Graph Drawing: 6th International Symposium, GD’ 98 Montréal, Canada, August 13–15, 1998 Proceedings

476 Pages·1998·1.75 MB·English

by  Alok Aggarwal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1547
Editedby G.Goos,J. Hartmanisand J.van Leeuwen
3
Berlin
Heidelberg
NewYork
Barcelona
HongKong
London
Milan
Paris
Singapore
Tokyo
Sue H. Whitesides (Ed.)
Graph Drawing
6th International Symposium, GD ’98
Montre´al, Canada, August 13-15, 1998
Proceedings
1 3
SeriesEditors
GerhardGoos,KarlsruheUniversity,Germany
JurisHartmanis,CornellUniversity,NY,USA
JanvanLeeuwen,UtrechtUniversity,TheNetherlands
VolumeEditor
SueH.Whitesides
SchoolofComputerScience,McGillUniversity
3480UniversitySt.#318,Montre´al,Que´becH3A2A7,Canada
E-mail:[email protected]
Cataloging-in-Publicationdataappliedfor
DieDeutscheBibliothek-CIP-Einheitsaufnahme
Graphdrawing:6thinternationalsymposium;proceedings/GD’98,Montre´al,
Canada,August13-15,1998.SueH.Whitesides(ed.).-Berlin;Heidelberg;
NewYork;Barcelona;HongKong;London;Milan;Paris;Singapore;Tokyo:
Springer,1999
(Lecturenotesincomputerscience;Vol.1547)
ISBN3-540-65473-9
CRSubjectClassification(1998):I.4,I.2.9-10,I.3.1,C.3
ISSN0302-9743
ISBN3-540-65473-9Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelbergNewYork
Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.Allrightsarereserved,whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialis
concerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,re-useofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,
reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherway,andstorageindatabanks.Duplicationofthispublication
orpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheGermanCopyrightLawofSeptember9,1965,
initscurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer-Verlag.Violationsare
liableforprosecutionundertheGermanCopyrightLaw.
(cid:1)c Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg1999
PrintedinGermany
Typesetting:Camera-readybyauthor
SPIN10693106 06/3142–543210 Printedonacid-freepaper
Preface
Graphdrawingaddressestheproblemofconstructingrepresentationsofabstract
graphs, networks, and hypergraphs.
The 6th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD ’98) was held August 13{15,
1998,atMcGillUniversity,Montr(cid:19)eal,Canada.ItimmediatelyfollowedtheTenth
Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG ’98), held August
10{12 at McGill. The GD ’98 conference attracted 100 paid registrants from
academicandindustrialinstitutions in thirteencountries.Roughlyhalf the par-
ticipantsalsoattendedCCCG’98.Asinthepast,interactionamongresearchers,
practitioners,andstudentsfromtheoreticalcomputerscience,mathematics,and
the application areas of graph drawing continued to be an important aspect of
the graph drawing symposium.
In response to the call for papers and system demonstrations, the program
committee received 57 submissions, of which 10 were demos. Each submission
was reviewed by at least 4 members of the program committee, and comments
werereturnedtotheauthors.Followingextensiveemaildiscussionsandmultiple
rounds of voting, the program committee accepted 23 papers and 9 demos.
GD ’98 also held an unrefereed poster gallery. The poster gallery contained
16 posters,14 of which have abstracts in this volume. The poster gallery served
toencourageparticipationfromresearchersinrelatedareasandprovidedastim-
ulating environment for the breaks between the technical sessions.
Inkeeping with the traditionofprevious graphdrawingconferences,GD ’98
held a graph drawing contest. This contest, which is traditionally a conference
highlight,servestomonitorandtochallengethestateoftheartingraphdrawing.
A report on the 1998 contest appears in this volume.
Many people in the graph drawing community contributed to the success
of GD ’98. In particular, the authors of submitted papers, demos, and posters
are due special thanks, as are the members of the program committee and the
referees it consulted. Much thought and care went into the selection of a high
quality technical program.
VeryspecialthanksareduetoSteveRobbins,whohandledtheWebsite,the
electronicsubmissionprocess,andthe equipmentfor the demos,andto Therese
Biedl, whose hard work and e(cid:14)ciency were indispensible to the success of the
conference. She also organized the poster gallery and designed the logos.
