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Edge Label Placement in Layered Graph Drawing

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2018)

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Many visual languages based on node-link diagrams use edge labels. We describe different strategies of placing edge labels in the context of the layered approach to graph drawing and investigate ways of encoding edge direction in labels. We also report on the results of experiments conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the strategies.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Nadine Yarar, Andreas Mühling, and Emmanuel Manalo for helpful suggestions while designing the experiment, and Helen Purchase for her excellent book on the subject.

This work has been supported in part by the German Science Foundation, as part of the Compact Graph Drawing with Port Constraints (ComDraPor, DFG HA 4407/8-1) project.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Christoph Daniel Schulze, Nis Wechselberg & Reinhard von Hanxleden

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  1. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter Chapman

  2. University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

    Gem Stapleton

  3. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Amirouche Moktefi

  4. Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA, USA

    Sarah Perez-Kriz

  5. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Francesco Bellucci

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Schulze, C.D., Wechselberg, N., von Hanxleden, R. (2018). Edge Label Placement in Layered Graph Drawing. In: Chapman, P., Stapleton, G., Moktefi, A., Perez-Kriz, S., Bellucci, F. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10871. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_10

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