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The 2-center problem with obstacles

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  • University of California at Berkeley

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Abstract

Given a set S of n points in the plane and a set O of pairwise disjoint simple polygons with a total of m edges, we wish to find two congruent disks of smallest radius whose union covers S and whose centers lie outside the polygons in O (referred to as locational constraints in facility location theory). We present an algorithm to solve this problem in randomized expected time O(m log2(mn) + mn log2 n log(mn)). We also present an efficient approximation scheme that constructs, for a given ε > 0, two disks as above of radius at most (1 + ε)r*, where r* is the optimal radius, in time O(1/ε log(1/ε)(m log2 m + n log2 n)) or in randomized expected time O(1/ε log(1/ε)(m + n log n) log(mn)).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)109-134
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Algorithms
Volume42
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2002

Funding

Funders
Israeli Ministry of Science
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Israel Science Foundation
Tel Aviv University

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