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Software visualization approaches for code reviews are often implemented as standalone applications, which use static code analysis. The goal is to visualize the structural changes introduced by a pull / merge request to facilitate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Alexander Krause-Glau , Lukas Damerau , Malte Hansen , Wilhelm Hasselbring

Software documentation is an essential but labor intensive task that often requires a dedicated team of developers to ensure coverage and accuracy. Good documentation will help shorten the development cycle and improve the overall team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Thomas Zheng , Jeff Shaw , Sergey Kozlov

Bug prediction is a resource demanding task that is hard to automate using static source code analysis. In many fields of computer science, machine learning has proven to be extremely useful in tasks like this, however, for it to work we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tamás Aladics , Judit Jász , Rudolf Ferenc

This paper proposes a visual analytics framework that addresses the complex user interactions required through a command-line interface to run analyses in distributed data analysis systems. The visual analytics framework facilitates the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Abdullah-Al-Raihan Nayeem , Mohammed Elshambakey , Todd Dobbs , Huikyo Lee , Daniel Crichton , Yimin Zhu , Chanachok Chokwitthaya , William J. Tolone , Isaac Cho

Diagrams are common tools for representing complex concepts, relationships and events, often when it would be difficult to portray the same information with natural images. Understanding natural images has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Aniruddha Kembhavi , Mike Salvato , Eric Kolve , Minjoon Seo , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Ali Farhadi

Data analysis encompasses a spectrum of tasks, from high-level conceptual reasoning to lower-level execution. While AI-powered tools increasingly support execution tasks, there remains a need for intelligent assistance in conceptual tasks.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zijian Ding , Michelle Brachman , Joel Chan , Werner Geyer

The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector extensively uses documents supporting product and process development. As part of this, organisations should handle big data of hundreds, or even thousands, of technical documents…

Software visualizations are usually realized as standalone and isolated tools that use embedded code viewers within the visualization. In the context of program comprehension, only few approaches integrate visualizations into code editors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Alexander Krause-Glau , Wilhelm Hasselbring

Understanding large-scale, complex software systems is a major challenge for developers, who spend a significant portion of their time on program comprehension. Traditional tools such as static visualizations and reverse engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew

We present here a browser-based application for visualizing patterns of connectivity in 3D stacked data matrices with large numbers of pairwise relations. Visualizing a connectivity matrix, looking for trends and patterns, and dynamically…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-04 David J. Caldwell , Jing Wu , Kaitlyn Casimo , Jeffrey G. Ojemann , Rajesh P. N. Rao

This paper proposes an open source visual analytics tool consisting of several views and perspectives on eye movement data collected during code reading tasks when writing computer programs. Hence the focus of this work is on code and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ayush Kumar , Ashish Kumar , Aakanksha Prasad , Michael Burch , Shenghui Cheng , Klaus Mueller

Knowledge graphs are often visualized using node-link diagrams that reveal relationships and structure. In many applications using graphs, it is desirable to allow users to edit graphs to ensure data accuracy or provides updates. Commonly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Reza Shahriari , Eric D. Ragan , Jaime Ruiz

Open Source Software (OSS) is forming the spines of technology infrastructures, attracting millions of talents to contribute. Notably, it is challenging and critical to consider both the developers' interests and the semantic features of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yiqiao Jin , Yunsheng Bai , Yanqiao Zhu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

When reading a document, glancing at the spatial layout of a document is an initial step to understand it roughly. Traditional document layout analysis (DLA) methods, however, offer only a superficial parsing of documents, focusing on basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yufan Chen , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In document classification, graph-based models effectively capture document structure, overcoming sequence length limitations and enhancing contextual understanding. However, most existing graph document representations rely on heuristics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Margarita Bugueño , Gerard de Melo

Software visualization seeks to represent software artifacts graphical-ly in two or three dimensions, with the goal of enhancing comprehension, anal-ysis, maintenance, and evolution of the source code. In this context, visualiza-tions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Anthony Savidis , Christos Vasilopoulos

Blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students face systematic barriers when learning data structures: current accessibility approaches typically translate diagrams into alternative text, focusing on visual appearance rather…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Brianna L. Wimer , Ritesh Kanchi , Kaija Frierson , Venkatesh Potluri , Ronald Metoyer , Jennifer Mankoff , Miya Natsuhara , Matt X. Wang

Code documentation is useful, but writing it is time-consuming. Different techniques for generating code summaries have emerged, but comparing them is difficult because human evaluation is expensive and automatic metrics are unreliable. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jade Robinson , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

More often than not, there is a need to understand the structure of complex computer code: what functions and in what order they are called, how information travels around static, input, and output variables, what depends on what. As a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Igor Polkovnikov

Various software features such as classes, methods, requirements, and tests often have similar functionality. This can lead to emergence of duplicates in their descriptive documentation. Uncontrolled duplicates created via copy/paste hinder…