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Human-centered Algorithm Engineering:
Graph and Map Visualization (Research Project)

Funding Organisation: The Austrian Science Fund, FWF
Project Number: FWF P 31119
Duration: 11/2018 - 04/2022

Project Team

Sujoy Bhore (Postdoc)
Guangping Li (Doctoral Student)
Martin Nöllenburg (Professor, Principal Investigator)

Topic

Human-centered algorithm engineering is an unconventional new paradigm in algorithmics that puts, for the first time, human factors into the focus of algorithm engineering, a methodology that is based on a cycle of design, analysis, implementation, and experimental evaluation of algorithms. Unlike other fields in computer science that investigate the interplay of humans and computers, our focus is on the symbiosis of human expert users and computers on the fundamental level of algorithms. We combine the mathematical accuracy and computational power of formal algorithmics with the creative power of the human mind in order to provide more effective and efficient algorithms for currently insufficiently solved and ill-defined algorithmic problems. Human-centered algorithms aim to produce solutions of better quality with faster overall performance, and higher user satisfaction. The project has two main goals: (i) establishing theoretical foundations, models of computation, and suitable evaluation methods and (ii) showing the practicality and benefits of the new paradigm for several prime examples of human-centered algorithmic problems that lack satisfying traditional algorithmic solutions in graph drawing and computational cartography.

News

  • New Assistant Professor: Jiehua Chen

    New Assistant Professor: Jiehua Chen

    2019-10-30
    In October 2019, Jiehua Chen has joined the Algorithms and Complexity Group on a tenure track position.  Jiehua's research interests are …Read More »
  • Three WWTF Projects for the Algorithms and Complexity Group

    Three WWTF Projects for the Algorithms and Complexity Group

    2019-10-30
    At the highly competitive  ”Information and Communication Technology” Project Call of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), three projects …Read More »
  • Graph Drawing Contest 2019: First and Second Prize

    Graph Drawing Contest 2019: First and Second Prize

    2019-10-15
    Two submissions of graph layouts from the Algorithms and Complexity Group were successful in the 26th Graph Drawing Contest, which …Read More »
  • New PhD: Tomáš Peitl

    New PhD: Tomáš Peitl

    2019-10-14
    Tomáš Peitl successfully defended his PhD thesis “Advanced Dependency Analysis for QBF” on October 14, 2019. Congratulations! Tomáš was was supervised by Stefan Szeider and co-supervised …Read More »
  • Winner of the PACE’19 Competition, Hypertree Width/Exact

    Winner of the PACE’19 Competition, Hypertree Width/Exact

    2019-09-13
    Our solver htdSMT submitted by André Schidler and Stefan Szeider achieved the first place in the PACE'19 competition for the …Read More »

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