Restricted-Orientation Convexity / Edition 1

by Eugene Fink, Derick Wood

Overview

Restricted-orientation convexity is the study of geometric objects whose intersections with lines from some fixed set are connected. This notion generalizes standard convexity and several types of nontraditional convexity. We explore the properties of this generalized convexity in multidimensional Euclidean space, describes restricted-orientation analogs of lines, hyperplanes, flats, and halfspaces, and identify major properties of standard convex sets that also hold for restricted-orientation convexity. We then introduce the notion of strong restricted-orientation convexity, which is an alternative generalization of convexity, and show that its properties are also similar to those of standard convexity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540668152
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/12/2004
Series:	Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

Eugene Fink received his B.S. degree from Mount Allison University (Canada) in 1991, M.S. from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1992, and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (USA) in 1999. He has been an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Florida (USA) since 1999. His research interests include computational geometry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and e-commerce.

Derick Wood received his B.Sc. (1963) and Ph.D. (1968) from the University of Leeds (UK). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courant Institute, New York University (USA), from 1968 to 1970, and then joined McMaster University (Canada) in 1970. He was a professor at the University of Waterloo (Canada) from 1982 to 1992, at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) from 1992 to 1995, and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1995. He has published widely in a number of research areas and written two textbooks, "Theory of Computation" (John Wiley, 1987) and "Data Structures, Algorithms, and Performance" (Addison-Wesley, 1993).

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Standard Convexity.- 1.2 Ortho-Convexity.- 1.3 Strong Ortho-Convexity.- 1.4 Convexity Spaces.- 1.5 Book Outline.- 2 Two Dimensions.- 2.1 O-Convex Sets.- 2.2 O-Halfplanes.- 2.3 Strongly O-Convex Sets.- 3 Computational Problems.- 3.1 Visibility and Convexity Testing.- 3.2 Strong O-Hull.- 3.3 Strong O-Kernel.- 3.4 Visibility from a Point.- 4 Higher Dimensions.- 4.1 Orientation Sets.- 4.2 O-Convexity and O-Connectedness.- 4.3 O-Connected Curves.- 4.4 Visibility.- 5 Generalized Halfspaces.- 5.1 O-Halfspaces.- 5.2 Directed O-Halfspaces.- 5.3 Boundary Convexity.- 5.4 Complementation.- 6 Strong Convexity.- 6.1 Strongly O-Convex Sets.- 6.2 Strongly O-Convex Flats.- 6.3 Strongly O-Convex Halfspaces.- 7 Closing Remarks.- 7.1 Main Results.- 7.2 Conjectures.- 7.3 Future Work.- References.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The well-organized, readable, interesting volume considers two generalizations of the concept of convexity in Rⁿ, and their usual related concepts (hull, visibility, kernel, etc.). … The volume would be very good for a seminar studying the many results from the last two decades on these forms of generalized convexity. The book closes with suggestions and conjectures for the direction of future research." (John R. Reay, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 j)

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