Table of Contents

I Advances in Visual Information Management I.- 1 Construction of the Multimedia Mediation Systems.- II Video Retrieval.- 2 A New Algebraic Approach to Retrieve Meaningful Video Intervals from Fragmentarily Indexed Video Shots.- 3 Toward The MEdiaSys Vldeo Search Engine (MEVISE).- 4 Content-based Video Retrieval Based on Similarity of Camera Motion.- III Information Visualization.- 5 Visual Exploration for Social Recommendations.- 6 Web-Based Visualization of Large Hierarchical Graphs Using Invisible Links in a Hyperbolic Space.- 7 Visualizing Electronic Document Repositories: Drawing Books and Papers in a Digital Library.- IV Modeling and Recognition.- 8 A Motion Recognition Method by Using Primitive Motions.- 9 Conceptual Modelling for Database User Interfaces.- V Advances in Visual Information Management II.- 10 Searching, Data Mining and Visualization of Multimedia Data.- VI Image Similarity Retrieval.- 11 Efficient Image Retrieval by Examples.- 12 Applying Augmented Orientation Spatial Similarity Retrieval in Pictorial Database.- 13 Toward Feature Algebras in Visual Databases: The Case for a Histogram Algebra.- VII Spatio-Temporal Database.- 14 Query-By-Trace: Visual Predicate Specification in Spatio-Temporal Databases.- 15 Skimming Multiple Perspective Video Using Tempo-Spatial Importance Measures.- 16 Networked Augmented Spatial Hypermedia System on Internet.- VIII Visual Querying.- 17 Drag and Drop: Amalgamation of Authoring, Querying, Restructuring for Multimedia View Construction.- 18 BBQ: A Visual Interface for Integrated Browsing and Querying of XML.- 19 MDDQL: A Visual Query Language for Metadata Driven Querying.- IX Clustering and Retrieval.- 20 Hierarchical Space Model for Multimedia Data Retrieval.- 21 MST Construction with Metric Matrix for Clustering.- X User Interface.- 22 Automatic Updates of Interactive Information Visualization User Interfaces through Database Triggers.- 23 TBE: A Graphical Interface for Writing Trigger Rules in Active Databases.- 24 WEBSA: Database Support for Efficient Web Site Navigation.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.