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Given a set of points $P$ and axis-aligned rectangles $mathcal{R}$ in the plane, a point $p in P$ is called emph{exposed} if it lies outside all rectangles in $mathcal{R}$. In the emph{max-exposure problem}, given an integer parameter $k$, we want to delete $k$ rectangles from $mathcal{R}$ so as to maximize the number of exposed points. We show that the problem is NP-hard and assuming plausible complexity conjectures is also hard to approximate even when rectangles in $mathcal{R}$ are translates of two fixed rectangles. However, if $mathcal{R}$ only consists of translates of a single rectangle, we present a polynomial-time approximation scheme. For range space defined by general rectangles, we present a simple $O(k)$ bicriteria approximation algorithm; that is by deleting $O(k^2)$ rectangles, we can expose at least $Omega(1/k)$ of the optimal number of points.
Research about crossings is typically about minimization. In this paper, we consider emph{maximizing} the number of crossings over all possible ways to draw a given graph in the plane. Alpert et al. [Electron. J. Combin., 2009] conjectured that any g
We introduce and investigate the approximability of the maximum binary tree problem (MBT) in directed and undirected graphs. The goal in MBT is to find a maximum-sized binary tree in a given graph. MBT is a natural variant of the well-studied longest
In this paper we investigate an extremal problem on binary phylogenetic trees. Given two such trees $T_1$ and $T_2$, both with leaf-set ${1,2,...,n}$, we are interested in the size of the largest subset $S subseteq {1,2,...,n}$ of leaves in a common
We give a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm for maximum independent set for (axis-aligned) rectangles in the plane. Using a polynomial-time algorithm, the best approximation factor previously known is $O(loglog n)$. The results
We study the complexity of Maximum Clique in intersection graphs of convex objects in the plane. On the algorithmic side, we extend the polynomial-time algorithm for unit disks [Clark 90, Raghavan and Spinrad 03] to translates of any fixed convex set