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    • Interactive Visual Analysis of Families of Surfaces: An Application to Car Race and Car Setup 

      Matkovic, Kresimir; Gracanin, Denis; Splechtna, Reiner; Hauser, Helwig (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Modern simulations often produce time series, or even functions of two variables as outputs for single attributes. Such complex data require carefully chosen and designed analysis procedures and the corresponding data ...
    • DYNEVI - DYnamic News Entity Visualization 

      Wanner, Franz; Schaefer, Matthias; Leitner-Fischer, Florian; Zintgraf, Fabian; Atkinson, M.; Keim, Daniel A. (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Dynamic news entity visualization shows an implementation of visualizing news entity data to give an overview as well as to display emerging and vanishing news topics. We present a robust and dynamic visualization system ...
    • Combining Details of the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test with Multivariate Data Visualization 

      May, Thorsten; Davey, James; Kohlhammer, Jörn (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      In this work, we combine KVMaps, a visualization technique presented in [May07] for the visualization of statistical aggregations in multivariate contingency tables, with the measures used for the statistical Chi-Square ...
    • Capturing Reasoning Process through User Interaction 

      Dou, Wenwen; Ribarsky, William; Chang, Remco (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      In recent years, visual analytics has taken an important role in solving many types of complex analytical problems that require deep and specific domain knowledge from users. While the analysis products generated by these ...
    • Visual Analytics in Software Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities 

      Telea, Alexandru; Ersoy, Ozan; Voinea, Lucian (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Visual analytics (VA) is an emerging science at the crossroads of data and information visualization, graphics, data mining, and knowledge representation, with many successful applications in engineering, business and ...
    • Comparative Visual Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Features 

      Rohrdantz, Christian; Mayer, Thomas; Butt, Miriam; Plank, Frans; Keim, Daniel A. (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Approaches in Visual Analytics have so far been developed for a wide array of research areas, mainly with a focus on industrial or business applications. The field of linguistics, however, has only marginally incorporated ...
    • Policy-making in a Complex World: Can Visual Analytics Help? 

      Osimo, David; Lampathaki, Fenareti; Charalabidis, Yannis (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      As government are moving their focus from service provision to regulation, socio-economic issue are revealing more complex than ever to regulate. Traditional top-down and linear models for dealing with risks proved ...
    • Does Jason Bourne need Visual Analytics to catch the Jackal? 

      Bertone, Alessio; Lammarsch, Tim; Turic, Thomas; Aigner, Wolfgang; Miksch, Silvia (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Visual Analytics is a relatively new field which tries to combine and intertwine visual and analytical methods in an interactive manner. Because of the complex structure of time, the application of visual analytics methods ...
    • Visual Analytics to Check Marine Containers in the Eritr\@c Project 

      Aupetit, Michaël; Allano, Lorène; Espagnon, Isabelle; Sannie, Guillaume (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The Eritr@c project is a European project aiming at developing an inspection system to control marine containers for illicit or dangerous materials. The system is made of a neutron generator, a set of sensors, and an ...
    • Finding Arbitrary Shaped Clusters with Related Extents in Space and Time 

      Pölitz, Christian; Andrienko, Gennady; Andrienko, Natalia (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      The paper deals with density-based clustering of events, i.e. objects positioned in space and time, such as occurrences of earthquakes, forest fires, mobile phone calls, or photos with geographical references. Finding ...
    • Utilizing Treemaps for Multicriterial Search of 3D Objects 

      Petkos, Georgios; Darlagiannis, Vasilios; Moustakas, Konstantinos; Tzovaras, Dimitrios (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      We propose a treemap based interface for presentation of search results according to multiple search criteria. Different colors are used to represent the relevance of each item in the database according to the different ...
    • Sensemaking in Visual Analytics: Processes and Challenges 

      Attfield, Simon J.; Hara, Sukhvinder K.; Wong, B. L. William (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Since Visual Analytic systems support human sensemaking it is essential that such systems are designed with characteristics of this process in mind. Drawing on our previous work with lawyers and reports from experienced ...
    • Stress Maps: Analysing Local Phenomena in Dimensionality Reduction Based Visualisations 

      Seifert, Christin; Sabol, Vedran; Kienreich, Wolfgang (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Challenges in Visual Analytics frequently involve massive repositories, which do not only contain a large number of information artefacts, but also a high number of relevant dimensions per artefact. Dimensionality reduction ...
    • Smart Query Definition for Content-Based Search in Large Sets of Graphs 

      Landesberger, Tatiana von; Bremm, Sebastian; Bernard, Jürgen; Schreck, Tobias (The Eurographics Association, 2010)
      Graphs are used in various application areas such as chemical, social or shareholder network analysis. Finding relevant graphs in large graph databases is thereby an important problem. Such search starts with the definition ...
    • A Framework for the Multi-Temporal Analysis of Land Cover Change using Visual Analytics 

      Kinkeldey, C.; Schiewe, J. (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      Land cover change analysis serves as a basis for planning processes in a wide range of applications. For this task, the use of remote sensing data has become more popular over the last decades. However, despite much research ...
    • Contingency Wheel: Visual Analysis of Large Contingency Tables 

      Alsallakh, Bilal; Groeller, Eduard; Miksch, Silvia; Suntinger, Martin (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      We present the Contingency Wheel, a visual method for finding and analyzing associations in a large nxm contingency table with m less than 100 and n being two to three orders of magnitude larger than m. The method is ...
    • Characterizing Visual Analytics in Diagnostic Imaging 

      Lundström, C.; Persson, A. (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      Many necessary and desired improvements in healthcare are dependent on progress in medical imaging. As shown in this paper, the challenges targeted by visual analytics (VA) coincide with main challenges for radiologists' ...
    • Adaptive Interactive Multi-Resolution Computational Steering for Complex Engineering Systems 

      Matkovic, K.; Gracanin, D.; Jelovic, M.; Cao, Y. (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      Computational steering integrates modeling, computation, data analysis, visualization, and data input components of a simulation. Since the simulation space is, in general, very large and continuous, selecting discrete ...
    • Steerable Clustering for Visual Analysis of Ecosystems 

      Ahmed, Zafar; Yost, Patrick; McGovern, Amy; Weaver, Chris (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      One of the great challenges in the geosciences is understanding ecological systems in order to predict changes and responses in space and time at scales from local to global. Ecologists are starting to recognize the value ...
    • Understanding the Role and Value of Interaction: First Steps 

      Aigner, W. (The Eurographics Association, 2011)
      Visual Analytics strongly emphasizes the importance of interaction. However, until now, interaction is only sparingly treated as subject matter on its own. How and why interactivity is beneficial to gain insight and make ...