@InProceedings{chang_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.29, author = {Chang, Hsien-Chih and Erickson, Jeff}, title = {{Untangling Planar Curves}}, booktitle = {32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)}, pages = {29:1--29:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-009-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {51}, editor = {Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Lubiw, Anna}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.29}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59218}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.29}, annote = {Keywords: computational topology, homotopy, planar graphs, Delta-Y transformations, defect, Reidemeister moves, tangles} }