VIS · GPT-5.6-Terra · C6

workflow vis-community-evolution template: characterise → visualise → assess → define-unit → characterise → define-unit → loop(build-model → define-unit → characterise → contextualise → visualise → abstract → assess) → characterise → loop(build-model → define-unit → characterise → visualise → abstract → assess) → define-unit → characterise → contextualise → visualise → abstract → generate-knowledge → loop(build-model → define-unit → characterise → visualise → assess) → generate-knowledge description: "Identify overlapping, evolving co-authorship communities in IEEE VIS publications; characterise their stable cores, leaders, research foci, membership overlap, and community lineage events."

artifact D_papers_raw : entities origin: given internal structure: elementary embedment: {set, time} features: - id: paper_id value structure: atomic value type: reference description: "Unique paper identifier" - id: publication_year value structure: atomic value type: temporal description: "Publication year from 1990 to 2024" - id: venue value structure: atomic value type: categorical description: "VIS, InfoVis, VAST, or SciVis venue" - id: authors value structure: list value type: reference description: "DBLP-disambiguated author identifiers and raw names" - id: bibliographic_text value structure: vector value type: text description: "Title, abstract, and author keywords" - id: citations value structure: relational configuration value type: reference description: "Citation links where available, otherwise citation counts" description: "IEEE VIS conference paper records with authorship, bibliographic text, venue, year, and citation information" artifact K_domain_knowledge : knowledge(D_papers_raw) origin: given representation form: "annotations and interpretive criteria" description: "Visualization-domain knowledge used to judge meaningful communities, distinguish venue-history effects from intellectual change, interpret topics, and review lineage events" artifact S_temporal_views : specification origin: given representation form: "configuration schema" description: "Annual, rolling three- or five-year, and broader-era temporal views; specifies the candidate temporal windows to retain" artifact S_community_analysis : specification origin: given representation form: "configuration schema" description: "Initial community-analysis choices: fractional weighting of co-authorship ties, overlapping community method, candidate resolutions, weak-tie treatment, and selection criteria" artifact S_topic_analysis : specification origin: given representation form: "configuration schema" description: "Initial topic-analysis choices: text preprocessing, generic-term removal, topic-model family, number of topics, and topic-editing constraints" artifact S_lineage_matching : specification origin: given representation form: "rules and thresholds" description: "Rules for matching communities across periods using weighted author membership, stable-core overlap, topical similarity, and collaboration-structure similarity" artifact S_robustness_analysis : specification origin: given representation form: "parameter settings" description: "Alternative window widths, edge weights, weak-tie filters, community resolutions, and topic-model settings for sensitivity checks"

transform T_audit_records : intent: characterise manner: "compute data-completeness and coverage statistics" input: D_papers_raw output: F_record_quality actor: machine description: "Identify duplicate papers, missing author or text fields, unusually large author teams, yearly venue coverage, and the available form of citation information" artifact F_record_quality : feature(D_papers_raw) value structure: vector value type: {numeric, categorical} description: "Completeness, duplication, author-team-size, venue-coverage, and citation-availability indicators for paper records" transform T_visualise_audit : intent: visualise manner: "temporal coverage and quality overview" input: D_papers_raw, F_record_quality output: V_data_audit actor: machine description: "Show yearly paper counts by venue and linked views of missingness, duplicates, author-team sizes, and citation coverage" artifact V_data_audit : visualisation(D_papers_raw, F_record_quality) layout: "aligned yearly timelines and linked quality summaries" form: "stacked bars, distributions, and tabular record inspector" encoding: "time and venue determine publication-count displays; colour and highlighting indicate data-quality conditions" description: "Visual audit interface for checking data coverage and identifying records requiring treatment" transform T_assess_audit : intent: assess manner: "judge data adequacy and required cleaning" input: V_data_audit, F_record_quality, K_domain_knowledge output: K_audit_assessment actor: human description: "Determine how duplicate records, missing information, unusual team sizes, and venue-coverage changes should be handled" artifact K_audit_assessment : knowledge(D_papers_raw, F_record_quality) representation form: "quality judgment and cleaning decisions" description: "Analyst assessment of data quality and justified treatment decisions for the bibliographic corpus" transform T_prepare_records : intent: define-unit manner: "filter, deduplicate, and normalise paper records" input: D_papers_raw, K_audit_assessment output: D_papers actor: hybrid description: "Create an analysis-ready paper corpus; retain DBLP author identifiers, preserve display names, normalise bibliographic text, and apply agreed data-treatment decisions" artifact D_papers : entities internal structure: elementary embedment: {set, time} features: - id: publication_year value structure: atomic value type: temporal description: "Validated publication year" - id: venue value structure: atomic value type: categorical description: "Publication venue" - id: author_ids value structure: list value type: reference description: "Validated DBLP author identifiers" - id: clean_text value structure: vector value type: text description: "Normalised title, abstract, and keywords" description: "Prepared IEEE VIS paper corpus for collaboration and topic analysis"

