Experiments on drawing 2-level hierarchical graphs
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Computer Mathematics
- Vol. 36 (3-4) , 175-181
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207169008803921
Abstract
This paper studies different heuristics for drawing 2-level hierarchical graphs. Especially, we compare the barycenter and the median heuristics. We show that the barycenter heuristic clearly outperforms the median heuristic, although only the latter has a proved bound for the maximum error done when two vertices are ordered. Moreover, we improve a known heuristic, called the greedy switching, by introducing the barycenter heuristic as a preprocessing phase for it.Keywords
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