Design and evaluation of MagnetViz - A graph visualization tool

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 822-835

  Spritzer, Andre Suslik ^a   Freitas, Carla Maria Dal Sasso ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

evaluation; force directed layout; Graph visualization; social networks visualization

Indexed keywords

BALANCE OF FORCE; EVALUATION; FORCE-DIRECTED; FORCE-DIRECTED LAYOUT; GRAPH LAYOUT; GRAPH TOPOLOGY; GRAPH VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE MANIPULATION; LAYOUT QUALITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USAGE SCENARIOS; USER STUDY;

GRAPH THEORY; MAGNETS; VISUALIZATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84859002286     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.106     Document Type: Article

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