Simplex range searching and its variants: A review

PK Agarwal - A Journey Through Discrete Mathematics: A Tribute to …, 2017 - Springer
A central problem in computational geometry, range searching arises in many applications,
and numerous geometric problems can be formulated in terms of range searching. A typical …

Range searching

PK Agarwal - Handbook of discrete and computational geometry, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
A central problem in computational geometry, range searching arises in many applications,
and a variety of geometric problems can be formulated as range-searching problems. A …

On the complexity of range searching among curves

P Afshani, A Driemel - Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2018 - SIAM
Modern tracking technology has made the collection of large numbers of densely sampled
trajectories of moving objects widely available. We consider a fundamental problem …

Lower bounds for semialgebraic range searching and stabbing problems

P Afshani, P Cheng - Journal of the ACM, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the semialgebraic range searching problem, we are given a set of n points in ℝ d, and we
want to preprocess the points such that for any query range belonging to a family of constant …

Adapt or die: Polynomial lower bounds for non-adaptive dynamic data structures

J Brody, KG Larsen - arxiv preprint arxiv:1208.2846, 2012 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we study the role non-adaptivity plays in maintaining dynamic data structures.
Roughly speaking, a data structure is non-adaptive if the memory locations it reads and/or …

Semialgebraic range stabbing, ray shooting, and intersection counting in the plane

TM Chan, P Cheng, DW Zheng - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.12303, 2024 - arxiv.org
Polynomial partitioning techniques have recently led to improved geometric data structures
for a variety of fundamental problems related to semialgebraic range searching and …

Simplex Range Searching Revisited: How to Shave Logs in Multi-Level Data Structures

TM Chan, DW Zheng - Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2023 - SIAM
We revisit the classic problem of simplex range searching and related problems in
computational geometry. We present a collection of new results which improve previous …

Data structure lower bounds for document indexing problems

P Afshani, JS Nielsen - arxiv preprint arxiv:1604.06264, 2016 - arxiv.org
We study data structure problems related to document indexing and pattern matching
queries and our main contribution is to show that the pointer machine model of computation …

On semialgebraic range reporting

P Afshani, P Cheng - Discrete & Computational Geometry, 2024 - Springer
Semialgebraic range searching, arguably the most general version of range searching, is a
fundamental problem in computational geometry. In the problem, we are to preprocess a set …

Dynamic enumeration of similarity joins

PK Agarwal, X Hu, S Sintos, J Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.01818, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper considers enumerating answers to similarity-join queries under dynamic
updates: Given two sets of $ n $ points $ A, B $ in $\mathbb {R}^ d $, a metric $\phi (\cdot) …