Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner
 

03.11.2017

Paper accepted for IVAPP 2018

The paper "EvoCells – A Treemap Layout Algorithm for Evolving Tree Data" by Willy Scheibel, Christopher Weyand, and Jürgen Döllner has been accepted as a contribution to the 9th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2018). The conference will be held in Funchal, Portugal from the 27th to 29th of January and is part of the VISIGRAPP 2018 conference.

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Abstract

We propose the rectangular treemap layout algorithm EvoCells that maps changes in tree-structured data onto an initial treemap layout. Changes in topology and node weights are mapped to insertion, removal, growth, and shrinkage of the layout rectangles. Thereby, rectangles displace their neighbors and stretche their enclosing rectangles with a run-time complexity of O(n log n). An evaluation using layout stability metrics on the open source ElasticSearch software system suggests EvoCells as a valid alternative for stable treemap layouting