Thanks are also due many people in the McGill community for their contri-
butions. It was a pleasure to work with volunteers from the newly formed ACM
student chapter at McGill. These volunteers ran errands and provided sta(cid:14)ng
throughout the conference. Special thanks are due to Albert Mah, who coordi-
nated the volunteers and contributed many useful suggestions. Fran(cid:24)cois Labelle
arranged publicity announcements. Michael Soss of the CCCG ’98 organizing
committee provided coordination with that conference.
VI Preface
Judy Kenigsberg and Lucy St. James of the McGill University School of
Computer Science sta(cid:11) provided administrative support. Lucy St. James han-
dled preconference registration. Judy Kenisberg, who sta(cid:11)ed the registration
andinformationbooth, contributedheartand soulto the conference,pulled the
team together,befriended the participants,and providedexcellentsta(cid:11) support
throughout.
Thanks are due to the sta(cid:11) of the Redpath Museum, where the conference
washeld,andtothesta(cid:11)ofThomsonHouse,wheretheluncheswereheld.Dean
of Science Alan Shaver, who gave the opening remarks, also provided (cid:12)nancial
backing and suggested the Redpath Museum as a conference venue.
Iwishto thank these people andallthe many otherswho contributedto the
success of the conference.
GD ’99 is to be held in the Czech Republic, September 15{19, 1999, under
the sponsorship of DIMATIA and Charles University, with Jan Kratochv(cid:19)(cid:16)l as
conference chair.
Montr(cid:19)eal,October 1998 Sue Whitesides
ProgramCommittee Chair
Organizing Committee Chair
GD ’98
Program Committee
Franz Brandenburg (Univerity of Passau,Germany)
Peter Eades (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Emden Gansner (AT&T, USA)
Michael Kaufmann (University of Tu¨bingen, Germany)
Giuseppe Liotta (University of Rome \La Sapienza", Italy)
Anna Lubiw (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Brendan Madden (Tom Sawyer Software, USA)
Joe Marks (Mitsubishi Electric, USA)
Shin-ichi Nakano (Tohoku University, Japan)
Ja(cid:19)nos Pach (NYU, USA)
Roberto Tamassia (Brown University, USA)
Ioannis G. Tollis (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Dorothea Wagner (University of Constance, Germany)
Sue Whitesides, chair (McGill University, Canada)
Organizing Committee
Therese Biedl (McGill University, Canada)
Prosenjit Bose (Carleton University, Canada )
Franc(cid:24)ois Labelle (McGill University, Canada )
Sylvain Lazard (McGill University, Canada)
Giuseppe Liotta (University of Rome \La Sapienza", Italy)
Steve Robbins (McGill University, Canada)
Sue Whitesides (McGill University, Canada)
Graph Drawing Contest Organizers
Peter Eades (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Joe Marks (Mitsubishi Electric, USA)
Petra Mutzel (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany)
Stephen North (AT&T, USA)
Poster Gallery Organizer
Therese Biedl (McGill University, Canada)
Steering Committee
Franz J. Brandenburg (University of Passau,Germany)
Giuseppe Di Battista (University of Rome Tre, Italy)
Peter Eades (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Jan Kratochv(cid:19)(cid:16)l(Charles University, Czech Republic)
Joe Marks (Mitsubishi Electric, USA)
Roberto Tamassia (Brown University, USA)
Ioannis Tollis (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Sue Whitesides (McGill University, Canada)
Arrangements and Registration
Judy Kenigsberg (McGill University, Canada)
Lucy St. James (McGill University, Canada)
Volunteers
Ehab Abdul-Baki Julianna Lin Gilles Pesant
Kathleen Botter Albert Mah Uri Pizarro
Frank Eory Minou Mansouri Michael Soss
Abeer Ghuneim Anouk Mercier
Monica Giannikakis C(cid:19)ecile Morin
VIII Preface
Sponsor
McGill University, Faculty of Science
Additional Referees
W. Bachl C. Iturriaga G. Toth
T. Biedl K. Kakoulis L. Vismara
U. Brandes H. Lauer K. Weihe
E. Demaine A. Liebers R. Wiese
E. Dengler P. Mutzel S. Wetzel
W. Didimo M. Patrignani T. Willhalm
