Drawing Directed Acyclic Graphs: An Experimental Study

نویسندگان

  • Giuseppe Di Battista
  • Ashim Garg
  • Giuseppe Liotta
  • Armando Parise
  • Roberto Tamassia
  • Emanuele Tassinari
  • Francesco Vargiu
  • Luca Vismara
چکیده

In this paper we consider the class of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), and present the results of an experimental study on four drawing algorithms speciically developed for DAGs. Our study is conducted on two large test suites of DAGs and yields more than 30 charts comparing the performance of the drawing algorithms with respect to several quality measures, including area, crossings, bends, and aspect ratio. The algorithms exhibit various trade-oos with respect to the quality measures, and none of them clearly outperforms the others.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996