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Polyphemus and Hermes — Exploration and Visualization of Computer Networks

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Computer networks are an endless source of problems and motivations for the Graph Drawing and for the Information Visualization research communities. Graphical representation of computer networks at different abstraction levels are interesting for different types of users. To give only some examples (an interesting survey can be found in [10]):

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Barbagallo, G., Carmignani, A., Di Battista, G., Didimo, W., Pizzonia, M. (2004). Polyphemus and Hermes — Exploration and Visualization of Computer Networks. In: Jünger, M., Mutzel, P. (eds) Graph Drawing Software. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18638-7_16

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