Conference Program

Contributed talks are 15 minutes plus 3 minutes time for questions and answers plus 2 minutes for synchronizing with the parallel session.

The sessions will take place in room E23 (1A, 2A, ...) and room E04/05 (1B, 2B, ...). All invited talks and "Fast Forward" sessions will take place in room E23.

The proceedings are available as a PDF file.



Sunday, March 21, 2010
18:00 - 20:00 Registration (Foyer)
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception (Foyer)

 

Monday, March 22, 2010
08:00 - 12:00 Registration (Foyer)
09:00 - 09:15 Opening
Welcome Address (Walter Grünzweig, Vice President, TU Dortmund)
Welcome Address (Peter Buchholz, Dean, Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund)
09:15 - 10:15 Invited Talk
Point Samples for Surface Representation and Geometry Processing
Markus Gross, ETH Zurich and Disney Research Zurich
10:15 - 10:25 Fast Forward for Sessions 1A&1B
10:25 - 10:55 Coffee Break
10:55 - 12:15
Session 1A Session 1B
Certifying curve-reconstruction algorithms
Asish Mukhopadhyay, Harshit Rathod, Chong Wang, and Bryan St. Amour
From invariants to predicates: example of line transversals to lines
Guillaume Batog
Polygonal Reconstruction from Approximate Offsets
Eric Berberich, Dan Halperin, Michael Kerber, and Roza Pogalnikova
Regular triangulations and resultant polytopes
Ioannis Emiris, Vissarion Fisikopoulos, and Christos Konaxis
Approximating the Frechet Distance for Realistic Curves in Near Linear Time
Anne Driemel, Sariel Har-Peled, and Carola Wenk
Combinatorial Proof for fast Pivoting in K-matrix Linear Complementarity
Jan Foniok, Komei Fukuda, and Lorenz Klaus
Recursive tilings and space-filling curves with little fragmentation
Herman Haverkort
Embedding into the rectilinear plane in optimal O(n2) time
Victor Chepoi, Nicolas Catusse, and Yann Vaxes
12:15 - 12:25 Fast Forward for Sessions 2A&2B
12:25 - 13:55 Lunch (attendees on their own)
13:55 - 15:15
Session 2A Session 2B
Largest Inscribed Rectangles in Convex Polygons
Christian Knauer, Lena Schlipf, Jens M. Schmidt, and Hans Raj Tiwary
Arc Triangulations
Oswin Aichholzer, Franz Aurenhammer, Katerina Cech Dobiasova, Bert Juettler, and Wolfgang Aigner
The Class Cover Problem with Boxes
Sergey Bereg, Sergio Cabello, José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Pablo Pérez-Lantero, Carlos Seara, and Inmaculada Ventura Molina
Triangulating a System of Disks
Daniel Peterseim
Approximation algorithms for free-label maximization
Mark de Berg and Dirk H.P. Gerrits
Even and quasi-even triangulations of point sets in the plane
Isabel Fernández Delgado, Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz, Alberto Márquez Pérez, Atsuhiro Nakamoto, Rafael Robles Arias, and Jesús Valenzuela Muñoz
Hardness of discrepancy and related problems parameterized by the dimension
Panos Giannopoulos, Christian Knauer, Magnus Wahlström, and Daniel Werner
Even Triangulation of Planar Set of Points with Steiner Points
Victor Alvarez
15:15 - 15:25 Fast Forward for Sessions 3A&3B
15:25 - 15:55 Coffee Break
15:55 - 17:15
Session 3A Session 3B
Robot Swarms for Exploration and Triangulation of Unknown Environments
Sándor Fekete, Tom Kamphans, Alexander Kröller, and Christiane Schmidt
Connecting Obstacles in Vertex-Disjoint Paths
Marwan Al-Jubeh, Gill Barequet, Mashhood Ishaque, Diane Souvaine, Csaba Toth, and Andrew Winslow
Hide-and-Seek: A Linear Time Algorithm for Polygon Walk Problems
Atlas F. Cook IV, Chenglin Fan, and Jun Luo
The geodesic diameter of polygonal domains
Sang Won Bae, Matias Korman, and Yoshio Okamoto
Straight Skeletons and their Relation to Triangulations
Stefan Huber and Martin Held
A Traveller's Problem
Florian Berger and Rolf Klein
3-Colorability of Pseudo-Triangulations
Oswin Aichholzer, Franz Aurenhammer, Thomas Hackl, Clemens Huemer, Alexander Pilz, and Birgit Vogtenhuber
The time-optimal helicopter trajectory is a circle segment
Andre Berger, Alexander Grigoriev, and Natalya Usotskaya
17:15 - 18:00 Business meeting
18:00 - 19:00 Currywurst reception

