Optimum Layout Adjustment Supporting
Ordering Constraints in Graph-Like Diagram Drawing
Abstract
We propose an optimisation-based technique for layout operations ensuring
flexible and convenient interactive editing of a wide class of graph-like
diagrams. Diagrams may be very complex, containing nested nodes, textual
labels on connection paths, and branched structures of paths. Layout operations
rely on a mental map preserving optimum layout adjustment via solving a
quadratic programming problem subject to ordering constraints. For this
purpose, we have developed a highly efficient mathematical programming
method. This method also enables to solve several related optimisation
problems, such as optimum placement of vertices into layers, or horizontal
coordinate assignment for layered vertices, which were considered to be
difficult in practice.
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Optimum Layout Adjustment Supporting Ordering
Constraints in Graph-Like Diagram Drawing.
K. Freivalds, P. Kikusts, Proc. of the Latvian Academy of Sciences,
Section B, Vol. 55 (2001), No. 1.
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