We introduce a propagation-based parametric symbolic model approach to supporting analytic provenance. This approach combines a script language to capture and encode the analytic process and a parametrically controlle...
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We introduce a propagation-based parametric symbolic model approach to supporting analytic provenance. This approach combines a script language to capture and encode the analytic process and a parametrically controlled symbolic model to represent and reuse the logic of the analysis process. Our approach first appeared in a visual analytics system called CZSaw. Using a script to capture the analyst's interactions at a meaningful system action level allows the creation of a parametrically controlled symbolic model in the form of a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Using the DAG allows propagating changes. Graph nodes correspond to variables in CZSaw scripts, which are results (data and data visualizations) generated from user interactions. The user interacts with variables representing entities or relations to create the next step's results. Graph edges represent dependency relationships among nodes. Any change to a variable triggers the propagation mechanism to update downstream dependent variables and in turn updates data views to reflect the change. The analyst can reuse parts of the analysis process by assigning new values to a node in the graph. We evaluated this symbolic model approach by solving three IEEE VAST Challenge contest problems (from IEEE VAST 2008, 2009, and 2010). In each of these challenges, the analyst first created a symbolic model to explore, understand, analyze, and solve a particular subproblem and then reused the model via its dependency graph propagation mechanism to solve similar subproblems. With the script and model, CZSaw supports the analytic provenance by capturing, encoding, and reusing the analysis process. The analyst can recall the chronological states of the analysis process with the CZSaw script and may interpret the underlying rationale of the analysis with the symbolic model.
The aim of this thesis is to implement an application for creating 2D games with physics simulation. The game can be created without any programming knowledge. We propose an extendable visual scripting to define the b...
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The aim of this thesis is to implement an application for creating 2D games with physics simulation. The game can be created without any programming knowledge. We propose an extendable visual scripting to define the behaviour of game objects. The game objects are described by finite state machines. Nodes with pre-defined behaviour are connected on a virtual space at the object states. The work contains a comparison with similar applications. The capabilities of the application and the visual scripting method are demonstrated on a sample project.
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