 

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
08:00 - 12:00 Registration (Room 239)
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk
Touching Points
János Pach, EPFL Lausanne and Rényi Institute Budapest
10:00 - 10:10 Fast Forward for Sessions 4A&4B
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:00
Session 4A Session 4B
A new separation theorem with geometric applications
Farhad Shahrokhi
The Tidy Set: A Minimal Simplicial Set for Computing Homology of Clique Complexes
Afra Zomorodian
Steinitz Theorems for Orthogonal Polyhedra
David Eppstein and Elena Mumford
Certified Computation of planar Morse-Smale Complexes
Amit Chattopadhyay, Sijbo Holtman, and Gert Vegter
The edge rotation graph
Javier Cano, Mayra Corvera Espinoza, José Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Joel Espinosa Longi, Clemens Huemer, and Jorge Urrutia
Geometric realization of a triangulation on the Klein bottle with one face removed
Atsuhiro Nakamoto and Shoichi Tsuchiya
On the Diameter of a Geometric Johnson Type Graph
Crevel Bautista-Santiago, Javier Cano, Ruy Fabila-Monroy, David Flores-Peñaloza, Hernán González-Aguilar, Dolores Lara, Eliseo Sarmiento, and Jorge Urrutia
Delaunay Triangulations of Point Sets in Closed Euclidean d-Manifolds
Manuel Caroli and Monique Teillaud
12:00 - 13:45 Lunch (attendees on their own)
13:45 - 14:45 Invited Talk
Instance-Optimal Geometric Algorithms
Timothy M. Chan, University of Waterloo
14:45 - 14:55 Fast Forward for Sessions 5A&5B
14:55 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:50
Session 5A Session 5B
A fast and easy-to-implement algorithm for the Minimal Translational Distance (MTD) of boxes
Kai Werth and Elmar Schömer
Order types of segments in floorplan partitions
Andrei Asinowski, Gill Barequet, Toufik Mansour, and Ron Y. Pinter
Real-Time Offset Surfaces
Andreas von Dziegielewski, Rainer Erbes, and Elmar Schömer
On Rectilinear Partitions with Minimum Stabbing Number
Mark de Berg and AmirAli Khosravi
How to cope with undesired side effects of symbolic perturbation
Shuhei Takahashi and Kokichi Sugihara
Computing the depth of an arrangement of axis-aligned rectangles in parallel
Helmut Alt and Ludmila Scharf
Snap Rounding on the Sphere
Boris Kozorovitzky and Dan Halperin
Evacuation of rectilinear polygons
Sándor Fekete, Chris Gray, and Alexander Kröller
16:50 - 17:00 Fast Forward for Sessions 6A&6B
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at Der Lennhof

 

