A fast algorithm for point labeling problem

Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, CCCG 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 155-158

  Roy, Sasanka ^a   Bhattacharjee, Subhasis ^a   Das, Sandip ^a   Nandy, Subhas C ^a  

^a Indian Sta tistical Institute   (India)

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Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

AXIS PARALLEL RECTANGLES; FAST ALGORITHMS; MAP-LABELING; SPECIAL CLASS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 54949094065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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