Gathering by Repulsion

Authors Prosenjit Bose, Thomas C. Shermer



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Prosenjit Bose
  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada, jit@scs.carleton.ca
Thomas C. Shermer
  • School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, shermer@sfu.ca

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Prosenjit Bose and Thomas C. Shermer. Gathering by Repulsion. In 16th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 101, pp. 13:1-13:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2018.13

Abstract

We consider a repulsion actuator located in an n-sided convex environment full of point particles. When the actuator is activated, all the particles move away from the actuator. We study the problem of gathering all the particles to a point. We give an O(n^2) time algorithm to compute all the actuator locations that gather the particles to one point with one activation, and an O(n) time algorithm to find a single such actuator location if one exists. We then provide an O(n) time algorithm to place the optimal number of actuators whose sequential activation results in the gathering of the particles when such a placement exists.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Graph theory
  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
Keywords
  • polygon
  • kernel
  • beacon attraction

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