A polynomial time solution for labeling a rectilinear map1

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 201-207

  Poon, Chung Keung ^a   Binhai, Zhu ^a   Chin, Francis ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Map labeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MAP LABELING; POLYNOMIAL TIME APPROXIMATION SCHEME; RECTILINEAR MAP;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031998590     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-0190(98)00002-7     Document Type: Article

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