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| Michael Bender, Ralf Klein, Andreas Disch, Achim Ebert, "A Functional Framework for Web-Based Information Visualization Systems," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 8-23, January-March, 2000. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/2945.841118, author = {Michael Bender and Ralf Klein and Andreas Disch and Achim Ebert}, title = {A Functional Framework for Web-Based Information Visualization Systems}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, volume = {6}, number = {1}, issn = {1077-2626}, year = {2000}, pages = {8-23}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2945.841118}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics TI - A Functional Framework for Web-Based Information Visualization Systems IS - 1 SN - 1077-2626 SP8 EP23 EPD - 8-23 A1 - Michael Bender, A1 - Ralf Klein, A1 - Andreas Disch, A1 - Achim Ebert, PY - 2000 KW - Visualization system KW - World Wide Web KW - distributed computing KW - molecular visualization KW - simulation analysis. VL - 6 JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ER - | |||
Abstract—The accelerating evolution in information visualization research in the last few years led to several specific system implementations. The obvious drawbacks of this development are highly dependent software systems, which are only available for a restricted number of users. Today, due to the remarkable advances in hardware and software technologies, not only very expensive graphics workstations, but also low-cost PCs are capable of running computational demanding visualization systems. Furthermore, the rapid development of the medium World Wide Web coming along with state-of-the-art internet programming techniques led to a trend toward more generally usable visualization systems. In this paper, we propose a functional developer's framework for general Web-based visualization systems which makes intelligent use of application specific software and hardware components on the server side, as well as of Java's benefits on the client side. To demonstrate the framework's abilities, we have applied it to two practical visualization tasks and we will report on our experience concerning practicability and pitfalls.
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