Multi-dimension browse

Conventional hierarchical organizations are inadequate in managing multi-dimensional artifacts such as publications. Much research has attempted at a more usable high dimensional information visualization and browsing experience, but has failed at the curse of dimensionality, exhibiting one or more of the following symptoms: (1) interface is unfamiliar, non-intuitive or cluttered; (2) dimensions viewable are limited or require to be in numeric domain; (3) update and/or browsing requires exponential time. This work proposes a hypercube artifact space model and an interactive browsing methodology, multi-dimension browse, which offers: (1) a familiar, intuitive and simple interface with summarization results; (2) browse against any and all dimensions; (3) update and browse costs linear in number of dimensions and artifacts respectively, and browse costs can be further reduced logarithmically on parallel platforms.