Summarizing Dynamic Bipolar Conflict Structures

Author

Brandes, U. ; Fleischer, D. ; Lerner, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Konstanz Univ.

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1486

Lastpage

1499

Abstract

We present a method for visual summary of bilateral conflict structures embodied in event data. Such data consists of actors linked by time-stamped events and may be extracted from various sources such as news reports and dossiers. When analyzing political events, it is of particular importance to be able to recognize conflicts and actors involved in them. By projecting actors into a conflict space, we are able to highlight the main opponents in a series of tens of thousands of events and provide a graphic overview of the conflict structure. Moreover, our method allows for smooth animation of the dynamics of a conflict

Keywords

computer animation; data mining; data visualisation; text analysis; dynamic bipolar conflict structure; information visualization; smooth animation; time-stamped event data; visual mining; visual summary; Animation; Data mining; Data visualization; Graphics; Information analysis; International relations; Scattering; Statistical analysis; Text mining; Vents; Information visualization; event analysis; text mining; time-dependent visualization.; Algorithms; Computer Graphics; Computer Simulation; Conflict (Psychology); Information Storage and Retrieval; Models, Theoretical; Social Behavior; User-Computer Interface; War;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-2626

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVCG.2006.105

Filename

1703369