Exploring the notion of 'clutter' in Euler diagrams

Chris John; Andrew Fish; John Howse; John Taylor

doi:10.1007/11783183_36

Exploring the notion of 'clutter' in Euler diagrams

Chris John, Andrew Fish, John Howse, John Taylor

University of Brighton

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Abstract

Euler diagrams are an effective and intuitive way of representing relationships between sets. As the number of sets represented grows, Euler diagrams can become ‘cluttered’ and lose some of their intuitive appeal. In this paper we consider various measures of ‘clutter’ for abstract Euler diagrams and show that they compare well with results obtained from an empirical study. We also show that all abstract Euler diagrams can be constructed inductively by inserting a contour at a time and we relate this inductive description to the clutter metrics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, Diagrams 2006
Place of Publication	Berlin, Germany
Publisher	Springer
Pages	267-282
Number of pages	16
Volume	4045
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540356240
ISBN (Print)	9783540356233
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11783183_36
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2006
Event	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, Diagrams 2006 - Stanford, CA, USA, 28-30 June, 2006 Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → …

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Conference	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, Diagrams 2006
Period	1/01/06 → …

Keywords

Euler diagrams

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Exploring the notion of 'clutter' in Euler diagrams. / John, Chris; Fish, Andrew; Howse, John et al.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, Diagrams 2006. Vol. 4045 Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2006. p. 267-282 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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