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Spatial scientometrics has attracted a lot of attention in the very recent past. The visualization methods (density maps) presented in this paper allow for an analysis revealing regions of excellence around the world using computer programs…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Lutz Bornmann , Ludo Waltman

Politics is the set of activities related to strategic decision-making in groups. Political scientists study the strategic interactions between states, institutions, politicians, and citizens; they seek to understand the causes and…

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Rectangular layouts, subdivisions of an outer rectangle into smaller rectangles, have many applications in visualizing spatial information, for instance in rectangular cartograms in which the rectangles represent geographic or political…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Kevin Buchin , David Eppstein , Maarten Löffler , Martin Nöllenburg , Rodrigo I. Silveira

This paper surveys visualization and interaction techniques for geospatial networks from a total of 95 papers. Geospatial networks are graphs where nodes and links can be associated with geographic locations. Examples can include social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sarah Schöttler , Yalong Yang , Hanspeter Pfister , Benjamin Bach

One major component of the VO will be catalogs measuring gigabytes and terrabytes if not more. Some mechanism like XML will be used for structuring the information. However, such mechanisms are not good for information retrieval on their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Mahabal , S. G. Djorgovski , R. Brunner , R. Williams

One of the major challenges for evaluating the effectiveness of data visualizations and visual analytics tools arises from the fact that different users may be using these tools for different tasks. In this paper, we present a simple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Laura Matzen , Kristin Divis , Deborah Cronin , Michael Haass

The circular cartogram, also known as the Dorling map, is a widely used tool for visualizing statistical data. It represents regions as circles with their areas in proportion to the statistical values and requires circle displacement to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Wei Zhiwei , Ding Su , Xu Wenjia , Cheng Lu , Zhang Song , Wang Yang

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

A GraphMaps is a system that visualizes a graph using zoom levels, which is similar to a geographic map visualization. GraphMaps reveals the structural properties of the graph and enables users to explore the graph in a natural way by using…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Debajyoti Mondal , Lev Nachmanson

This paper presents an analytical taxonomy that can suitably describe, rather than simply classify, techniques for data presentation. Unlike previous works, we do not consider particular aspects of visualization techniques, but their…

Decision-making is a central yet under-defined goal in visualization research. While existing task models address decision processes, they often neglect the conditions framing a decision. To better support decision-making tasks, we propose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lena Cibulski , Stefan Bruckner

Cosmography, the study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos, is a field where visual representation benefits from modern three-dimensional visualization techniques and media. At the extragalactic distance scales, visualization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Daniel Pomarede , Helene M. Courtois , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully

Building on progress in feature representations for image retrieval, image-based localization has seen a surge of research interest. Image-based localization has the advantage of being inexpensive and efficient, often avoiding the use of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ajad Chhatkuli , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

Contour maps are an essential tool for exploring spatial features of the terrain, such as distance, directions, and surface gradient among the contour areas. User interactions in contour-based visualizations create approaches to visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Abdullah-Al-Raihan Nayeem , Dongyun Han , William J. Tolone , Isaac Cho

Algorithms for laying out large graphs have seen significant progress in the past decade. However, browsing large graphs remains a challenge. Rendering thousands of graphical elements at once often results in a cluttered image, and…

This thesis presents methods and datasets to investigate cartographic heritage on a large scale and from a cultural perspective. Heritage institutions worldwide have digitized more than one million maps, and automated techniques now enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Remi Petitpierre

Compact representations of objects is a common concept in computer science. Automated planning can be viewed as a case of this concept: a planning instance is a compact implicit representation of a graph and the problem is to find a path (a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Christer Bäckström , Peter Jonsson

Influence diagrams are a directed graph representation for uncertainties as probabilities. The graph distinguishes between those variables which are under the control of a decision maker (decisions, shown as rectangles) and those which are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Ross D. Shachter

Scatterplots are a common tool for exploring multidimensional datasets, especially in the form of scatterplot matrices (SPLOMs). However, scatterplots suffer from overplotting when categorical variables are mapped to one or two axes, or the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Deokgun Park , Sung-Hee Kim , Niklas Elmqvist

Treemaps are a popular technique to visualize hierarchical data. The input is a weighted tree $\tree$ where the weight of each node is the sum of the weights of its children. A treemap for $\tree$ is a hierarchical partition of a rectangle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mark de Berg , Bettina Speckmann , Vincent van der Weele