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We consider a variant of the art gallery problem where all guards are limited to seeing to the right inside a monotone polygon. We call such guards: half-guards. We provide a polynomial-time approximation for point guarding the entire…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Hannah Miller Hillberg , Erik Krohn , Alex Pahlow

Given a closed simple polygon $P$, we say two points $p,q$ see each other if the segment $pq$ is fully contained in $P$. The art gallery problem seeks a minimum size set $G\subset P$ of guards that sees $P$ completely. The only currently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Simon Hengeveld , Tillmann Miltzow

The contiguous art gallery problem was introduced at SoCG'25 in a merged paper that combined three simultaneous results, each achieving a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem. This problem is a variant of the classical art gallery…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frank Staals

Given a polygon $H$ in the plane, the art gallery problem calls for fining the smallest set of points in $H$ from which every other point in $H$ is seen. We give a deterministic algorithm that, given any polygon $H$ with $h$ holes, $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Khaled Elbassioni

We show the following problems are in $\textsf{P}$: 1. The contiguous art gallery problem -- a variation of the art gallery problem where each guard can protect a contiguous interval along the boundary of a simple polygon. This was posed at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Eliot W. Robson , Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Da Wei Zheng

We introduce a new variant of the art gallery problem that comes from safety issues. In this variant we are not interested in guard sets of smallest cardinality, but in guard sets with largest possible distances between these guards. To the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Christian Rieck , Christian Scheffer

Recently, a natural variant of the Art Gallery problem, known as the \emph{Contiguous Art Gallery problem} was proposed. Given a simple polygon $P$, the goal is to partition its boundary $\partial P$ into the smallest number of contiguous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

The Graphical House Allocation problem asks: how can $n$ houses (each with a fixed non-negative value) be assigned to the vertices of an undirected graph $G$, so as to minimize the "aggregate local envy", i.e., the sum of absolute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew McGregor , Rik Sengupta , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan

We consider a generalization of the classical Art Gallery Problem, where instead of a light source, the guards, called $k$-transmitters, model a wireless device with a signal that can pass through at most $k$ walls. We show it is NP-hard to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Sarah Cannon , Thomas G. Fai , Justin Iwerks , Undine Leopold , Christiane Schmidt

Motivated by optimization oracles in bandits with network interference, we study the Neighborhood-Aware Graph Labeling (NAGL) problem. Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a label set of size $L$, and local reward functions $f_v$ accessed via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mohammad Shahverdikondori , Sepehr Elahi , Patrick Thiran , Negar Kiyavash

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a simple polygon $P$, is fully guarded. Most standard versions of this problem are known to be NP-hard. In 1987,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Pritam Bhattacharya , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Sudebkumar Pal

In this paper, we study the Contiguous Art Gallery Problem, introduced by Thomas C. Shermer at the 2024 Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, a variant of the classical art gallery problem from 1973 by Victor Klee. In the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Magnus Christian Ring Merrild , Casper Moldrup Rysgaard , Jens Kristian Refsgaard Schou , Rolf Svenning

Victor Klee introduce the art gallery problem during a conference in Stanford in August 1976 with that question: "How many guards are required to guard an art gallery?" In 1987, Ghosh provided an approximation algorithm for vertex guards…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shiva Maleki , Ali Mohades

One of the earliest and most well known problems in computational geometry is the so-called art gallery problem. The goal is to compute the minimum possible number guards placed on the vertices of a simple polygon in such a way that they…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-11-25 Menelaos I. Karavelas , Elias P. Tsigaridas

We study the Dispersive Art Gallery Problem with vertex guards: Given a polygon $\mathcal{P}$, with pairwise geodesic Euclidean vertex distance of at least $1$, and a rational number $\ell$; decide whether there is a set of vertex guards…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sándor P. Fekete , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Christian Rieck , Christian Scheffer , Christiane Schmidt

The purpose of the current study is to investigate a special case of art gallery problem, namely Sculpture Garden Problem. In the said problem, for a given polygon $P$, the ultimate goal is to place the minimum number of guards to define…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Marzieh Eskandari , Bahram Sadeghi Bigham

This paper addresses the problem of tracking mobile intruders in a polygonal environment. We assume that a team of diagonal guards is deployed inside the polygon to provide mobile coverage. First, we formulate the problem of tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Guillermo J. Laguna , Sourabh Bhattacharya

We examine the Art Gallery Problem with Edge Guards. We present a heuristic algorithm to arrange edge guards to guard only the inward side of the walls of any N-vertex simple polygonal gallery using at most roof (N/4) edge guards - a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-17 R. Nandakumar

The Art Gallery Problem is one of the most well-known problems in Computational Geometry, with a rich history in the study of algorithms, complexity, and variants. Recently there has been a surge in experimental work on the problem. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Pedro J. de Rezende , Cid C. de Souza , Stephan Friedrichs , Michael Hemmer , Alexander Kröller , Davi C. Tozoni

A polygonal art gallery can be observed by guards placed at one third of its corners. However, the strategy of placing guards at every third corner does not work for all art galleries. In this note, we provide an example of a nine-sided art…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Ralph Morrison