Covering Rectilinear Polygons with Axis-Parallel Rectangles

  • Authors:
  • V. S. Anil Kumar;H. Ramesh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We give an $O(\sqrt{\log n})$ factor approximation algorithm for covering a rectilinear polygon with holes using axis-parallel rectangles. This is the first polynomial time approximation algorithm for this problem with an $o(\log n)$ approximation factor.