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Geometric Bicriteria Optimal Path Problems

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Author
Piatko, Christine Diane
Abstract

A bicriteria optimal path simultaneously satisfies two bounds on two measures of path quality. The complexity of finding such a path depends on the particular choices of path quality. This thesis studies bicriteria path problems in a geometric setting using several pairs of path quality, including: path length measured according to different norms ($L_{p}$ and $L_{q}$); Euclidean length within two or more classes of regions; total turn and Euclidean length; total turn and number of links; and Euclidean length and number of links.

For several cases, finding the bicriteria optimal path is shown to be NP-hard. These NP-hard cases include minimizing path length in two different norms, minimizing travel through two regions, and minimizing length and total turn. In the last case, an $O(En^{2}N^{2})$ pseudo-polynomial time algorithm to find an approximate answer is presented. In contrast, when the two measures of path quality are total turn and number of links, an $O(E^{3}n \log^{2} n)$ exact algorithm is given.

A main result of this thesis examines minimizing the Euclidean length and number of links of a path. When the geometric setting of this problem is a polygon without holes, this thesis presents an $O(n^{3}k^{3} \log(N k/ \epsilon^{1/k}) )$ algorithm to find a $k$-link path with Euclidean length at most $1+\epsilon$ times the length of the shortest $k$-link path. A faster algorithm for a relaxed case, when the output path is allowed to have $2k$ links, is presented for a polygon with or without holes.

Finally, some approximation algorithms are outlined for finding a minimum link path among polyhedral obstacles.

Date Issued
1995-07
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Cornell University
Keywords
computer science
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technical report
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technical report

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