The planarization method is the strongest known method to heuristically find good solutions to the general crossing number problem in graphs: starting from a planar subgraph, one iteratively inserts edges, representing crossings via dummy nodes. In the recent years, several improvements both from the practical and the theoretical point of view have been made. We review these advances and conduct an extensive study of the algorithms' practical implications. Thereby, we present the first implementation of an approximation algorithm for the crossing number problem of general graphs, and compare the obtained results with known exact crossing number solutions. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Chimani, M., & Gutwenger, C. (2012). Advances in the planarization method: Effective multiple edge insertions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7034 LNCS, pp. 87–98). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25878-7_10
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