MPI-INF Logo
Campus Event Calendar

Event Entry

New for: D1

What and Who

One-round discrete Voronoi Games

Sandor Kisfaludi-Bak
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik - D1
AG1 Mittagsseminar (own work)
AG 1, SWS  
AG Audience
English

Date, Time and Location

Tuesday, 26 November 2019
13:00
30 Minutes
E1 4
024
Saarbrücken

Abstract

Let V be a multiset of n points in d-dimensinal Euclidean space, which

we call voters, and let k and l be two given numbers. We consider the
following game, where two players P and Q compete over the voters in V:
First, player P selects a set of k points, then player Q selects a set
of l points. A player wins a voter v iff one of their points is closer
to v than all points of the other player, and a player wins the game if
they win at least half the voters. Given V, k and l, how efficiently can
we decide if player P has a winning strategy? Banik et al. devised a
singly-exponential algorithm for the game on the line. I will sketch our
polynomial-time algorithm for this problem, which is essentially an
undiscretized dynamic program. Then I will briefly talk about the
problem in higher dimensions d>=2, where deciding if player P has a
winning strategy is hard for the second level of the polynomial
hierarchy (if k and l are part of the input). In the end, I will talk
about our algorithm that works in polynomial time for fixed d, k, and l.
The talk is based on joint work with Mark de Berg and Mehran Mehr.

Contact

Stefano Leucci
--email hidden
passcode not visible
logged in users only

Stefano Leucci, 11/26/2019 13:51
Stefano Leucci, 11/21/2019 09:48
Stefano Leucci, 11/08/2019 16:08 -- Created document.