@InProceedings{de_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.17, author = {De, Minati and Jain, Saksham and Kallepalli, Sarat Varma and Singh, Satyam}, title = {{Online Piercing of Geometric Objects}}, booktitle = {42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)}, pages = {17:1--17:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-261-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {250}, editor = {Dawar, Anuj and Guruswami, Venkatesan}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.17}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174090}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.17}, annote = {Keywords: piercing set problem, online algorithm, competitive ratio, unit covering problem, geometric objects} }