Moving intervals for packing and covering
Computational Geometry
2021-09-06 v1 Computational Complexity
Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
We study several problems on geometric packing and covering with movement. Given a family of intervals of distinct lengths, and another interval , can we pack the intervals in inside (respectively, cover by the intervals in ) by moving intervals and keeping the other intervals unmoved? We show that both packing and covering are W[1]-hard with any one of , , and as single parameter, but are FPT with combined parameters and . We also obtain improved polynomial-time algorithms for packing and covering, including an time algorithm for covering, when all intervals in have the same length.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.00579,
title = {Moving intervals for packing and covering},
author = {Rain Jiang and Kai Jiang and Minghui Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00579},
year = {2021}
}