I/O-Efficient Batched Range Counting and Its Applications to Proximity Problems

  • Authors:
  • Tamás Lukovszki;Anil Maheshwari;Norbert Zeh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FST TCS '01 Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present an algorithm to answer a set Q of range counting queries over a point set P in d dimensions. The algorithm takes O (sort(|P| + |Q|) + (|P|+|Q|)α(|P|)/DB log M/Bd-1 |P|+|Q/B) I/Os and uses linear space. For an important special case, the α(|P|) term in the I/O-complexity of the algorithm can be eliminated. We apply this algorithm to constructing t-spanners for point sets in Rd and polygonal obstacles in the plane, and finding the K closest pairs of a point set in Rd.