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Second, choose a point a ∈ P on p and a point b ∈ P left of pa so that c the interior of angle apb is as large as possible and contains |Tm | − 1 points. |Tβ | p Recall that |Tm | does not count ν if |Tα | ν ∈ Tm . There are essentially two choices—a can be chosen on either p side of p, and then b is determined a as the |Tm |th point counterclockwise b |Tm | around p from pa. If there is a point of P on pa then perturb a into apb. → → and← When done, the lines ← pa pb de- Figure 5: Find bisector p , then termine two opposite angles as in fig- pb and pc ure 5: angle apb has |Tm | − 1 points not including b, and the opposite has at least |Tm | points.

3, pp. 1–13 (1997) Low-degree Graph Partitioning via Local Search with Applications to Constraint Satisfaction, Max Cut, and Coloring Magn´ us M. sg Abstract We present practical algorithms for constructing partitions of graphs into a fixed number of vertex-disjoint subgraphs that satisfy particular degree constraints. We use this in particular to find k-cuts of graphs of 1 maximum degree ∆ that cut at least a k−1 (1 + 2∆+k−1 ) fraction of the k edges, improving previous bounds known. The partitions also apply to constraint networks, for which we give a tight analysis of natural local search heuristics for the maximum constraint satisfaction problem.

Vn−1 } and a set of edges E = {eij = {vi , vj } | there is an edge between vi ∈ V and vj ∈ V }. The edges can be directed, in which case eij = eji or undirected, in which case eij = eji . The problem of drawing a graph given its combinatorial description G is termed layout creation in [25]. Layout creation algorithms try to position the nodes and edges of G such that certain optimization criteria are satisfied. In the case where graphs with an existing layout must be redrawn, the layouts can have clusters of nodes that are close together, making the labels of the nodes and the interactions between the nodes hard to read and understand.