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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.18
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174103
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/17410/
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Duraisamy, Nandhana ; Hillberg, Hannah Miller ; Jallu, Ramesh K. ; Krohn, Erik ; Maheshwari, Anil ; Nandy, Subhas C. ; Pahlow, Alex

Half-Guarding Weakly-Visible Polygons and Terrains

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Abstract

We consider a variant of the art gallery problem where all guards are limited to seeing 180degree. Guards that can only see in one direction are called half-guards. We give a polynomial time approximation scheme for vertex guarding the vertices of a weakly-visible polygon with half-guards. We extend this to vertex guarding the boundary of a weakly-visible polygon with half-guards. We also show NP-hardness for vertex guarding a weakly-visible polygon with half-guards. Lastly, we show that the orientation of half-guards is critical in terrain guarding. Depending on the orientation of the half-guards, the problem is either very easy (polynomial time solvable) or very hard (NP-hard).

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@InProceedings{duraisamy_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.18,
  author =	{Duraisamy, Nandhana and Hillberg, Hannah Miller and Jallu, Ramesh K. and Krohn, Erik and Maheshwari, Anil and Nandy, Subhas C. and Pahlow, Alex},
  title =	{{Half-Guarding Weakly-Visible Polygons and Terrains}},
  booktitle =	{42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:17},
  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/opus/volltexte/2022/17410},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174103},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Art Gallery Problem, Approximation Algorithm, NP-Hardness, Monotone Polygons, Half-Guards}
}

Keywords: Art Gallery Problem, Approximation Algorithm, NP-Hardness, Monotone Polygons, Half-Guards
Collection: 42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 14.12.2022

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