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2007

External-Memory Algorithms for Processing Line Segments in Geographic Information Systems

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External-Memory Algorithms for Processing Line Segments in Geographic Information Systems
d abstract) Lars Arge1 , Darren Erik Vengroff2 , and Jeffrey Scott Vitter3 1 BRICS† , Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 2 Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA 3 Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA In the design of algorithms for large-scale applications it is essential to consider the problem of minimizing I/O communication. Geographical information systems (GIS) are good examples of such largescale applications as they frequently handle huge amounts of spatial data. In this paper we develop efficient new external-memory algorithms for a number of important problems involving line segments in the plane, including trapezoid decomposition, batched planar point location, triangulation, red-blue line segment intersection reporting, and general line segment intersection reporting. In GIS systems, the first three problems are useful for rendering and modeling, and the latter two...
Lars Arge, Darren Erik Vengroff, Jeffrey Scott Vit
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where ALGORITHMICA
Authors Lars Arge, Darren Erik Vengroff, Jeffrey Scott Vitter
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