The paradigm of coresets has recently emerged as a powerful tool for efficiently
approximating various extent measures of a point set P. Using this paradigm, one quickly
computes a small subset Q of P, called a coreset, that approximates the original set P and
and then solves the problem on Q using a relatively inefficient algorithm. The solution for Q
is then translated to an approximate solution to the original point set P. This paper describes
the ways in which this paradigm has been successfully applied to various optimization and�…

The paradigm of coresets has recently emerged as a powerful tool for efficiently
approximating various extent measures of a point set P. Using this paradigm, one quickly
computes a small subset Q of P, called a\em coreset, that approximates the original set P
and and then solves the problem on Q using a relatively inefficient algorithm. The solution
for Q is then translated to an approximate solution to the original point set P. This paper
describes the ways in which this paradigm has been successfully applied to various�…