Clustering cycles into cycles of clusters

  • Authors:
  • Pier Francesco Cortese;Giuseppe Di Battista;Maurizio Patrignani;Maurizio Pizzonia

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Italy

  • Venue:
  • GD'04 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Graph Drawing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper we study the clustered graphs whose underlying graph is a cycle. This is a simple family of clustered graphs that are “highly non connected”. We start by studying 3-cluster cycles, that 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 at each level of the inclusion tree have a cycle structure. Even in this case we show efficient c-planarity testing and drawing algorithms.