Saturday, October 29, 2011
Hall 1-2 (San Jose Convention Center)
Albert Maldonado, BS in progress
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Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR
Gilberto Ramos
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Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR
Jose Ortiz-Ubarri, PhD
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Computer Science, Universidad de Puerto Rico :Rio Piedras, San Juan
As time passes the amount of data transferred over communications networks keep increasing. The organizations and people in charge of delivering these network infrastructures have to provide reliable quality of service and security to maintain the customer trust and happiness. Doing this requires a lot of routine technical work and maintenance, but because a lot of these networks are overwhelmingly big and complex, it takes a lot of work to keep up with everything that is happening over the network and be aware of what is wrong.
Our contribution to this problem is applying visualization analytics techniques using open source visualization toolkits to help analyze and visualize these huge networks and their structures. The great amounts of data present a few challenges. We are finding efficient ways to use computational resources to extract, process and organize this data, and presenting data graphs in an easy to use and reconfigure GUI.
Our goal is making it possible to understand a big portion of what is happening and what needs closer inspection by just looking at a network display. It is not only about presenting data, it is about finding the best ways to present them. In a field that requires quick response to threats and constant analyzing of huge amounts of data, the ability to have the information you need quickly and understandable is crucial.
