A (1 + ɛ)-approximation algorithm for 2-line-center

  • Authors:
  • Pankaj K. Agarwal;Cecilia M. Procopiuc;Kasturi R. Varadarajan

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Geometric Computing, Department of Computer Science, Box 90129, Duke University, Durham, NC;AT&T Labs, Box 971, Florham Park, NJ;Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We consider the following instance of projective clustering, known as the 2-line-center problem: Given a set S of n points in R2, cover S by two congruent strips of minimum width. Algorithms that find the optimal solution for this problem have near-quadratic running time. In this paper we present an algorithm that, for any ε 0, computes in time O(n(logn + ε-2 log(1/ε)) + ε-7/2 log(1/ε)) a cover of S by two strips of width at most (1 + ε)w*.