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The problem Defensive $\delta$-Covering, for some covering range $\delta > 0$, is a continuous facility location problem on undirected graphs where all edges have unit length. It is a generalization of Defensive Dominating Set and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Christoph Grüne , Tom Janßen

We consider the classic 1-center problem: Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in a metric space find the point in $P$ that minimizes the maximum distance to the other points of $P$. We study the complexity of this problem in $d$-dimensional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Amir Abboud , Mohammad Hossein Bateni , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , Saeed Seddighin

In this paper we consider a local service-requirement assignment problem named exact capacitated domination from an algorithmic point of view. This problem aims to find a solution (a Nash equilibrium) to a game-theoretic model of public…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Gregory Gutin , Philip R Neary , Anders Yeo

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, the unit-disk graph $G(P)$ is a graph with $P$ as its vertex set such that two points of $P$ have an edge if their Euclidean distance is at most $1$. We consider the problem of computing a maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Anastasiia Tkachenko , Haitao Wang

We propose a polynomial-time algorithm which takes as input a finite set of points of $\mathbb R^3$ and compute, up to arbitrary precision, a maximum subset with diameter at most $1$. More precisely, we give the first randomized EPTAS and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Marthe Bonamy , Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Bousquet , Pierre Charbit , Stéphan Thomassé

We study a variant of intersection representations with unit balls, that is, unit disks in the plane and unit intervals on the line. Given a planar graph and a bipartition of the edges of the graph into near and far sets, the goal is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Stephen G. Kobourov , Sergey Pupyrev , Jackson Toeniskoetter

We study extensions of the classic \emph{Line Cover} problem, which asks whether a set of $n$ points in the plane can be covered using $k$ lines. Line Cover is known to be NP-hard, and we focus on two natural generalizations. The first is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Matthias Bentert , Fedor v. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Souvik Saha , Sanjay Seetharaman , Kirill Simonov , Anannya Upasana

In the convex covering problem, we are given a convex polygon with holes $P$ and the goal is to cover $P$ using a small number of convex polygons that lie inside $P$. In this paper, we solve the problem using the following strategy. We find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guilherme D. da Fonseca

Current Point-based detectors can only learn from the provided points, with limited receptive fields and insufficient global learning capabilities for such targets. In this paper, we present a novel Point Dilation Mechanism for single-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ao Liang , Haiyang Hua , Jian Fang , Wenyu Chen , Huaici Zhao

We investigate dynamic versions of geometric set cover and hitting set where points and ranges may be inserted or deleted, and we want to efficiently maintain an (approximately) optimal solution for the current problem instance. While their…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Hsien-Chih Chang , Subhash Suri , Allen Xiao , Jie Xue

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane. We present several different algorithms for finding a pair of points in $S$ such that any disk that contains that pair must contain at least $cn$ points of $S$, for some constant $c>0$. The first…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Prosenjit Bose , Guillermo Esteban , Tyler Tuttle

In the continuous 1.5-dimensional terrain guarding problem we are given an $x$-monotone chain (the \emph{terrain} $T$) and ask for the minimum number of point guards (located anywhere on $T$), such that all points of $T$ are covered by at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Stephan Friedrichs , Michael Hemmer , Christiane Schmidt

We study a generalization of the Set Cover problem called the \emph{Partial Set Cover} in the context of geometric set systems. The input to this problem is a set system $(X, \mathcal{S})$, where $X$ is a set of elements and $\mathcal{S}$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Tanmay Inamdar , Kasturi Varadarajan

We present an algorithm for the extensively studied Long Path and Long Cycle problems on unit disk graphs that runs in time $2^{O(\sqrt{k})}(n+m)$. Under the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Long Path and Long Cycle on unit disk graphs cannot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

Finite unions of convex sets are a central object of study in discrete and computational geometry. In this paper we initiate a systematic study of complements of such unions -- i.e., sets of the form $S=\mathbb{R}^d \setminus (\cup_{i=1}^n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Chaya Keller , Micha A. Perles

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 two optimization problems in planar graphs. In Maximum Weight Independent Set of Objects we are given a graph $G$ and a family $\mathcal{D}$ of objects, each being a connected subgraph of $G$ with a prescribed weight, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Michał Pilipczuk , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Andreas Wiese

Here we study the multipacking problems for geometric point sets with respect to their Euclidean distances. We consider a set of $n$ points $P$ and define $N_s[v]$ as the subset of $P$ that includes the $s$ nearest points of $v \in P$ and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Arun Kumar Das , Sandip Das , Sk Samim Islam , Ritam M Mitra , Bodhayan Roy

The Set Packing problem is, given a collection of sets $\mathcal{S}$ over a ground set $\mathcal{U}$, to find a maximum collection of sets that are pairwise disjoint. The problem is among the most fundamental NP-hard optimization problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ameet Gadekar

It is shown that a separated sequence of points in the unit disc of the complex plane is in fact uniformly separated, if there exists a certain intermediate sequence whose separated subsequences are uniformly separated. This property is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Janne Gröhn , Artur Nicolau