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Gutwenger, Carsten, Jünger, Michael, Klein, Karsten, Kupke, Joachim, Leipert, Sebastian and Mutzel, Petra ORCID: 0000-0001-7621-971X (2003). A New Approach for Visualizing UML Class Diagrams. In: SoftVis '03 : ACM Symposium on Software Visualization ; San Diego, California, USA, June 11 - 13, 2003, pp. 179-188. ACM.

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Abstract

UML diagrams have become increasingly important in the engineering and reengineering processes for software systems. Of particular interest are UML class diagrams whose purpose is to display class hierarchies (generalizations), associations, aggregations, and compositions in one picture. The combination of hierarchical and non-hierarchical relations poses a special challenge to a graph layout tool. Existing layout tools treat hierarchical and non-hierarchical relations either alike or as separate tasks in a two-phase process as in, e.g., cite{See97}. We suggest a new approach for visualizing UML class diagrams leading to a balanced mixture of the following aesthetic criteria: Crossing minimization, bend minimization, uniform direction within each class hierarchy, no nesting of one class hierarchy within another, orthogonal layout, merging of multiple inheritance edges, and good edge labelling. We have realized our approach within the graph drawing library GoVisual. Experiments show the superiority to state-of-the-art and industrial standard layouts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gutwenger, Carsten UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jünger, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Klein, Karsten UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kupke, Joachim UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Leipert, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mutzel, Petra UNSPECIFIED https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7621-971X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-548724
Title of Book:	SoftVis '03 : ACM Symposium on Software Visualization ; San Diego, California, USA, June 11 - 13, 2003
Page Range:	pp. 179-188
Date:	2003
Publisher:	ACM
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Institute of Computer Science
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/54872