Title
Exploiting the Layout Engine to Assess Diagram Completions
Abstract
A practicable approach to diagram completion is to first compute model completions on the abstract syntax level. These can be translated to corresponding diagram changes by the layout engine afterwards. Normally, several different model completions are possible though. One way to deal with this issue is to let the user choose among them explicitly, which is already helpful. However, such a choice step is a quite time-consuming interruption of the editing process. We argue that users often are mainly interested in completions that preserve their original diagram as far as possible. This criterion cannot be checked on the abstract syntax level though. In fact, minimal model changes might still result in enormous changes of the original diagram. Therefore, we suggest to use the layout engine in advance for assessing all possible model completions with respect to the diagram changes they eventually cause.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
ECEASST
diagram completion,layout,assessment
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Layout engine,Minimal model,Theoretical computer science,Diagram,Abstract syntax
Journal
13
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steffen Mazanek113111.17
Sonja Maier27110.25
Mark Minas317822.34