Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, October 8-11, 1991, Kobe, Japan. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8186-2330-6

Keynote Address

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  Shi-Kuo Chang: Towards a Theory of Spatial Relations. 2

Session 1: Program Visualization/Animation

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  Marc H. Brown: Zeus: A System for Algorithm Animation and Multi-View Editing. 4-9
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  Marc H. Brown, John Hershberger: Color and Sound in Algorithm Animation. 10-17
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  Kenneth C. Cox, Gruia-Catalin Roman: Visualizing Concurrent Computations. 18-24
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  Hikmet Senay, Santos Gerardo Lazzeri: Graphical Representation of Logic Programs and Their Behavior. 25-31

Session 2: Visual Systems/Environments I

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  Jeffrey Kodosky, Jack MacCrisken, Gary Rymar: Visual Programming Using Structured Data Flow. 34-39
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  David Lau-Kee, Adam Billyard, Robin Faichney, Yasuo Kozato, Paul Otto, Mark Smith, Ian Wilkinson: VPL: An Active, Declarative Visual Programming System. 40-46
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  Piero Mussio, Paolo Bottoni, Marco Protti, Maria Finadri, Pietro Gentini: Multi-iconic Multi-interpretation computation: a medical case. 47-53

Session 3: Presentations

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  Robert Korfhage, Kai A. Olsen: Information Display: Control of Visual Representations. 56-61
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  András Márkus: Experiments with Genetic Algorithms for Displaying Graphs. 62-67
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  Massimiliano Beccaria, Paola Bertolazzi, Giuseppe Di Battista, Giuseppe Liotta: A Tailorable and Extensible Automatic Layout Facility. 68-73
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  Ron MacNeil: Generating Multimedia Presentations Automatically using TYRO, the Constraint, Case-Based Designer's Apprentice. 74-79

Session 4: Invited Talks

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  Tim Dudley, Dirk E. Mahling: Report on E-mail Panel: Is Visual Programming a New Programming Paradigm? 82-88
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  Ephraim P. Glinert, Meera Blattner, Christopher J. Frerking: Visual Tools and Languages: Directions for the '90s. 89-95

Session 5: Parsing

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  Gennaro Costagliola, Masaru Tomita, Shi-Kuo Chang: A Generalized Parser for 2-D Languages. 98-104
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  Filomena Ferrucci, Giuliano Pacini, Genoveffa Tortora, Maurizio Tucci, Giuliana Vitiello: Efficient Parsing of Multidimensional Structures. 105-110
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  Keiji Kojima, Brad A. Myers: Parsing Graphic Function Sequences. 111-117
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  Anita L. Chow, Robert V. Rubin: Topological Composition Systems: Specifications for Lexical Elements of Visual Languages. 118-124

Session 6: Visual Systems/Environments II

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  Manfred Tscheligi, Franz Penz, Martina Manhartsberger: N/JOY - The World of Objects. 126-131
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  Yoshiaki Mima: A Visual Programming Environment for Programming by Example Abstraction. 132-137
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  Heather Pfeiffer, Roger T. Hartley: The Conceptual Programming Environment, CP: Reasoning Representation using Graph Structures and Operations. 138-143

Session 7: User Interfaces

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  Farah Arefi, Masoud Milani, Christian Stary: Towards Customized User Interface Design Environments. 146-151
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  Eric J. Golin: Interaction Diagrams: a Visual Language for Controlling a Visual Program Editor. 153-158
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  Pericles Papageorgiou: CIAO: a Powerful Synchronisation and Controlling Mechanism for Human Computer Interfaces. 159-165

Session 8: Panel on Pen Interfaces

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  Takayuki Dan Kimura, Eric J. Golin, Marlin Eller, Norman K. Meyrowitz, Tetsu Fujisaki, Yoji Yaskawa, Ryujiro Muto, Saul Altabet, Wayne Citrin, Jin Hyung Kim: Pen-Based User Interface. 168-173

Session 9: Interface Design Strategies

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  Darrell R. Raymond: Characterizing Visual Languages. 176-182
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  Carlo Batini, Tiziana Catarci, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi: Visual Strategies for Querying Databases. 183-189

Session 10: Graphical Queries

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  Masahito Hirakawa, Erland Jungert: An Image Database System Facilitating Icon-Driven Spatial Information Definition and Retrieval. 192-198
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  Tiziana Catarci, Antonio Massari, Giuseppe Santucci: Iconic and Diagrammatic Interfaces: An Integrated Approach. 199-204
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  François Staes, Laura Tarantino, A. Tiems: A Graphical Query Language for Object Oriented Databases. 205-210
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  Anja Kerner, Ulrich Thiel: Graphical Support for Users' Inferences within Retrieval Dialogues. 211-216

Session 11: Visual Languges

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  Marc Najork, Simon M. Kaplan: The CUBE Language. 218-224
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  Chris M. Holt: Visualizing an Algebra of Objects. 225-230
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  Wayne Citrin: Design Considerations for a Visual Language for Communications Protocol Specifications. 231-237

Session 12: Icons

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  Hideo Fujii, Robert Korfhage: Features and a Model for Icon Morphological Transformation. 240-245
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  Satomi Kaneko, Hiroyuki Ikemoto, Yoichi Kusui: Approach to Designing Easy-to-Understand Icons. 246-253
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  Masahito Hirakawa, Y. Nishimura, Motoji Kado, Tadao Ichikawa: Interpretation of Icon Overlapping in Iconic Programming. 254-259