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Practical Discrete Unit Disk Cover Using an Exact Line-Separable Algorithm

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Practical Discrete Unit Disk Cover Using an Exact Line-Separable Algorithm
Given m unit disks and n points in the plane, the discrete unit disk cover problem is to select a minimum subset of the disks to cover the points. This problem is NP-hard [11] and the best previous practical solution is a 38-approximation algorithm by Carmi et al. [4]. We first consider the line-separable discrete unit disk cover problem (the set of disk centres can be separated from the set of points by a line) for which we present an O(m2 n)-time algorithm that finds an exact solution. Combining our line-separable algorithm with techniques from the algorithm of Carmi et al. [4] results in an O(m2 n4 ) time 22-approximate solution to the discrete unit disk cover problem.
Francisco Claude, Reza Dorrigiv, Stephane Durocher
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ISAAC
Authors Francisco Claude, Reza Dorrigiv, Stephane Durocher, Robert Fraser, Alejandro López-Ortiz, Alejandro Salinger
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