Signed graphs are graphs with signed edges. They are commonly used to
represent positive and negative relationships in social networks. While balance
theory and clusterizable graphs deal with signed graphs to represent social
interactions, recent empirical studies have proved that they fail to reflect
some current practices in real social networks. In this paper we address the
issue of drawing signed graphs and capturing such social interactions. We relax
the previous assumptions to define a drawing as a model in which every vertex
has to be placed closer to its neighbors connected via a positive edge than its
neighbors connected via a negative edge in the resulting space. Based on this
definition, we address the problem of deciding whether a given signed graph has
a drawing in a given β-dimensional Euclidean space. We present forbidden
patterns for signed graphs that admit the introduced definition of drawing in
the Euclidean plane and line. We then focus on the 1-dimensional case, where
we provide a polynomial time algorithm that decides if a given complete signed
graph has a drawing, and constructs it when applicable