Maximum rectilinear convex subsets

07/17/2019

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by   Hernán González-Aguilar, et al.

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Let P be a set of n points in the plane. We consider a variation of the classical Erdős-Szekeres problem, presenting efficient algorithms with O(n^3) running time and O(n^2) space complexity that compute: (1) A subset S of P such that the boundary of the rectilinear convex hull of S has the maximum number of points from P, (2) a subset S of P such that the boundary of the rectilinear convex hull of S has the maximum number of points from P and its interior contains no element of P, (3) a subset S of P such that the rectilinear convex hull of S has maximum area and its interior contains no element of P, and (4) when each point of P is assigned a weight, positive or negative, a subset S of P that maximizes the total weight of the points in the rectilinear convex hull of S.