A survey of graph layout problems

  • Authors:
  • Josep Díaz;Jordi Petit;Maria Serna

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Graph layout problems are a particular class of combinatorial optimization problems whose goal is to find a linear layout of an input graph in such way that a certain objective cost is optimized. This survey considers their motivation, complexity, approximation properties, upper and lower bounds, heuristics and probabilistic analysis on random graphs. The result is a complete view of the current state of the art with respect to layout problems from an algorithmic point of view.