Visual Languages for Interactive Computing: Definitions and Formalizations

'Visual Languages for Interactive Computing' presents problems and methodologies related to the syntax, semantics, and ambiguities of visual languages.

Fernando Ferri received his degrees in electronics engineering and a PhD in medical informatics at the University of Rome ?La Sapienza.? Starting as a researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, he was a contract professor at the Sistemi di Elaborazione at the University of Macerata (1993-2000). He is the author of more than 90 papers in international journals, books, and conferences. His main methodological areas of interest are human-computer interaction visual languages, visual interfaces, sketch-based interfaces, and multimodal interfaces, data and knowledge bases, and geographic information systems.