The goal of the research described in this paper is to develop an application-independent presentation tool that automatically designs effective graphical presentations (such as bar charts, scatter plots, and connected graphs) of relational information. Two problems are raised by this goal

-scale data analysis problems. We also present examples of graphical models in bioinformatics, error-control coding and language processing.

An automatic presentation system is an intelligent interface component which receives information from a user or application program and designs a combination of graphics and text that effectively conveys it. It is a facility that assumes the presentation responsibilities for other programs

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The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent improvements in its programmability, have made graphics hardware acompelling platform for computationally demanding tasks in awide variety of application domains. In this report, we describe, summarize, and analyze

The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate statistical models. Graphical models have become a focus of research in many statistical, computational and mathematical

The Sketchpad system uses drawing as a novel communication medium for a computer. The system contains input, output, and computation programs which enable it to interpret information drawn directly on a computer display. It has been used to draw electrical, mechanical, scientific, mathematical, and animated drawings; it is a general purpose system. Sketchpad has shown the most usefulness as an aid to the understanding of processes, such as the notion of linkages, which can be described with pictures. Sketchpad also makes it easy to draw highly repetitive or highly accurate drawings and to change drawings previously drawn with it. The many drawings in this thesis were all made with Sketchpad.

The mechanism for curriculum revision and realization

this paper consist of directed graphs containing nodes, denoted by K; L; M , and wires connecting the nodes. For the moment, a node K looks like K k l where the number of wires going in and out of K depends on the specification of K given by a signature. The signature K = (P; K) consists of a set P of basic types, called prime arities and denoted by p; q; r; : : : , and a set

In our era of "shareholder value", news of redundancies in leading global companies is good news for the stock market. The coincidence of this kind of news with growing unemployment creates the impression of a direct and simple relationship between the two developments. In this paper, we use official data on employment and unemployment and exploit a number of surveys of establishments, individuals and, more specifically, unemployed persons in order to point out several paradoxes. We find that dismissals for economic reasons account for only a fairly small share of separations. Furthermore, the contracting sectors produce less job destruction, have less labour turnover, make less use of dismissals and produce below-average unemployment inflows. We find also that among samples of unemployed persons the percentage of those who lost their last job due to a dismissal for economic reasons is rather high. We do not know, however, from which sectors these unemployed originated. From an analytical perspective, it must be concluded that the mechanisms by which structural change produces unemployment are still rather obscure. Event history analysis based on data sets of individuals is needed to shed more light on