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- From: ted@cs.umn.edu (Ted Stockwell)
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- Subject: SUMMARY: multidimensional range searching
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- Below are the (slightly edited) responses I received to my request for
- information on multidimensional range searching. Thanks to everyone
- who replied!
-
- > From: dev@cs.brown.edu (Darren Erik Vengroff)
- > Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- >
- > Samet has written a pair of books that cover the area quite well.
- > They are
- >
- > %A Hanan Samet
- > %T The Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures
- > %I Addison-Wesley
- > %D 1989
- >
- > %A Hanan Samet
- > %T Applications of Spatial Data Structures: Computer Graphics, Image Processing, and GIS
- > %I Addison-Wesley
- > %D 1989
- >
- > If what you are looking for is not in one of these books it is sure
- > to be in one of the several hundred entries in the bibliography.
- >
- > -Darren
- >
- >
- > From: Peter Su <psu@cs.duke.edu>
- > Status: OR
- >
- > Look in Preperata and Shamos: _Computational Geometry_ and also a book
- > by Samet _Spatial data structures_ for a good overview.
- >
- > Oh, also, Kurt Melhorn has a 3 vol. set of algorithms books, and the
- > third volume covers multi-dimensional searching.
- >
- > There is a lot of heavy theory in Melhorn and P&S...Samet is more
- > application oriented- spatial databases and what not.
- >
- >
- > From: salzberg@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu (betty j salzberg)
- >
- > an article Dave Lomet wrote will appear in the next sigmod record. IT
- > is about multiattribute range searching. It is short and has good
- > insights.
- >
- >
- > From: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl (Ricardo Baeza)
- > For a complete set of references on the topic, check
- > "Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures", Addison-Wesley, 2nd edition,
- > 1991 by Gonnet and myself.
- >
- >
- > From: enni@imada.ou.dk (Steffen Zacho Enni)
- >
- > I have been looking for the same things. And the best I have found
- > is Bentleys article in CACM 1975 (page 517-29, I think).
- >
- > In this article he introduces the k-d tree and some algorithms
- > There is an algorithm to range searching.
- >
- > In another article by Bentley, Friedmann and Finkel ( "An Algorithm
- > for Finding Best Matches in Logarithmic Expected Time" by
- > J.H.Friedman, J.L.Bentley and R.A.Finkel. And it appeared in ACM
- > Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1977,
- > Pages 209-226.) they present a slight variation of the k-d tree with
- > an algorithm to finding nearest neighbors with every distance function
- > you may wish. It runs in O(lg n) with O(nlgn) building time.
- >
- > Shamos in his Introduction to computational Geometry also
- > contain some information about this subject, but it is
- > presented in a more general way.
- >
- >
- > From: aronov@ziggy.poly.edu (Boris Aronov)
- >
- > This is all I could find in the computational geometry data base under
- > range queries. Most of them ARE multidimensional (in the sense of not
- > being 1-dimensional), but the types of queries varies very widely.
- >
- > Hope this helps...
- >
- > 40 matches found.
- >
- > @inproceedings{am-rsps-92
- > , author = "P. K. Agarwal and J. Matou{\v s}ek"
- > , title = "Ray shooting and parametric search"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 24th Annu. ACM Sympos. Theory Comput."
- > , year = "1992"
- > , pages = "??-??"
- > , keywords = "ray tracing, range search, intersection, partition trees"
- > , comments = "To appear"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2481"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{as-anps-91
- > , author = "P. K. Agarwal and M. Sharir"
- > , title = "Applications of a new partitioning scheme"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 2nd Workshop Algorithms Data Struct."
- > , series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"
- > , volume = "519"
- > , publisher = "Springer-Verlag"
- > , year = "1991"
- > , pages = "379--391"
- > , keywords = "random sampling, range searching, ray tracing, hidden line/surface elimination"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2625"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{avo-iqco-91
- > , author = "P. K. Agarwal and M. van~Kreveld and M. Overmars"
- > , title = "Intersection queries for curved objects"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 7th Annu. ACM Sympos. Comput. Geom."
- > , year = "1991"
- > , pages = "41--50"
- > , keywords = "range searching, partition trees, intersection"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2572"
- > }
- >
- > @incollection{aeiim-pubtc-85
- > , author = "Ta. Asano and M. Edahiro and H. Imai and M. Iri and K. Murota"
- > , title = "Practical use of bucketing techniques in computational geometry"
- > , editor = "G. T. Toussaint"
- > , booktitle = "Computational Geometry"
- > , publisher = "North-Holland"
- > , address = "Amsterdam, Netherlands"
- > , year = "1985"
- > , pages = "153--195"
- > , keywords = "survey paper, implementing algorithms, optimization, bucketing, matchings, Voronoi diagrams, range search, point location, quad trees"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1024"
- > }
- >
- > @article{acg-cdctd-89
- > , author = "M. J. Atallah and R. Cole and M. T. Goodrich"
- > , title = "Cascading divide-and-conquer: {A} technique for designing parallel algorithms"
- > , journal = "SIAM J. Comput."
