Multiple foci visualisation of large hierarchies with flextree

Information Visualization

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-35

  Song, Hongzhi ^a   Curran, Edwin P ^a   Sterritt, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

focus+context; Hierarchy visualisation; multiple foci; node link diagram; tree layout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998183175     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500065     Document Type: Article

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