Interactive protocol visualization (and a wspl case study). www.cs.brown.edu/people/scannell/wsplv/ ipvis.pdf

While there is a strong body of research on algorithm animation, there is very little existing work on interactive protocols. What is described in this paper is a flexible and modular platform for visualiz-ing interactive protocols. While the design will be layered to support additional protocols, the specific implementation goal is a case study: to create a viable visualization of a policy-based negotiation protocol. Sun’s WSPL is the target protocol (even though it is not currently interactive), and we present a prototype of a visualization application for it as an example of the above framework.