Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Herman;Guy Melançon;M. Scott Marshall

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This is a survey on graph visualization and navigation techniques, as used in information visualization. Graphs appear in numerous applications such as web browsing, state-transition diagrams, and data structures. The ability to visualize and to navigate in these potentially large, abstract graphs is often a crucial part of an application. Information visualization has specific requirements, which means that this survey approaches the results of traditional graph drawing from a different perspective.