Visual Database Systems 4: IFIP TC2 / WG2.6 Fourth Working Conference on Visual Database Systems 4 (VDB4) 27-29 May 1998, L'Aquila, Italy

In many of nowadays web-based environments for electronic marketing and commerce, that present large multimedia product and service catalogues, it becomes more and more difficult to provide naive end users, such as private consumers or commercial business partners, with intuitive user interfaces to access the large multimedia collections describing the presented products and services. The same holds for marketing managers and other employees responsible for managing and maintaining the larg...