LOGIN User:   Password:   New User? Register Here VIR Research Members of the Research Group Xia Lin Howard White Jan Buzydlowski Keywords Information Visualization Medical Informatics Information Retrieval Knowledge Mapping		VisualLink: Associative Information Visualizer This application is created in response to the InfoVis Contest organized by InfoVis'04. It is based on tools we developed for our previous applications AuthorMap and ConceptLink . The tools include a set of customized indexing and mapping programs, and a set of Java servlets and applets. The base visualization algorithms implemented include Kohonen's Self-Organizing Feature Map(SOM) and PathFinder Network (PFNET). A key feature of the tools is the coupling of interactivity with instant mapping. Users can browse through lists of authors, keywords, or documents to request on-the-fly mapping and visualization. They can also interact with graphical displays to request new mapping and visualization. The process has been tested with very large databases (both AuthorMap and ConceptLink have been applied to mulimillion-record databases). Another key feature, implemented here for the first time, is cross-mapping. For an author, for example, users can view an author co-citation map, a keyword co-occurrence map, and a document co-citation map, etc. RELEVANT LINKS: The submission form to the Contest The two-page paper in PDF System demo video SAMPLE DISPLAY: