Separability by two lines and by nearly straight polygonal chains

  • Authors:
  • Ferran Hurtado;Mercè Mora;Pedro A. Ramos;Carlos Seara

  • Affiliations:
  • Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Pau Gargallo 5, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain;Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Pau Gargallo 5, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain;Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcaló, Aptdo. de Correos 20, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain;Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Pau Gargallo 5, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - Discrete mathematics & data mining (DM & DM)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the separability in the plane by two criteria: double-wedge separability and Θ-separability. We give an O(N log N)-time optimal algorithm for computing all the vertices of separating double wedges of two disjoint sets of objects (points, segments, polygons and circles) and an O((N/Θ0)log N)-time algorithm for computing a nearly straight minimal Θ-polygonal chain separating two sets of points, where Θ0 is a value which depends on the position of the points.