1. Drawing Directed Acyclic Graphs: An Experimental Study.
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Di Battista, Giuseppe, Garg, Ashim, Liotta, Giuseppe, Parise, Armando, Tamassia, Roberto, Tassinari, Emanuele, Vargiu, Francesco, Vismara, Luca, and Kirkpatrick, D. G.
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GRAPH theory , *ALGORITHMS , *TOPOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper we consider the important class of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), and present the results of a comparative study on four popular drawing algorithms specifically developed for them. The study has been performed within a general experimental setting consisting of two large test suites of DAGs and a set of quality measures. The focus of the experiments has been the practical behavior of the algorithms with a geometric foundation compared to that of the algorithms with a topological foundation. The four algorithms exhibit various trade-offs with respect to the quality measures considered, and none of them clearly outperforms the others. Our analysis has motivated the development of a new hybrid strategy for drawing DAGs that performs quite well in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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