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Coloured Euler Diagrams: A Tool for Visualizing Dynamic Systems and Structured Information

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Euler diagrams are a popular method for visualising sets and their relationships, exploited for resource management and visual logic specification, for example. We add the notion of colouring, provide a formal description of the extended system and demonstrate how coloured Euler diagrams provide adequate visualisations for concepts in the new bio-inspired model of Reaction Systems and for polyarchies, visualising multiple intersecting hierarchies.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy

    Paolo Bottoni

  2. School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UK

    Andrew Fish

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  1. School of Interactive Computing, Design & Intelligence Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology,, 85 Fifth Street, NW 30308, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ashok K. Goel

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Mateja Jamnik

  3. Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Auburn University, 345 W. Magnolia Street, 36849-5347, Auburn, AL, USA

    N. Hari Narayanan

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Bottoni, P., Fish, A. (2010). Coloured Euler Diagrams: A Tool for Visualizing Dynamic Systems and Structured Information. In: Goel, A.K., Jamnik, M., Narayanan, N.H. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14600-8_8

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