8 Search Results for "Niedermann, Benjamin"


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Visualizing Treewidth

Authors: Alvin Chiu, Thomas Depian, David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, and Martin Nöllenburg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 357, 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)


Abstract
A witness drawing of a graph is a visualization that clearly shows a given property of a graph. We study and implement various drawing paradigms for witness drawings to clearly show that graphs have bounded pathwidth or treewidth. Our approach draws the tree decomposition or path decomposition as a tree of bags, with induced subgraphs shown in each bag, and with "tracks" for each graph vertex connecting its copies in multiple bags. Within bags, we optimize the vertex layout to avoid crossings of edges and tracks. We implement a visualization prototype for crossing minimization using dynamic programming for graphs of small width and heuristic approaches for graphs of larger width. We introduce a taxonomy of drawing styles, which render the subgraph for each bag as an arc diagram with one or two pages or as a circular layout with straight-line edges, and we render tracks either with straight lines or with orbital-radial paths.

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Alvin Chiu, Thomas Depian, David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, and Martin Nöllenburg. Visualizing Treewidth. In 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 357, pp. 17:1-17:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{chiu_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2025.17,
  author =	{Chiu, Alvin and Depian, Thomas and Eppstein, David and Goodrich, Michael T. and N\"{o}llenburg, Martin},
  title =	{{Visualizing Treewidth}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-403-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{357},
  editor =	{Dujmovi\'{c}, Vida and Montecchiani, Fabrizio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250034},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph drawing, witness drawings, pathwidth, treewidth}
}
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A Walk on the Wild Side: A Shape-First Methodology for Orthogonal Drawings

Authors: Giordano Andreola, Susanna Caroppo, Giuseppe Di Battista, Fabrizio Grosso, Maurizio Patrignani, and Allegra Strippoli

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 357, 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)


Abstract
Several algorithms for the construction of orthogonal drawings of graphs, including those based on the Topology-Shape-Metrics (TSM) paradigm, tend to prioritize the minimization of crossings. This emphasis has two notable side effects: some edges are drawn with unnecessarily long sequences of segments and bends, and the overall drawing area may become excessively large. As a result, the produced drawings often lack geometric uniformity. Moreover, orthogonal crossings are known to have a limited impact on readability, suggesting that crossing minimization may not always be the optimal goal. In this paper, we introduce a methodology that "subverts" the traditional TSM pipeline by focusing on minimizing bends. Given a graph G, we ideally seek to construct a rectilinear drawing of G, that is, an orthogonal drawing with no bends. When not possible, we incrementally subdivide the edges of G by introducing dummy vertices that will (possibly) correspond to bends in the final drawing. This process continues until a rectilinear drawing of a subdivision of the graph is found, after which the final coordinates are computed. We tackle the (NP-complete) rectilinear drawability problem by encoding it as a SAT formula and solving it with state-of-the-art SAT solvers. If the SAT formula is unsatisfiable, we use the solver’s proof to determine which edge to subdivide. Our implementation, domus, which is fairly simple, is evaluated through extensive experiments on small- to medium-sized graphs. The results show that it consistently outperforms ogdf’s TSM-based approach across most standard graph drawing metrics.

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Giordano Andreola, Susanna Caroppo, Giuseppe Di Battista, Fabrizio Grosso, Maurizio Patrignani, and Allegra Strippoli. A Walk on the Wild Side: A Shape-First Methodology for Orthogonal Drawings. In 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 357, pp. 35:1-35:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{andreola_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2025.35,
  author =	{Andreola, Giordano and Caroppo, Susanna and Di Battista, Giuseppe and Grosso, Fabrizio and Patrignani, Maurizio and Strippoli, Allegra},
  title =	{{A Walk on the Wild Side: A Shape-First Methodology for Orthogonal Drawings}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-403-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{357},
  editor =	{Dujmovi\'{c}, Vida and Montecchiani, Fabrizio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.35},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250218},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: Non-planar Orthogonal Drawings, SAT Solver, Experimental Comparison}
}
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Quantum Speedups for Polynomial-Time Dynamic Programming Algorithms

Authors: Susanna Caroppo, Giordano Da Lozzo, Giuseppe Di Battista, Michael T. Goodrich, and Martin Nöllenburg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 349, 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)


Abstract
We introduce a quantum dynamic programming framework that allows us to directly extend to the quantum realm a large body of classical dynamic programming algorithms. The corresponding quantum dynamic programming algorithms retain the same space complexity as their classical counterpart, while achieving a computational speedup. For a combinatorial (search or optimization) problem P and an instance I of P, such a speedup can be expressed in terms of the average degree δ of the {dependency digraph} G_𝒫(I) of I, determined by a recursive formulation of P. The nodes of this graph are the subproblems of P induced by I and its arcs are directed from each subproblem to those on whose solution it relies. In particular, our framework allows us to solve the considered problems in Õ(|V(G_𝒫(I))| √δ) time. As an example, we obtain a quantum version of the Bellman-Ford algorithm for computing shortest paths from a single source vertex to all the other vertices in a weighted n-vertex digraph with m edges that runs in Õ(n√{nm}) time, which improves the best known classical upper bound when m ∈ Ω(n^{1.4}).

