Approximation algorithm for the kinetic robust K-center problem

  • Authors:
  • Sorelle A. Friedler;David M. Mount

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Two complications frequently arise in real-world applications, motion and the contamination of data by outliers. We consider a fundamental clustering problem, the k-center problem, within the context of these two issues. We are given a finite point set S of size n and an integer k. In the standard k-center problem, the objective is to compute a set of k center points to minimize the maximum distance from any point of S to its closest center, or equivalently, the smallest radius such that S can be covered by k disks of this radius. In the discrete k-center problem the disk centers are drawn from the points of S, and in the absolute k-center problem the disk centers are unrestricted. We generalize this problem in two ways. First, we assume that points are in continuous motion, and the objective is to maintain a solution over time. Second, we assume that some given robustness parameter 0