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We study the Generalized Red-Blue Annulus Cover problem for two sets of points, red ($R$) and blue ($B$), where each point $p \in R\cup B$ is associated with a positive penalty ${\cal P}(p)$. The red points have non-covering penalties, and…

We give some sufficient conditions of separation of two sets of integer points by a hyperplane. Our conditions are related to the notion of convexity of sets of integer points and are weaker than existing notions.

Given n red and n blue points in general position in the plane, it is well-known that there is a perfect matching formed by non-crossing line segments. We characterize the bichromatic point sets which admit exactly one non-crossing…

According to a result of Arkin~\etal~(2016), given $n$ point pairs in the plane, there exists a simple polygonal cycle that separates the two points in each pair to different sides; moreover, a $O(\sqrt{n})$-factor approximation with…

$\def\DD{{{\bf \delta}}}\def\CH{{\mathop{\mathrm{ConvexHull}}}}\newcommand{\LL}{{\cal {L}}} \newcommand{\ZZ}{\mathbb{Z}} $ Given a convex body $C$ in the plane, its discrete hull is $C^0 = \CH( C \cap \LL )$, where $\LL = \ZZ \times \ZZ$ is…

Vector-based algorithms are novel algorithms in optimal any-angle path planning that are motivated by bug algorithms, bypassing free space by directly conducting line-of-sight checks between two queried points, and searching along obstacle…

In this paper, we consider the rectilinear one-center problem on uncertain points in the plane. In this problem, we are given a set $P$ of $n$ (weighted) uncertain points in the plane and each uncertain point has $m$ possible locations each…

Given a set P of n points in the plane, the two-line center problem asks to find two lines that minimize the maximum distance from each point in P to its closer one of the two resulting lines. The currently best algorithm for the problem…

Tverberg's theorem bounds the number of points $\mathbb{R}^d$ needed for the existence of a partition into $r$ parts whose convex hulls intersect. If the points are colored with $N$ colors, we seek partitions where each part has at most one…

A rectangular dual of a plane graph $G$ is a contact representations of $G$ by interior-disjoint axis-aligned rectangles such that (i) no four rectangles share a point and (ii) the union of all rectangles is a rectangle. A rectangular dual…

Current state-of-the-art methods for solving discrete optimization problems are usually restricted to convex settings. In this paper, we propose a general approach based on cutting planes for solving nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, binary…

Let $E=\{e_1,\ldots,e_n\}$ be a set of $C$-oriented disjoint segments in the plane, where $C$ is a given finite set of orientations that spans the plane, and let $s$ and $t$ be two points. %(We also require that for each orientation in $C$,…

In the paper ``Lower bounds on the number of crossing-free subgraphs of $K_N$'' (Computational Geometry 16 (2000), 211-221), it is shown that a double chain of $n$ points in the plane admits at least $\Omega(4.642126305^n)$ polygonizations,…

Prune-and-search is an important paradigm for solving many important geometric problems. We show that the general prune-and-search technique can be implemented where the objects are given in read-only memory. As examples we consider…

We show that for any two convex curves $C_1$ and $C_2$ in $\mathbb R^d$ parametrized by $[0,1]$ with opposite orientations, there exists a hyperplane $H$ with the following property: For any $t\in [0,1]$ the points $C_1(t)$ and $C_2(t)$ are…

Let $\mathscr O$ be a set of $n$ disjoint obstacles in $\mathbb{R}^2$, $\mathscr M$ be a moving object. Let $s$ and $l$ denote the starting point and maximum path length of the moving object $\mathscr M$, respectively. Given a point $p$ in…

We establish a bound of $O(n^2k^{1+\eps})$, for any $\eps>0$, on the combinatorial complexity of the set $\T$ of line transversals of a collection $\P$ of $k$ convex polyhedra in $\reals^3$ with a total of $n$ facets, and present a…

We consider the time-convex hull problem in the presence of two orthogonal highways H. In this problem, the travelling speed on the highway is faster than off the highway, and the time-convex hull of a point set P is the closure of P with…

We say that a finite set of red and blue points in the plane in general position can be $K_{1,3}$-covered if the set can be partitioned into subsets of size $4$, with $3$ points of one color and $1$ point of the other color, in such a way…

This article describes a method to compute successive convex approximations of the convex hull of a set of points in R^n that are the solutions to a system of polynomial equations over the reals. The method relies on sums of squares of…