Special Issue on Selected Papers from the Twelfth International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2004
Clustering Cycles into Cycles of Clusters
Vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 391-413, 2005. Regular paper.
Abstract In this paper we study simple families of clustered graphs that are highly unconnected. We start by studying 3-cluster cycles, which are clustered graphs such that the underlying graph is a simple cycle and there are three clusters all at the same level. We show that in this case, testing the c-planarity can be done efficiently and give an efficient drawing algorithm. Also, we characterize 3-cluster cycles in terms of formal grammars. Finally, we generalize the results on 3-cluster cycles considering clustered graphs that have a cycle structure at each level of the inclusion tree. We present efficient c-planarity testing and drawing algorithms also for this case.
Submitted: November 2004.
Revised: July 2005.
Communicated by Emden Gansner and János Pach
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