ParaGlide: Interactive parameter space partitioning for computer simulations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1499-1512

  Bergner, Steven ^a   Sedlmair, Michael ^b   Möller, Torsten ^b   Nabi Abdolyousefi, Sareh ^a   Saad, Ahmed ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; interactive visual analysis; parameter space partitioning; region based experimental design; similarity based embedding

Indexed keywords

HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIMULATION; PARAMETER SPACES; REGION-BASED; SIMILARITY-BASED EMBEDDING; USER-CENTERED DESIGN PROCESS;

PARTITIONS (BUILDING); USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84880837138     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.61     Document Type: Article

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