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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2011.16.6.179

Minimum number of Vertex Guards Algorithm for Art Gallery Problem  

Lee, Sang-Un (Dept. of Multimedia Science, Gangneung-Wonju National University)
Abstract
This paper suggests the minimum number of vertex guards algorithm. Given n rooms, the exact number of minimum vertex guards is proposed. However, only approximation algorithms are presented about the maximum number of vertex guards for polygon and orthogonal polygon without or with holes. Fisk suggests the maximum number of vertex guards for polygon with n vertices as follows. Firstly, you can triangulate with n-2 triangles. Secondly, 3-chromatic vertex coloring of every triangulation of a polygon. Thirdly, place guards at the vertices which have the minority color. This paper presents the minimum number of vertex guards using dominating set. Firstly, you can obtain the visibility graph which is connected all edges if two vertices can be visible each other. Secondly, you can obtain dominating set from visibility graph or visibility matrix. This algorithm applies various art galley problems. As a results, the proposed algorithm is simple and can be obtain the minimum number of vertex guards.
Keywords
art gallery problem; polygon; orthogonal polygon; vertex coloring; triangulation; dominating set;
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