Visual database systems : proceedings of the IFIP TC 2/WG 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 3-7 April, 1989

Visual Structures. Invited Paper: Visual Structure and Databases (A. Klinger, A. Pizano). Prototyping Environment. Invited Paper: Image-Processing Application Generation Environment: A Laboratory for Prototyping Visual Databases (P. Stucki, U. Menzi). Database Design. Extensible Semantic Automata for Modular Design Systems (J.R. Bedell, F.J. Maryanski). ERDDS - The Intelligent E-R-Based Database Design System with Visual Semantics Knowledge Base Prototype (P.-J. Chuang, F. Springsteel). User Interface. Some Principles of Icon Construction (F.S. Liu, J.W. Tai). Implementation of Visual Database Interface Using an Object-Oriented Language (C.T. Wu, D.K. Hsiao). Sophisticated Form-Oriented Database Interface for Non-Programmers (Y. Shirota, Y. Shirai, T.L. Kunii). Model-Driven Approach. Invited Paper: Model-Driven Image Analysis to Augment Databases (G. Wiederhold, J. Brinkley, R. Samadani, C.R. Clauer). Solid Database. Representing CSG Solids Using a Logic-Based Object Data Model (T.L. Anderson et al.). Integration of Functional Data Model into Programming Environment: Application to Solid Database (X. Yu et al.). Data Models. Abstract Data Types in Graphics Databases (S.-J. Jiang et al.). A Graphical Interface Formalism: Specifying Nested Relational Databases (G.-J. Houben, J. Paredaens). ESCHER - Interactive, Visual Handling of Complex Objects in the EXTENDED NF 2 -Database Model (L.M. Wegner). Pictorial Data Processing. An Algebra for Symbolic Image Manipulation and Transformation (E. Jungert, S.K. Chang). Unified Data Structures for Mixed 3D Scene Management (J.-L. Corre, G. Hegron). A Diagrammatic Interface to a Database of Thangka Imagery (R. Makkuni). Processing Graphic Information in Sv-Parameters (V.P. Chizhevich). Pictorial Database. Symmetry Based Approach to Mechanical Drawings Retrieval, An AI Application (E. Castelli). GRIM_DBMS: A GRaphical IMage DataBase Management System (F. Rabitti, P. Stanchev). Multimedia Database I. Invited Paper: Visual Databases need Data Models for Multimedia Data (W. Klas, E.J. Neuhold, M. Schrefl). Multimedia Database II. Towards a Visual Language for an Object-Oriented Multi-Media Database System (M.-K. Leong, S. Sam, D. Narasimhalu). Image Management in a Multimedia Database System (K. Meyer-Wegener, V.Y. Lum, C.T. Wu). A Visual System of Placing Characters Appropriately in Multimedia Map Databases (H. Aonuma, H. Imai, Y. Kambayashi).