Graph visualization toolkits

Author

Dogrusoz, Ugur ; Feng, Qingwen ; Madden, Brendan ; Doorley, Michael ; Frick, Arne

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng., Bilkent Univ., Ankara, Turkey

Volume

22

Issue

1

fYear

2002

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

37

Abstract

The authors have created two toolkits that allow developers to easily integrate graph visualization capabilities into custom software applications. The Graph Layout Toolkit (GLT) provides interfaces for modeling, drawing, and automatically laying out graphs. The Graph Editing Toolkit (GET) provides a customizable display and editing layer, which facilitates rapidly developing tools that visualize data in the form of graphs. The authors present an architectural overview of these tools and discuss the challenges encountered during implementation and integration of theory and research results into such tools, In particular, they discuss automatic graph layout and labeling algorithms and complexity management techniques. In addition, they present examples of applications using these tools

Keywords

data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; graphs; GET; GLT; Graph Editor Toolkit; Graph Layout Toolkit; automatic graph layout; complexity management techniques; customizable display; graph visualization toolkits; labeling algorithms; software applications; Application software; Data visualization; Displays; Flowcharts; Labeling; Layout; Object oriented modeling; Software libraries; Tree graphs; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.974516

Filename

974516