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Towards Coordination-Intensive Visualization Software

Nadia Boukhelifa, Jonathan Roberts, and Peter Rodgers

In Proceedings PREP 2003 - Postgraduate Research Conference in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Software, pages 182-196. Sponsored by EPSRC and IEEE, April 2003.

Abstract

Most coordination realizations in current visualization systems are "last-minute" ad-hoc and rely on the richness of the chosen implementation language. Moreover, very few visualization models implicitly consider coordination. If coordination is contemplated from the design point of view, it is usually only regarded as part of the communication protocol and is generally dealt with within that restricted domain. Coordinated multiple views are beneficial and a flexible model for coordination will ensure easy embedding of coordination in such exploratory environments. This paper compares different approaches to coordination in exploratory visualization (EV). We recognize the need for a coordination model and for that we formalize aspects of coordination in EV. Furthermore, our work draws on the findings of the interdisciplinary study of coordination by various researchers.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{1631,
author = {Nadia Boukhelifa and Jonathan Roberts and Peter Rodgers},
title = {{Towards Coordination-Intensive Visualization Software}},
month = {April},
year = {2003},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1631},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {22076_1055428642},
    booktitle = {Proceedings PREP 2003 - Postgraduate Research Conference in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Software},
    organization = {Sponsored by EPSRC and IEEE},
}

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