Largest and smallest tours and convex hulls for imprecise points

  • Authors:
  • Maarten Löffler;Marc van Kreveld

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • SWAT'06 Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian conference on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Assume that a set of imprecise points is given, where each point is specified by a region in which the point may lie. We study the problem of computing the smallest and largest possible tours and convex hulls, measured by length, and in the latter case also by area. Generally we assume the imprecision region to be a square, but we discuss the case where it is a segment or circle as well. We give polynomial time algorithms for several variants of this problem, ranging in running time from O(n) to O(n13), and prove NP-hardness for some geometric problems on imprecise points