Approximating largest convex hulls for imprecise points

  • Authors:
  • Marc van Kreveld;Maarten Löffler

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands;Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Assume that a set of imprecise points in the plane is given, where each point is specified by a region in which the point will lie. Such a region can be modelled as a circle, square, line segment, etc. We study the problem of maximising the area of the convex hull of such a set. We prove NP-hardness when the imprecise points are modelled as line segments, and give linear time approximation schemes for a variety of models, based on the core-set paradigm.