Model-based visualization for enterprise information management

The next generation user-interface for information systems will feature model-assisted visualization. The visual user-interfaces will incorporate and utilize available and rigorous contextual models of information in conveying enterprise information to users. These models will drive the synthesis of the visual elements representing information, portray the dynamics inherent in enterprise information, and guide the interactions in the man-machine interface. A formal framework utilizing an information universe paradigm (with the globe metaphor), a visualization architecture, and a metadatabase is proposed to provide some solutions to the new user interface. Prototyping and other investigations for the framework are underway