The Design of an Extendible Graph Editor
| Author/creator | Paulisch, F. N. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Springer |
| Description | XV, 184 p. 23.500 x 015.500 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 704 |
| Summary | Annotation Graphs can be used to convey information about relationshipsin many applications. State transition diagrams, PERT/CPMcharts, and entity-relationship diagrams are a few examplesof many applications involving graphs. Typically, nodes inthe graph represent items in the application and the edgesrepresent the relationships among these items. A grapheditor is an interactive tool that presents a graph to theuser pictorially and allows the user to edit the graph.This monograph presents the design of an extendible grapheditor, which is a graph editor that can be adapted easilyto many different application areas. Several fundamental andrecurring problem areas associated with graph editors areinvestigated and a solution is proposed for each. The topicsinvestigated are:- Graph layout: a layout constraint mechanism is presentedwhich can easily be combined with various graph layoutalgorithms.- Graphical abstraction: a novel clustering techniquecallededge concentration is presented which can reduce theapparent complexity of the graph.- Persistence: the graph structures produced by theeditorcan be kept in long-term storage using a standardized,external format for graphs.- Extendibility: the design of the proposed graph editormakes it easy to adapt to various applications.To demonstrate their feasibility, the proposed solutionshave been incorporated into EDGE, an extendible graph editorprotoype. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783540570905 |
| ISBN | 354057090X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9783540570905 |
| Stock number | 354057090X 00024965 |
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