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Main Authors: Ahmadi, Saman, Raith, Andrea, Jalili, Mahdi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11037
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author Ahmadi, Saman
Raith, Andrea
Jalili, Mahdi
author_facet Ahmadi, Saman
Raith, Andrea
Jalili, Mahdi
contents Constrained pathfinding is a well-studied, yet challenging network optimisation problem that can be seen in a broad range of real-world applications. Pathfinding with multiple resource limits, which is known as the Resource Constrained Shortest Path Problem (RCSP), aims to plan a cost-optimum path subject to limited usage of resources. Given the recent advances in constrained and multi-criteria search with A*, this paper introduces a new resource constrained search framework on the basis of A* to tackle RCSP in large networks, even in the presence of negative cost and negative resources. We empirically evaluate our new algorithm on a set of large instances and show up to two orders of magnitude faster performance compared to state-of-the-art RCSP algorithms in the literature.
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spellingShingle Resource Constrained Pathfinding with A* and Negative Weights
Ahmadi, Saman
Raith, Andrea
Jalili, Mahdi
Artificial Intelligence
Constrained pathfinding is a well-studied, yet challenging network optimisation problem that can be seen in a broad range of real-world applications. Pathfinding with multiple resource limits, which is known as the Resource Constrained Shortest Path Problem (RCSP), aims to plan a cost-optimum path subject to limited usage of resources. Given the recent advances in constrained and multi-criteria search with A*, this paper introduces a new resource constrained search framework on the basis of A* to tackle RCSP in large networks, even in the presence of negative cost and negative resources. We empirically evaluate our new algorithm on a set of large instances and show up to two orders of magnitude faster performance compared to state-of-the-art RCSP algorithms in the literature.
title Resource Constrained Pathfinding with A* and Negative Weights
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11037