Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Volume 8, 1997

Volume 8, Number 1, February, 1997

Hypermaps

Julien Caporal, Yann Viémont: Maps As a Metaphor in a Geographical Hypermedia System. 3-25
J. Rekers, Andy Schürr: Defining and Parsing Visual Languages with Layered Graph Grammars. 27-55
Trevor J. Smedley, Philip T. Cox: Visual Languages for the Design and Development of Structured Objects. 57-84
Mary C. Dyson, H. Box: Retrieving Symbols from a Database by their Graphic Characteristics: Are Users Consistent? 85-107
Kirsten N. Whitley: Visual Programming Languages and the Empirical Evidence For and Against. 109-142

Wayne Citrin, Michael Doherty, Benjamin G. Zorn: A Graphical Semantics for Graphical Transformation Languages. 147-173
James D. Kiper, Elizabeth Howard, Chuck Ames: Criteria for Evaluation of Visual Programming Languages. 175-192
Kim Shearer, Dorota H. Kieronska, Svetha Venkatesh: Resequencing of Video using Spatial Indexing. 193-214
Tiziana Catarci, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, Carlo Batini: Visual Query Systems for Databases: A Survey. 215-260

Visual Information Systems

Chuej-Wei Chang, Suh-Yin Lee: A Video Information System for Sport Motion Analysis. 265-287
Fayez M. Idris, Sethuraman Panchanathan: Storage and Retrieval of Compressed Images Using Wavelet Vector Quantization. 289-301
Javed I. Khan, David Y. Y. Yun: A Parallel, Distributed and Associative Approach for Searching Image Patterns with Holographic Dynamics. 303-331
Zhi-Qiang Liu, Joanne Ping Sun: Structured Image Retrieval. 333-357
Jane You, H. Shen, Harvey A. Cohen: An Efficient Parallel Texture Classification for Image Retrieval. 359-372

Wayne Citrin, Margaret M. Burnet: Special Section on Selected Papers from VL '96. 373-374
Kim Marriott, Bernd Meyer: On the Classification of Visual Languages by Grammar Hierarchies. 375-402
Max J. Egenhofer: Query Processing in Spatial-Query-by-Sketch. 403-424
Roland Hübscher: Visual Constraint Rules. 425-451
Marc H. Brown, Marc Najork: Collaborative Active Textbooks. 453-486

Francesmary Modugno, Brad A. Myers: Visual Programming in a Visual Shell-A Unified Approach. 491-522
Enn Tyugu, R. Valt: Visual Programming in NUT. 523-544
David Jackson, Michael A. Bell: String-Pattern Matching in a Visual Programming Language. 545-561
Sherry Yang, Margaret M. Burnett, Elyon DeKoven, Moshé M. Zloof: Representation Design Benchmarks: A Design-Time Aid for VPL Navigable Static Representations. 563-599
Andy Cockburn, Andrew Bryant: Leogo: An Equal Opportunity User Interface for Programming. 601-619
Jürgen Landauer, Masahito Hirakawa: From Programming by Demonstration to Programming by WYSIWYG. 621-640
Peter J. Rodgers, Peter J. H. King: A Graph-Rewriting Visual Language for Database Programming. 641-674