Title
Hierarchical planarity testing algorithms
Abstract
Using hierarchical definitions, one can describe very large graphs in small space. The blow-up from the length of the hierarchical description to the size of the graph can be as large as exponential. If the efficiency of graph algorithms is measured in terms of the length of the hierarchical description rather than in terms of the graph size, algorithms that do not exploit the hierarchy become hopelessly inefficient. Whether the hierarchy can be exploited to speed up the solution of graph problems depends on the hierarchical graph model. In the literature, hierarchical graph models have been described that allow almost no exploitation of the hierarchy [ 16]. In this paper, a hierarchical graph model that permits taking advantage of the hierarchy is presented. For this model algorithms are given that test planarity of a hierarchically described graph in linear time in the length of the hierarchical description.
Year
DOI
Venue
1989
10.1145/65950.65952
Journal of The ACM
Keywords
DocType
Volume
planarity,hierarchical graph model,graph algorithm,hierarchical planary testing algorithms,large graph,graph size,hierarchical definition,model algorithm,linear time,graph problem,small space,hierarchical description,hierarchical planarity testing algorithm,additional key words and phrases: hierarchical graph algorithms
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
3
0004-5411
0-387-16761-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
1.09
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
T. Lengauer111015.00
Paderborn West-Germany2131.09