On the edge label placement problem

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1190, Issue , 1997, Pages 241-256

  Kakoulis, Konstantinos G ^a   Tollis, Ioannis G ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPS;

EDGE LABELS; GRAPH G; LABEL PLACEMENT; LINE FEATURES; NP-HARD; TEXT LABELS;

DRAWING (GRAPHICS);

EID: 84957620386     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62495-3_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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