Visual Database Systems 4: Ifip Tc2 / Wg2.6 Fourth Working Conference on Visual Database Systems 4 (Vdb4) 27-29 May 1998, L'Aquila, Italy (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 Invited Talk.- 1 Selected ingredients in end-user programming.- 2 Session: Models and Metaphors.- 2 Exploiting model-based techniques for user interfaces to databases.- 3 Building metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases.- 3 Session: Database Interfaces.- 4 What you see is what you store: database-driven interfaces.- 5 Kaleidoscape: a 3D environment for querying ODMG compliant databases.- 4 Session: Spatial Databases.- 6 A visual database system for spatial and non-spatial data management.- 7 Visualizing and animating R-trees and spatial operations in spatial databases on the worldwide web.- 5 Panel.- 8 Is video a useful means of sharing information?.- 6 Demonstrations.- 9 The VASCO R-tree JAVA applet.- 10 Metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases - a demonstration.- 11 Image information system (I.I.S): a visual database system for spatial and non-spatial data management.- 12 A working generic canonical schematic UIMS for an ODBMS.- 13 ESCHER's complex objects: a demonstration of simplicity.- 14 Direct manipulation spatial exploration using SVIQUEL.- 15 VisualMOQL: a visual query language for image databases.- 16 Image matching using the OBIR system with feature point histograms.- 7 Posters.- 17 Textural features and relevance feedback for image retrieval.- 18 A content-based video retrieval method using a visualized sound pattern.- 19 Virtual cell: a general framework for simulating and visualizing cellular physiology.- 8 Invited Talk.- 20 Crossing the divide between computer vision and databases in search of image databases.- 9 Session: Image Queries.- 21 Multiscale similarity matching for subimage queries of arbitrary size.- 22 Effective image retrieval supporting complex similarity queries.- 23 Weighting spatial relationships in retrieval by visual contents.- 10 Session: Modeling and Usability.- 24 Visual modeling of temporal data in usability experiments.- 25 Human Modelling and design of spatio-temporal queries on 3D video database.- 11 Session: Complex Visual Management.- 26 Visualizing complex schemas in description logic using movable lens filters.- 27 A method for shot boundary detection and R-frame selection of digital video.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.