelligent Sensor and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,357 Views
23 Pages

14 April 2022

Railway container transportation plays an important role in the sustainable development of transportation. In order to improve the efficiency of container transportation and maximize the transportation revenue of railway enterprises, taking the passe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,145 Views
24 Pages

Markerless AR Navigation for Smart Campuses: Lightweight Machine Learning for Infrastructure-Free Wayfinding

  • Elohim Ramírez-Galván,
  • Cesar Benavides-Alvarez,
  • Carlos Avilés-Cruz,
  • Arturo Zúñiga-López and
  • José Félix Serrano-Talamantes

8 December 2025

This paper presents a markerless augmented reality (AR) navigation system for guiding users across a university campus, independent of internet or wireless connectivity, integrating machine learning (ML) and deep learning techniques. The system emplo...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,387 Views
23 Pages

An Evolutionary Approach to Improve the Halftoning Process

  • Noé Ortega-Sánchez,
  • Diego Oliva,
  • Erik Cuevas,
  • Marco Pérez-Cisneros and
  • Angel A. Juan

22 September 2020

The techniques of halftoning are widely used in marketing because they reduce the cost of impression and maintain the quality of graphics. Halftoning converts a digital image into a binary image conformed by dots. The output of the halftoning contain...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
354 Views
25 Pages

1 July 2026

With the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the vulnerability of urban power-transportation systems in severe dust storm conditions has become increasingly apparent. Addressing the shortcomings of existing research regarding the quantita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,480 Views
33 Pages

To address the rapidly growing demand for charging stations (CSs) and the associated challenges posed by the expansion of electric vehicles (EVs), this study proposes a collaborative planning method integrates user demand considerations with operatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,271 Views
16 Pages

Coastal countries began to develop green energy, and offshore wind power equipment in coastal areas was gradually built. Since coastal wind power generation often requires carrying out maintenance between wind turbines with the assistance of service...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,660 Views
22 Pages

20 June 2025

With the increase in urban–rural disparities in China, rural public transportation systems in low-density areas face unique challenges, especially in the contexts of sparse population, complex topography, and uneven resource allocation; researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,737 Views
23 Pages

Predictive Model for EV Charging Load Incorporating Multimodal Travel Behavior and Microscopic Traffic Simulation

  • Haihong Bian,
  • Quance Ren,
  • Zhengyang Guo,
  • Chengang Zhou and ,
  • Zhiyuan Zhang and
  • Ximeng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 May 2024

A predictive model for the spatiotemporal distribution of electric vehicle (EV) charging load is proposed in this paper, considering multimodal travel behavior and microscopic traffic simulation. Firstly, the characteristic variables of travel time a...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,544 Views
25 Pages

8 September 2024

The forecasting of charging demand for electric vehicles (EVs) plays a vital role in maintaining grid stability and optimizing energy distribution. Therefore, an innovative method for the prediction of EV charging load demand is proposed in this stud...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,822 Views
23 Pages

18 October 2022

As a new mode of transportation in the future, electric vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (eVTOL UAV) can undertake the task of logistics distribution and carry people in urban areas. It is challenging to carry out research desig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Airspace System Planning and Management)