TimeBench: A data model and software library for visual analytics of time-oriented data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2247-2256

  Rind, Alexander ^a   Lammarsch, Tim ^a   Aigner, Wolfgang ^a   Alsallakh, Bilal ^a   Miksch, Silvia ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

information visualization; software infrastructure; temporal data; time; toolkits; Visual Analytics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE; TEMPORAL DATA; TIME; TOOLKITS; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886688874     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.206     Document Type: Article

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