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Clustering in Polygonal Domains

Authors Mark de Berg , Leyla Biabani, Morteza Monemizadeh, Leonidas Theocharous

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Mark de Berg
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Leyla Biabani
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Morteza Monemizadeh
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Leonidas Theocharous
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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MdB and LT are supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through Gravitation-grant NETWORKS-024.002.003.

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Mark de Berg, Leyla Biabani, Morteza Monemizadeh, and Leonidas Theocharous. Clustering in Polygonal Domains. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 23:1-23:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.23

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We study various clustering problems for a set D of n points in a polygonal domain P under the geodesic distance. We start by studying the discrete k-median problem for D in P. We develop an exact algorithm which runs in time poly(n,m) + n^O(√k), where m is the complexity of the domain. Subsequently, we show that our approach can also be applied to solve the k-center problem with z outliers in the same running time. Next, we turn our attention to approximation algorithms. In particular, we study the k-center problem in a simple polygon and show how to obtain a (1+ε)-approximation algorithm which runs in time 2^{O((k log(k))/ε)} (n log(m) + m). To obtain this, we demonstrate that a previous approach by Bădoiu et al. [Bâdoiu et al., 2002; Bâdoiu and Clarkson, 2003] that works in ℝ^d, carries over to the setting of simple polygons. Finally, we study the 1-center problem in a simple polygon in the presence of z outliers. We show that a coreset C of size O(z) exists, such that the 1-center of C is a 3-approximation of the 1-center of D, when z outliers are allowed. This result is actually more general and carries over to any metric space, which to the best of our knowledge was not known so far. By extending this approach, we show that for the 1-center problem under the Euclidean metric in ℝ², there exists an ε-coreset of size O(z/ε).

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • clustering
  • geodesic distance
  • coreset
  • outliers

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