This is a survey on graph visualization and navigation techniques, as used in information
visualization. Graphs appear in numerous applications such as Web browsing, state …

Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to
facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the …

We present a novel tree browser that builds on the conventional node link tree diagrams. It
adds dynamic rescaling of branches of the tree to best fit the available screen space …

Software is usually complex and always intangible. In practice, the development and
maintenance processes are time-consuming activities mainly because software complexity …

This paper describes two experiments that compare four two-dimensional visualizations of
hierarchies: organization chart, icicle plot, treemap, and tree ring. The visualizations are …

Goals of Visualization Techniques u Explorative Analysis• starting point: data without
hypotheses about the data• process: interactive, usually undirected search for structures …

The exploration of heterogenous information spaces requires suitable mining methods as
well as effective visual interfaces. Most of the existing systems concentrate either on mining …

This tutorial book features an augmented selection of the material presented at the GI-
Dagstuhl Research Seminar on Human-Centered Visualization Environments, HCVE 2006 …

Graph visualization is commonly used to visually model relations in many areas. Examples
include Web sites, CASE tools, and knowledge representation. When the amount of …

Analysis and design of programs by using tools has emerged to a standard technique in
object-oriented software engineering. Many of these tools claim to implement methods …