Automatically drawing Euler diagrams with circles

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 163-193

  Stapleton, Gem ^a   Flower, Jean ^a   Rodgers, Peter ^b   Howse, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Euler diagrams; Information visualization; Non hierarchical data visualization; Venn diagrams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860318290     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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