@inproceedings{6c58a731790543f9b4bb5d47b14cf8c9,
title = "On vertex- and empty-ply proximity drawings",
abstract = "We initiate the study of the vertex-ply of straight-line drawings, as a relaxation of the recently introduced ply number. Consider the disks centered at each vertex with radius equal to half the length of the longest edge incident to the vertex. The vertex-ply of a drawing is determined by the vertex covered by the maximum number of disks. The main motivation for considering this relaxation is to relate the concept of ply to proximity drawings. In fact, if we interpret the set of disks as proximity regions, a drawing with vertex-ply number 1 can be seen as a weak proximity drawing, which we call empty-ply drawing. We show non-trivial relationships between the ply number and the vertex-ply number. Then, we focus on empty-ply drawings, proving some properties and studying what classes of graphs admit such drawings. Finally, we prove a lower bound on the ply and the vertex-ply of planar drawings.",
author = "Patrizio Angelini and Steven Chaplick and \{De Luca\}, Felice and Ji{\v r}{\'i} Fiala and Jaroslav Han{\v c}l and Niklas Heinsohn and Michael Kaufmann and Stephen Kobourov and Jan Kratochv{\'i}l and Pavel Valtr",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2018.; 25th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2017 ; Conference date: 25-09-2017 Through 27-09-2017",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-73915-1\_3",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319739144",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "24--37",
editor = "Kwan-Liu Ma and Fabrizio Frati",
booktitle = "Graph Drawing and Network Visualization - 25th International Symposium, GD 2017, Revised Selected Papers",
}