The purpose of this seminar is to independently scientifically work on a layout algorithm topic. The goal is to summarize the topic in an oral presentation and a written elaboration in form of a paper. Another purpose of this seminar is to practice working in structured and time-driven workflows (e.g. for conferences or workshops). Moreover, both of these aspects are good preparation for working on your thesis. We have many theses regarding these topics available; contact us if you are interested in that.

This seminar is a bachelor and master module at the same time. Compared to the bachelor seminar, we expect that master students include more related papers and therefore write a longer paper and hold a longer presentation (see below).

Prerequisites

For the participation of this seminar the attendance of the "Automatic Graph Drawing" lecture is not specifically required. However, specific lecture topics required for the paper should be revised.

Moreover, we recommend the attendance of the lecture "Scientific Working for Seminars and Thesis" (Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für Seminar und Abschlussarbeiten) held by Prof. Peters.

Finally, there is the infamous "Vortragsvortrag" by Christoph Daniel Schulze. Sadly, he is not at RTSYS anymore to give that talk in person. However, he kindly started to prepare this sequence of videos that should get the gist across as well.

Lecturers

Reinhard von Hanxleden (rvh@informatik.uni-kiel.de)
Maximilian Kasperowski (mka@informatik.uni-kiel.de)
Sören Domrös (sdo@informatik.uni-kiel.de)

Topics

You may choose one of the following papers from the different topics.

The papers are assigned via first-come-first-serve. Already reserved papers are crossed out. Please send an email to Max (mka@informatik.uni-kiel.de).

Many of the links only work in the university network.

Aesthetics and Perception

Henry Förster, Felix Klesen, Tim Dwyer, Peter Eades, Seok-Hee Hong, Stephen G. Kobourov, Giuseppe Liotta, Kazuo Misue, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Alexander Pastukhov, and Falk Schreiber. "GraphTrials: Visual Proofs of Graph Properties". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 16:1-16:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

Gavin J. Mooney, Helen C. Purchase, Michael Wybrow, Stephen G. Kobourov, and Jacob Miller. "The Perception of Stress in Graph Drawings". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 21:1-21:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

Helmke, S., Doğan, K., Scheffler, R., Wrobel, G. (2024). "Domain-Specific Rules Override Aesthetic Graph Drawing Criteria: An Exploration of User-Generated Diagrams". In: Lemanski, J., Johansen, M.W., Manalo, E., Viana, P., Bhattacharjee, R., Burns, R. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14981. Springer, 2024. PDF

Human Computer Interaction

[RESERVED] Green, Petre. "Usability Analysis of Visual Programming Environments - A Cognitive Dimensions Framework." In Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, pp. 131–174, Issue 7–2. 1996. PDF

Erica de Vries, Neil Schwartz, and Martin Galilée, "Learning Magnitudes of Energy Consumption with Symbolic or Iconic Representations". In: Lemanski, J., Johansen, M.W., Manalo, E., Viana, P., Bhattacharjee, R., Burns, R. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14981. Springer, 2024. INTERNAL

Graph Drawing

Daniel Archambault, Giuseppe Liotta, Martin Nöllenburg, Tommaso Piselli, Alessandra Tappini, and Markus Wallinger. "Bundling-Aware Graph Drawing". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 15:1-15:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

Tim Hegemann and Alexander Wolff. "Storylines with a Protagonist". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 26:1-26:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

Therese Biedl, Anna Lubiw, and Jack Spalding-Jamieson. "Morphing Planar Graph Drawings via Orthogonal Box Drawings". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 40:1-40:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

Annika Bonerath, Martin Nöllenburg, Soeren Terziadis, Markus Wallinger, and Jules Wulms. "Boundary Labeling in a Circular Orbit". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 22:1-22:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

Athenstädt, Hartmann, and Nöllenburg. "Simultaneous embeddability of two partitions." In International Symposium on Graph Drawing, pp. 64-75. Springer, 2014. PDF

Amyra Meidiana, Seok-Hee Hong, Peter Eades. "New Quality Metrics for Dynamic Graph Drawing". In Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2020), pp. 450-465. PDF

(Master) Oswin Aichholzer, Joachim Orthaber, and Birgit Vogtenhuber. "Separable Drawings: Extendability and Crossing-Free Hamiltonian Cycles". In 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 320, pp. 34:1-34:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). PDF

(Master) Julien Walter, Johannes Zink, Joachim Baumeister, Alexander Wolff. "Layered Drawing of Undirected Graphs with Generalized Port Constraints". In Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2020), pp. 220-234. PDF

Euler Diagrams

Yan, X., Rodgers, P., Rottmann, P., Archambault, D., Haunert, JH., Wang, B. (2024). "EulerMerge: Simplifying Euler Diagrams Through Set Merges". In: Lemanski, J., Johansen, M.W., Manalo, E., Viana, P., Bhattacharjee, R., Burns, R. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14981. Springer, 2024. INTERNAL

