TY  - CONF
TI  - Visualizing Graphs - A Generalized View
AU  - Schulz, Hans-Jörg
AU  - Schumann, Heidrun
A2  - Banissi, Ebad
A2  - Burkhard, Remo Aslak
A2  - Ursyn, Anna
A2  - Zhang, Jian J.
A2  - Bannatyne, Mark
A2  - Maple, Carsten
A2  - Cowell, Andrew J.
A2  - Tian, Gui Yun
A2  - Hou, Ming
AB  - The visualization of graphs has proven to be very useful for exploring structures in different application domains. However, in certain fields of computer science, graph visualization is understood and focused quite differently. While "graph drawing" focuses on optimized layouts for node-link-representations of networks, "information visualization" prefers to work on hierarchies focusing on very large structures, different views and interactivity. This paper gives a systematic view of the problem of graph visualization by combining both approaches. We introduce a general view of different visualization methods as well as describe occurring problems and discuss basic constraints. These are used to propose a visualization framework for graphs, whose development motivated this paper.
C1  - London, UK
C3  - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'06)
DA  - 2006///
PY  - 2006
DO  - 10.1109/IV.2006.130
SP  - 166
EP  - 173
PB  - IEEE
SN  - 0-7695-2602-0
ER  -