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Restricted-Orientation Convexity (Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) - Hardcover

Fink, Eugene; Wood, Derick

 
9783540668152: Restricted-Orientation Convexity (Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3540668152 ISBN 13: 9783540668152
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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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).

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Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540668152
ISBN 13 
9783540668152
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
112