# Multistage Problems on a Global Budget

@article{Heeger2021MultistagePO,
title={Multistage Problems on a Global Budget},
author={Klaus Heeger and Anne-Sophie Himmel and Frank Kammer and Rolf Niedermeier and Malte Renken and Andrej Sajenko},
journal={Theor. Comput. Sci.},
year={2021},
volume={868},
pages={46-64}
}
Time-evolving or temporal graphs gain more and more popularity when studying the behavior of complex networks. In this context, the multistage view on computational problems is among the most natural frameworks. Roughly speaking, herein one studies the different (time) layers of a temporal graph (effectively meaning that the edge set may change over time, but the vertex set remains unchanged), and one searches for a solution of a given graph problem for each layer. The twist in the multistage… Expand
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