Carleton University
Technical Report TR-06-13
November 27, 2006

Distribution-Sensitive Point Location in Convex Subdivisions

Sebastien Collette, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, Pat Morin

Abstract

A data structure is presented for point location in convex planar subdivisions when the distribution of queries is known in advance. The data structure has an expected query time that is within a constant factor of optimal.

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