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Straight-Line Rectangular Drawings of Clustered Graphs

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Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2009)

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We show that every c-planar clustered graph admits a straight-line c-planar drawing in which each cluster is represented by an axis-parallel rectangle, thus solving a problem posed by Eades, Feng, Lin, and Nagamochi [Algorithmica, 2006].

Fabrizio Frati was partially supported by the Italian Ministry of Research, Grant RBIP06BZW8, project “Advanced tracking system in intermodal freight transportation”. Michael Kaufmann was partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Grant KA812/13-1, project “Scalable visual analytics”.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Roma Tre University, Italy

    Patrizio Angelini & Fabrizio Frati

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen, Germany

    Michael Kaufmann

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  1. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Frank Dehne

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina Gavrilova

  3. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, P.O. Box, K1S 5B6, Ontario, Canada

    Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

  4. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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Angelini, P., Frati, F., Kaufmann, M. (2009). Straight-Line Rectangular Drawings of Clustered Graphs. In: Dehne, F., Gavrilova, M., Sack, JR., Tóth , C.D. (eds) Algorithms and Data Structures. WADS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5664. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03367-4_3

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