Effective visualization of conceptual class diagrams

A domain or conceptual class diagram is prepared during, or immediately after the requirements analysis phase. It shows the most important concepts within a domain and enables further refinement of requirements and comprehensive analysis of the software that will be developed from it. When the conceptual model is large, however, it becomes very difficult to visually segregate the concepts based on their relative importance. This paper presents a visualization technique for the conceptual class model that enables faster visualization of concepts and quicker segregation of concepts based on their relative importance.