- > , volume = "18"
- > , year = "1989"
- > , pages = "499--532"
- > , keywords = "parallel computation, decomposition, range search, point location, visibility, domination, points, lines, divide-and-conquer, two-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-901.2"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{ag-epsp-86
- > , author = "M. J. Atallah and M. T. Goodrich"
- > , title = "Efficient plane sweeping in parallel"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 2nd Annu. ACM Sympos. Comput. Geom."
- > , year = "1986"
- > , pages = "216--225"
- > , keywords = "parallel computation, decomposition, range search, point location, triangulation, visibility, domination, points, lines, two-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-820"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{as-ddsrs-81
- > , author = "Z. Aviad and E. Shamir"
- > , title = "A direct dynamic solution to range search and related problems for product regions"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 22nd Annu. IEEE Sympos. Found. Comput. Sci."
- > , year = "1981"
- > , pages = "123--126"
- > , keywords = "orthogonal range queries, integer coordinates, multidimensional search"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-21"
- > }
- >
- > @article{a-npps-84
- > , author = "D. Avis"
- > , title = "Non-partitionable point sets"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "19"
- > , year = "1984"
- > , pages = "125--129"
- > , keywords = "discrete geometry, decomposition, range search"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-899"
- > }
- >
- > % 2377 moved to 1513.2
- > @article{c-lbcpr-89
- > , author = "B. Chazelle"
- > , title = "Lower bounds on the complexity of polytope range searching"
- > , journal = "J. Amer. Math. Soc."
- > , volume = "2"
- > , year = "1989"
- > , pages = "637--666"
- > , keywords = "simplex range searching, integral geometry, lower bounds"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1513.2"
- > }
- >
- > @article{ce-lsdst-87
- > , author = "B. Chazelle and H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "Linear space data structures for two types of range search"
- > , journal = "Discrete Comput. Geom."
- > , volume = "2"
- > , year = "1987"
- > , pages = "113--126"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, reporting, domination, range search, point location, directed acyclic graphs, two-dimensional, three-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-756.2"
- > }
- >
- > @article{ce-oscpr-85
- > , author = "B. Chazelle and H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "Optimal solutions for a class of point retrieval problems"
- > , journal = "J. Symbolic Comput."
- > , volume = "1"
- > , year = "1985"
- > , pages = "47--56"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, reporting, range search, directed acyclic graphs, translates"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-681"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{cf-dvrsu-88
- > , author = "B. Chazelle and J. Friedman"
- > , title = "A deterministic view of random sampling and its use in geometry"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 29th Annu. IEEE Sympos. Found. Comput. Sci."
- > , year = "1988"
- > , pages = "539--549"
- > , keywords = "point location, range search, $d$-dimensional"
- > , comments = "derandomizes with polynomial overhead"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2030.1"
- > }
- >
- > @article{cf-dvrsu-90
- > , author = "B. Chazelle and J. Friedman"
- > , title = "A deterministic view of random sampling and its use in geometry"
- > , journal = "Combinatorica"
- > , volume = "10"
- > , number = "3"
- > , year = "1990"
- > , pages = "229--249"
- > , keywords = "point location, range search, $d$-dimensional"
- > , comments = "derandomizes with polynomial overhead"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2030.2"
- > }
- >
- > @article{c-narsc-87
- > , author = "K. L. Clarkson"
- > , title = "New applications of random sampling in computational geometry"
- > , journal = "Discrete Comput. Geom."
