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<journal-id>1405-5546</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Computación y Sistemas]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Comp. y Sist.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-5546</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1405-55462009000200007</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Visibilidad de Alcance Limitado en Polígonos Escalera]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Visibility of limited range in staircase polygons]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Canales Cano]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Santiago]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hernández Peñalver]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gregorio]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Computación]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<aff id="A02">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Pontificia de Madrid Facultad de Informática Departamento de Matemática Aplicada]]></institution>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2009</year>
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<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2009</year>
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<volume>12</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>450</fpage>
<lpage>459</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-55462009000200007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-55462009000200007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-55462009000200007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[La definición de visibilidad en el Problema de Galerías de Arte utiliza guardias o luces que pueden ver o iluminar sin limitación en el alcance. En este artículo consideramos luces que tienen un alcance limitado L . Presentamos algunos resultados sobre polígonos escalera con luces situadas en sus vértices. En el resultado principal se demuestra que si P es un polígono escalera con n vértices, [n/4]+O(l) luces vértice de alcance L son siempre suficiente y a veces necesarias para iluminar P con L<img border=0 src="../../../../../img/revistas/cys/v12n4/a7s1.jpg">[r/2,r), donde r es el radio de P .]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[The usual definition of visibility in Art Gallery Problems uses guards or light sources that can watch or illuminate with unlimited range. In this paper we consider light sources having a limited range L . We present some results about staircase polygons with light sources placed in its vertices. The main result that we prove is that if P is a staircase polygon of n vertices, then [n/4]+O(l) vertex light sources with range L are always sufficient and sometimes necessary to illuminate P when L <img border=0 src="../../../../../img/revistas/cys/v12n4/a7s1.jpg">[r/,2r), where r is the radius of P .]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Visibilidad]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="4">Art&iacute;culos</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>Visibilidad de Alcance Limitado en Pol&iacute;gonos Escalera</b></font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="3"><b><i>Visibility of limited range in staircase polygons</i></b></font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Santiago Canales Cano<sup>1</sup> and Gregorio Hern&aacute;ndez Pe&ntilde;alver<sup>2</sup></b></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><i><sup>1 </sup>Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid, Escuela T&eacute;cnica Superior de Ingenier&iacute;a, (ICAI) Departamento de Matem&aacute;tica Aplicada y Computaci&oacute;n. E</i>&#150;<i>mail: <a href="mailto:scanales@dmc.icai.upcomillas.es">scanales@dmc.icai.upcomillas.es</a></i></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><i><sup>2</sup> Universidad Polit&eacute;cnica de Madrid, Facultad de Inform&aacute;tica Departamento de Matem&aacute;tica Aplicada. E</i>&#150;<i>mail: <a href="mailto:gregorio@fi.upm.es">gregorio@fi.upm.es</a></i></font></p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">Art&iacute;culo recibido en Enero 07, 2008    <br> Aceptado en Mayo 28, 2008</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Resumen</b></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">La definici&oacute;n de visibilidad en el Problema de Galer&iacute;as de Arte utiliza guardias o luces que pueden ver o iluminar sin limitaci&oacute;n en el alcance. En este art&iacute;culo consideramos luces que tienen un alcance limitado <i>L . </i>Presentamos algunos resultados sobre pol&iacute;gonos escalera con luces situadas en sus v&eacute;rtices. En el resultado principal se demuestra que si <i>P </i>es un pol&iacute;gono escalera con <i>n </i>v&eacute;rtices, &#91;<i>n</i>/4&#93;+<i>O</i>(l) luces v&eacute;rtice de alcance <i>L </i>son siempre suficiente y a veces necesarias para iluminar <i>P </i>con <i>L<img src="/img/revistas/cys/v12n4/a7s1.jpg"></i>&#91;<i>r/2,r</i>), donde <i>r </i>es el radio de <i>P </i>.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Palabras clave: </b>Visibilidad, Alcance limitado, Pol&iacute;gono escalera, Iluminaci&oacute;n.</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Abstract</b></font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">The usual definition of visibility in Art Gallery Problems uses guards or light sources that can watch or illuminate with unlimited range. In this paper we consider light sources having a limited range <i>L</i> . We present some results about staircase polygons with light sources placed in its vertices. The main result that we prove is that if <i>P </i>is a staircase polygon of <i>n </i>vertices, then &#91;<i>n</i>/4&#93;+<i>O</i>(l) vertex light sources with range <i>L </i>are always sufficient and sometimes necessary to illuminate <i>P </i>when <i>L <img src="/img/revistas/cys/v12n4/a7s1.jpg"> </i>&#91;<i>r</i>/,2<i>r</i>), where <i>r </i>is the radius of <i>P</i> .</font></p>     ]]></body>
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