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DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00262
DAGmaps and ε-Visibility Representations for DAGs: Algorithms and Characterizations
Vassilis Tsiaras and Ioannis G. Tollis
Vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 359-380, 2012. Regular paper.
Abstract DAGmaps are space filling visualizations of DAGs that generalize treemaps. Deciding whether or not a DAG admits a DAGmap is NP-complete. Although any layered planar DAG admits a one-dimensional DAGmap there was no complete characterization of the class of DAGs that admit a one-dimensional DAGmap. In this paper we prove that a DAG admits a one-dimensional DAGmap if and only if it admits a directed ε-visibility representation. Then we characterize the class of DAGs that admit directed ε-visibility representations. This class consists of the DAGs that admit a downward planar straight-line drawing such that all source and sink vertices are assigned to the external face. Finally we show that a DAGmap defines a directed three-dimensional ε-visibility representation of a DAG.
Key words: Graph Drawing, Visibility Representations, DAGmaps,
Treemaps, Planar st-Graphs
Submitted: November 2011.
Reviewed: February 2012.
Revised: April 2012.
Accepted: April 2012.
Final: May 2012.
Published: May 2012.
Communicated by Antonios Symvonis
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