transform T_define_authors : intent: define-unit manner: "group-by-entity" input: D_papers output: D_authors, F_authorship actor: machine description: "Define unique researchers from DBLP identifiers and retain paper-to-author affiliations" artifact D_authors : entities internal structure: group/cluster embedment: set features: - id: author_id value structure: atomic value type: reference description: "Unique DBLP author identifier" - id: display_names value structure: list value type: text description: "Raw author-name strings retained for inspection" description: "Researchers represented through their associated VIS papers" artifact F_authorship : feature(D_papers) value structure: relational configuration value type: reference representation form: "paper-author bipartite network" description: "Paper-to-author relationships preserving complete author teams" transform T_characterise_relations : intent: characterise manner: "define-relations (fractionally weighted co-authorship)" input: D_papers, D_authors, F_authorship output: F_coauthorship, F_text_representation actor: machine description: "Compute weighted co-authorship relations while preventing large author teams from dominating, and encode paper text for topic analysis" artifact F_coauthorship : feature(D_authors) value structure: relational configuration value type: numeric representation form: "weighted temporal co-authorship network" description: "Author collaboration ties with fractional paper contributions and time references" artifact F_text_representation : feature(D_papers) value structure: matrix value type: numeric representation form: "document-term representation" description: "Machine-processable representation of normalised titles, abstracts, and keywords" transform T_define_snapshots : intent: define-unit manner: "time-partitioning and network aggregation" input: D_papers, D_authors, F_coauthorship, S_temporal_views output: D_network_snapshots actor: machine description: "Construct annual, rolling-window, and broad-era weighted co-authorship network snapshots" artifact D_network_snapshots : entities internal structure: formation embedment: time features: - id: window_extent value structure: atomic value type: temporal description: "Time interval represented by the snapshot" - id: edge_weight value structure: relational configuration value type: numeric description: "Fractionally weighted co-authorship network" description: "Time-indexed co-authorship network snapshots at multiple scales" assign: S_community_current := S_community_analysis

loop L_community_refinement: purpose: "Find an interpretable and stable overlapping community structure while allowing resolution, weighting, and temporal choices to be revised" until: "The selected communities are sufficiently cohesive, stable across adjacent periods, topically interpretable, and credible to the analyst" body: transform T_fit_community_model : intent: build-model manner: "fit overlapping community-detection model" input: D_network_snapshots, F_coauthorship, S_community_current output: M_community_model actor: machine description: "Fit a candidate overlapping community model in each temporal network snapshot at the current resolution and settings" artifact M_community_model : model(D_network_snapshots, F_coauthorship) model type: "overlapping community-detection model" representation form: "membership-weight and network-partition parameters" description: "Computational representation of candidate overlapping author communities across temporal snapshots" transform T_define_communities : intent: define-unit manner: "derive overlapping community groups from membership weights" input: D_network_snapshots, D_authors, M_community_model output: D_communities, F_community_membership actor: machine description: "Define community instances for each time window and assign authors weighted memberships in one or more communities" artifact D_communities : entities internal structure: group/cluster embedment: time features: - id: active_window value structure: atomic value type: temporal description: "Time window in which the community instance is active" description: "Overlapping author communities observed in temporal snapshots" artifact F_community_membership : feature(D_authors) value structure: matrix value type: numeric representation form: "author × community-time membership weights" description: "Degree of each author's membership in each community over time" transform T_characterise_communities : intent: characterise manner: "compute core-periphery, leadership, and structural metrics" input: D_communities, D_authors, F_community_membership, F_coauthorship output: F_author_roles, F_community_metrics actor: machine description: "Identify candidate stable-core members, leaders, peripheral contributors, and boundary