Given $\cA := \{a^1,\ldots,a^m\} \subset \R^n$, we consider the problem of reducing the input set for the computation of the minimum enclosing ball of $\cA$. In this note, given an approximate solution to the minimum enclosing ball problem, we propose a simple procedure to identify and eliminate points in $\cA$ that are guaranteed to lie … Read more
Given ${\cal A} := \{a^1,\ldots,a^m\} \subset \R^n$ with corresponding positive weights ${\cal W} := \{\omega_1,\ldots,\omega_m\}$, the weighted Euclidean one-center problem, which is a generalization of the minimum enclosing ball problem, involves the computation of a point $c_{\cal A} \in \R^n$ that minimizes the maximum weighted Euclidean distance from $c_{\cal A}$ to each point in ${\cal … Read more
Given $\cA := \{a^1,\ldots,a^m\} \subset \R^n$ and $\eps > 0$, we propose and analyze two algorithms for the problem of computing a $(1 + \eps)$-approximation to the radius of the minimum enclosing ball of $\cA$. The first algorithm is closely related to the Frank-Wolfe algorithm with a proper initialization applied to the dual formulation of … Read more