On geometric optimization with few violated constraints

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Matoušek

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • SCG '94 Proceedings of the tenth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of finding the best solution satisfying all but k of the given constraints, for an abstract class of optimization problems introduced by Sharir and Welzl—the so-called LP-type problems. We give a general algorithm and discuss its efficient implementations for specific geometric problems. For instance, for the problem of computing the smallest circle enclosing all but k of the given n points in the plane, we obtain an O(nlogn+k3n&egr;) algorithm; this improves previous results for k small compared ton but moderately growing.We also establish some results concerning general properties of LP-type problems.