Title
On Romeo and Juliet Problems: Minimizing Distance-to-Sight.
Abstract
We introduce a variant of the watchman route problem, which we call the quickest pair-visibility problem. Given two persons standing at points s and t in a simple polygon P with no holes, we want to minimize the distance they travel in order to see each other in P. We solve two variants of this problem, one minimizing the longer distance the two persons travel (min-max) and one minimizing the total travel distance (min-sum), optimally in linear time. We also consider a query version of this problem for the min-max variant. We can preprocess a simple n-gon in linear time so that the minimum of the longer distance the two persons travel can be computed in O(log2⁡n) time for any two query positions s,t where the two persons start.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.comgeo.2019.07.003
Computational Geometry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Visibility polygon,Shortest path,Watchman problems
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Sight,Watchman route problem,Simple polygon,Time complexity,Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
84
0925-7721
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hee-kap Ahn121942.92
Eunjin Oh2149.34
Lena Schlipf3185.79
Fabian Stehn4194.73
Darren Strash523817.72