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Susanna Caroppo, Giordano Da Lozzo, Giuseppe Di Battista, Michael T. Goodrich, and Martin Nöllenburg. Quantum Speedups for Polynomial-Time Dynamic Programming Algorithms. In 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 349, pp. 14:1-14:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{caroppo_et_al:LIPIcs.WADS.2025.14,
  author =	{Caroppo, Susanna and Da Lozzo, Giordano and Di Battista, Giuseppe and Goodrich, Michael T. and N\"{o}llenburg, Martin},
  title =	{{Quantum Speedups for Polynomial-Time Dynamic Programming Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-398-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{349},
  editor =	{Morin, Pat and Oh, Eunjin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242454},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dynamic Programming, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Random Access Memory}
}
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Residue Domination in Bounded-Treewidth Graphs

Authors: Jakob Greilhuber, Philipp Schepper, and Philip Wellnitz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 327, 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)


Abstract
For the vertex selection problem (σ,ρ)-DomSet one is given two fixed sets σ and ρ of integers and the task is to decide whether we can select vertices of the input graph such that, for every selected vertex, the number of selected neighbors is in σ and, for every unselected vertex, the number of selected neighbors is in ρ [Telle, Nord. J. Comp. 1994]. This framework covers many fundamental graph problems such as Independent Set and Dominating Set. We significantly extend the recent result by Focke et al. [SODA 2023] to investigate the case when σ and ρ are two (potentially different) residue classes modulo m ≥ 2. We study the problem parameterized by treewidth and present an algorithm that solves in time m^tw ⋅ n^O(1) the decision, minimization and maximization version of the problem. This significantly improves upon the known algorithms where for the case m ≥ 3 not even an explicit running time is known. We complement our algorithm by providing matching lower bounds which state that there is no (m-ε)^pw ⋅ n^O(1)-time algorithm parameterized by pathwidth pw, unless SETH fails. For m = 2, we extend these bounds to the minimization version as the decision version is efficiently solvable.

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Jakob Greilhuber, Philipp Schepper, and Philip Wellnitz. Residue Domination in Bounded-Treewidth Graphs. In 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 327, pp. 41:1-41:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{greilhuber_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2025.41,
  author =	{Greilhuber, Jakob and Schepper, Philipp and Wellnitz, Philip},
  title =	{{Residue Domination in Bounded-Treewidth Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)},
  pages =	{41:1--41:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-365-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{327},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Pimentel, Elaine and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.41},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-228675},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parameterized Complexity, Treewidth, Generalized Dominating Set, Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis}
}
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Software Abstract
yFiles - From Data to Meaningful Visualizations (Software Abstract)

Authors: Evmorfia Argyriou and Benjamin Niedermann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 320, 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024)


Abstract
Graph visualizations help with complex data analysis but often require expert knowledge to apply and configure advanced algorithms. yFiles, a diagramming SDK, bridges this gap by enabling developers to create interactive visualizations easily. This work demonstrates how yFiles helps transform raw data into accessible graph visualizations.

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Evmorfia Argyriou and Benjamin Niedermann. yFiles - From Data to Meaningful Visualizations (Software Abstract). In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 55:1-55:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{argyriou_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2024.55,
  author =	{Argyriou, Evmorfia and Niedermann, Benjamin},
  title =	{{yFiles - From Data to Meaningful Visualizations}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024)},
  pages =	{55:1--55:3},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-343-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{320},
  editor =	{Felsner, Stefan and Klein, Karsten},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2024.55},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-213398},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2024.55},
  annote =	{Keywords: diagramming SDK, layout algorithms, interactive graph visualization}
}
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Efficient Algorithms for Ortho-Radial Graph Drawing

Authors: Benjamin Niedermann, Ignaz Rutter, and Matthias Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 129, 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)


Abstract
Orthogonal drawings, i.e., embeddings of graphs into grids, are a classic topic in Graph Drawing. Often the goal is to find a drawing that minimizes the number of bends on the edges. A key ingredient for bend minimization algorithms is the existence of an orthogonal representation that allows to describe such drawings purely combinatorially by only listing the angles between the edges around each vertex and the directions of bends on the edges, but neglecting any kind of geometric information such as vertex coordinates or edge lengths. Barth et al. [2017] have established the existence of an analogous ortho-radial representation for ortho-radial drawings, which are embeddings into an ortho-radial grid, whose gridlines are concentric circles around the origin and straight-line spokes emanating from the origin but excluding the origin itself. While any orthogonal representation admits an orthogonal drawing, it is the circularity of the ortho-radial grid that makes the problem of characterizing valid ortho-radial representations all the more complex and interesting. Barth et al. prove such a characterization. However, the proof is existential and does not provide an efficient algorithm for testing whether a given ortho-radial representation is valid, let alone actually obtaining a drawing from an ortho-radial representation. In this paper we give quadratic-time algorithms for both of these tasks. They are based on a suitably constrained left-first DFS in planar graphs and several new insights on ortho-radial representations. Our validity check requires quadratic time, and a naive application of it would yield a quartic algorithm for constructing a drawing from a valid ortho-radial representation. Using further structural insights we speed up the drawing algorithm to quadratic running time.

