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I have been a Project-Senior Scientist at the Institute for Software Technology at Graz University of Technology.

Before I left academia I was the project leader of the Stand-alone Project ‘Combinatorial Problems on Geometric Graphs’ supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant P 23629–N18.

FWF P23629–N18 ‘Combinatorial Problems on Geometric Graphs’

Combinatorial Problems on Geometric Graphs

Computational Geometry is a relatively young and very active field of research in the intersection of mathematics and theoretical computer science. Studying algorithms and data structures have been main objectives of this growing discipline. Although geometric graphs are structures defined by geometric properties, like x- and y-coordinates, they have a highly discrete nature. Straight lines spanned by a finite set of discrete points give rise to simple and memory efficient data structures. While not loosing the geometric information, geometric graphs additionally provide combinatorial context (like neighborhood information) that is sufficient for many applications and allows for very efficient and stable algorithms. Moreover, for many problems the geometric information is not needed for their solution. In these cases, point sets, geometric in principle, can be stored and used in a purely combinatorial way. A simple example is the construction of the convex hull of a point set, which is an intrinsic task of countless algorithms. For this it is sufficient to know for any triple a,b,c of points whether c is to the left or to the right of the straight line spanned by a and b. A data structure that stores this information is the so called order type.

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