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The minimum-cost subset $k$-connected subgraph problem is a cornerstone problem in the area of network design with vertex connectivity requirements. In this problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with costs on edges and a set of terminals…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Bundit Laekhanukit

Given a set of objects with durations (jobs) that cover a base region, can we schedule the jobs to maximize the duration the original region remains covered? We call this problem the sensor cover problem. This problem arises in the context…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adam L. Buchsbaum , Alon Efrat , Shaili Jain , Suresh Venkatasubramanian , Ke Yi

Let $L$ be a set of $n$ lines in the plane, not necessarily in general position. We present an efficient algorithm for finding all the vertices of the arrangement $A(L)$ of maximum level, where the level of a vertex $v$ is the number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Dan Halperin , Sariel Har-Peled , Kurt Mehlhorn , Eunjin Oh , Micha Sharir

We present the first polynomial time algorithm for the f vertex fault tolerant spanner problem, which achieves almost optimal spanner size. Our algorithm for constructing f vertex fault tolerant spanner takes $O(k\cdot n\cdot m^2 \cdot W)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Udit Agarwal

Let an orthogonal polyhedron be the union of a finite set of boxes in $\mathbb R^3$ (i.e., cuboids with edges parallel to the coordinate axes), whose surface is a connected 2-manifold. We study the NP-complete problem of guarding a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Giovanni Viglietta

We consider the problem of finding minimum-link rectilinear paths in rectilinear polygonal domains in the plane. A path or a polygon is rectilinear if all its edges are axis-parallel. Given a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $h$ pairwise-disjoint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Valentin Polishchuk , Mikko Sysikaski , Haitao Wang

In this paper, we study the following problem of reconstructing a simple polygon: Given a cyclically ordered vertex sequence of an unknown simple polygon P of n vertices and, for each vertex v of P, the sequence of angles defined by all the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Danny Z. Chen , Haitao Wang

Consider two axis-aligned rectilinear simple polygons in the domain consisting of axis-aligned rectilinear obstacles in the plane such that the bounding boxes, one for each obstacle and one for each polygon, are disjoint. We present an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mincheol Kim , Hee-Kap Ahn

This paper explores computational methods for solving the Longest Vector Problem (LVP) and Closest Vector Problem (CVP) in $p$-adic fields. Leveraging the non-Archimedean property of $p$-adic norms, we propose a polynomial time algorithm to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Chi Zhang , Mingqian Yao

In this paper we propose an algorithm for the approximate k-Nearest-Neighbors problem. According to the existing researches, there are two kinds of approximation criterion. One is the distance criteria, and the other is the recall criteria.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Hengzhao Ma , Jianzhong Li

Graph alignment aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs, a task that frequently occurs in graph mining applications such as social network analysis. Attributed graph alignment is a variant of graph alignment,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ziao Wang , Ning Zhang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

In the gathering problem, n autonomous robots have to meet on a single point. We consider the gathering of a closed chain of point-shaped, anonymous robots on a grid. The robots only have local knowledge about a constant number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Sebastian Abshoff , Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Daniel Jung , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

The Orthogonal Watchman Route Problem (OWRP) entails the search for the shortest path, known as the watchman route, that a robot must follow within a polygonal environment. The primary objective is to ensure that every point in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hamid Hoorfar , Sara Moshtaghi Largani , Reza Rahimi , Alireza Bagheri

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sujoy Bhore , Maike Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Ce Jin , André Nusser , Carolin Rehs

We consider the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex tree with one shortcut in order to minimize the diameter of the resulting graph. The tree is embedded in an unknown space and we have access to an oracle that, when queried on a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Davide Bilò

Many algorithms have been developed for NP-hard problems on graphs with small treewidth $k$. For example, all problems that are expressable in linear extended monadic second order can be solved in linear time on graphs of bounded treewidth.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Frank Kammer , Torsten Tholey

In the paper "Linear time algorithm to cover and hit a set of line segments optimally by two axis-parallel squares", TCS Volume 769 (2019), pages 63--74, the LHIT problem is proposed as follows: For a given set of non-intersecting line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Sanjib Sadhu , Xiaozhou He , Sasanka Roy , Subhas C. Nandy , Suchismita Roy

A monotone drawing of a graph G is a straight-line drawing of G such that, for every pair of vertices u,w in G, there exists abpath P_{uw} in G that is monotone in some direction l_{uw}. (Namely, the order of the orthogonal projections of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Dayu He , Xin He

We present a massively parallel algorithm, with near-linear memory per machine, that computes a $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximation of minimum-weight vertex cover in $O(\log\log d)$ rounds, where $d$ is the average degree of the input graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mohsen Ghaffari , Ce Jin , Daan Nilis

Inspired by the artwork of Mark Lombardi, we study the problem of constructing orthogonal drawings where a small number of horizontal and vertical line segments covers all vertices. We study two problems on orthogonal drawings of planar…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Michael Dillencourt , Michael T. Goodrich