Computing a maxian point of a simple rectilinear polygon

  • Authors:
  • D. P. Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of International Trade, National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, Pingtung, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Let P be a simple rectilinear polygon with n vertices. There are k points in P. The maxian problem is to locate a single facility in P so as to maximize the sum of its distance from it to the k points. We present an O((nxk)logn) time algorithm for this problem.