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. Language: English