1. VDB 1989: Tokyo, Japan

Visual Structures

• Allen Klinger, Arturo Pizano: Visual Structure and Data Bases. 3-25

Prototyping Environment

• Peter Stucki, U. Menzi: Image-Processing Application Generation Environment: A Laboratory for Prototyping Visual Data-Bases. 29-40

Database Design

• John Bedell, Fred J. Maryanski: Extensible Semantic Automata for Modular Design Systems. 43-56
• Po-Jen Chuang, Frederick N. Springsteel: ERDDS - the Intelligent E-R-based Database System with Visual Semantics Knowledge Base Prototype. 57-86

User Interface

• Fang Sheng Liu, Ju Wei Tai: Some Principles of Icon Construction. 89-104
• C. Thomas Wu, David K. Hsiao: Implementation of Visual Database Interface Using an Object-Oriented Language. 105-125
• Yukari Shirota, Yasuto Shirai, Tosiyasu L. Kunii: Sophisticated Form-Oriented Database Interface for Non-Programmers. 127-155

Model-Driven Approach

• Gio Wiederhold, Jim Brinkley, Ramin Samadani, C. Robert Clauer: Model-Driven Image Analysis to Augment Databases. 159-180

Solid Database

• T. Lougenia Anderson, Hitomi Ohkawa, Jack Gjovaag, David Maier, Sheryl Shulman: Representing CSG Solids Using a Logic-Based Object Data Model. 183-216
• Xu Yu, Nobuo Ohbo, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Yuzuru Fujiwara: Integration of Functional Data Model into Programming Environment: Application to Solid Database. 217-235

Data Models

• Shi-Jie Jiang, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Nobuo Ohbo, Isao Suzuki, Yuzuru Fujiwara: Abstract Data Types in Graphics Databases. 239-255
• Geert-Jan Houben, Jan Paredaens: A Graphical Interface Formalism: Specifying Nested Relational Databases. 257-276
• Lutz Michael Wegner: ESCHER - Interactive, Visual Handling of Complex Objects in the Extended NF²-Database Model. 277-297

Pictorial Data Processing

• Erland Jungert, Shi-Kuo Chang: An Algebra for Symbolic Image Manipulation and Transformation. 301-317
• Jean-Luc Corre, Gérard Hégron: Unified Data Structures for Mixed 3D Scence Management. 319-337
• Ranjit Makkuni: A Diagrammatic Interface to a Database of Thangka Imagery. 339-369
• Vadim P. Chizhevich: Processing Graphic Information in Sv-Parameters. 371-401

Pictorial Database

• Eugenio Castelli: Symmetry Based Approach to Mechanical Drawings Retrieval, an A.I. Application. 405-413
• Fausto Rabitti, Peter L. Stanchev: GRIM_DBMS: a GRaphical IMage DataBase Management System. 415-430

Multimedia Database I

• Wolfgang Klas, Erich J. Neuhold, Michael Schrefl: Visual Databases need Data Models for Multimedia Data. 433-462

Multimedia Database II

• Mun-Kew Leong, Shawn Sam, A. Desai Narasimhalu: Towards a Visual Language for an Object-Oriented Multi-Media Database System. 465-495
• Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Vincent Y. Lum, C. Thomas Wu: Image Management in a Multimedia Database System. 497-523
• Hiromi Aonuma, Hiroshi Imai, Yahiko Kambayashi: A Visual System of Placing Characters Appropriately in Multimedia Map Databases. 525-546