A generic visualisation and editing tool for hierarchical and object-oriented systems

Author

Jin, Huan ; Maple, Carsten

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Luton, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 July 2003

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

286

Abstract

We present a data retrieval and information visualisation tool, named the object-oriented graph editor (OOGE). The OOGE is designed to represent information of special kinds of system, hierarchical systems or object-oriented systems. These systems can be represented by object-oriented graph, in which nodes have attributes and their connections are constraint-based. The editor presented provides a friendly graphical user interface for users to define any class of nodes of the OO systems and to draw the OO graph based upon the user-defined node classes. The validity of the proposed system can be checked against the set of constraints that are based on the attributes of the user-defined classes.

Keywords

data structures; data visualisation; graph theory; graphical user interfaces; information retrieval; object-oriented methods; OO graph; OO system; OOGE; connection constraint; data retrieval; graphical user interface; hierarchical system; information visualisation tool; object-oriented graph editor; object-oriented system; user-defined node class; Application software; Databases; Graphical user interfaces; Information retrieval; Libraries; Object oriented modeling; Packaging; Software packages; User interfaces; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1988-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2003.1217991

Filename

1217991