@inproceedings{4a082243b74d480298be90621c3b2119,
title = "Minimum Link Fencing",
abstract = "We study a variant of the geometric multicut problem, where we are given a set P of colored and pairwise interior-disjoint polygons in the plane. The objective is to compute a set of simple closed polygon boundaries (fences) that separate the polygons in such a way that any two polygons that are enclosed by the same fence have the same color, and the total number of links of all fences is minimized. We call this the minimum link fencing (MLF) problem and consider the natural case of bounded minimum link fencing (BMLF), where P contains a polygon Q that is unbounded in all directions and can be seen as an outer polygon. We show that BMLF is NP-hard in general and that it is XP-time solvable when each fence contains at most two polygons and the number of segments per fence is the parameter. Finally, we present an O(n log n)-time algorithm for the case that the convex hull of P \ {Q} does not intersect Q.",
keywords = "computational geometry, polygon nesting, polygon separation",
author = "Sujoy Bhore and Fabian Klute and Maarten L{\"o}ffler and Martin N{\"o}llenburg and Soeren Terziadis and Ana{\"i}s Villedieu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Sujoy Bhore, Fabian Klute, Maarten L{\"o}ffler, Martin N{\"o}llenburg, Soeren Terziadis, and Ana{\"i}s Villedieu.; 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2022 ; Conference date: 19-12-2022 Through 21-12-2022",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.34",
language = "English",
series = "Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs",
publisher = "Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing",
editor = "Bae, {Sang Won} and Heejin Park",
booktitle = "33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2022",
address = "Germany",
}