D. Handke R. Pollack T. Wurst
M. Himsolt A. Quigley A. Zell
S. Hong B. Regan
M. Houle F. Schreiber
M. L. Huang J. Six
Contents
Papers
Drawing of Two-Dimensional Irregular Meshes ............................. 1
Alok Aggarwal, S. Rao Kosaraju, and Mihai Pop
Quasi-UpwardPlanarity .................................................. 15
Paola Bertolazzi, Giuseppe Di Battista, and Walter Didimo
Three Approaches to 3D-OrthogonalBox-Drawings ....................... 30
Therese C. Biedl
Using Graph Layout to Visualize Train Interconnection Data .............. 44
Ulrik Brandes and Dorothea Wagner
Difference Metrics for Interactive Orthogonal Graph
Drawing Algorithms ...................................................... 57
Stina Bridgeman and Roberto Tamassia
Upward Planarity Checking: “Faces Are More than Polygons” ............. 72
Giuseppe Di Battista and Giuseppe Liotta
A Split&Push Approach to 3D OrthogonalDrawing ....................... 87
Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, and Francesco Vargiu
Geometric Thickness of Complete Graphs ................................ 102
Michael B. Dillencourt, David Eppstein, and Daniel S. Hirschberg
Balanced Aspect Ratio Trees and Their Use for
Drawing Very Large Graphs ............................................. 111
Christian A. Duncan, Michael T. Goodrich, and Stephen G. Kobourov
On Improving OrthogonalDrawings: The 4M-Algorithm ................. 125
Ulrich Fo¨ßmeier, Carsten Heß, and Michael Kaufmann
Algorithmic Patterns for Graph Drawing ................................. 138
Natasha Gelfand and Roberto Tamassia
A Framework for Drawing Planar Graphs with Curves and Polylines ..... 153
Michael T. Goodrich and Christopher G. Wagner
Planar Polyline Drawings with Good Angular Resolution ................. 167
Carsten Gutwenger and Petra Mutzel
A Layout Adjustment Problem for Disjoint Rectangles
Preserving Orthogonal Order ............................................ 183
Kunihiko Hayashi, Michiko Inoue, Toshimitsu Masuzawa,
and Hideo Fujiwara
X Contents
Drawing Algorithms for Series-ParallelDigraphs
in Two and Three Dimensions ........................................... 198
Seok-Hee Hong, Peter Eades, Aaron Quigley, and Sang-Ho Lee
Approximation Algorithms for Finding Best Viewpoints .................. 210
Michael E. Houle and Richard Webber
Level Planarity Testing in Linear Time ................................... 224
Michael Ju¨nger, Sebastian Leipert, and Petra Mutzel
Crossing Number of Abstract TopologicalGraphs ........................ 238
Jan Kratochv´ıl
Self-Organizing Graphs – A Neural Network Perspective
of Graph Layout ......................................................... 246
Bernd Meyer
Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex Locations .................... 263
Janos P´ach and Rephael Wenger
Proximity Drawings: Three Dimensions Are Better than Two ............ 275
Paolo Penna and Paola Vocca
NP-Completeness of Some Tree-Clustering Problems ..................... 288
F. Schreiber and K. Skodinis
Refinement of OrthogonalGraph Drawings ............................... 302
Janet M. Six, Konstantinos G. Kakoulis, and Ioannis G. Tollis
A Combinatorial Framework for Map Labeling ........................... 316
Frank Wagner and Alexander Wolff
An Algorithm for Three-Dimensional OrthogonalGraph Drawing ........ 332
David R. Wood
System Demonstrations
Graph Multidrawing: Finding Nice Drawings without Defining Nice ...... 347
Therese Biedl, Joe Marks, Kathy Ryall, and Sue Whitesides
Edge Labeling in the Graph Layout Toolkit .............................. 356
U˘gur Do˘gruso¨z, Konstantinos G. Kakoulis, Brendan Madden,
and Ioannis G. Tollis
Improved Force-Directed Layouts ........................................ 364
Emden R. Gansner and Stephen C. North
A Fully Animated Interactive System for Clustering
and Navigating Huge Graphs ............................................ 374
Mao Lin Huang and Peter Eades
Drawing Large Graphs with H3Viewer and Site Manager ................. 384
Tamara Munzner