BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: UCB//S2K-94-52
ENTRY:: April 29, 1994
TITLE:: An Intelligent Assistant for Creating Data Flow Visualization
        Networks 
DATE:: March 20, 1994
AUTHOR:: Kochevar, Peter 
AUTHOR:: Ahmed, Zahid 
PAGES:: 12
ABSTRACT:: Non-visualization experts, including most scientists, find 
visualization systems like AVS too difficult to use. One approach to 
assisting these end-users in doing interactive visualization is to 
embed the knowledge of visualization experts into an intelligent 
system. A prototype, called Tecate, of such a system has been devel-
oped as part of the Sequoia 2000 Project. In this system, a Planner
makes use of expert knowledge stored in a Knowledge Base to create
data-flow visualization programs. The Planner takes as input a 
description of the data to be visualized and an indication of the
data analysis goals of an end-user. From this information, an AVS
network script is produced that when executed, builds an appropriate
visualization of the indicated data set. The networks so produced
make use of both a restricted set of standard AVS modules and a
collection of custom ones which operate on data structured as
fiber bundles.  
RETRIEVAL:: postscript (in all.ps)
END:: UCB//S2K-94-52