Graph Drawing: 8th International Symposium, GD 2000 Colonial Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 20–23, 2000 Proceedings

Colin Ware (auth.), Joe Marks (eds.)3540415548, 9783540415541

This year’s meeting marked the Eighth International Symposium on Graph D- wing. The organizing and program committees worked hard to make this year’s symposium possible, and we were delighted that so many people came to – lonial Williamsburg, Virginia, for three days of the latest results in the eld of graph drawing. As in previous years, the review process was quite competitive. We accepted 30 out of 53 regular-length submissions, and 5 out of 15 short submissions, for a total acceptance ratio of 35 out of 68, or 51%. This year’s program featured several new developments in the eld. Four di erent approaches for handling very large graphs were presented in a session on force-directed layout. Two sessions were devoted to the latest advances in orthogonal graph drawing. And alongside the usual mix of theory and practice papers we had several contributions based on empirical studies of users and of systems. Our invited talks were given by two speakers who were new to most members of the GD community, but who work in areas that are closely related to graph drawing. Professor Colin Ware of the University of New Hampshire told us how knowledge of human visual perception is useful for the design of e ective data visualizations. And Professor David Jensen of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst talked about the process of knowledge discovery from graphs, a process that involves more than just graph drawing and visualization.

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Table of contents :
The Visual Representation of Information Structures….Pages 1-4
User Preference of Graph Layout Aesthetics: A UML Study….Pages 5-18
A User Study in Similarity Measures for Graph Drawing….Pages 19-30
Interactive Partitioning System Demonstration, Short….Pages 31-36
An Experimental Comparison of Orthogonal Compaction Algorithms….Pages 37-51
GraphXML — An XML-Based Graph Description Format….Pages 52-62
On Polar Visibility Representations of Graphs….Pages 63-76
A Linear Time Implementation of SPQR-Trees….Pages 77-90
Labeling Points with Rectangles of Various Shapes….Pages 91-102
How to Draw the Minimum Cuts of a Planar Graph….Pages 103-114
2 D -Structure Drawings of Similar Molecules….Pages 115-126
Fast Layout Methods for Timetable Graphs….Pages 127-138
An Algorithmic Framework for Visualizing Statecharts….Pages 139-149
Visualization of the Autonomous Systems Interconnections with H ermes ….Pages 150-163
Drawing Hypergraphs in the Subset Standard (Short Demo Paper)….Pages 164-169
Knowledge Discovery from Graphs….Pages 170-170
A Multilevel Algorithm for Force-Directed Graph Drawing….Pages 171-182
A Fast Multi-scale Method for Drawing Large Graphs….Pages 183-196
FADE: Graph Drawing, Clustering, and Visual Abstraction….Pages 197-210
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Force-Directed Layouts of Large Graphs….Pages 211-221
GRIP: Graph dRawing with Intelligent Placement….Pages 222-228
A Fast Layout Algorithm for k -Level Graphs….Pages 229-240
Graph Layout for Displaying Data Structures….Pages 241-252
k -Layer Straightline Crossing Minimization by Speeding Up Sifting….Pages 253-258
Lower Bounds for the Number of Bends in Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawings….Pages 259-271
Orthogonal Drawings of Cycles in 3D Space….Pages 272-283
Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawing with Optimal Volume….Pages 284-295
A Linear-Time Algorithm for Bend-Optimal Orthogonal Drawings of Biconnected Cubic Plane Graphs….Pages 296-307
Refinement of Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawings….Pages 308-320
ω -Searchlight Obedient Graph Drawings….Pages 321-327
Unavoidable Configurations in Complete Topological Graphs….Pages 328-337
Minimum Weight Drawings of Maximal Triangulations….Pages 338-349
A Layout Algorithm for Bar-Visibility Graphs on the Möbius Band….Pages 350-359
An Algorithm for Finding Three Dimensional Symmetry in Trees….Pages 360-371
On Maximum Symmetric Subgraphs….Pages 372-383
Clan-Based Incremental Drawing….Pages 384-395
The Marey Graph Animation Tool Demo….Pages 396-406
Graph Data Format Workshop Report….Pages 407-409
Graph-Drawing Contest Report….Pages 410-418