Complexity of minimum corridor guarding problems

  • Authors:
  • Ning Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center of City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY 10016, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, the complexity of minimum corridor guarding problems is discussed. These problems can be described as: given a connected orthogonal arrangement of vertical and horizontal line segments and a guard with unlimited visibility along a line segment, find a tree or a closed walk with minimum total length along edges of the arrangement, such that if the guard runs on the tree or on the closed walk, all line segments are visited by the guard. These problems are proved to be NP-complete.