Have you taken a look at NetLogo:

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml

For evolving networks that are modeled with the SIENA model, the following paper gives visualization methods:

Ulrik Brandes, Natalie Indlekofer, and Martin Mader (2012). Visualization methods for longitudinal social networks and stochastic actor-oriented modeling. Social Networks, 34, 291-308. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2011.06.002.

I am going to study the anomaly detection problem in evolving graphs. Any generative model is appropriate but of course a diverse set of them will be be better. Do you know any related solution, software, paper?

Thanks Henning!

Hello, I think that GraphStream (graphstream-project.org) is well suited for that purpose. It was primarily designed for coping with dynamic graphs. Using GraphStream you can make change your graph dynamically by program. The code is very simple: 

SingleGraph myGraph = new SingleGraph("graph to display"); // creates a new graph

myGraph.addNode("A"); // creates a new node

myGraph.addNode("B"); // creates a new node

myGraph.addEdge("AB","A","B",true); // creates a new arc from A to B (false means undirected link)

myGraph.display(); // opens a window for viewing the graph

myGraph.addAttribute("ui.screenshot", "/tmp/myImage.png"); // takes a picture of the graph in png format

myGraph.removeNode("A"); // removes node A and all incident edges

myGraph.addAttribute("ui.screenshot", "/tmp/myImageAfterRemove.jpg"); //takes a new picture jpg this time

You can also use a dgs file describing in a textual way the dynamic of your graph in a very simple syntax

st 0 // step 0 of the dynamic

an C // adds node "C"

an D x=2.45 y=300 // adds node "D" at the given position

ae C > D // adds an arc from C to D

st 1 // next dynamic step

dn D // removes node D with incident edges

 ...

You can find a demo here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5rRF6uxow). The software is open source and can be downloaded from the web site. There are also tutorials, API docs, et.c There is also a community ([email protected]) of people that answer your questions and also may help you in your development. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. Frederic.

Hi, 

EvolvingGraphs (https://github.com/weijianzhang/EvolvingGraphs.jl) is a Julia software package for analyzing time-dependent networks. Here is the documentation http://evolvinggraphsjl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

The software is still at the early stage, but we add new features every week.  I would love to hear if you have any comments about package and any features you think we should add.

Best wishes,

Weijian