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COMPGEOM
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Traversing a set of points with a minimum number of turns
Given a finite set of points S in Rd , consider visiting the points in S with a polygonal path which makes a minimum number of turns, or equivalently, has the the minimum number o...
Sergey Bereg, Prosenjit Bose, Adrian Dumitrescu, F...
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IPCO
2001
184views Optimization» more  IPCO 2001»
14 years 11 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum Bends Traveling Salesman Problem
Problem (Extended Abstract) Cliff Stein David P. Wagner Dartmouth College Computer Science Technical Report TR2000-367 May 9, 2000 The problem of traversing a set of points in the...
Clifford Stein, David P. Wagner
CIAC
2006
Springer
278views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2006»
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Covering a Set of Points with a Minimum Number of Lines
We consider the minimum line covering problem: given a set S of n points in the plane, we want to find the smallest number l of straight lines needed to cover all n points in S. W...
Magdalene Grantson, Christos Levcopoulos
SIAMDM
2008
110views more  SIAMDM 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
The Minimum Number of Distinct Areas of Triangles Determined by a Set of n Points in the Plane
We prove a conjecture of Erdos, Purdy, and Straus on the number of distinct areas of triangles determined by a set of n points in the plane. We show that if P is a set of n points...
Rom Pinchasi
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DM
2002
116views more  DM 2002»
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Star forests, dominating sets and Ramsey-type problems
A star forest of a graph G is a spanning subgraph of G in which each component is a star. The minimum number of edges required to guarantee that an arbitrary graph, or a bipartite...
Sheila Ferneyhough, Ruth Haas, Denis Hanson, Gary ...