• Media type: E-Article; Text
  • Title: Advances in C-Planarity Testing of Clustered Graphs (Extended Abstract)
  • Contributor: Gutwenger, Carsten [Author]; Leipert, Sebastian [Author]; Mutzel, Petra [Author]; Percan, Merijam [Author]; Weiskircher, René [Author]; Jünger, Michael [Author]
  • Published: Springer, 2002
  • Language: English; German
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  • Description: A clustered graph C=(G,T) consists of an undirected graph G and a rooted tree T in which the leaves of T correspond to the vertices of G=(V,E) . Each vertex c in T corresponds to a subset of the vertices of the graph called ''cluster''. C -planarity is a natural extension of graph planarity for clustered graphs, and plays an important role in automatic graph drawing. The complexity status of c -planarity testing is unknown. It has been shown that c -planarity can be tested in linear time for c -connected graphs, i.e., graphs in which the cluster induced subgraphs are connected. In this paper, we provide a polynomial time algorithm for c -planarity testing for 'àlmost'' c -connected clustered graphs, i.e., graphs for which all c -vertices corresponding to the non- c -connected clusters lie on the same path in T starting at the root of T , or graphs in which for each non-connected cluster its super-cluster and all its siblings are connected. The algorithm uses ideas of the algorithm for subgraph induced planar connectivity augmentation. We regard it as a first step towards general c -planarity testing.