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Smallest Color-Spanning Objects

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Algorithms — ESA 2001 (ESA 2001)

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Motivated by questions in location planning, we show for a set of colored point sites in the plane how to compute the smallest—by perimeter or area—axis-parallel rectangle and the narrowest strip enclosing at least one site of each color.

The Spanish authors acknowledge partial support from Acción integrada HA1999-0094, MEC-DGES-SEUID PB98-0933, and Gen. Cat. 1999SGR000356, while the German team was supported by DAAD grant 314-AI-e-dr.

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  1. Dept. de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politècnica de Madrid, Spain

    Manuel Abellanas

  2. Dept. de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Ferran Hurtado & Vera Sacristán

  3. Praktische Informatik VI, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany

    Christian Icking

  4. Institut für Informatik I, Universität Bonn, Germany

    Rolf Klein, Elmar Langetepe & Lihong Ma

  5. Dept. de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Belén Palop

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Abellanas, M. et al. (2001). Smallest Color-Spanning Objects. In: auf der Heide, F.M. (eds) Algorithms — ESA 2001. ESA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44676-1_23

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