Introduction to the special issue of selected articles from SOFTVIS'2010

摘要

In this special issue of the Information Visualization journal, we are proud to present a selection of the recent state-of-the-art research that is going on in the field of Software Visualization. This special issue is dedicated to ACM SOFTVIS 2010, the 5th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization. SOFTVIS'2010 took place on 25-26 October 2010 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. For the first time in its history, SOFTVIS was colocated with VisWeek, which is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government, and industry. VisWeek traditionally combines three main conferences: IEEE Visualization, IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). The addition of SOFTVIS to the 2010 edition of VisWeek has represented a major opportunity for the data and information visualization to be exposed to the use cases, challenges, and solutions developed in the software visualization community, on the one hand, and for the software visualization community to get a closer look at the latest advances in information visualization techniques and tools, on the other hand.