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Visualization of mobile object environments

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Yaniv Frishman,

Ayellet TalAuthors Info & Claims

SoftVis '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Software visualization

Pages 145 - 154

https://doi.org/10.1145/1056018.1056038

Published: 14 May 2005 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a system for visualizing mobile object frameworks. In such frameworks, the objects can migrate to remote hosts, along with their state and behavior, while the application is running. An innovative graph-based visualization is used to depict the physical and the logical connections in the distributed object network. Scalability is achieved by using a focus+context technique jointly with a user-steered clustering algorithm. In addition, an event synchronization model for mobile objects is presented. The system has been applied to visualizing several mobile object applications.

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