Graph Drawing
Graph Drawing Pro ceedings of the ALCOM International Workshop on Graph Drawing Sevres Parc of Saint Cloud Paris Septemb er Edited by G Di Battista P Eades H de Fraysseix P Rosenstiehl and R Tamassia DRAFT do not distribute Septemb er ALCOM International Workshop on Graph Drawing Sevres Parc of Saint Cloud Paris Septemb er Graph drawing addresses the problem of constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks It is an emerging area of research that combines avors of graph theory and computational geometry The automatic generation of drawings of graphs has imp ortant applications in key computer technologies such as software enginering database design and visual interfaces Further challenging applications can b e found in architectural design circuit schematics and pro ject management Research on graph drawing has b een esp ecially active in the last decade Recent progress in computational geometry top ological graph theory and order theory has considerably aected the evolution of this eld and has widened the range of issues b eing investigated This rst international workshop on graph drawing covers ma jor trends in the area Pap ers describ e theorems algorithms graph drawing systems mathematical and exp erimental analyses practical exp erience and a wide variety of op en problems Authors come from diverse academic cultures from graph theory computational geometry and software engineering Supp ort from ALCOM I I ESPRIT BA and by EHESS is gratefully acknowledged we would also like to thank Mr David Montgomery