Toolboxes & Code Repositories

VisCARS

Library for context-aware visualization recommender systems

software
Description:

VisCARS is a context-aware visualization recommender system for monitoring applications that automatically recommends a personalized dashboard to the user, based on the system they are monitoring and the task they are trying to achieve. Through a knowledge graph-based approach, expert knowledge about the data and the application is included as contextual features to improve the recommendation process.

More Information:

  • Originates from the AI-Driven Data Science research challenge (FAIR 2019–2023).

  • Responsible Research Lead: Sofie VanHoecke

  • Authors: Pieter Moens, Bruno Volckaert, Sofie Van Hoecke

  • Programming Language: Python

  • Link to the repository

  • Categories: Recommender systems

Publications:

  • P. Moens, B. Volckaert and S. Van Hoecke, "VisCARS: Knowledge Graph-Based Context-Aware Recommender System for Time-Series Data Visualization and Monitoring Dashboards," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 4728-4745, Sept. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3414191.