Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Data characterization for intelligent graphics presentation
CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Task-analytic approach to the automated design of graphic presentations
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Knowledge engineering for automated map design in DESCARTES
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
A Knowledge-Based System for Visualization Design
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Semiology of graphics
Knowledge-based support for visual exploration of spatial data
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Descartes is a knowledge-based system supporting exploratory analysis of spatially referenced data with the use of maps. It is capable of automated generation of maps and other graphical displays that represent data selected for analysis. Besides, the system selects and combines appropriate analytical instruments (graphical displays, data transformations, interactive operations etc.) depending on the analysis task the user needs to perform and instructs the user how to employ these instruments for this task. The intelligent behaviour of the system is based on three kinds of knowledge: the rules of data representation depending on the characteristics of the data and relationships between data components, the possible analysis tasks and correspondence between the tasks and the available instruments, and domain-specific knowledge allowing the system to "understand" the content of data.