This book is a thoroughly arranged anthology outlining the state of the art in the emerging area of visual informationsystems. Next generation information systems have a high visual content, and there will be a shift in emphasis from a paradigm of predominantly alphanumeric data processing to one of visual information processing.

Characteristics and architectural components of Visual Information Systems.- Active visual information systems.- Towards direct mapping between visual information worlds and real worlds.- Visual data processing in multimedia systems.- Design of a distributed planetary image data archive based on an ATM network.- An object-oriented model for a visual information system of patient folders.- “Filmification” of methods and film databases.- Chain code-based shape representation and similarity measure.- Content-based retrieval using random verification of 1D cellular automata images.- Extracting complex tissues of MRI brain images using conjugate transformation for medical visual information systems.- A uniform framework for feature-based indexing and retrieval in visual information systems.- Navigational exploration and declarative queries in a prototype for visual information systems.- Incorporating typed links in a visual search tool for images on the Web.- Automatic acquisition of object models by relational learning.- System design for structured hypermedia generation.

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