Visual analysis of large graphs using (X,Y)-clustering and hybrid visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1587-1598

  Batagelj, Vladimir ^a   Brandenburg, Franz J ^b   Didimo, Walter ^c   Liotta, Giuseppe ^c   Palladino, Pietro ^c   Patrignani, Maurizio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

graph clustering; hybrid visualization; Large graphs; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; GRAPH CLUSTERING; HYBRID VISUALIZATION; INTRA-CLUSTER; LARGE GRAPHS; LARGE NETWORKS; MENTAL MAPS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

VISUALIZATION;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 80052610417     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.265     Document Type: Article

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