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Benjamin Niedermann, Ignaz Rutter, and Matthias Wolf. Efficient Algorithms for Ortho-Radial Graph Drawing. In 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 129, pp. 53:1-53:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{niedermann_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.53,
  author =	{Niedermann, Benjamin and Rutter, Ignaz and Wolf, Matthias},
  title =	{{Efficient Algorithms for Ortho-Radial Graph Drawing}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)},
  pages =	{53:1--53:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-104-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{129},
  editor =	{Barequet, Gill and Wang, Yusu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.53},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104572},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.53},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph Drawing, Ortho-Radial Graph Drawing, Ortho-Radial Representation, Topology-Shape-Metrics, Efficient Algorithms}
}
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A Network Flow Model for the Analysis of Green Spaces in Urban Areas

Authors: Benjamin Niedermann, Johannes Oehrlein, Sven Lautenbach, and Jan-Henrik Haunert

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 114, 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)


Abstract
Green spaces in urban areas offer great possibilities of recreation, provided that they are easily accessible. Therefore, an ideal city should offer large green spaces close to where its residents live. Although there are several measures for the assessment of urban green spaces, the existing measures usually focus either on the total size of green spaces or on their accessibility. Hence, in this paper, we present a new methodology for assessing green-space provision and accessibility in an integrated way. The core of our methodology is an algorithm based on linear programming that computes an optimal assignment between residential areas and green spaces. In a basic setting, it assigns a green space of a prescribed size exclusively to each resident such that the average distance between residents and assigned green spaces is minimized. We contribute a detailed presentation on how to engineer an assignment-based method such that it yields reasonable results (e.g., by considering distances in the road network) and becomes efficient enough for the analysis of large metropolitan areas (e.g., we were able to process an instance of Berlin with about 130000 polygons representing green spaces, 18000 polygons representing residential areas, and 6 million road segments). Furthermore, we show that the optimal assignments resulting from our method enable a subsequent analysis that reveals both interesting global properties of a city as well as spatial patterns. For example, our method allows us to identify neighborhoods with a shortage of green spaces, which will help spatial planners in their decision making.

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Benjamin Niedermann, Johannes Oehrlein, Sven Lautenbach, and Jan-Henrik Haunert. A Network Flow Model for the Analysis of Green Spaces in Urban Areas. In 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 114, pp. 13:1-13:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{niedermann_et_al:LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.13,
  author =	{Niedermann, Benjamin and Oehrlein, Johannes and Lautenbach, Sven and Haunert, Jan-Henrik},
  title =	{{A Network Flow Model for the Analysis of Green Spaces in Urban Areas}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-083-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{114},
  editor =	{Winter, Stephan and Griffin, Amy and Sester, Monika},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93412},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: urban green, transportation problem, maximum flow, linear program}
}
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Towards a Topology-Shape-Metrics Framework for Ortho-Radial Drawings

Authors: Lukas Barth, Benjamin Niedermann, Ignaz Rutter, and Matthias Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 77, 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)


Abstract
Ortho-Radial drawings are a generalization of orthogonal drawings to grids that are formed by concentric circles and straight-line spokes emanating from the circles' center. Such drawings have applications in schematic graph layouts, e.g., for metro maps and destination maps. A plane graph is a planar graph with a fixed planar embedding. We give a combinatorial characterization of the plane graphs that admit a planar ortho-radial drawing without bends. Previously, such a characterization was only known for paths, cycles, and theta graphs, and in the special case of rectangular drawings for cubic graphs, where the contour of each face is required to be a rectangle. The characterization is expressed in terms of an ortho-radial representation that, similar to Tamassia's orthogonal representations for orthogonal drawings describes such a drawing combinatorially in terms of angles around vertices and bends on the edges. In this sense our characterization can be seen as a first step towards generalizing the Topology-Shape-Metrics framework of Tamassia to ortho-radial drawings.

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Lukas Barth, Benjamin Niedermann, Ignaz Rutter, and Matthias Wolf. Towards a Topology-Shape-Metrics Framework for Ortho-Radial Drawings. In 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 77, pp. 14:1-14:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{barth_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.14,
  author =	{Barth, Lukas and Niedermann, Benjamin and Rutter, Ignaz and Wolf, Matthias},
  title =	{{Towards a Topology-Shape-Metrics Framework for Ortho-Radial Drawings}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-038-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{77},
  editor =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-72234},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph Drawing, Ortho-Radial Drawings, Combinatorial Characterization, Bend Minimization, Topology-Shape-Metrics}
}
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