Elastic labels around the perimeter of a map

Journal of Algorithms

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-39

  Iturriaga, Claudia ^a   Lubiw, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; POLYNOMIALS; THEOREM PROVING;

ELASTIC LABELING PROBLEM; MAP LABELING PROBLEM; POLYNOMIAL TIME ALGORITHM; RECTANGLE PERIMETER LABELING PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0038201513     PISSN: 01966774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-6774(03)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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