Use in Graph Drawing
Stress majorization and algorithms similar to SMACOF also have application in the field of graph drawing. That is, one can find a reasonably aesthetically appealing layout for a network or graph by minimizing a stress function over the positions of the nodes in the graph. In this case, the are usually set to the graph-theoretic distances between nodes i and j and the weights are taken to be . Here, is chosen as a trade-off between preserving long- or short-range ideal distances. Good results have been shown for .
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