Visual Database Systems 3 -

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Résumé :
This book provides a comprehensive survey of visual interfaces, image and video data management, and data visualization. The book contains selected papers presented at the Third Conference on Visual Database Systems, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in March 1995.

Sommaire:
Invited Paper.- 1 Starfield information and visualization with interactive smooth zooming.- One Querying by Content.- 2 Querying multimedia data from multiple repositories by content: the Garlic Project.- 3 Representing concave objects using virtual images.- 4 Feature-index-based similar shape retrieval.- Two Visual Languages Assessment.- 5 Diagrammatic vs textual query languages: a comparative experiment.- 6 Flexibility of visual languages for data manipulation.- 7 Design perspectives in visualising complex information.- Three Video Databases.- 8 Feature based digital video indexing.- 9 Dynamic object clustering for video database manipulations.- 10 Iconic retrieval by contents from databases of cardiological sequences.- Panel.- 11 Data models, visual representations, metaphors: how to solve the puzzle?.- Four Visualization.- 12 The design of 3D metaphors for database visualization.- 13 Issues in visualizing large databases.- 14 Visualization of rule behaviour in active databases.- Five GIS.- 15 Visual map algebra: a direct-manipulation user interface for GIS.- 16 Manipulations of graphs with a visual query language: application to a geographical information system.- 17 GISQL - a query language interpreter for geographical information systems.- Six Visual Programming.- 18 Database object display definition and management with Moggetto.- 19 Visual construction of highly interactive applications.- 20 The integration of functional and visual programming for the development of a knowledge based interface.- Seven Text and Hypermedia.- 21 Visual interface for textual information retrieval systems.- 22 An ODA/Dexter hyperdocument system with automated link definition.- 23 Navigation and coordination primitives for multidimensional visual browsers.- Eight Data Models and Data Structures.- 24 An automatic visual database interface.- 25 NQS - a graphical query system for data models with binary relationship types.- 26 Query processing methods for connectivity search in visual databases using R+-tree.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.