Enclosing weighted points with an almost-unit ball

  • Authors:
  • Celina M. H. de Figueiredo;Guilherme D. da Fonseca

  • Affiliations:
  • COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Given a set of n points with positive real weights in d-dimensional space, we consider an approximation to the problem of placing a unit ball, in order to maximize the sum of the weights of the points enclosed by the ball. Given an approximation parameter @e