Before revision:  To show that our methodology can reproduce, up to a certain level, results of user evaluations, we applied it to compare two mainstream graph visualization techniques: node-link ( NL \NL ) and adjacency-matrix ( MD \MD ) diagrams.
After revision:  To show that our methodology can reproduce, up to a certain level, results of user evaluations, we applied it to compare two mainstream graph visualization techniques: node-link ( \NL ) and adjacency-matrix ( MD \MD ) diagrams.