Related papers: Constrained Orthogonal Segment Stabbing
We initiate the study of the following natural geometric optimization problem. The input is a set of axis-aligned rectangles in the plane. The objective is to find a set of horizontal line segments of minimum total length so that every…
We consider a natural variation of the concept of stabbing a segment by a simple polygon: a segment is stabbed by a simple polygon $\mathcal{P}$ if at least one of its two endpoints is contained in $\mathcal{P}$. A segment set $S$ is…
Computational complexity and approximation algorithms are reported for a problem of stabbing a set of straight line segments with the least cardinality set of disks of fixed radii $r>0$ where the set of segments forms a straight line…
We study the problem of ordered stabbing of $n$ balls (of arbitrary and possibly different radii, no ball contained in another) in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 3$, with either a directed line segment or a (directed) polygonal curve. Here, the…
We study the problem of stabbing rectilinear polygons, where we are given $n$ rectilinear polygons in the plane that we want to stab, i.e., we want to select horizontal line segments such that for each given rectilinear polygon there is a…
We consider the following geometric optimization problem: Given $ n $ axis-aligned rectangles in the plane, the goal is to find a set of horizontal segments of minimum total length such that each rectangle is stabbed. A segment stabs a…
The (axis-parallel) stabbing number of a given set of line segments is the maximum number of segments that can be intersected by any one (axis-parallel) line. This paper deals with finding perfect matchings, spanning trees, or…
An NP-hard problem is considered of intersecting a given set of $n$ straight line segments on the plane with the smallest cardinality set of disks of fixed radii $r>0,$ where the set of segments forms a straight line drawing $G=(V,E)$ of a…
We study rectangle stabbing problems in which we are given $n$ axis-aligned rectangles in the plane that we want to stab, i.e., we want to select line segments such that for each given rectangle there is a line segment that intersects two…
We introduce a computational origami problem which we call the segment folding problem: given a set of $n$ line-segments in the plane the aim is to make creases along all segments in the minimum number of folding steps. Note that a folding…
We study a class of geometric covering and packing problems for bounded regions on the plane. We are given a set of axis-parallel line segments that induces a planar subdivision with a set of bounded (rectilinear) faces. We are interested…
In this paper, we prove the problem of stabbing a set of disjoint bends by a convex stabber to be NP-hard. We also consider the optimization version of the convex stabber problem and prove this problem to be APX-hard for sets of line…
We study the complexity of the following cell connection and separation problems in segment arrangements. Given a set of straight-line segments in the plane and two points $a$ and $b$ in different cells of the induced arrangement: (i)…
Given a set $S$ of $n$ line segments in the plane, we say that a region $\mathcal{R}\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$ is a {\em stabber} for $S$ if $\mathcal{R}$ contains exactly one endpoint of each segment of $S$. In this paper we provide optimal…
We study the following general stabbing problem from a parameterized complexity point of view: Given a set $\mathcal S$ of $n$ translates of an object in $\Rd$, find a set of $k$ lines with the property that every object in $\mathcal S$ is…
Given a collection $L$ of line segments, we consider its arrangement and study the problem of covering all cells with line segments of $L$. That is, we want to find a minimum-size set $L'$ of line segments such that every cell in the…
In COCOA 2015, Korman et al. studied the following geometric covering problem: given a set $S$ of $n$ line segments in the plane, find a minimum number of line segments such that every cell in the arrangement of the line segments is…
Given a straight-line drawing of a graph, a segment is a maximal set of edges that form a line segment. Given a planar graph $G$, the segment number of $G$ is the minimum number of segments that can be achieved by any planar straight-line…
We define the problem segment cover as follows. We are given a set of pairs of sub-intervals of the unit interval. The problem asks if there is a choice of a single interval from each pair such that the union of the chosen intervals covers…
The coverage problem in wireless sensor networks deals with the problem of covering a region or parts of it with sensors. In this paper, we address the problem of covering a set of line segments in sensor networks. A line segment ` is said…