The kissing problem: how to end a gathering when everyone kisses everyone else goodbye

DOI10.1007/s00224-013-9484-xzbMath1303.68152MaRDI QIDQ489765

Ritwik Bose, Michael A. Bender, Samuel McCauley, Rezaul Alam Chowdhury

Publication date: 21 January 2015

Published in: Theory of Computing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-013-9484-x

zbMATH Keywords

algorithms; communication; approximation algorithms; routing; block sliding; kissing problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68R05: Combinatorics in computer science

68W25: Approximation algorithms

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