A (slightly) faster algorithm for klee's measure problem
A (slightly) faster algorithm for klee's measure problem
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克利测量问题的(稍微)更快的算法
DOI:
10.1145/1377676.1377693
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2008
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Timothy M. Chan
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作者:
Timothy M. Chan
Given <i>n</i> axis-parallel boxes in a fixed dimension <i>d</i> ≥ 3, how efficiently can we compute the volume of the union? This standard problem in computational geometry, commonly referred to as <i>Klee's measure problem</i>, can be solved in time <i>O</i>(<i>n<sup>d/2</sup></i> log <i>n</i>) by an algorithm of Overmars and Yap (FOCS 1988). We give the first (albeit small) improvement: our new algorithm runs in time <i>n<sup>d/2</sup></i>2<sup><i>O</i></sup>(log<sup>*</sup><i>n</i>), where log<sup>*</sup> denotes the iterated logarithm.
For the related problem of computing the <i>depth</i> in an arrangement of <i>n</i> boxes, we further improve the time bound to near <i>O</i>(<i>n<sup>d/2</sup></i> log<i><sup>d/2-1</sup></i> <i>n</i>), ignoring log\log <i>n</i> factors. Other applications and lower-bound possibilities are discussed. The ideas behind the improved algorithms are simple.