Optimal covering tours with turn costs

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 138-147

  Arkin, Esther M ^a   Bender, Michael A ^a   Demaine, Erik D ^b   Fekete, Sándor P ^c   Mitchell, Joseph S B ^a   Sethia, Saurabh ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; Covering; Lawn mowing; M guillotine subdivisions; Manufacturing; Milling; NC machining; NP completeness; Polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS); Traveling salesman problem (TSP); Turn costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049083912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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