Survey on visualization technology and its applications on complex network

The visualization technology is an important means of effective data explaining.In recent years,the increasing data on Internet present new challenges to this technology.Firstly,the development of visualization algorithms is summarized from four catalogs,including planar graph,hierarchy graph,directed graph and space graph.Then with complex network as the applied background,the application developments of visualization technology in topology complex network,propagation mechanism and intrusion detection are introduced,which show the promoting role of visualization technology in the research of complex network.Finally,several visualization tools suitable for complex network are analyzed and compared.