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Note on covering monotone orthogonal polygons with star-shaped polygons

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Summary, in English

In 1986, Keil provided an O(n(2)) time algorithm for the problem of covering monotone orthogonal polygons with the minimum number of r-star-shaped orthogonal polygons. This was later improved to O(n) time and space by Gewali et al. in [L. Gewali, M. Keil, S.C. Ntafos, On covering orthogonal polygons with star-shaped polygons, Information Sciences 65 (1992) 45-63]. In this paper we simplify the latter algorithm-we show that with a little modification, the first step SWEEP 1 of the discussed algorithm-which computes the top ceilings of horizontal grid segments an be omitted. In addition, for the minimum orthogonal guard problem in the considered class of polygons, our approach provides a linear time algorithm which uses O(k) additional space, where k is the size of the optimal solution-the algorithm in [L. Gewali, M. Keil, S.C. Ntafos, On covering orthogonal polygons with star-shaped polygons, Information Sciences 65 (1992) 45-63] uses both O(n) time and O(n) additional space. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Department/s

  • Computer Science

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

220-227

Publication/Series

Information Processing Letters

Volume

104

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Computer Science

Keywords

  • orthogonal polygon
  • computational geometry
  • covering polygons

Status

Published

Project

  • VR 2005-4085

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0020-0190