The crossing minimisation problem is of outmost importance in the field of
graph drawings. The aesthetical properties and readability of graphs are heavily
dependent on the number of crossings in a drawing. Moreover, crossing
minimisation is the most important goal in the linear Very Large Scale Integration
(VLSI) circuit design and Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA),
since smaller crossing number means lower cost. Another application is for the
problem of computing an mRNA sequence of maximal codon-wise similarity
to a given mRNA (MRSO problem) in bioinformatics computing. [Continues.]
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Publication date
2006
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.