Approximability of guarding weak visibility polygons

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards that are sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a polygon P, is fully guarded. In 1998, the problems of finding the minimum number of point guards, vertex guards, and edge guards required to guard P were shown to be...

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Vydané v:Discrete Applied Mathematics Ročník 228; s. 109 - 129
Hlavní autori: Bhattacharya, Pritam, Ghosh, Subir Kumar, Roy, Bodhayan
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 10.09.2017
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Algorithms
Approximation
Art gallery problem
Constant factor approximation algorithm
Euclidean shortest path tree
Inapproximability
Mathematical analysis
Polygons
Vertex guarding
Visibility
Vertex guarding
Euclidean shortest path tree
Visibility
Art gallery problem
Inapproximability
Constant factor approximation algorithm
ISSN:0166-218X, 1872-6771
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Shrnutí:The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards that are sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a polygon P, is fully guarded. In 1998, the problems of finding the minimum number of point guards, vertex guards, and edge guards required to guard P were shown to be APX-hard by Eidenbenz, Widmayer and Stamm. In 1987, Ghosh presented approximation algorithms for vertex guards and edge guards that achieved a ratio of O(logn), which was improved up to O(loglogOPT) by King and Kirkpatrick (2011). It has been conjectured that constant-factor approximation algorithms exist for these problems. We settle the conjecture for the special class of polygons that are weakly visible from an edge and contain no holes by presenting a 6-approximation algorithm for finding the minimum number of vertex guards that runs in O(n2) time. On the other hand, for weak visibility polygons with holes, we present a reduction from the Set Cover problem to show that there cannot exist a polynomial time algorithm for the vertex guard problem with an approximation ratio better than ((1−ϵ)/12)lnn for any ϵ>0, unless NP=P. We also show that, for the special class of polygons without holes that are orthogonal as well as weakly visible from an edge, the approximation ratio can be improved to 3. Finally, we consider the point guard problem and show that it is NP-hard in the case of polygons weakly visible from an edge.
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ISSN:0166-218X
1872-6771
DOI:10.1016/j.dam.2016.12.015