MOVIS: A system for visualizing distributed mobile object environments

  • Authors:
  • Yaniv Frishman;Ayellet Tal

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel;Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents MOVIS-a system for visualizing mobile object frameworks. In such frameworks, the objects can migrate to remote hosts, along with their state and behavior, while the application is running. An innovative graph-based visualization is used to depict the physical and the logical connections in the distributed object network. Scalability is achieved by using a focus+context technique jointly with a user-steered clustering algorithm. In addition, an event synchronization model for mobile objects is presented. The system has been applied to visualizing several mobile object applications.