Selected Publications of Estie Arkin





E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin (2007):
``The k-path tree matroid and its applications to survivable network design''.


E.M. Arkin, B. Abrego S. Fernandez-Merchant F. Hurtado M. Kano, J.S.B. Mitchell and J. Urrutia (2004):
``Matching Points with Geometric Objects: Combinatorial Results''


E.M. Arkin, M.A. Bender, E.D. Demaine, S.P. Fekete, J.S.B. Mitchell, S. Sethia (2001), modified (2005):
``Optimal Covering Tours with Turn Costs''.


E.M. Arkin, M.A. Bender, S.P. Fekete, J.S.B. Mitchell, Martin Skutella (2002), modified (2005):
``The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robot''.


E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin, A. Levin (2004):
``Approximations for minimum and min-max vehicle routing problems''.


E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin, S. Shahar (2002):
``Increasing digraph arc-connectivity by arc addition, reversal and complement''.


E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin (2001), modified (2004):
``A note on orientations of mixed graphs''.


E.M. Arkin, S. Fekete, J.S.B. Mitchell (2000):
``Approximation algorithms for lawnmowing and milling''.


E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin, M. Sviridenko (1999):
``Approximating the Maximum Quadratic Assignment Problem''.


E.M. Arkin, J.S.B. Mitchell, G. Narasimhan (1997):
``Resource-Constrained Geometric Network Optimization''.


E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin (1997):
``On Local Search for Weighted k-set Packing''.
Proc. European Symposium on Algorithms. Graz, Austria, Sep 15-17, 1997.

E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin (1995):
``Graph Partitions with Minimum Degree Constraints''.


E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin, L. Klein (1997):
``Restricted Delivery Problems on a Network''.
Networks (Vol. 29, 1997, pp. 205-216).

E.M. Arkin, Y-J. Chiang, J.S.B. Mitchell, S.S. Skiena, and T-C. Yang (1997):
``On the Maximum Scatter TSP''.
Proc. 8th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 97). New Orleans, LA, January, 1997.

E.M. Arkin, Y-J. Chiang, M. Held, J.S.B. Mitchell, V. Sacristan, S.S. Skiena, and T-C. Yang (1996):
``On Minimum-Area Hulls''.
Proc. European Symposium on Algorithms. Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1136, J. Diaz and M. Serna (eds.), pp. 334--348; Barcelona, Spain, Sep 25-27, 1996.

E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin (1994):
``Minimum Diameter Covering Problems''.
Paper submitted for publication.

E.M. Arkin, M. Held, C.L. Smith (1995):
``Optimization Problems Related to Zigzag Pocket Machining''. 7th Annual ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'96), Atlanta, GA, USA, Jan 28-30, 1996.

E.M. Arkin, M. Held, J.S.B. Mitchell, S.S. Skiena (1995):
``Recognizing Polygonal Parts from Width Measurements''.
Proc. 7th Canad. Conf. Computat. Geometry, C. Gold, J.-M. Robert (eds.), pp. 199-204; Québec City, Québec, Canada, Aug 10-13, 1995.

E.M. Arkin, M. Held, J.S.B. Mitchell, S.S. Skiena (1994):
``Hamiltonian Triangulations for Fast Rendering''.
Algorithms -- ESA'94, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 855, J. van Leeuwen (ed.), pp. 36-47; Utrecht, The Netherlands, Sep 26-28, 1994.

E.M. Arkin, R. Hassin (1994):
``Approximation algorithms for the geometric covering salesman problem''.
Discrete Applied Math. 55, pp 197-218, 1994.

E.M. Arkin, M.M. Halldorsson, R. Hassin (1993):
``Approximating the tree and tour covers of a graph''.
Information Processing Letters 47, pp 275-282, 1993.

E.M. Arkin, P. Chew, D.P. Huttenlocher, K. Kedem, J.S.B. Mitchell,
An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes,
Technical Report TR 89-1007, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, May 1989. Appears in First ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'90), San Francisco, CA, January 22-24, 1990, pp. 129-137. Full paper appears in: IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 13 (3), 1991, pp. 209-216.

E.M. Arkin (1988):
``Beautification is Hard''.
Cornell SORIE Technical Report No. 818, September, 1988.



Estie Arkin (estie@ams.sunysb.edu)