Improved Approximations for Guarding 1.5-Dimensional Terrains - Inria - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique Access content directly
Conference Papers Year : 2009

Improved Approximations for Guarding 1.5-Dimensional Terrains

Khaled Elbassioni
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 857915
Erik Krohn
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 857916
Domagoj Matijevic
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 857917
Julián Mestre
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 857918
Domagoj Severdija
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 857919

Abstract

We present a 4-approximation algorithm for the problem of placing the fewest guards on a 1.5D terrain so that every point of the terrain is seen by at least one guard. This improves on the currently best approximation factor of 5 (see [14]). Unlike most of the previous techniques, our method is based on rounding the linear programming relaxation of the corresponding covering problem. Besides the simplicity of the analysis, which mainly relies on decomposing the constraint matrix of the LP into totally balanced matrices, our algorithm, unlike previous work, generalizes to the weighted and partial versions of the basic problem.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
30-elbassioni.pdf (200.86 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Files produced by the author(s)
Loading...

Dates and versions

inria-00359652 , version 1 (09-02-2009)

Identifiers

  • HAL Id : inria-00359652 , version 1

Cite

Khaled Elbassioni, Erik Krohn, Domagoj Matijevic, Julián Mestre, Domagoj Severdija. Improved Approximations for Guarding 1.5-Dimensional Terrains. 26th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science STACS 2009, Feb 2009, Freiburg, Germany. pp.361-372. ⟨inria-00359652⟩

Collections

STACS2009 INSMI
68 View
261 Download

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More