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Computing NodeTrix Representations of Clustered Graphs

Computational Geometry 2016-09-12 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

NodeTrix representations are a popular way to visualize clustered graphs; they represent clusters as adjacency matrices and inter-cluster edges as curves connecting the matrix boundaries. We study the complexity of constructing NodeTrix representations focusing on planarity testing problems, and we show several NP-completeness results and some polynomial-time algorithms. Building on such algorithms we develop a JavaScript library for NodeTrix representations aimed at reducing the crossings between edges incident to the same matrix.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08952,
  title  = {Computing NodeTrix Representations of Clustered Graphs},
  author = {Giordano Da Lozzo and Giuseppe Di Battista and Fabrizio Frati and Maurizio Patrignani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08952},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Appears in the Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2016)

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