Geometric packing under non-uniform constraints

  • Authors:
  • Alina Ene;Sariel Har-Peled;Benjamin Raichel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We study the problem of discrete geometric packing. Here, given weighted regions (say in the plane) and points (with capacities), one has to pick a maximum weight subset of the regions such that no point is covered more than its capacity. We provide a general framework and an algorithm for approximating the optimal solution for packing in hypergraphs arising out of such geometric settings. Using this framework we get a flotilla of results on this problem (and also on its dual, where one wants to pick a maximum weight subset of the points when the regions have capacities). For example, for the case of fat triangles of similar size, we show an (1)-approximation and prove that no PTAS is possible. See [ehr-gpnuc-11] for the full version of the paper.