GD '98 Technical Program

All technical sessions to be held in Redpath Museum, McGill campus.

Wednesday, August 12

7pm-10pm Registration at Thomson House, 3650 McTavish St.
GD '98 participants are invited to the farewell party for CCCG, at Thomson House, beginning at 8pm.



Thursday, August 13

8:00-9:00 Registration in Redpath Museum lobby

9:00-9:10 Welcome Words

Session I
Chair: Anna Lubiw, University of Waterloo
9:10-9:30 Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex Locations
Janos Pach and Rephael Wenger
9:30-9:50 Planar Polyline Drawings with Good Angular Resolution
Carsten Gutwenger and Petra Mutzel
9:50-10:10 A Framework for Drawing Planar Graphs with Curves and Polylines
Michael T. Goodrich and Christopher G. Wagner
10:10-10:30 Crossing Number of Abstract Topological Graphs
Jan Kratochvil

10:30-11:00 Break and poster gallery
Registration desk open

Session II
Chair: Ioannis Tollis, University of Texas at Dallas
11:00-11:20 Balanced Aspect Ratio Trees and Their Use for Drawing Very Large Graphs
Christian A. Duncan, Michael T. Goodrich and Stephen G. Kobourov
11:20-11:40 Geometric Thickness of Complete Graphs
Michael B. Dillencourt, David Eppstein and Daniel S. Hirschberg
11:40-12:00 NP-Completeness of some Tree-Clustering Problems
F. Schreiber and K. Skodinis

12:00-12:10 Group photo on the steps of Redpath
12:10-2:00 Lunch at Thomson House

Session III -- Demos
Chair: Emden Gansner, AT&T Labs
2:00-2:20 Edge Labeling in the Graph Layout Toolkit
Ugur Dogrusoz, Konstantinos G. Kakoulis, Brendan Madden and Ioannis G. Tollis
2:30-2:50 Graph Multidrawing: Finding Nice Drawings Without Defining Nice
Therese Biedl, Joe Marks, Kathy Ryall and Sue Whitesides
3:00-3:20 JIGGLE: Java Interactive General Graph Layout Environment
Daniel Tunkelang

3:20-4:00 Break and poster gallery

Session IV
Chair: Giuseppe Liotta, University of Rome
4:00-4:20 Approximation Algorithms for Finding Best Viewpoints
Michael E. Houle and Richard Webber
4:20-4:40 A Combinatorial Framework for Map Labeling
Alexander Wolff and Frank Wagner
4:40-5:00 Self-Organizing Graphs
Bernd Meyer
5:00-5:20 Using Graph Layout to Visualize Train Interconnection Data
Ulrik Brandes and Dorothea Wagner

5:20-6:00 Book Launch in Redpath Museum



Friday, August 14

8:00-9:00 Registration in Redpath Museum lobby

Session V
Chair: Michael Kaufmann, University of Tuebingen
9:00-9:20 An Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawing
David R. Wood
9:20-9:40 Three Approaches to 3D-Orthogonal Box-Drawings
Therese C. Biedl
9:40-10:00 A Split & Push Approach to 3D Orthogonal Drawing
Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani and Francesco Vargiu

10-10:30 Break and poster gallery
Registration desk open

Session VI
Chair: Shin-ichi Nakano, Tohoku University
10:30-10:50 On Improving Orthogonal Drawings: The 4M-Algorithm
Ulrich Foessmeier, Carsten Hess and Michael Kaufmann
10:50-11:10 Refinement of Orthogonal Graph Drawings
Janet M. Six, Konstantinos G. Kakoulis and Ionnis G. Tollis
11:10-11:30 Difference Metrics for Interactive Orthogonal Graph Drawing Algorithms
Stina Bridgeman and Roberto Tamassia
11:30-11:50 A Layout Adjustment Problem for Disjoint Rectangles Preserving Orthogonal Order
Kunihiko Hayashi, Michiko Inoue, Toshimitsu Masuzawa and Hideo Fujiwara

11:50-2:00 Lunch at Thomson House

Session VII -- Demos
Chair: Brendan Madden, Tom Sawyer Inc.
2:00-2:20 Cooperation between Interactive Actions and Automatic Drawing in a Schematic Editor
Gilles Paris
2:30-2:50 Improved Force-directed Layouts
Emden R. Gansner and Stephen C. North
3:00-3:20 Large Graph Exploration with H3Viewer and Site Manager
Tamara Munzner

3:20-4:00 Break and poster gallery

Session VIII
Chair: Franz Brandenburg, University of Passau
4:00-4:20 Level Planarity Testing in Linear Time
Michael Juenger, Sebastian Leipert and Petra Mutzel
4:20-4:40 Upward Planarity Checking: Faces Are More than Polygons
Giuseppe Di Battista and Giuseppe Liotta
4:40-5:00 Quasi-Upward Planarity
Paola Bertolazzi, Giuseppe Di Battista and Walter Didimo

7:00-11:00 Banquet at Club St. Denis, 257 Sherbrooke East
(corner of Sherbrooke and Laval Avenue, about a 20-30 minute walk from campus)
Dinner followed by award ceremony for Graph Drawing Contest Winners



Saturday, August 15

Session IX
Chair: Dorothea Wagner, University of Konstanz
9:00-9:20 Drawing Algorithms for Series-Parallel Digraphs in Two and Three Dimensions
Seok-Hee Hong, Peter Eades, Aaron Quigley and Sang-Ho Lee
9:20-9:40 Proximity Drawings: Three Dimensions are Better than Two
Paolo Penna and Paola Vocca
9:40-10:00 Drawing of Two-dimensional Irregular Meshes
Alok Aggarwal, S. Rao Kosaraju and Mihai Pop
10:00-10:20 Algorithmic Patterns for Graph Drawing
Natasha Gelfand and Roberto Tamassia

10:20-10:50 Break and poster gallery

Session X -- Demos
Chair: Roberto Tamassia, Brown University
10:50-11:10 Visualization of Parallel Execution Graphs
Bjoern Steckelbach, Till Bubeck, Ulrich Foessmeier, Michael Kaufmann, Marcus Ritt and Wolfgang Rosestiel
11:20-11:40 A Fully Animated Interactive System for Clustering and Navigating Huge Graphs
Mao Lin Huang and Peter Eades

11:50-12:00 Closing Remarks: See you in Prague at GD '99

Last update: 19:00 August 11, 1998.