AVI Workshop Theory of Visual Languages

Advance Program





 9:00 - 10:00   Invited Talk by Prof. Ugo Montanari, University of Pisa

10:00 - 10:15   Coffee Break

10:15 - 10:30   Discussion of central question to focus on in the workshop

10:30 - 11:50   Session on Grammar Formalisms

                         Towards a Hierarchy of Visual Languages, 
                              K. Marriott and B. Meyer
                         Relational Grammars: Theory and Practice in a Visual Language Interface for Process Modeling, 
                              K. Wittenburg and L. Weitzman
                         Relation Grammars: a Grammatical Model for a High-Level Specification of Visual Languages,
                              F. Ferrucci, G. Tortora, M. Tucci, and G. Vitiello
                         How to Represent a Visual Program? 
                              M. Andries, G. Engels, and J. Rekers

11:50 - 12:10   Discussion

12:10 - 14:00   Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:20   Session on Logic and Algebraic Formalisms

                         A Fully Formalized Theory for Describing Visual Notations,
                              V. Haarslev
                         Visual Language Syntax and Semantics: a Spatial Logic Approach,
                              J.M. Gooday and A.G. Cohn
                         A Syntax Directed Approach to Picture Semantics,
                              D. Wang and H. Zeevat
                         On the Isormorhism (or Otherwise) of Representations,
                               C.A. Gurr

15:20 - 15:40   Discussion

15:40 - 16:00   Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:40   Session on Formalisms and Frameworks for Interaction
      
                         Specifying Input and Output of Visual Languages,
                              T.B. Dinesh and S. Üsküdarli
                         Specification of Visual Languages as Means for Interaction,
                              P. Bottoni, M.F. Costabile, S. Levialdi, and P. Mussio

16:40 - 16:50   Discussion

16:50 - 17:00   Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:00   Panel Discussion: 
                         "Towards a Unified Framework for Visual Langauge Theory"

18:00 -------   Official Workshop End

Extended abstracts for most of the talks are available from the list of accepted papers.


updated 3/4/96, Bernd Meyer