spanners using persistence, within-community collaboration, brokerage, productivity, and impact" artifact F_author_roles : feature(D_authors) value structure: vector value type: {categorical, numeric, temporal} description: "Time-resolved stable-core, leader, peripheral, and boundary-spanner roles with supporting scores" artifact F_community_metrics : feature(D_communities) value structure: vector value type: {numeric, temporal} description: "Community size, density, core persistence, overlap, repeated collaboration, publication volume, and impact indicators" transform T_contextualise_community_states : intent: contextualise manner: "projection-based dynamic network-state map" input: D_network_snapshots, F_community_metrics output: D_state_space, A_snapshot_states actor: machine description: "Project temporal network snapshots into a state space where proximity reflects similarity of community-network structure" artifact D_state_space : entities internal structure: elementary features: - id: dimensions value structure: atomic value type: numeric description: "Two dimensions of the computed state space" description: "Computed projection context for comparing network states" artifact A_snapshot_states : arrangement(D_network_snapshots) context: D_state_space principle: "similarity-preserving projection of network-state features" description: "Arrangement of temporal network snapshots by structural similarity" transform T_visualise_communities : intent: visualise manner: "coordinated community-structure views" input: D_communities, D_authors, F_community_membership, F_author_roles, F_community_metrics, A_snapshot_states output: V_community_structure actor: machine description: "Provide linked community views: temporal state map, community-size summaries, core-periphery profiles, membership histories, and NodeTrix-style matrix-plus-node-link inspection" artifact V_community_structure : visualisation(D_communities, D_authors, F_community_membership, F_author_roles, F_community_metrics, A_snapshot_states) layout: "coordinated state projection, temporal summaries, membership matrix, and selected-community matrix-plus-node-link view" form: "projected points, timelines, ribbons, matrices, and node-link diagrams" encoding: "community and author colour encode membership; matrix cells and links encode collaboration strength; size encodes membership or publication volume; time encodes snapshot order" description: "Interactive visual interface for inspecting candidate communities, core members, leaders, and cross-community ties" transform T_interpret_community_patterns : intent: abstract manner: "perception-and-interpretation of candidate communities" input: V_community_structure, F_author_roles, F_community_metrics, K_domain_knowledge output: P_candidate_community_structure actor: human description: "Interpret salient stable communities, possible subcommunities, unusual overlaps, and plausible leader/core roles" artifact P_candidate_community_structure : pattern(D_communities) representation form: "annotated community and role descriptions" description: "Analyst interpretations of cohesive communities, cores, leaders, boundary spanners, and suspicious fragmentations" transform T_assess_communities : intent: assess manner: "evaluate community quality, stability, and interpretability" input: D_communities, F_community_membership, F_community_metrics, V_community_structure, P_candidate_community_structure, S_community_current, K_domain_knowledge output: K_community_assessment, S_community_revised actor: hybrid description: "Evaluate cohesion, separation, parameter stability, persistence, and topical plausibility; determine whether community settings require further refinement" artifact K_community_assessment : knowledge(D_communities, F_community_metrics) representation form: "quality judgment" description: "Assessment of whether the community solution is fragmented, overly merged, unstable, or sufficiently interpretable" artifact S_community_revised : specification representation form: "revised configuration schema" description: "Updated community resolution, temporal-view selection, tie weighting, filtering, or model choice for another iteration" if K_community_assessment indicates further refinement needed: then: assign: S_community_current := S_community_revised else: exit loop L_community_refinement end loop L_community_refinement

transform T_characterise_community_corpora : intent: characterise manner: "aggregate weighted document corpora" input: D_papers, D_communities, F_community_membership, F_text_representation output: F_community_corpora actor: machine description: "Construct weighted community-time document corpora. Contributions from authors belonging to several communities are fractionally allocated while preserving links to full papers." artifact F_community_corpora : feature(D_communities) value structure: matrix value type: numeric representation form: "weighted community-time document-term matrix" description: "Textual evidence associated with each community instance" assign: S_topic_current := S_topic_analysis loop L_topic_refinement: purpose: "Develop interpretable topic profiles for communities and refine topic representations with analyst guidance" until: "Topics are distinct, meaningful to visualization researchers, and adequately explain communities' research foci and change over time" body: transform T_fit_topic_model : intent: build-model manner: "fit interpretable topic model" input: