Mendelzon, A., 1996. Visualizing the World Wide Web. In AVI '96: Proceedings of the Workshop on Advance Visual Interfaces, May 27-29, Gubbio, Italy. ACM Press, 13-19.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....While a number of geometric distortion techniques have been proposed (see [14] for a survey) our sense is that their usefulness falls off rapidly, particularly for text, when more than a few focal points are involved. A survey of Web visualization work more generally may be found in [12]. Note that Mukerjea et al. 13] argue for tree based views as opposed to more general graphbased views in the context of Web visualization. We should also mention the work of Koike [10] who has applied fractal algorithms to the problem of maintaining an overall limit to information in the ....

Mendelzon, A., 1996. Visualizing the World Wide Web. In AVI '96: Proceedings of the Workshop on Advance Visual Interfaces, May 27-29, Gubbio, Italy. ACM Press, 13-19.

....display of housing availability and a starfield display of film database information. The authors report the tools to be natural and effective for simple queries. Related research in the database lab at the University of Toronto produced a set of tools for dynamic querying and visualization [51]. Combining a sort of dynamic query with hypermedia structure visualization, one tool displays 2D network graphs using a variety of algorithms. Small histograms below a graph reveal additional attributes of the data. User can refine the data view dynamically by manipulating the graph and the ....

....system also supports a sort of semantic zooming through sub graph nesting to arbitrary depth. The system features a visual query language, which uses the same elements as the visualization: queries are annotated (hy)graph patterns whose matches on the database can be displayed in different ways [51]. A slave Web document browser allows the user to move between structural and document views. A slave browser is also used in [23] and [83] A UI tool derived from dynamic queries and semantic zooming, the MagicLens filter was developed at XEROX PARC [74] Intuitively, a MagicLens is a semantic ....

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....can be stored and re used in future sessions. An interesting direction, which we have not yet explored, is to merge views generated in multiple sessions to start building a global map of the portions of the web that are of interest to a user or group of users. Issues of scale, as discussed in [Men96] become more important in this context. 4 Related Work The Navigational View Builder [MF95] supports overview diagrams of the web. However, these views do not correspond to any navigation of the web, and cannot be queried. In the KJ Editor [Nie95] the user can construct an overview diagram of ....

....at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It provides graphical information about document accesses and possible paths taken by users through a set of documents. Other related work includes [Doe94, And95, AS95, GS95, TL95, HDWB95] Some general principles for web visualization are discussed in [Men96] Query languages for extracting subsets of the web, such as described in [LSS96, KS95, MMM96] could be used to produce interesting inputs for our views. 5 Conclusion We have described a system that allows a user of a web browsing tool to get graphical overviews of his or Figure 3: HTML ....

Alberto O. Mendelzon. Visualizing the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of the International Workshop AVI '96, pages 13--19, Gubbio, 1996.

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