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In a rectilinear dual of a planar graph vertices are represented by simple rectilinear polygons and edges are represented by side-contact between the corresponding polygons. A rectilinear dual is called a cartogram if the area of each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-05 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Therese Biedl , Stefan Felsner , Michael Kaufmann , Stephen G. Kobourov , Torsten Ueckerdt

We introduce and discuss, through a computational algebraic geometry approach, the automatic reasoning handling of propositions that are simultaneously true and false over some relevant collections of instances. A rigorous, algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Zoltán Kovács , Tomás Recio , M. Pilar Vélez

In this paper we aim to bring new approach into usage of Shoelace Algorithm for area calculation in convex polygons on Cartesian coordinate system, with concentration on point in polygon concept. Generalization of usage of the concept will…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Ochilbek Rakhmanov

Many algorithms to detect communities in networks typically work without any information on the cluster structure to be found, as one has no a priori knowledge of it, in general. Not surprisingly, knowing some features of the unknown…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-02 Richard K. Darst , Zohar Nussinov , Santo Fortunato

A recent development, called isogeometric analysis, provides a unified approach for design, analysis and optimization of functional products in industry. Traditional volume rendering methods for inspecting the results from the numerical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Franz G. Fuchs , Jon M. Hjelmervik

We propose an algorithm for generating explicit solutions of multiparametric mixed-integer convex programs to within a given suboptimality tolerance. The algorithm is applicable to a very general class of optimization problems, but is most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

Autonomous agents face the challenge of coordinating multiple tasks (perception, motion planning, controller) which are computationally expensive on a single onboard computer. To utilize the onboard processing capacity optimally, it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aditya Shirwatkar , Aman Singh , Jana Ravi Kiran

Convex polyhedra are the basis for several abstractions used in static analysis and computer-aided verification of complex and sometimes mission critical systems. For such applications, the identification of an appropriate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Roberto Bagnara , Patricia M. Hill , Enea Zaffanella

We present a new algorithm to compute all the chiral polytopes that have a given group $G$ as full automorphism group. This algorithm uses a new set of generators that characterize the group, all of them except one being involutions. It…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Francis Buekenhout , Dimitri Leemans , Philippe Tranchida

For a polygon P with n vertices, the vertex guarding problem asks for the minimum subset G of P's vertices such that every point in P is seen by at least one point in G. This problem is NP-complete and APX-hard. The first approximation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-02-17 James King

The best way to understand complex data structures or algorithm is to see them in action. The present work presents a new tool, especially useful for students and lecturers in computer science. It is written in Java and developed at…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Kaninda Musumbu

We propose a concise approximate description, and a method for efficiently obtaining this description, via adaptive random sampling of the performance (running time, memory consumption, or any other profileable numerical quantity) of a…

Performance · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Matthias Fischer , Claudius Jähn , Martin Ziegler

Two approximation algorithms for solving convex vector optimization problems (CVOPs) are provided. Both algorithms solve the CVOP and its geometric dual problem simultaneously. The first algorithm is an extension of Benson's outer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Andreas Löhne , Birgit Rudloff , Firdevs Ulus

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

Computational topology is an area that revisits topological problems from an algorithmic point of view, and develops topological tools for improved algorithms. We survey results in computational topology that are concerned with graphs drawn…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Éric Colin de Verdière

Scalable quantum computation with linear optics was considered to be impossible due to the lack of efficient two-qubit logic gates, despite its ease of implementation of one-qubit gates. Two-qubit gates necessarily need a nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan P. Dowling , James D. Franson , Hwang Lee , Gerald J. Milburn

In this article we show how to compute a matrix representation and the implicit equation by means of the method developed in [Botbol: arXiv:1007.3437], using the computer algebra system Macaulay2 \cite{M2}. As it is probably the most…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Nicolas Botbol

A new algorithm for the efficient numerical approximation of weakly singular integrals over convex polytopes is introduced. Such integrals appear in the Galerkin discretizations of integral equations and nonlocal partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Johannes Tausch

A hidden guard set $ G $ is a set of point guards in polygon $ P $ that all points of the polygon are visible from some guards in $ G $ under the constraint that no two guards may see each other. In this paper, we consider the problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

In the rapidly advancing domain of computer vision, accurately estimating the poses of multiple individuals from various viewpoints remains a significant challenge, especially when reliability is a key requirement. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Daniel Bermuth , Alexander Poeppel , Wolfgang Reif