4. SOFTVIS 2008: Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany

• John T. Stasko:
  Visualization for information exploration and analysis: keynote presentation. 7-8
  

Software visualization for understanding

• Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Laura K. Dillon, Scott D. Fleming:
  Assessing the benefits of synchronization-adorned sequence diagrams: two controlled experiments. 9-18
  
• Hina Shah, Carsten Görg, Mary Jean Harrold:
  Visualization of exception handling constructs to support program understanding. 19-28
  
• Christian Pich, Lev Nachmanson, George G. Robertson:
  Visual analysis of importance and grouping in software dependency graphs. 29-32
  
• Sascha A. Parduhn, Raimund Seidel, Reinhard Wilhelm:
  Algorithm visualization using concrete and abstract shape graphs. 33-36
  

Software visualization for testing and debugging

• Dirk Zeckzer, Robert Kalcklösch, L. Schröder, Hans Hagen, T. Klein:
  Analyzing the reliability of communication between software entities using a 3D visualization of clustered graphs. 37-46
  
• Jaishankar Sundararaman, Godmar Back:
  HDPV: interactive, faithful, in-vivo runtime state visualization for C/C++ and Java. 47-56
  
• Joseph A. Cottam, Joshua Hursey, Andrew Lumsdaine:
  Representing unit test data for large scale software development. 57-66
  

Software visualization for maintenance

• Alexandru Telea, Lucian Voinea:
  An interactive reverse engineering environment for large-scale C++ code. 67-76
  
• Chris Parnin, Carsten Görg, Ogechi Nnadi:
  A catalogue of lightweight visualizations to support code smell inspection. 77-86
  
• Mariam Sensalire, Patrick Ogao, Alexandru Telea:
  Classifying desirable features of software visualization tools for corrective maintenance. 87-90
  
• Jens Dietrich, Vyacheslav Yakovlev, Catherine McCartin, Graham Jenson, Manfred Duchrow:
  Cluster analysis of Java dependency graphs. 91-94
  

Software visualization interaction and layout

• Jens von Pilgrim, Kristian Duske:
  Gef3D: a framework for two-, two-and-a-half-, and three-dimensional graphical editors. 95-104
  
• Holger Eichelberger:
  Automatic layout of UML use case diagrams. 105-114
  
• Bas Ploeger, Carst Tankink:
  Improving an interactive visualization of transition systems. 115-124
  

Joint paper session with VL/HCC

• Wim De Pauw, Henrique Andrade, Lisa Amini:
  Streamsight: a visualization tool for large-scale streaming applications. 125-134
  
• Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Margaret M. Burnett, Christopher Bogart:
  Software visualization for end-user programmers: trial period obstacles. 135-144
  

Software visualization for design

• David Harel, Itai Segall:
  Visualizing inter-dependencies between scenarios. 145-153
  
• Richard Wettel, Michele Lanza:
  Visually localizing design problems with disharmony maps. 155-164
  
• Tony Bernardin, Brian Budge, Bernd Hamann:
  Stacked-widget visualization of scheduling-based algorithms. 165-174
  

Software visualization applications

• Daren Nestor, Steffen Thiel, Goetz Botterweck, Ciarán Cawley, Patrick Healy:
  Applying visualisation techniques in software product lines. 175-184
  
• Thomas Panas:
  Signature visualization of software binaries. 185-188
  
• Roberto Therón, Antonio González Torres, Francisco José García Peñalvo:
  Supporting the understanding of the evolution of software items. 189-192
  
• Anthony Savidis, Panagiotis Papadakos, George Zargianakis:
  Rapid visual design with semantics encoding through 3d CRC cards. 193-196
  

Posters

• Amaia Aguirregoitia Martínez, J. Javier Dolado Cosín, Concepción Presedo García:
  A landscape metaphor for visualization of software projects. 197-198
  
• Amaia Aguirregoitia Martínez, J. Javier Dolado Cosín, Concepción Presedo García:
  A metro map metaphor for visualization of software projects. 199-200
  
• Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro, Rodrigo Chaves Magnavita, Manoel G. Mendonça:
  Combining software visualization paradigms to support software comprehension activities. 201-202
  
• Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch, Eike Decker:
  Enhancing UML sketch tools with digital pens and paper. 203-204
  
• Heorhiy Byelas, Alexandru Telea:
  Texture-based visualization of metrics on software architectures. 205-206
  
• Mathias Frisch, Raimund Dachselt, Tobias Brückmann:
  Towards seamless semantic zooming techniques for UML diagrams. 207-208
  
• Francisco J. Almeida-Martínez, Jaime Urquiza-Fuentes, J. Ángel Velázquez-Iturbide:
  VAST: visualization of abstract syntax trees within language processors courses. 209-210
  
• Bennett Thompson, David J. Pearce, Craig Anslow, Gary Haggard:
  Visualizing the computation tree of the Tutte Polynomial. 211-212
  
• Craig Anslow, James Noble, Stuart Marshall, Robert Biddle:
  Web software visualization using extensible 3D (X3D) graphics. 213-214