Declarative language design for interactive visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1149-1156

  Heer, Jeffrey ^a   Bostock, Michael ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

declarative languages; domain specific languages; information visualization; optimization; toolkits; user interfaces

Indexed keywords

DATA MODELS; DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RUNTIMES; TOOLKITS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DESIGN; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION; XML;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 78149268393     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.144     Document Type: Article

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