Title :
Dynamic Drawing of Clustered Graphs
Author :
Frishman, Yaniv ; Tal, Ayellet
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
This paper presents an algorithm for drawing a sequence of graphs that contain an inherent grouping of their vertex set into clusters. It differs from previous work on dynamic graph drawing in the emphasis that is put on maintaining the clustered structure of the graph during incremental layout. The algorithm works online and allows arbitrary modifications to the graph. It is generic and can be implemented using a wide range of static force-directed graph layout tools. The paper introduces several metrics for measuring layout quality of dynamic clustered graphs. The performance of our algorithm is analyzed using these metrics. The algorithm has been successfully applied to visualizing mobile object software
Keywords :
computer animation; data structures; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; mobile computing; pattern clustering; technical drawing; clustered graphs; computer animation; data structures; dynamic graph drawing; graphical user interfaces; mobile objects; software visualization; Algorithm design and analysis; Animation; Application software; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Data visualization; Engineering drawings; Layout; Performance analysis; Software algorithms; dynamic layout; graph drawing; mobile objects; software visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2004. INFOVIS 2004. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8779-3
DOI :
10.1109/INFVIS.2004.18
