Ebook: Visual Database Systems 3: Visual information management

Both the way we look at data, through a DBMS, and the nature of data we ask a DBMS to manage have drastically evolved over the last decade, moving from text to images (and to sound to a lesser extent). Visual representations are used extensively within new user interfaces. Powerful visual approaches are being experimented for data manipulation, including the investigation of three­ dimensional display techniques. Similarly, sophisticated data visualization techniques are dramatically improving the understanding of the information extracted from a database. On the other hand, more and more applications use images as basic data or to enhance the quality and richness of data manipulation services. Image management has opened a wide area of new research topics in image understanding and analysis. The IFIP 2.6 Working Group on Databases strongly believes that a significant mutual enrichment is possible by confronting ideas, concepts and techniques supporting the work of researcher and practitioners in the two areas of visual interfaces to DBMS and DBMS management of visual data. For this reason, IFIP 2.6 has launched a series of conferences on Visual Database Systems. The first one has been held in Tokyo, 1989. VDB-2 was held in Budapest, 1991. This conference is the third in the series. As the preceding editions, the conference addresses researchers and practitioners active or interested in user interfaces, human-computer communication, knowledge representation and management, image processing and understanding, multimedia database techniques and computer vision.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Starfield visualization with interactive smooth zooming....Pages 3-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Querying Multimedia Data from Multiple Repositories by Content: the Garlic Project....Pages 17-35
Representing concave objects using Virtual Images....Pages 36-45
Feature-index-based similar shape retrieval....Pages 46-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Diagrammatic Vs Textual Query Languages: A Comparative Experiment....Pages 69-83
Flexibility of visual languages for data manipulation....Pages 84-102
Design perspectives in visualising complex information....Pages 103-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Feature Based Digital Video Indexing....Pages 115-141
Dynamic Object Clustering for Video Database Manipulations....Pages 142-157
Iconic Retrieval by Contents from Databases of Cardiological Sequences....Pages 158-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Data models, visual representations, metaphors: how to solve the puzzle?....Pages 177-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Design of 3D Metaphors for Database Visualisation....Pages 185-202
Issues in Visualizing Large Databases....Pages 203-214
Visualization of rule behaviour in active databases....Pages 215-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Visual Map Algebra: a direct-manipulation user interface for GIS....Pages 235-253
Manipulations of Graphs with a Visual Query Language: Application to a Geographical Information System....Pages 254-274
GISQL — A Query Language Intepreter for Geographical Information Systems....Pages 275-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Database object display definition and management with Moggetto....Pages 289-303
Visual construction of highly interactive applications....Pages 304-316
The integration of functional and visual programming for the development of a knowledge based interface....Pages 317-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Visual interface for textual information retrieval systems....Pages 333-345
An ODA/Dexter hyperdocument system with automated link definition....Pages 346-359
Navigation and Coordination Primitives for Multidimensional Visual Browsers....Pages 360-371
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
An automatic visual database interface....Pages 375-393
NQS — a graphical query system for data models with binary relationship types....Pages 394-409
Query Processing Methods for Connectivity Search in Visual Databases Using R+-tree....Pages 410-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-428

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Starfield visualization with interactive smooth zooming....Pages 3-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Querying Multimedia Data from Multiple Repositories by Content: the Garlic Project....Pages 17-35
Representing concave objects using Virtual Images....Pages 36-45
Feature-index-based similar shape retrieval....Pages 46-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Diagrammatic Vs Textual Query Languages: A Comparative Experiment....Pages 69-83
Flexibility of visual languages for data manipulation....Pages 84-102
Design perspectives in visualising complex information....Pages 103-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Feature Based Digital Video Indexing....Pages 115-141
Dynamic Object Clustering for Video Database Manipulations....Pages 142-157
Iconic Retrieval by Contents from Databases of Cardiological Sequences....Pages 158-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Data models, visual representations, metaphors: how to solve the puzzle?....Pages 177-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Design of 3D Metaphors for Database Visualisation....Pages 185-202
Issues in Visualizing Large Databases....Pages 203-214
Visualization of rule behaviour in active databases....Pages 215-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Visual Map Algebra: a direct-manipulation user interface for GIS....Pages 235-253
Manipulations of Graphs with a Visual Query Language: Application to a Geographical Information System....Pages 254-274
GISQL — A Query Language Intepreter for Geographical Information Systems....Pages 275-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Database object display definition and management with Moggetto....Pages 289-303
Visual construction of highly interactive applications....Pages 304-316
The integration of functional and visual programming for the development of a knowledge based interface....Pages 317-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Visual interface for textual information retrieval systems....Pages 333-345
An ODA/Dexter hyperdocument system with automated link definition....Pages 346-359
Navigation and Coordination Primitives for Multidimensional Visual Browsers....Pages 360-371
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
An automatic visual database interface....Pages 375-393
NQS — a graphical query system for data models with binary relationship types....Pages 394-409
Query Processing Methods for Connectivity Search in Visual Databases Using R+-tree....Pages 410-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-428
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