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In this article, we consider the Euclidean dispersion problems. Let $P=\{p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{n}\}$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For each point $p \in P$ and $S \subseteq P$, we define $cost_{\gamma}(p,S)$ as the sum of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Pawan K. Mishra , Gautam K. Das

We give exact and approximation algorithms for two-center problems when the input is a set $\mathcal{D}$ of disks in the plane. We first study the problem of finding two smallest congruent disks such that each disk in $\mathcal{D}$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Hee-Kap Ahn , Sang-Sub Kim , Christian Knauer , Lena Schlipf , Chan-Su Shin , Antoine Vigneron

Given a simple polygon $P$ and a set $Q$ of points contained in $P$, we consider the geodesic $k$-center problem where we want to find $k$ points, called \emph{centers}, in $P$ to minimize the maximum geodesic distance of any point of $Q$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eunjin Oh , Sang Won Bae , Hee-Kap Ahn

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points and a set $S$ of $n$ weighted disks in the plane, the disk coverage problem is to compute a subset of disks of smallest total weight such that the union of the disks in the subset covers all points of $P$. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Gang Liu , Haitao Wang

In the (continuous) Euclidean $k$-center problem, given $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and an integer $k$, the goal is to find $k$ center points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimize the maximum Euclidean distance from any input point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Lotte Blank , Karl Bringmann , Parinya Chalermsook , Karthik C. S. , Benedikt Kolbe , Hung Le , Geert van Wordragen

Given a set of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane, such that just $k$ points are strictly inside the convex hull of the whole set, we want to find the shortest tour visiting every point. The fastest known algorithm for the version when $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Pawel Gawrychowski , Damian Rusak

We investigate the 2-center problem for arbitrary strictly convex, centrally symmetric curves instead of usual circles. In other words, we extend the 2-center problem (from the Euclidean plane) to strictly convex normed planes, since any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Pedro Martín , Horst Martini , Margarita Spirova

In the Euclidean $k$-Means problem we are given a collection of $n$ points $D$ in an Euclidean space and a positive integer $k$. Our goal is to identify a collection of $k$ points in the same space (centers) so as to minimize the sum of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Fabrizio Grandoni , Rafail Ostrovsky , Yuval Rabani , Leonard J. Schulman , Rakesh Venkat

We consider a bichromatic two-center problem for pairs of points. Given a set $S$ of $n$ pairs of points in the plane, for every pair, we want to assign a red color to one point and a blue color to the other, in such a way that the value…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Haitao Wang , Jie Xue

The Euclidean $k$-center problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in computer science. Given a set $\mathcal{G}$ of $n$ points in Euclidean space, the problem is to determine a set $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ centers (not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Irina Kostitsyna , Maarten Löffler , Martijn Struijs

We consider the problem of computing 2-center in maximal outerplanar graph. In this problem, we want to find an optimal solution where two centers cover all the vertices with the smallest radius. We provide the following result. We can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Hsiu-Fu Yeh

In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for well-known clustering problems, namely $k$-Median and $k$-Means. In $k$-Median, the input consists of a set $X$ of $n$ points belonging to a metric space, and the task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Nidhi Purohit , Saket Saurabh

Given a set of $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, the Euclidean $k$-means problem (resp. the Euclidean $k$-median problem) consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of squared distances (resp. sum of distances) from every point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Kasper Green Larsen , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar

We study the $k$-center problem in the context of individual fairness. Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in a metric space and $r_x$ be the distance between $x \in P$ and its $\lceil n/k \rceil$-th nearest neighbor. The problem asks to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Matthijs Ebbens , Nicole Funk , Jan Höckendorff , Christian Sohler , Vera Weil

In this paper, we study the $k$-center problem of uncertain points on a graph. Given are an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ and a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $n$ uncertain points where each uncertain point with a non-negative weight has $m$ possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Haitao Xu , Jingru Zhang

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points and a set $S$ of $m$ disks in the plane, the disk coverage problem asks for a smallest subset of disks that together cover all points of $P$. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we consider a line-separable…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gang Liu , Haitao Wang

The $k$-center problem is a fundamental optimization problem with numerous applications in machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and communication networks. The $k$-center problem has been extensively studied in the classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Artur Czumaj , Guichen Gao , Mohsen Ghaffari , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

We consider the classic $k$-center problem {in the constant dimensional Euclidean space} under a parallel setting, on the low-local-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, with local space per machine of ${O}(n^{\delta})$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra

The Euclidean $k$-means problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in the theoretical computer science, machine learning and the computational geometry communities. In this problem, we are given a set of $n$ points in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Pranjal Awasthi , Moses Charikar , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Ali Kemal Sinop

We consider the classical $k$-Center problem in undirected graphs. The problem is known to have a polynomial-time 2-approximation. There are even $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximations running in near-linear time. The conventional wisdom is that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Ce Jin , Yael Kirkpatrick , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein