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DBdraw — Automatic Layout of Relational Database Schemas

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Graph Drawing Software

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DBdraw is a tool for the automatic layout of schemas coming from relational databases. The automatic production of high quality diagrams representing database schemas is a challenging task.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Universitá di Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 79, 00146, Roma, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani & Maurizio Pizzonia

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dell’Informazione, Universitá di Perugia, Via G. Duranti 93, 06125, Perugia, Italy

    Walter Didimo

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität zu Köln, Pohligstraße 1, 50969, Köln, Germany

    Michael Jünger

  2. Institut für Computergraphik und Algorithmen, Technische Universität Wien, Favoritenstraße 9-11 E186, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Petra Mutzel

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Di Battista, G., Didimo, W., Patrignani, M., Pizzonia, M. (2004). DBdraw — Automatic Layout of Relational Database Schemas. In: Jünger, M., Mutzel, P. (eds) Graph Drawing Software. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18638-7_11

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