Given a set of circles C = {c₁, ..., cn}on the Euclidean plane with centers {(a₁, b₁), ..., (an, b<sub>n</sub>)}and radii {r₁..., r<n},the smallest enclosing circle (of fixed circles) problem is to ï¬ nd the circle of minimum radius that encloses all circles in C. We survey four known approaches for this problem, including a second order cone reformulation, a subgradient approach, a quadratic programming scheme, and a randomized incremental algorithm. For the last algorithm we also give some implementation details. It turns out the quadratic programming scheme outperforms the other three in our computational experiment.
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