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
09:00 - 10:20
Session 6A Session 6B
Removing Local Extrema from Imprecise Terrains
Chris Gray, Maarten Löffler, and Rodrigo Silveira
Hiding in the Crowd: Asymptotic Bounds on Blocking Sets
Natasa Jovanovic, Jan Korst, Zharko Aleksovski and Radivoje Jovanovic
Circles with Independent and Dependent Uncertainties
Yonatan Myers and Leo Joskowicz
Blocking Coloured Point Sets
Greg Aloupis, Brad Ballinger, Sebastien Collette, Stefan Langerman, Attila Por, and David Wood.
Finding Structures on Imprecise Points
Mark de Berg, Elena Mumford, and Marcel Roeloffzen
Guarding 1.5D Terrains with Demands
Khaled Elbassioni, Domagoj Matijevic and Domagoj Severdija
Convex Hull Of Imprecise Points Modeled By Segments
Ahmad Javad, Ali Mohades, Mansoor Davoodi, and Farnaz Sheikhi
On Widest Empty Wedges
Yan Mayster, Riquelmi Cardona, and Mario Lopez
10:20 - 10:30 Fast Forward for Sessions 7A&7B
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:20
Session 7A Session 7B
How Alexander the Great Brought the Greeks Together while Inflicting Minimal Damage to the Barbarians
Mark de Berg, Dirk Gerrits, Amirali Khosravi, Ignaz Rutter, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, and Alexander Wolff
Nearest-neighbor queries with well-spaced points
Chris Gray
Locating an Obnoxious Line Through a Set of Weighted Points
Yan Mayster, Mohammed Al-Bow, Catherine Durso and Mario Lopez
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries among Parallel Segments
Ioannis Emiris, Theocharis Malamatos, and Elias Tsigaridas
Separability of Point Sets by k-Level Linear Classification Trees
Esther M. Arkin, Delia Garijo, Alberto Márquez, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, and Carlos Seara
Proximity Graphs inside Large Weighted Graphs
Bernardo Abrego, Ruy Fabila, Silvia Fernandez-Merchant, David Flores, Ferran Hurtado, Henk Meijer, Vera Sacristan, and Maria Saumell
One-Reporting Queries
Saladi Rahul and Rajan K.S.
A Reactive-Agent Based Approach for a Facility Location Problem Using Dynamic Additively Weighted Voronoi Diagram
Arman Didandeh, Mehdi Khosravian, and Bahram Sadeghi Bigham
12:20 - 12:30 Fast Forward for Sessions 8A&8B
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (attendees on their own)
14:00 - 15:20
Session 8A Session 8B
Fitting Flats to Points with Outliers
Guilherme da Fonseca
2-Factor Approximation Algorithm for Computing Maximum Independent Set of a Unit Disk Graph
Sudeshna Kolay, Subhas Nandy, and Susmita Sur-Kolay.
Partial Least-Squares Point Matching under Translations
Günter Rote
Planar Hop Spanners for Unit Disk Graphs
Victor Chepoi, Nicolas Catusse and Yann Vaxes
Towards Non-Uniform Geometric Matchings
Fabian Stehn, Christian Knauer, and Klaus Kriegel
Memoryless Routing in Convex Subdivisions: Random Walks are Optimal
Dan Chen, Luc Devroye, Vida Dujmovič, and Pat Morin
Computing the discrete Fréchet distance with imprecise input
Hee-Kap Ahn, Christian Knauer, Marc Scherfenberg, Lena Schlipf, and Antoine Vigneron
Coding and Counting Arrangements of Pseudolines
Stefan Felsner and Pavel Valtr
15:20 - 15:30 Fast Forward for Session 9
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:20
Session 9
On the complexity of the edge guarding problem
Vicente H. F. Batista, Fábio Protti and Fernando L. B. Ribeiro
Computing the visibility area between two simple polygons in linear time
Rainer Penninger, Elmar Langetepe, and Jan Tulke
Partial Visibility Polygon with Semi-Transparent Objects
Mostafa Nouri Baygi and Mohammad Ghodsi
Visibility Polygons in the Presence of a Mirror Edge
Bahram Kouhestani, Mohammad Asgaripour, Salma Sadat Mahdavi, Arash Nouri, and Ali Mohades
17:20 - 17:30 Closing remarks
Image: Stadt Dortmund, zielske photographie http://2010.eurocg.org Imprint