@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2022.21, author = {Chen, Jianer and Huang, Qin and Kanj, Iyad and Xia, Ge}, title = {{Near-Optimal Algorithms for Point-Line Covering Problems}}, booktitle = {39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)}, pages = {21:1--21:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-222-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {219}, editor = {Berenbrink, Petra and Monmege, Benjamin}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.21}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-158312}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.21}, annote = {Keywords: line cover, rich lines, exact fitting, kernelization, randomized algorithms, complexity lower bounds, algebraic computation trees} }