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Abstract

We proclaim a new beginning for the Journal of Visual Language and Computing, which is intended to be a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to exchange ideas and research results, for the advancement of visual languages, visual computing and sentient multimedia systems. Sentient systems are distributed systems capable of actively interacting with the environment by gathering, processing, interpreting, storing and retrieving multimedia information originated from sensors, robots, actuators, websites and other information sources. In order for sentient systems to function efficiently and effectively, visual languages and visual computing play an important role.