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VL
1990
IEEE
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14 years 17 days ago
A Declarative Formalism for Specifying Graphical Layout
This paper describes a new approach to specifying graphical layouts of arbitrary objects, which is based on a TEXlike notation. Our simplest scheme offers specifications similar t...
Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller
APSEC
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
Rigorous EBNF-based Definition for a Graphic Modeling Language
Today, the syntax of visual specification languages such as UML is typically defined using meta-modelling techniques. However, this kind of syntax definition has drawbacks. In par...
Yong Xia, Martin Glinz
CAE
2005
13 years 11 months ago
Form Follows Function: Aesthetic Interactive Labels
Labels effectively convey co-referential relations between textual and visual elements and are a powerful tool to support learning tasks. Therefore, almost all illustrations in sc...
Timo Götzelmann, Kamran Ali, Knut Hartmann, T...
DOCENG
2009
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Review of automatic document formatting
We review the literature on automatic document formatting with an emphasis on recent work in the field. One common way to frame document formatting is as a constrained optimizatio...
Nathan Hurst, Wilmot Li, Kim Marriott
ER
2005
Springer
200views Database» more  ER 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
How to Tame a Very Large ER Diagram (Using Link Analysis and Force-Directed Drawing Algorithms)
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Jean-Luc Hainaut