How to display group information on node-link diagrams: An evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1530-1541

  Jianu, Radu ^a   Rusu, Adrian ^b   Hu, Yifan ^c   Taggart, Douglas ^b  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Rowan University   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

clustering; evaluation; Networks; sets; user study

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; EVALUATION; NODE-LINK DIAGRAMS; SETS; USER STUDY;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 84907541297     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2315995     Document Type: Article

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