Labeling points with rectangles of various shapes

International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 511-528

  Koike, Atsushi ^a   Nakano, Shin Ichi ^b   Nishizeki, Takao ^a   Tokuyama, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Shuhei ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Map labelling; Parametric search; Plane sweep algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036970559     PISSN: 02181959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218195902001018     Document Type: Article

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