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Selected Papers from the 2000 Symposium on Graph Drawing
DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00056
A Framework for the Static and Interactive Visualization of Statecharts
Vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 313-351, 2002. Regular paper.
Abstract We present a framework for the automatic
generation of layouts of statechart diagrams. Statecharts []
are widely used for the requirements specification of reactive systems.
Our framework is based on several techniques that include hierarchical
drawing, labeling, and floorplanning, designed to work in a cooperative
environment. Therefore, the resulting drawings enjoy several
important properties: they emphasize the natural hierarchical
decomposition of states into substates; they have a low number of
edge crossings; they have good aspect ratio; and require a small
area. We also present techniques for interactive operations.
We have implemented our framework and obtained drawings for
several statechart examples.
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