Computing obnoxious 1-corner polygonal chains

  • Authors:
  • J. M. Díaz-Báñez;F. Hurtado

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática Aplicada II, US, Virgen de Africa, Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Matemática Aplicada II, UPC, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider an obnoxious facility location problem in which the facility is a trajectory consisting of a bounded length polygonal chain of two edges having extremes anchored at two given points. In other words, given a set S of points in the plane and a positive value l0, we want to compute an anchored 1-comer polygonal chain having length at most l0 such that the minimum distance to the points in S is maximized. We present non-trivial algorithms based on geometric properties of each possible configuration providing a solution. More specifically, we give an O(n log n)-time algorithm for finding a 1-corner obnoxious polygonal chain whose length is exactly l0, and an O(n2)-time algorithm when the length of the optimal chain is at most the given bound l0.