Abstract
In this paper, we study the online class cover problem where a (finite or infinite) family F of geometric objects and a set Pr of red points in Rd are given a prior, and blue points from Rd arrives one after another. Upon the arrival of a blue point, the online algorithm must make an irreversible decision to cover it with objects from F that do not cover any points of Pr. The objective of the problem is to place a minimum number of objects. When F consists of axis-parallel unit squares in R2, we prove that the competitive ratio of any deterministic online algorithm is Ω(log|Pr|), and also propose an O(log|Pr|)-competitive deterministic algorithm for the problem.
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