New results on stabbing segments with a polygon

We consider a natural variation of the concept of stabbing a set of segments with a simple polygon: a segment s is stabbed by a simple polygon P if at least one endpoint of s is contained in P, and a segment set S is stabbed by P if P stabs every element of S. Given a segment set S, we study the pro...

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Vydané v:Computational geometry : theory and applications Ročník 48; číslo 1; s. 14 - 29
Hlavní autori: Díaz-Báñez, José Miguel, Korman, Matias, Pérez-Lantero, Pablo, Pilz, Alexander, Seara, Carlos, Silveira, Rodrigo I.
Médium: Journal Article Publikácia
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2015
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ISSN:0925-7721
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Shrnutí:We consider a natural variation of the concept of stabbing a set of segments with a simple polygon: a segment s is stabbed by a simple polygon P if at least one endpoint of s is contained in P, and a segment set S is stabbed by P if P stabs every element of S. Given a segment set S, we study the problem of finding a simple polygon P stabbing S in a way that some measure of P (such as area or perimeter) is optimized. We show that if the elements of S are pairwise disjoint, the problem can be solved in polynomial time. In particular, this solves an open problem posed by Löffler and van Kreveld [Algorithmica 56(2), 236–269 (2010)] [16] about finding a maximum perimeter convex hull for a set of imprecise points modeled as line segments. Our algorithm can also be extended to work for a more general problem, in which instead of segments, the set S consists of a collection of point sets with pairwise disjoint convex hulls. We also prove that for general segments our stabbing problem is NP-hard.
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ISSN:0925-7721
DOI:10.1016/j.comgeo.2014.06.002