- > , volume = "2"
- > , year = "1987"
- > , pages = "195--222"
- > , keywords = "combinatorial geometry, data structuring, reporting, searching, separation, range search, point location, probabilistic analysis, triangulations, $d$-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-688.2"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{de-hstai-84
- > , author = "D. P. Dobkin and H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "Ham-sandwich theorems applied to intersection problems"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 10th Internat. Workshop Graph-Theoret. Concepts Comput. Sci. (WG 84)"
- > , year = "1984"
- > , pages = "88--99"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, discrete geometry, combinatorial geometry, partition, range search, trees, two-dimensional, three-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-749"
- > }
- >
- > @article{de-ssio-87
- > , author = "D. P. Dobkin and H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "Space searching for intersecting objects"
- > , journal = "J. Algorithms"
- > , volume = "8"
- > , year = "1987"
- > , pages = "348--361"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, discrete geometry, searching, intersection, partition, range search, geometric transformations, trees, two-dimensional, three-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-694.2"
- > }
- >
- > @article{e-ndrs-81
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "A note on dynamic range searching"
- > , journal = "Bull. EATCS"
- > , volume = "15"
- > , year = "1981"
- > , pages = "34--40"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, searching, reporting, range search, range trees, priority search trees, points, hyperrectangles, $d$-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1620"
- > }
- >
- > @techreport{e-ddsoi-80
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "Dynamic data structures for orthogonal intersection queries"
- > , type = "Report"
- > , number = "F59"
- > , institution = "Inst. Informationsverarb., Tech. Univ. Graz"
- > , address = "Graz, Austria"
- > , year = "1980"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, searching, intersection, dynamizing data structures, range trees, segment trees, interval trees, hyperrectangles, $d$-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-183"
- > }
- >
- > @article{e-gatcg-87
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner"
- > , title = "Geometrics and algorithmics: a tutorial in computational geometry"
- > , journal = "Bull. EATCS"
- > , volume = "32"
- > , year = "1987"
- > , pages = "118--142"
- > , keywords = "convex hull, range search, tutorial"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1578"
- > }
- >
- > @techreport{eh-dsptt-84
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and F. Huber"
- > , title = "Dissecting sets of points in two and three dimensions"
- > , type = "Report"
- > , number = "F138"
- > , institution = "Inst. Informationsverarb., Tech. Univ. Graz"
- > , address = "Graz, Austria"
- > , year = "1984"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, discrete geometry, range search, trees, partition, cell complexes, two-dimensional, three-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-701"
- > }
- >
- > @article{ekm-pis-82
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and D. G. Kirkpatrick and H. A. Maurer"
- > , title = "Polygonal intersection searching"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "14"
- > , year = "1982"
- > , pages = "74--79"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, reporting, intersection, range search, geometric transformations, points, line segments, polygons"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1622"
- > }
- >
- > @article{em-ioo-81
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and H. A. Maurer"
- > , title = "On the intersection of orthogonal objects"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "13"
- > , year = "1981"
- > , pages = "177--181"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, searching, intersection, range trees, segment trees, interval trees, hyperrectangles, $d$-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1623"
- > }
- >
- > @article{eo-bdsds-85
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and M. H. Overmars"
- > , title = "Batched dynamic solutions to decomposable searching problems"
- > , journal = "J. Algorithms"
- > , volume = "6"
- > , year = "1985"
- > , pages = "515--542"
- > , keywords = "design of algorithms, construction, reporting, divide-and-conquer, range trees, segment trees, $d$-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-704"
- > }
- >
- > @article{eo-esrp-82
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and M. H. Overmars"
- > , title = "On the equivalence of some rectangle problems"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "14"
- > , year = "1982"
- > , pages = "124--127"
- > , keywords = "reporting, counting, range search, geometric transformations, lower bounds, intervals, one-dimensional, two-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1650"
- > }
- >
- > @article{eo-zrrd-87
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and M. H. Overmars"
- > , title = "Zooming by repeated range detection"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "24"
- > , year = "1987"
- > , pages = "413--417"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, computer graphics, reporting, range search, repeated search, trees, line segments, rectangles, two-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-752"
- > }
- >
- > @article{eos-smcga-84
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and M. H. Overmars and R. Seidel"
- > , title = "Some methods of computational geometry applied to computer graphics"
- > , journal = "Comput. Vision Graph. Image Process."
- > , volume = "28"
- > , year = "1984"
- > , pages = "92--108"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, computer graphics, construction, searching, point location, range search, trees, subdivisions, two-dimensional"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-745"
- > }
- >
- > @article{ew-cbtda-86
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and E. Welzl"
- > , title = "Constructing belts in two-dimensional arrangements with applications"
- > , journal = "SIAM J. Comput."
- > , volume = "15"
- > , year = "1986"
- > , pages = "271--284"
- > , keywords = "design of algorithms, combinatorial geometry, plane-sweep, repeated search, arrangements, two-dimensional, counting, approximation, range search, arrangements"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-707"
- > }
- >
- > @article{ew-hrsls-86
- > , author = "H. Edelsbrunner and E. Welzl"
- > , title = "Halfplanar range search in linear space and {$O(n^{0.695})$} query time"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "23"
- > , year = "1986"
- > , pages = "289--293"
- > , keywords = "data structuring, discrete geometry, searching, partition, range search, trees, subdivisions, two-dimensional, reporting, counting"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-708"
- > }
- >
- > @techreport{g-fdlsi-84
- > , author = "R. H. G{\"u}ting"
- > , title = "Fast dynamic line segment intersection searching"
- > , type = "Report"
- > , number = "87"
- > , institution = "Forschungsberichte Fachber. Inform., Univ. Dortmund"
- > , address = "Dortmund, West Germany"
- > , year = "1984"
- > , keywords = "intersection searching, line segment, segment tree, range tree, halfobject technique"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1073"
- > }
- >
- > @article{km-tcp-90
- > , author = "S. Khuller and J. S. B. Mitchell"
- > , title = "On a triangle counting problem"
- > , journal = "Inform. Process. Lett."
