As time goes by: integrated visualization and analysis of dynamic networks

  • Authors:
  • Mathias Pohl;Florian Reitz;Peter Birke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trier;Engineering University of Trier;University of Trier

  • Venue:
  • AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The dynamics of networks have become more and more important in all research fields that depend on network analysis. Standard network visualization and analysis tools usual do not offer a suitable interface to network dynamics. These tools do not incorporate specialized visualization algorithms for dynamic networks but only algorithms for static networks. This results in layouts that bother the user with too many layout changes which makes it very hard to work with them. To handle dynamic networks the Dgd-tool was implemented. It does not only provide several layout algorithms that were designed for dynamic networks but also different instruments for statistical network analysis. Network visualization and statistics are combined in a multiple view interface that allows visual comparison of several network layouts and several network metrics at the same time. Furthermore the time-dependent behaviour of structural changes becomes visible and facilitates the analysis of network dynamics.