Visual Analytics Towards Tool Interoperabilty - A Position Paper

Didem Gürdür, Fredrik Asplund, Jad El-khoury, Frederic Loiret, Martin Törngren

2016

Abstract

Complex-engineering projects include artefacts from several engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, software components, processes and plans. While software tools can be powerful in each individual discipline, it is difficult to build integrated tool chains. Moreover, it is challenging to evaluate and update existing tool chains. At the same time, the field of visualization is getting mature and visual analytics promises an opportunity to develop knowledge, methods, technologies and practice for exploiting and combining the strengths of human and data. We consider this as a potential to evaluate current tool chains. This position paper discusses the visualization and visual analytics practices to assess existing tool chains performance.

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Gürdür D., Asplund F., El-khoury J., Loiret F. and Törngren M. (2016). Visual Analytics Towards Tool Interoperabilty - A Position Paper . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 139-145. DOI: 10.5220/0005751401390145


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@conference{ivapp16,
author={Didem Gürdür and Fredrik Asplund and Jad El-khoury and Frederic Loiret and Martin Törngren},
title={Visual Analytics Towards Tool Interoperabilty - A Position Paper},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={139-145},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005751401390145},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Visual Analytics Towards Tool Interoperabilty - A Position Paper
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Gürdür D.
AU - Asplund F.
AU - El-khoury J.
AU - Loiret F.
AU - Törngren M.
PY - 2016
SP - 139
EP - 145
DO - 10.5220/0005751401390145