- > , volume = "33"
- > , number = "6"
- > , year = "1990"
- > , pages = "319--321"
- > , keywords = "range query, counting"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2412"
- > }
- >
- > @article{know-dfwp-89
- > , author = "R. Klein and O. Nurmi and T. Ottmann and D. Wood"
- > , title = "A dynamic fixed windowing problem"
- > , journal = "Algorithmica"
- > , volume = "4"
- > , year = "1989"
- > , pages = "535--550"
- > , keywords = "points, range searching, polygons, two-dimensional, dynamizing data structures, priority search trees"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-808.3"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{m-ept-91
- > , author = "J. Matou{\v s}ek"
- > , title = "Efficient partition trees"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 7th Annu. ACM Sympos. Comput. Geom."
- > , year = "1991"
- > , pages = "1--9"
- > , keywords = "range search, simplex, partition trees"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2568"
- > }
- >
- > @techreport{m-hsrr-90
- > , author = "J. Matou{\v s}ek"
- > , title = "Half-space range reporting"
- > , series = "KAM Series"
- > , type = "Report"
- > , number = "90-188"
- > , institution = "Charles Univ."
- > , address = "Prague, Czechoslovakia"
- > , year = "1990"
- > , keywords = "range search, half spaces, polyhedra"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2483"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{m-oasrp-89
- > , author = "J. S. B. Mitchell"
- > , title = "An optimal algorithm for shortest rectilinear paths among obstacles"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 1st Canad. Conf. Comput. Geom."
- > , year = "1989"
- > , pages = "22"
- > , keywords = "shortest paths, two-dimensional, distance, $L_{1}$ metric, continuous Dijkstra, plane-sweep, range search"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2653"
- > }
- >
- > @article{m-lsppo-??
- > , author = "J. S. B. Mitchell"
- > , title = "{$L_{1}$} shortest paths among polygonal obstacles in the plane"
- > , journal = "Algorithmica"
- > , volume = "??"
- > , year = "19??"
- > , pages = "??--??"
- > , keywords = "shortest paths, distance, $L_{1}$ metric, continuous Dijkstra, plane-sweep, range search"
- > , comments = "to appear 1991?"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1552.2"
- > }
- >
- > @inproceedings{m-srpo-87
- > , author = "J. S. B. Mitchell"
- > , title = "Shortest rectilinear paths among obstacles"
- > , booktitle = "Proc. 1st Internat. Conf. Indust. Applied Math."
- > , address = "Paris, France"
- > , year = "1987"
- > , pages = "39--84"
- > , keywords = "shortest paths, distance, $L_{1}$ metric, continuous Dijkstra, plane-sweep, range search"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1552.1"
- > }
- >
- > @article{o-cg-88
- > , author = "J. O'Rourke"
- > , title = "Computational geometry"
- > , journal = "Annu. Rev. Comput. Sci."
- > , volume = "3"
- > , year = "1988"
- > , pages = "389--411"
- > , keywords = "survey paper, convex hull, Voronoi diagrams, Delaunay triangulations, arrangements, polygons, triangulation, range search, point location, motion planning, Davenport-Schinzel sequences, parallel computation"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2122"
- > }
- >
- > @incollection{o-gdscg-88
- > , author = "M. H. Overmars"
- > , title = "Geometric data structures for computer graphics: an overview"
- > , editor = "R. A. Earnshaw"
- > , booktitle = "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Graphics and CAD"
- > , series = "NATO ASI"
- > , volume = "F40"
- > , publisher = "Springer-Verlag"
- > , year = "1988"
- > , pages = "21--49"
- > , keywords = "survey paper, quad trees, range trees, segment trees, dynamizing data structures"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2117.2"
- > }
- >
- > @article{ow-sms2d-85
- > , author = "M. H. Overmars and E. Welzl"
- > , title = "A simple method for solving {$2$}-dimensional static range searching"
- > , journal = "Bull. EATCS"
- > , volume = "25"
- > , year = "1985"
- > , pages = "31--33"
- > , keywords = "range search"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-1521"
- > }
- >
- > @techreport{s-cgru-89
- > , author = "J. Spiegels"
- > , title = "Computational geometry in a restricted universe"
- > , type = "Manuscript"
- > , institution = "Dept. Comput. Sci., Univ. Utrecht"
- > , year = "1989"
- > , keywords = "survey paper, two-dimensional, domination, convex hull, rectangles, subdivisions, range search"
- > , oldlabel = "geom-2106"
- > }
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