A unified geometric approach to graph separators
SFCS '91 Proceedings of the 32nd annual symposium on Foundations of computer science
An improved spectral graph partitioning algorithm for mapping parallel computations
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
A multilevel algorithm for partitioning graphs
Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A Fast and High Quality Multilevel Scheme for Partitioning Irregular Graphs
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
A linear-time heuristic for improving network partitions
DAC '82 Proceedings of the 19th Design Automation Conference
Relationship-based clustering and cluster ensembles for high-dimensional data mining
Relationship-based clustering and cluster ensembles for high-dimensional data mining
CenWits: a sensor-based loosely coupled search and rescue system using witnesses
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
A tabu search algorithm for the min-max k-Chinese postman problem
Computers and Operations Research
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In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been used in applications of data gathering and target localization across large geographical areas. In this paper, we study the issues involved in applying wireless sensor networks to search and rescue of lost hikers in trails and focus on the optimal placement of sensors and access points such that the cost of search and rescue is minimized. Particularly, we address two problems: a) how to identify the lost hiker position as accurately as possible, i.e., obtain a small trail segments containing the lost hiker; and (b) how to search efficiently in trail segments for different trail topologies and search agent capabilities. For the optimal access point deployment problem, we propose theoretical models that consider both efficiency and accuracy criteria and present analytical results for simpler trail topologies. For complicated graph topologies, we develop efficient heuristic algorithms with various heuristics. After access point deployment is decided, the actual cost of search in individual trail segment can be computed. We analyze four different types of search and rescue agents, present algorithms to find the optimal search paths for each one of them, and compute their search costs. The algorithms are developed based on solving Chinese Postman problems. Finally, we present extensive experimental results to examine the accuracy of the mathematical models and compare the performances of different methods. A heuristic method, divide-merge, is shown to outperform all others and finds near-optimal solutions.