Network Visualization

Network visualization deals with all aspects of representing relational structures. The automatic generation of network visualizations is of relevance not only in computer science, but in virtually every area concerned with graphical data analysis or visual communication of information. For more than 10 years, network visualization also known as graph drawing is an established research field of its own. It encompasses design and analysis of algorithms and algorithm engineering, as well as modelling aspects, topics from graph theory and combinatorics, and the development of sofware tools. This article gives an overview of the main methodological contributions of the field