| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of making a network display which is easy for a user to understand by calculating a relationship between entities of a kind that the user selects using a relationship between the entities that the user does not select when displaying a network having many kinds of entities. <P>SOLUTION: A network visualization device includes an information acquisition part 10 which acquires many kinds of entities and relationships between the respective entities from Web or a database; a display selection part 20 which selects a kind of entities to be displayed out of the acquired entities according to a user's choice; a relationship calculation part 30 which calculates the strength of the relationships of the entities belonging to the selected kind by using the relationships of the entities belonging to non-selected kinds; and a network display part 40 which displays a network having the entities of the selected kind and their relationships as nodes and edges based upon the calculated strength of the relationships. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
