Visualizing Communities in Dynamic Multivariate NetworksShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the 38th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI), 2025 / [ed] Felipe de Castro Belém, IEEE, 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
A dynamic (or temporal) network is a widely used structure that enables understanding dynamic systems by modeling interactions among system components over time. In many real-world cases, however, components (called nodes) and/or interactions (called edges) contain numerous meaningful attributes, leading to the need for a more suitable instrument for representing and analyzing these dynamic and complex systems with multiple attributes: the Dynamic Multivariate Network (DMVN). In this work, we extended LargeNetVis, a visualization system specifically designed for large dynamic networks that focus on network community structure and dynamics, to enable the visual exploration of DMVNs and their communities. The newly introduced visual encodings and interactions allow the visualization of nodes' and edges' attributes at different granularity levels and produce a node tracking capability from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives. With these functionalities, one can track individual nodes across dynamic communities over time. The proposed approach is validated by comparing it with the original LargeNetVis system and conducting a user evaluation involving 37 participants.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2025.
Series
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI), ISSN 1530-1834, E-ISSN 2377-5416
Keywords [en]
Visualization, Interaction, Visual Encoding, Dynamical Systems, Complex Systems, Network Visualization
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-219409DOI: 10.1109/sibgrapi67909.2025.11223378ISBN: 9798331589516 (electronic)ISBN: 9798331589523 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-219409DiVA, id: diva2:2013408
Conference
38th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI), Salvador, BA, Brazil, 2025
Funder
ELLIIT - The Linköping‐Lund Initiative on IT and Mobile Communications2025-11-122025-11-122025-12-12