Nodes on ropes: A comprehensive data and control flow for steering ensemble simulations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1872-1881

  Waser, Jurgen ^a   Ribičić, Hrvoje ^a   Fuchs, Raphael ^b   Hirsch, Christian ^a   Schindler, Benjamin ^b   Blöschl, Gunther ^c   Gröller, Eduard ^c  

^a VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data Flow; Emergency Disaster Management; Meta Flow; Parameter Study; Uncertainty; Visual Knowledge Discovery; Visualization of Control; Visualization System and Toolkit Design

Indexed keywords

DATAFLOW; EMERGENCY/DISASTER MANAGEMENT; META-FLOW; PARAMETER STUDIES; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND TOOLKIT DESIGN;

ROPE; VISUALIZATION;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 80855130051     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.225     Document Type: Article

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