Binah: Literature and Similiar Projects

Current Version: Inception [09 Feb 2003]

Relevant Literature and Similar Projects.

Various Software Visualization Papers

• An Engine for the 3D Visualization of Program Information, Reiss, 1995. The best paper on the subject I've found. The author describes PLUM, a software visualization engine that allows flexible presentation and flexiblity in what is presented, ie the abstractions of the software.
• Generating Java Trace Data, Reiss, 2000. A good overview of the details of handling very large amounts of trace data.

Similar Projects

• JInsight, a 2D, off-line, execution analysis tool. The commerical out-growth of IBM's research into visualization. Somewhat close in intent to OOVID, however, it has been subsummed into the WebSphere environment and is no longer being developed (since July 2001).
• AVID, a 2D, off-line animated display of the execution of a Java program. AVID was developed as part of a research project at the University of British Columbia.

Visualization of Distrubuted Systems Literature

• High-Level Views of Distributed Executions, Kunz (1995).
• Poet: Target-System-Independent Visualisations of Complex Distributed-Application Executions, Kunz (1997)

Visualization of Object-Oriented Systems

• An Architecture for Visualizing the Behavior of Object-Oriented Systems, DePauw.
• Modeling Object-Oriented Program Execution, DePauw
• Visuali zing Dynamic Software System Information through High-level Models, Walker (1998)

Software Visualization Research Groups

• Georgia Tech's Software Visualization group. Both the GROOVE project and the POLKA-3D are relevent to general three-dimensional object-oriented software visualization.
• Program Visualization at IBM Research. An excellent overview site plus contains several excellent papers.

General Visualization References

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte.
• Visual Explanations, Tufte.
• Envisioning Information, Tufte.

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