Peter Rodgers, Peter Chapman, Andrew Blake, Martin Nöllenburg, Markus Wallinger, and Alexander Dobler. "Hoop Diagrams: A Set Visualization Method". In: Lemanski, J., Johansen, M.W., Manalo, E., Viana, P., Bhattacharjee, R., Burns, R. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14981. Springer, 2024. INTERNAL

Other Types of Diagrams

Engelhardt, Y., Richards, C. (2024). "A Building-Block Approach to the Diversity of Visualization Types – Each Type Expressed Visually, and as a Systematically Generated Sentence". In: Lemanski, J., Johansen, M.W., Manalo, E., Viana, P., Bhattacharjee, R., Burns, R. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14981. Springer, 2024. INTERNAL

Erwig and Smeltzer. "Variational Pictures." In International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, pp. 55-70. Springer, 2018. INTERNAL

Diagramming Tools

Metin, H., Bork, D. "A reference architecture for the development of GLSP-based web modeling tools". Softw Syst Model (2025). PDF

Schedule

Dates in the semester

¹preliminary date; please contact us if there are any conflicts with exams

The Final Presentations

The presentation of the prepared topic is held during a block seminar at tbd. The attendance at the seminar day is mandatory. Every attending person receives the proceedings of the current semester.

Agenda

tbd

Schedule and Grading

Papers, Talks, Review

This seminar includes creating a paper, a talk, and two reviews.

Paper

The paper should provide an overview of the chosen topic. It should be written in a style that late bachelor student can understand it. The paper should be 6 (master) or 4 (bachelor) pages long (including bibliography), not more not less, and it should use the ACM LaTeX-style (more details below). We advise you to read the writing advice for writing a thesis. You can write your paper either in English or German.

Talk

The talk should be 30 minutes (master) or 20 minutes (bachelor) long. This is followed by 5 minutes of questions. The slides should contain page numbers to allow the participants to ask specific questions after the talk. It would be great to include a short tool demo if your topic includes some concrete implementation.

You can freely choose your presentation tool. Therefore, for the individual dates on the presentation slides it would be best to to use your own computer. If the slides are provided as PDF beforehand, a different computer could be used. 

Especially when using online tools, note that the block seminar might take place in Falckenstein and that there is no WLAN access. Therefore, the presentations must allow to be held offline.

The talk can be held in English or German.

Review

A review consist of two parts:

1. General comments (what do you like/ not like regarding content, structure, and readability) as well as general suggestions to improve the paper
2. In detail remarks and corrections

The first part of the review should be at least half an A4 page long. It should be written in full text and not only consist of notes. The review content should be similar to the review you get during the individual dates, however, it should be more in detail and with a clear focus on content, structure, and readability of the paper.

It is not possible to add files in the EasyChair review form. Therefore, it is not possible to add an annotated pdf as detailed correction.

Some example reviews from a previous semester to understand the form (not necessarily with the best grades) can be found in here: 1 2 3 4 5.

The reviews are assigned after the review-version deadline and are based on the submitted version of the papers.

Grades

This seminar is graded. The grade is based on each milestone (the different versions of the paper, the reviews, the slides, the talk, engagement in the workshop). For each milestone quality, timing (see dates) are graded. Missed deadlines may cause you to fail the seminar.

Technical Details

LaTeX

Your papers should be created using LaTeX and have to be in the provided ACM style. You can find all necessary files in this zip archive, including an example document that includes helpful LaTeX-hints to start with. Copy all files in some folder and begin to write your paper.

LaTeX can create a bibliography (it includes scientific publications, which are referenced to prove statements) too. The example includes a file named myrefs.bib, which holds the references. ACM provides a short overview with examples of bibliography entries.

While writing your paper keep the following in mind:

• Think about whether you want to write your paper in German or English and make use to use the corresponding ACM-style.
• If you use graphics from your original paper, you should not just add a screenshot of the pdf your paper. Try to use the image from the original paper by exporting them, including the pdf directly \inlcudegraphics[page=... trim=...]{*.pdf}, or by recreating the image by yourself (ideally as a vector graphic). This way you should get a result that is not pixelated or at least not worse than the original.
• A paper always consists of an introduction, at least one main chapter, and a conclusion.

EasyChair Tutorial

The Tutorial

You can find our seminar in EasyChair: Link

Resources

In general, it is advised to look for related work in the university network since you will get access to many online libraries. We recommend the following search engines and web pages:

• Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.de/
• dblp: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/
• CiteSeer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
• IEEE-Xplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp
• ACM Digital Library: http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
• Universitätsbibliothek Digitale Medien: http://www.uni-kiel.de/ub/emedien/index.html

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