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Universal Guard Problems

Authors Sándor P. Fekete, Qian Li, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Christian Scheffer

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  • Art Gallery Problem
  • universal guarding
  • polygonization
  • worst-case bounds
  • robust covering

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Abstract

We provide a spectrum of results for the Universal Guard Problem, in which one is to obtain a small set of points ("guards") that are "universal" in their ability to guard any of a set of possible polygonal domains in the plane. We give upper and lower bounds on the number of universal guards that are always sufficient to guard all polygons having a given set of n vertices, or to guard all polygons in a given set of k polygons on an n-point vertex set. Our upper bound proofs include algorithms to construct universal guard sets of the respective cardinalities.

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Sándor P. Fekete, Qian Li, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, and Christian Scheffer. Universal Guard Problems. In 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 64, pp. 32:1-32:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.32

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Sándor P. Fekete
Qian Li
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Christian Scheffer

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