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From: ajb@grebyn.com (Alan J. Broder)
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Subject: Relaxation techniques in Byte: Found !!!!
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Date: 8 Jan 91 21:58:35 GMT
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In a previous posting I asked for help in locating an article
of interest in Byte magazing. After several false starts, I
finally found the article, in the August, 1986 issue of Byte.
Since several readers asked for the reference if I found it,
I am posting a brief summary:

Title: Similarity Mapping, A Macintosh program that creates
"maps" from tables of distance data.
Author: Rob Spencer

Summary: The author describes a technique for automatically
determining the relative placement of cities on a map, given
the pairwise distances between them. Several references are
provided, the most important of which is :

	Introduction to Multi-Dimensional Scaling
	Schiffman, S.S., M.L. Reynolds, and F.L. Young
	New York, Academic Press, 1981.

I hope this is helpful.

Alan Broder