Efthymia Kontogiannopoulou, Petros Manousis, Panos Vassiliadis.

Visual Maps of Data-Intensive Ecosystems

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33nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2014), Atlanta, U.S.A.
27-29 October, 2014.

Abstract

Data-intensive ecosystems are conglomerations of one or more databases along with software applications that are built on top of them. This paper proposes a set of methods for providing visual maps of data-intensive ecosystems. We model the ecosystem as a graph, with modules (tables and queries embedded in the applications) as nodes and data provision relationships as edges. We cluster the modules of the ecosystem in order to further highlight their interdependencies and reduce visual clutter. We employ three alternative, novel, circular graph drawing methods for creating a visual map of the graph.

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Related Texts

The ER 2014 paper: Visual Maps for Data-Intensive Ecosystems.
The long version: Visualization of Data-Intensive Information Ecosystems Via Circular Methods..

Input

The datasets: Biosql, ZenCart, Drupal, OpenCart

Source code

The source code of Hecataeus used in this paper is here.

Hecataeus project

More information about Hecataeus project is here.