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Selection and ordering of points-of-interest in large-scale indoor navigation systems

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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Abstract

Indoor navigation systems guide users through complex buildings, which they do not know in advance. The complexity of public buildings such as airports, train stations or hospitals leads to new variants of well-studied NP-hard optimization problems such as the Traveling Salesman Problem, where most of the classical approximations are not directly applicable for fundamental geometric reasons. Fortunately we are able to solve the upcoming small instances of these problems to optimality in a very short timeframe. With this paper we define the Partially Ordered Traveling Salesman Problem, explain how it comes up in indoor navigation applications and present two algorithms, which solve or approximate the Partially Ordered Traveling Salesman Problem for small and medium size instances in a timeframe of less than one second and hence allow for a real time and context-aware indoor navigation experience. We then evaluate both algorithms using realistic data modelling the public area of Munich airport spanning nearly 200.000 square meters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2011
Pages504-509
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2011 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 18 Jul 201121 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
ISSN (Print)0730-3157

Conference

Conference35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2011
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period18/07/1121/07/11

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