Fixed parameter algorithms for one-sided crossing minimization revisited

  • Authors:
  • Vida Dujmović;Henning Fernau;Michael Kaufmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada;Universität Trier, FB IV, Abt. Informatik, 54286 Trier, Germany;Universität Tübingen, WSI für Informatik, Sand 13, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We exhibit a small problem kernel for the one-sided crossing minimization problem. This problem plays an important role in graph drawing algorithms based on the Sugiyama layering approach. Moreover, we improve on the search tree algorithm developed in [V. Dujmovic, S. Whitesides, An efficient fixed parameter tractable algorithm for 1-sided crossing minimization, Algorithmica 40 (2004) 15-31] and derive an O(1.4656^k+kn^2) algorithm for this problem, where k upperbounds the number of tolerated edge crossings in the drawings of an n-vertex graph.