graduiertenzentrum.uni-trier.de

Lecture in information visualization (summer term 2012).

Seminars, exercises, and reasearch internships in software engineering, information/software visualization, and programming.

Please look at the German version of this page for details.

  Projects | Publications | Awards | Service | Miscellaneous

• Multi-Dimensional Coupling Analysis
• TimeRadarTrees
• Software Visualization Blog

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Journal , Conference , and Workshop Papers (Peer Review, Full Papers)

2012

• On the Impact of Software Evolution on Software Clustering
  Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl
  in Empirical Software Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-012-9225-9, online first
  [PDF] [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com]
• Visual Comparison of Software Architectures
  Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl
  in Information Visualization, DOI: 10.1177/1473871612455983, online first
  [PDF] [publisher's site]
• The Order of Things: How Developers Sort Fields and Methods
  Benjamin Biegel, Fabian Beck, Willi Hornig, and Stephan Diehl
  28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), to appear
  [preprint] [data]
• Rapid Serial Visual Presentation in Dynamic Graph Visualization
  Fabian Beck, Michael Burch, Corinna Vehlow, Stephan Diehl, and Daniel Weiskopf
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2012), to appear
  [preprint] [video]
• Radial Edge Splatting for Visualizing Dynamic Directed Graphs
  Michael Burch, Fabian Beck, and Daniel Weiskopf
  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2012)
  [PDF]

2011

• Parallel Edge Splatting for Scalable Dynamic Graph Visualization
  Michael Burch, Corinna Vehlow, Fabian Beck, Stephan Diehl, and Daniel Weiskopf
  in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 12 (InfoVis 2011).
  [PDF]
• On the Congruence of Modularity and Code Coupling
  Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl
  in 19th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering and 13rd European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE '11), Szeged, Hungary, September 2011.
  [PDF] © ACM, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings ESEC/FSE’11 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2025113.2025162 {September 2011}
  • Fabian Beck received the Joseph A. Schumpeter publication award 2012 of the University of Trier for this publication
    
• Visually Exploring Multi-Dimensional Code Couplings
  Fabian Beck, Radoslav Petkov, and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT 2011), Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, September 2011.
  [PDF] [10.1109/VISSOF.2011.6069455]

2010

• Uncovering Strengths and Weaknesses of Radial Visualizations—an Empirical Approach
  Stephan Diehl, Fabian Beck, and Michael Burch
  in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 6 (InfoVis 2010).
  [PDF]
• Eine E-Learning-Webseite als facettenreiches Werkzeug in Forschung und Lehre.
  Günter Daniel Rey, Fabian Beck
  e-learning and education (eleed), 6. Ausgabe, 2010.
  [html]
• Visual Comparison of Software Architectures
  Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis 2010), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 2010.
  [PDF] © ACM, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings SoftVis  2010 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1879211.1879238 {October 2010}
• Evaluating the Impact of Software Evolution on Software Clustering
  Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010), Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, October 2010.
  [PDF]
• Computer-Aided Extraction of Software Components
  Andreas Marx, Fabian Beck, and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010), Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, October 2010.
  [PDF]
• TimeSpiderTrees: A Novel Visual Metaphor for Dynamic Compound Graphs
  Michael Burch, Michael Fritz, Fabian Beck, and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceeding of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2010), Madrid, Spain, September 2010.
  [PDF]

2009

• Towards an Aesthetic Dimensions Framework for Dynamic Graph Visualization
  Fabian Beck, Michael Burch, and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV 2009), Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
  [PDF]

2008

• Cartesian vs. Radial - A Comparative Evaluation of Two Visualization Tools
  Michael Burch, Felix Bott, Fabian Beck, and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of Advances in Visual Computing, Fourth International Symposium (ISVC 2008), Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 2008.
  [PDF]
• Timeline Trees: Visualizing Sequences of Transactions in Information Hierarchies
  Michael Burch, Fabian Beck, and Stephan Diehl
  in Proceedings of 9th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2008), Naples, Italy, May 2008.
  [PDF] © ACM, 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings AVI 2008 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1385569.1385584 {May 2008}  
  

Short Papers and Posters

• The Interplay of Co-Change Coupling and Modularity
  Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl
  MSR Vision 2020, Kingston, CA, 2012
  [poster] [slides]
• Interaktive Extraktion von Software-Komponenten
  Fabian Beck, Alexander Pavel, and Stephan Diehl
  14. Workshop Software-Reengineering (WSR 2012), GI Softwartechnik-Trends, Band 32, Heft 2
  [PDF]
• Edge Bundling without Reducing the Source to Target Traceability
  Fabian Beck, Martin Puppe, Patrick Braun, Michael Burch, and Stephan Diehl
  Poster at IEEE InfoVis 2011
  [PDF]

Theses

• Improving Software Clustering with Evolutionary Data
  Fabian Beck
  Diploma Thesis. Universität Trier, 2009.
  [PDF]

Talks

• Visueller Vergleich von Kopplungen in Software-Systemen, 13. März 2012, VISUS, Universität Stuttgart
• Visual Comparison of Code Coupling, 9. März 2012, Universität Kaiserslautern
• Informations- und Softwarevisualisierung, 19. Mai 2008, SCHOTT AG, Mainz

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• Joseph A. Schumpeter Preis 2012, University of Trier
  Publication award for the ESEC/FSE 2011 paper "On the Congruence of Modularity and Code Coupling"
• Finalist and awardee of the German National Computer Science Contest 2004 (Bundeswettbewerb Informatik)
  Preisträger (secondary award), Special award for cooperative behavior

Reviewer

• Journals: Software: Practice and Experience, Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Conferences: EuroVis, ICPC, InfoVis, MSR, PacificVis, SoftVis

University

• 2010 - 2012: Elected member of the management board of the International Graduate Center (University of Trier)

Links

• Private homepage (German): www.fbeck.com
• Introduction to neural networks (German): www.neuronalesnetz.de