F_community_corpora, F_text_representation, S_topic_current output: M_topic_model actor: machine description: "Fit an initial topic model to weighted paper text from community-time corpora" artifact M_topic_model : model(F_community_corpora, F_text_representation) model type: "topic model" representation form: "nonnegative matrix factorisation or comparable topic-term and topic-document matrices" description: "Model of research topics and their prevalence in community-time paper corpora" transform T_define_topics : intent: define-unit manner: "derive topic groups and community topic mixtures" input: M_topic_model, F_community_corpora output: D_topics, F_topic_mixture, F_topic_terms actor: machine description: "Define candidate topics, representative papers, terms, and the mixture of topics associated with each community over time" artifact D_topics : entities internal structure: group/cluster embedment: set description: "Candidate research topics represented by associated terms and papers" artifact F_topic_mixture : feature(D_communities) value structure: vector value type: numeric description: "Topic prevalence profile for each community-time instance" artifact F_topic_terms : feature(D_topics) value structure: list value type: text description: "Ranked representative terms and papers for each topic" transform T_characterise_topic_change : intent: characterise manner: "compute topic evolution and cross-community similarity" input: D_topics, F_topic_mixture, F_topic_terms output: F_topic_trends, F_topic_similarity actor: machine description: "Calculate persistent, emerging, declining, and shared topics, plus topic diversity and topical similarity between communities" artifact F_topic_trends : feature(D_communities) value structure: vector value type: {numeric, temporal} description: "Temporal topic prevalence, diversity, emergence, and decline" artifact F_topic_similarity : feature(D_communities) value structure: matrix value type: numeric representation form: "pairwise community topical-similarity matrix" description: "Similarity of communities' topic profiles" transform T_visualise_topics : intent: visualise manner: "topic timeline and document inspection" input: D_communities, D_topics, F_topic_mixture, F_topic_terms, F_topic_trends output: V_topics actor: machine description: "Show topic timelines, community-topic heatmaps, topic terms, representative papers, and paper-level textual evidence" artifact V_topics : visualisation(D_communities, D_topics, F_topic_mixture, F_topic_terms, F_topic_trends) layout: "aligned community timelines, topic heatmap, and linked paper inspector" form: "stacked area charts, heatmaps, ranked term lists, and document cards" encoding: "time determines horizontal position; colour identifies topics; area or intensity encodes topic prevalence" description: "Interactive interface for interpreting community research foci" transform T_interpret_topics : intent: abstract manner: "name and refine research-focus patterns" input: V_topics, D_topics, F_topic_terms, K_domain_knowledge output: P_research_foci actor: human description: "Name meaningful topics, identify redundant or mixed topics, and relate topic patterns to known visualization research areas" artifact P_research_foci : pattern(D_topics, D_communities) representation form: "named topic descriptions and temporal focus patterns" description: "Interpreted research foci characterising communities and their evolution" transform T_assess_topics : intent: assess manner: "evaluate topic coherence and analytical usefulness" input: M_topic_model, V_topics, P_research_foci, S_topic_current output: K_topic_assessment, S_topic_revised actor: human description: "Judge topic coherence, distinctness, coverage, and explanatory value; decide whether terms, seeds, topic number, or topic structure should be revised" artifact K_topic_assessment : knowledge(D_topics, M_topic_model) representation form: "quality judgment" description: "Assessment of topic-model adequacy and need for refinement" artifact S_topic_revised : specification representation form: "revised topic-model settings and constraints" description: "Analyst revisions such as topic merging or splitting, generic-term removal, seeded concepts, preprocessing changes, or revised topic count" if K_topic_assessment indicates topic refinement needed: then: assign: S_topic_current := S_topic_revised else: exit loop L_topic_refinement end loop L_topic_refinement

transform T_define_lineages : intent: define-unit manner: "match communities across adjacent temporal windows" input: D_communities, F_community_membership, F_author_roles, F_topic_mixture, F_topic_similarity, S_lineage_matching output: D_community_lineages, F_lineage_membership, F_event_candidates actor: hybrid description: "Match community instances through time, weighting stable-core overlap more strongly than peripheral overlap, and derive candidate continuation, growth, merge, split, birth, dissolution, temporary-disappearance, and reorientation events" artifact D_community_lineages : entities internal structure: sequence embedment: set features: - id: lifespan value structure: atomic value type: temporal description: "Temporal span of the community lineage" description: "Community lineages linking related community instances over time" artifact F_lineage_membership : feature(D_communities) value structure: relational configuration value type: reference representation form: "predecessor-successor lineage graph" description: "Links between community instances and their inferred lineages" artifact F_event_candidates : feature(D_community_lineages) value structure: list value type: categorical description: "Candidate evolution events with affected predecessor and successor communities" transform T_characterise_overlap_and_evidence : intent: characterise manner: "compute overlap, mobility, and supporting evidence" input: D_authors, D_communities, D_community_lineages, F_community_membership, F_author_roles, F_topic_mixture, F_event_candidates, D_papers output: F_overlap, F_member_transitions, F_event_evidence actor: machine description: "Compute pairwise membership overlap, shared authors, multi-community participation, author transitions, shared papers, topical changes, venue shifts, and available citation evidence" artifact F_overlap : feature(D_communities) value structure: matrix value type: numeric representation form: "time-resolved pairwise community-overlap matrix" description: "Strength and temporal change of shared membership between communities" artifact F_member_transitions : feature(D_authors) value structure: relational configuration value type: reference representation form: "author-to-community transition histories" description: "Researchers' memberships, mobility, and simultaneous participation in several communities" artifact F_event_evidence : feature(D_community_lineages) value structure: vector value type: {numeric, categorical, temporal, text} description: "Structural, membership, topical, paper, venue, and citation evidence supporting each candidate event" artifact D_lineage_timeline : entities origin: given internal structure: elementary embedment: time features: - id: date value structure: atomic value type: temporal description: "Time position for lineage visualisation" description: "Temporal reference context for community-lineage displays" transform T_contextualise_lineages : intent: contextualise manner: "time-based lineage arrangement" input: D_communities, D_lineage_timeline, F_lineage_membership output: A_lineage_timeline actor: machine description: "Arrange community instances by time and lineage relationship for visual tracing of continuations, merges, and splits" artifact A_lineage_timeline : arrangement(D_communities) context: D_lineage_timeline principle: "temporal position with lineage-preserving band placement" description: "Time-based arrangement of community instances within lineages" transform T_visualise_evolution : intent: visualise manner: "coordinated lineage, overlap, and event-investigation views" input: A_lineage_timeline, D_community_lineages, F_event_candidates, F_event_evidence, F_overlap, F_member_transitions, F_author_roles, F_topic_trends output: V_community_evolution actor: machine description: "Show a lineage diagram, membership ribbons, overlap matrix, selected-community NodeTrix view, topic timelines, and evidence-linked paper inspector" artifact V_community_evolution : visualisation(A_lineage_timeline, D_community_lineages, F_event_candidates, F_event_evidence, F_overlap, F_member_transitions, F_author_roles, F_topic_trends) layout: "community lineage bands with coordinated membership, overlap, topic, matrix-network, and paper-detail views" form: "alluvial bands, ribbons, heatmaps, matrices, node-link diagrams, timelines, and document cards" encoding: "band width encodes active membership or publication volume; links encode lineage relations; colours encode community/topic identity; highlighting exposes shared authors, event evidence, and selected papers" description: "Interactive visual workspace for examining community persistence, overlap, mobility, and evolutionary events" transform T_review_evolution_events : intent: abstract manner: "perception-and-interpretation of lineage events" input: V_community_evolution, F_event_candidates, F_event_evidence, P_research_foci, K_domain_knowledge output: P_reviewed_evolution_events actor: human description: "Review candidate events against underlying members, collaboration structure, representative papers, research foci, venues, and citations; distinguish genuine events from sparse-data artifacts" artifact P_reviewed_evolution_events : pattern(D_community_lineages) representation form: "reviewed event annotations" description: "Analyst-reviewed continuations, merges, splits, births, dissolutions, temporary disappearances, and topical reorientations" transform T_formulate_event_explanations : intent: generate-knowledge manner: "formulate evidence-backed explanations" input: P_reviewed_evolution_events, P_research_foci, F_event_evidence, K_domain_knowledge output: K_evolution_explanations actor: human description: "Formulate cautious explanations of when and why community changes occurred, explicitly distinguishing evidence-backed hypotheses from causal claims" artifact K_evolution_explanations : knowledge(P_reviewed_evolution_events, P_research_foci, F_event_evidence) representation form: "annotated explanatory statements" description: "Evidence-backed interpretations of community evolution, including likely structural and topical reasons for major events"

