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Publications [#235399] of Pankaj K. Agarwal

Papers Published

  1. Agarwal, PK; Grove, EF; Murali, TM; Vitter, JS, Binary space partitions for fat rectangles, in Thirty Seventh Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Proceedings) (December, 1996), pp. 482-491, IEEE Comput. Soc. Press [doi]
    (last updated on 2023/06/02)

    Abstract:
    We consider the practical problem of constructing binary space partitions (BSPs) for a set S of n orthogonal, non-intersecting, two-dimensional rectangles in IR3 such that the aspect ratio of each rectangle in S is at most α, for some constant α≥1. We present an n2O(√log n)-time algorithm to build a binary space partition of size n2O(√log n) for S. We also show that if m of the n rectangles in S have aspect ratios greater than α, we can construct a BSP of size n√m2O(√log n) for S in n√m2O(√log n) time. The constants of proportionality in the big-oh terms are linear in log α. We extend these results to cases in which the input contains non-orthogonal or intersecting objects.

 

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