The 10th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL2008) will take place in Salerno, Italy, 11-12 September 2008.

VISUAL2008 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing all aspects of visual information systems. Papers addressing web-based visual information search and management are particularly welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Web visual information systems
• Web visual information search
• Web visual information indexing and retrieval
• Web visual information semantics
• Web visual data mining
• Ubiquitous visual information management
• Pervasive multimedia information systems
• Mobile visual information systems
• Visual information for location-based services
• Applications of visual information systems
• Visual information systems for security and antiterrorism applications
• Visual information systems for e-learning and e-government applications
• Ranking techniques and algorithms
• Visual information indexing and retrieval
• Visual query models and languages
• Semantic models for visual information
• Fusion of visual and non-visual information
• Machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for visual information management
• Interactive and content-based image and video retrieval
• Knowledge and ontology visualization
• Visual data mining
• Information and data visualization
• Visual information system architectures
• Storage design and data management issues
• Information Modeling in Immersive Environments
• Visual summary of Spatial databases
• Visual database systems
• Visual data analysis
• Methodologies and approaches for visual information systems engineering
• Image and video databases
• Gestural information systems
• Interoperability in visual information systems
• Visual information systems for disabled people
• Image database structuring
• Human interfaces for GIS
• Earth-wide information systems
• Virtual 3D cities
• Geovisualization