Area Minimization for Grid Visibility Representation of Hierarchically Planar Graphs

@inproceedings{Lin1999AreaMF,
  title={Area Minimization for Grid Visibility Representation of Hierarchically Planar Graphs},
  author={Xuemin Lin and Peter Eades},
  booktitle={COCOON},
  year={1999}
}
Hierarchical graphs are an important class of graphs for modelling many real applications in software and information visualization. In this paper, we shall investigate the computational complexity of constructing minimum area grid visibility representations of hierarchically planar graphs. Firstly, we provide a quadratic algorithm that minimizes the drawing area with respect to a fixed planar embedding. This implies that the area minimization problem is polynomial time solvable restricted to… 
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