Onion graphs for focus+context views of UML class diagrams

VISSOFT 2007 - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 80-87

  Kagdi, Huzefa ^a   Maletic, Jonathan I ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUS+CONTEXT; FOCUS+CONTEXT TECHNIQUES; INTERNATIONAL (CO); LEVELS OF DETAIL (LOD); OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; SELECTIVE AGGREGATION; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; UML CLASS MODELS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; STANDARDS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 46649109352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2007.4290704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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