The continuous 1.5D terrain guarding problem: Discretization, optimal solutions, and PTAS
The continuous 1.5D terrain guarding problem: Discretization, optimal solutions, and PTAS
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连续1.5D地形防护问题:离散化、最优解和PTAS
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
0.3
通讯作者:
Christiane Schmidt
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作者:
Stephan Friedrichs;M. Hemmer;James A. King;Christiane Schmidt
In the NP-hard continuous 1.5D Terrain Guarding Problem (TGP) we are given an $x$-monotone chain of line segments in $R^2$ (the terrain $T$), and ask for the minimum number of guards (located anywhere on $T$) required to guard all of $T$. We construct guard candidate and witness sets $G, W \subset T$ of polynomial size such that any feasible (optimal) guard cover $G^* \subseteq G$ for $W$ is also feasible (optimal) for the continuous TGP. This discretization allows us to: (1) settle NP-completeness for the continuous TGP; (2) provide a Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme (PTAS) for the continuous TGP using the PTAS for the discrete TGP by Gibson et al.; (3) formulate the continuous TGP as an Integer Linear Program (IP). Furthermore, we propose several filtering techniques reducing the size of our discretization, allowing us to devise an efficient IP-based algorithm that reliably provides optimal guard placements for terrains with up to $10^6$ vertices within minutes on a standard desktop computer.
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1.1
作者:
Sándor P. Fekete;Stephan Friedrichs;Alexander Kröller;Christiane Schmidt
通讯作者:
Christiane Schmidt