assign: S_robustness_current := S_robustness_analysis loop L_robustness_analysis: purpose: "Test whether community, lineage, and topical conclusions persist under reasonable alternative analytical choices" until: "The analyst has examined sufficient plausible alternatives and can distinguish robust findings from parameter-sensitive findings" body: transform T_fit_alternative_models : intent: build-model manner: "fit alternative community and topic models" input: D_network_snapshots, F_coauthorship, F_community_corpora, S_robustness_current output: M_alternative_community_model, M_alternative_topic_model actor: machine description: "Re-run community and topic modelling under selected alternative temporal windows, edge weights, filters, resolutions, preprocessing choices, and topic-model settings" artifact M_alternative_community_model : model(D_network_snapshots, F_coauthorship) model type: "alternative overlapping community-detection model" description: "One sensitivity-analysis community model configuration" artifact M_alternative_topic_model : model(F_community_corpora) model type: "alternative topic model" description: "One sensitivity-analysis topic model configuration" transform T_define_alternative_results : intent: define-unit manner: "derive alternative communities, topics, and lineages" input: D_network_snapshots, D_authors, M_alternative_community_model, M_alternative_topic_model, S_lineage_matching output: D_alternative_communities, D_alternative_lineages, F_alternative_membership, F_alternative_topic_mixture actor: machine description: "Derive comparable alternative community memberships, topic profiles, and lineage structures for sensitivity comparison" artifact D_alternative_communities : entities internal structure: group/cluster embedment: time description: "Community instances obtained under an alternative configuration" artifact D_alternative_lineages : entities internal structure: sequence embedment: set description: "Lineages obtained under an alternative configuration" artifact F_alternative_membership : feature(D_authors) value structure: matrix value type: numeric description: "Alternative author-community membership weights" artifact F_alternative_topic_mixture : feature(D_alternative_communities) value structure: vector value type: numeric description: "Alternative community topic-prevalence profiles" transform T_characterise_robustness : intent: characterise manner: "compare alternative analytical results" input: D_communities, D_community_lineages, F_community_membership, F_topic_mixture, D_alternative_communities, D_alternative_lineages, F_alternative_membership, F_alternative_topic_mixture output: F_result_robustness actor: machine description: "Measure agreement and sensitivity of community cores, memberships, leaders, lineages, events, and research foci across alternative analysis configurations" artifact F_result_robustness : feature(D_community_lineages) value structure: vector value type: {numeric, categorical} description: "Stability scores and robust/tentative/uncertain labels for communities, topics, and lineage events" transform T_visualise_robustness : intent: visualise manner: "comparative sensitivity display" input: F_result_robustness, D_communities, D_alternative_communities, D_community_lineages, D_alternative_lineages output: V_robustness actor: machine description: "Compare primary and alternative solutions, highlighting stable communities and events as well as parameter-sensitive results" artifact V_robustness : visualisation(F_result_robustness, D_communities, D_alternative_communities, D_community_lineages, D_alternative_lineages) layout: "aligned solution comparison and stability summaries" form: "matched community bands, agreement matrices, and ranked stability plots" encoding: "alignment links comparable results; colour and opacity encode robustness category and stability score" description: "Visual evidence for judging robustness and uncertainty" transform T_assess_robustness : intent: assess manner: "judge sensitivity-analysis sufficiency" input: V_robustness, F_result_robustness, S_robustness_current, K_domain_knowledge output: K_robustness_assessment, S_robustness_revised actor: human description: "Decide whether the tested alternatives sufficiently cover plausible analytical choices or whether additional settings require examination" artifact K_robustness_assessment : knowledge(F_result_robustness) representation form: "quality judgment" description: "Assessment of which findings are robust, tentative, uncertain, and whether further sensitivity analysis is needed" artifact S_robustness_revised : specification representation form: "revised parameter settings" description: "Additional alternative settings selected for robustness testing" if K_robustness_assessment indicates additional alternatives needed: then: assign: S_robustness_current := S_robustness_revised else: exit loop L_robustness_analysis end loop L_robustness_analysis

transform T_synthesise_findings : intent: generate-knowledge manner: "formulate analytical report" input: D_community_lineages, F_author_roles, F_community_metrics, P_research_foci, P_reviewed_evolution_events, K_evolution_explanations, K_robustness_assessment, F_result_robustness output: K_community_findings actor: human description: "Produce a documented account of the number of active communities and long-term lineages, their cores and leaders, research foci, overlap and mobility, evolutionary events, supporting evidence, and uncertainty" artifact K_community_findings : knowledge(D_community_lineages, P_research_foci, P_reviewed_evolution_events, F_result_robustness) representation form: "annotated analytical report and provenance record" description: "Final evidence-linked findings about the intellectual structure and evolution of the IEEE VIS research community"