Arc and Swarm-based Representations of Customer’s Flows among Supermarkets

Evgheni Polisciuc, Pedro Cruz, Hugo Amaro, Catarina Maçãs, Tiago Carvalho, Frederico Santos, Penousal Machado

2015

Abstract

Representing large amounts of flows involves dealing with the representation of directionality and the reduction of visual cluttering. This article describes the application of two flow representation techniques to the visualization of transitions of customers among supermarkets over time. The first approach relies in arc representations together with a combination of methods to represent directionality of transitions. The other approach uses a swarm-based system in order to reduce visual clutter, bundling edges in an organic fashion and improving clarity.

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in Harvard Style

Polisciuc E., Cruz P., Amaro H., Maçãs C., Carvalho T., Santos F. and Machado P. (2015). Arc and Swarm-based Representations of Customer’s Flows among Supermarkets . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-088-8, pages 300-306. DOI: 10.5220/0005316503000306


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp15,
author={Evgheni Polisciuc and Pedro Cruz and Hugo Amaro and Catarina Maçãs and Tiago Carvalho and Frederico Santos and Penousal Machado},
title={Arc and Swarm-based Representations of Customer’s Flows among Supermarkets},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={300-306},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005316503000306},
isbn={978-989-758-088-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Arc and Swarm-based Representations of Customer’s Flows among Supermarkets
SN - 978-989-758-088-8
AU - Polisciuc E.
AU - Cruz P.
AU - Amaro H.
AU - Maçãs C.
AU - Carvalho T.
AU - Santos F.
AU - Machado P.
PY - 2015
SP - 300
EP - 306
DO - 10.5220/0005316503000306