PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity — Approximate Shortest Paths and Distance Oracles in Weighted Unit-Disk GraphsExport this event to calendar

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:30 PM EDT

Dimitrios Skrepetos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We give the first near-linear-time (1+epsilon)-approximation algorithm for the diameter of a weighted unit-disk graph of n vertices, running in O(nlog^2 n) time for any constant epsilon>0, considerably improving the near-O(n^{3/2})-time algorithm of Gao and Zhang [STOC 2003]. We can also construct a (1+epsilon)-approximate distance oracle for weighted unit-disk graphs with O(1) query time, with a similar improvement in the preprocessing time, from near O(n^{3/2}) to O(n\log^3 n). We obtain similar new results for a number of other related problems in the weighted unit-disk graph metric, such as the radius and bichromatic closest pair.

As a further application, we use our new distance oracle, along with additional ideas, to solve the (1+epsilon)-approximate all-pairs bounded-leg shortest paths problem for a set of n planar points, with near O(n^{2.579}) preprocessing time, O(n^2\log n) space, and O(\log{\log n}) query time, improving the near-cubic preprocessing bound by Roditty and Segal [SODA 2007].

It is a joint work with my supervisor Timothy M. Chan, and it will be presented in SoCG 2018.

Location 
DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre
1304
200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada

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