Robust Proximity Queries: an Illustration of Degree-driven Algorithm Design(Make Corrections)(24 citations) Giuseppe Liotta, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tamassia
Abstract: In the context of methodologies intended to
confer robustness to geometric algorithms, we elaborate on
the exact computation paradigm and formalize the notion
of degree of a geometric algorithm, as a worst-case quantification
of the precision (number of bits) to which arithmetic
calculation have to be executed in order to guarantee
topological correctness. We also propose a formalism
for the expeditious evaluation of algorithmic degree. As an
application of this paradigm and an illustration of... (Update)
...However, reducing the degree of an algorithm may increase its time complexity in the Real RAM model. Following Liotta et al. [13], we consider the degree of the predicates as an additional measure of the complexity of problems and algorithms, and intend to elucidate...
...contributions can be summarized as follows. i) As an additional measure of eoeectiveness for a checker, we adopt the notion of degree [19,18,5], which takes into account the number of bits required by the checker to carry out error free computations. A good checker should have...
G. Liotta, F. P. Preparata, and R. Tamassia. Robust proximity queries: An illustration of degree-driven algorithm design. SIAM J. Computing, to appear. http://www.cs.brown.edu/cgc/papers/lpt-rpqid-.ps.gz. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/104793.html More
@inproceedings{ liotta97robust,
author = "Giuseppe Liotta and Franco P. Preparata and Roberto Tamassia",
title = "Robust Proximity Queries: An Illustration of Degree-Driven Algorithm Design",
booktitle = "Symposium on Computational Geometry",
pages = "156-165",
year = "1997",
url = "citeseer.nj.nec.com/104793.html" }