Greedy Monochromatic Island Partitions

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Hauptverfasser: Broek, Steven van den, Meulemans, Wouter, Speckmann, Bettina
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author Broek, Steven van den
Meulemans, Wouter
Speckmann, Bettina
author_facet Broek, Steven van den
Meulemans, Wouter
Speckmann, Bettina
contents Constructing partitions of colored points is a well-studied problem in discrete and computational geometry. We study the problem of creating a minimum-cardinality partition into monochromatic islands. Our input is a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane where each point has one of $k \geq 2$ colors. A set of points is monochromatic if it contains points of only one color. An island $I$ is a subset of $S$ such that $\mathcal{CH}(I) \cap S = I$, where $\mathcal{CH}(I)$ denotes the convex hull of $I$. We identify an island with its convex hull; therefore, a partition into islands has the additional requirement that the convex hulls of the islands are pairwise-disjoint. We present three greedy algorithms for constructing island partitions and analyze their approximation ratios.
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spellingShingle Greedy Monochromatic Island Partitions
Broek, Steven van den
Meulemans, Wouter
Speckmann, Bettina
Computational Geometry
Constructing partitions of colored points is a well-studied problem in discrete and computational geometry. We study the problem of creating a minimum-cardinality partition into monochromatic islands. Our input is a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane where each point has one of $k \geq 2$ colors. A set of points is monochromatic if it contains points of only one color. An island $I$ is a subset of $S$ such that $\mathcal{CH}(I) \cap S = I$, where $\mathcal{CH}(I)$ denotes the convex hull of $I$. We identify an island with its convex hull; therefore, a partition into islands has the additional requirement that the convex hulls of the islands are pairwise-disjoint. We present three greedy algorithms for constructing island partitions and analyze their approximation ratios.
title Greedy Monochromatic Island Partitions
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13340