ModelViz: A Model-Driven Engineering Approach for Visual Analytics System Design

Abstract

Visual analytics systems should be able to consolidate data from disparate sources, conduct exploratory analysis, create visualizations that suit different users, and integrate seamlessly with decision-making activities to support data-driven decision-making. However, current mainstream visual analytics solutions often lack support for all these requirements. To address this gap, we propose the use of model-driven engineering to design visual analytics systems. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, we developed a Domain-Specific Modeling Language (DSML) named ModelViz to design visual analytics systems for consumer goods supply chain applications. Furthermore, we present the work of our DSML, using data from a manufacturing company as a case study. Finally, we evaluated ModelViz quantitatively by comparing it with other similar works from the literature. Our results demonstrate that this approach meets the requirements and provides a promising direction for designing visual analytics systems by considering domain-specific aspects to help achieve business goals.

Keywords

• Decision support systems
• domain-specific languages
• model-driven engineering
• supply chain management
• visual analytics