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Call for Nominations: VGTC Dissertation Award
by Cook, Kristin A 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: VGTC Dissertation Award DEADLINE: July 15, 2020 IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC<http://vgtc.org/>) seeks nominations for the 2020 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group>) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org/> conference. All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15, 2018 and August 15, 2020 are eligible for the 2020 competition. There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. To nominate a dissertation, the student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC. For more information, see http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ Contact vpg(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg@vgtc.org>.

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CFP: Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2020 - 10-11 September, London, UK
by Kai Xu 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Call for Papers: Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2020 https://cgvc.org.uk/CGVC2020/ CGVC 2020, hosted by King's College London in London UK, is the 38th annual computer graphics, visualization, and visual computing gathering organized by the Eurographics UK Chapter. The objective of Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) is to foster greater exchange between visual computing researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers and industry partners in the UK, Europe, and abroad to enter this rapidly growing area of research. CGVC has an expanded scope to include all areas of visual computing, and a steadily more wide-spread visibility that achieves a more wide-spread impact. Given the corona virus situation we currently live in, to allow maximum interaction, we are planning for various levels of virtual and interactive attendance. # Important Dates Submission deadline: Friday, 5th June 202 Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday, 21 July 2020 Camera Ready: Friday, 7 August 2020 Conference: 10-11 September 2020 (Thursday - Friday) # Topics include, but are not limited to: • Computer Graphics • Visualization • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality • Computer Animation • Computer Vision • Acquisition and Reconstruction Techniques • Graphics Architectures and Acceleration Hardware • Image processing • Rendering Techniques • Medical Imaging • Multimedia Visualisation • Information Visualization and Visual Analytics • Visual Data Science • Visual computing-related machine learning • Visualisation and Big Data • Geospatial Visualisation • Mobile Apps and Interactive Devices • Human Computer Interaction, Robotics, and Haptics • Computer-based Arts and Entertainment • Computer Games # Paper Types We seek contributions in the form of full papers, short papers, viewpoint papers and extended abstracts (posters). Optional single-blind or double-blind - reviewers’ identities are not revealed. Authors may choose whether to anonymize their submission or not. Full papers - a paper of up to 8 pages describing completed research, plus 1 page of references only. Papers are refereed, by members of the EGUK programme committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a 20 minute presentation at the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the Eurographics digital library and will serve as full paper publications. Short papers -The purpose of short papers is to present late-breaking results, work-in -progress, and follow-up extensions or evaluations of existing methods. Short papers will be peer-reviewed in a one-stage process by an international program committee. They will be electronically archived and are fully citable publications. Submissions for the short paper track should be at most 4 pages, with an additional page allowed for references. Accepted short papers will be presented orally at the conference in (approximately) 12-15 minute presentations. Viewpoint Papers - CGVC also features a viewpoint paper track (also known as position paper) which enables researchers a new possibility to publish their ideas. Viewpoints articles offer detailed technical opinions on trends in visual computing or reports on how visual computing has contributed to the comprehension of data or phenomena. We encourage discussions of challenges or limitations in today's methods and areas of potential new topics of research. We are also interested in application discussions that focus on the physical, life or social sciences, engineering, or commerce, for example, or related to the process of visual computing in general. We encourage an emphasis on lessons learned from practical experience for application discussions, particularly where visual computing has been employed in a real, working environment. Viewpoint papers are submitted with author names and affiliations. Accepted viewpoint papers will be electronically archived, are fully citable publications and will be presented orally at the conference in (approximately) 12-15 minute presentations. Extended Abstracts / Posters - The purpose of this track is to present late-breaking results, work in progress, and follow-up extensions or evaluations of existing methods. In particular, it provides young researchers, especially postgraduate students, with valuable opportunities to receive feedback from other researchers, and engage in stimulating discussions. The poster track will be managed by the co-chair team and the International Program Committee (IPC). We solicit poster submissions in the form of an extended abstract of at most 2 pages (with an additional page allowed for references only). Posters will be peer-reviewed in a one-stage process. Accepted posters, size A1 recommended, will be presented at the poster viewing session of the conference. In addition to directly submitted posters, some submissions to the full, short and viewpoint paper tracks, that are not accepted for publication but are deemed suitable, will be offered an opportunity to be presented as posters. Such submissions will not require an additional review process. Traditionally, the materials in a poster/sketch can be reused later by the original authors for a more extensive publication (e.g., a full paper) with more detailed content and mature results. This should not be considered as self-plagiarism. However, as posters/sketches are citable, researchers are encouraged to acknowledge novel ideas and results presented in posters/sketches. A poster may describe a piece of work in any aspect of visual computing. For posters, we particularly encourage a summary report of collaborative projects, work-in-progress, and application case studies. Accepted abstracts do not appear in the Eurographics digital library. An extended abstract and industrial project abstract are not considered as a paper publication, instead being similar to a SIGGRAPH one‐page sketch or to a conference poster without an associated paper. As such, presenting an extended abstract at this conference has no effect on your ability to publish a fuller version of the same work in another venue. Rita Borgo, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, and Kai Xu

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ACM ISS 2020 Calls for Submissions!
by Ruolin Wang 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Hi, We welcome submissions to the 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2020), which will take place from November 8th to 11th virtually! ACM ISS is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2020 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces and novel interface technologies. Beyond the traditional scope of the conference – i.e., interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we also encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems. Important Dates: Submissions: July 1st, 2020, 5PM PDT Notifications sent to Authors: August 21, 2020 Revisions: August 21 - September 14, 2020 Final Decisions: October 5th, 2020 Camera-ready due: October 9th, 2020 More on our website: http://iss.acm.org/2020/authors/ Thanks, Violynne(Ruolin) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/

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2nd CFP - VISSOFT 2020: 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
by David Baum 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

====================================== 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020) September 28-29, 2020, Adelaide, Australia http://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/ ====================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to the visualization of software. VISSOFT 2020, co-held with ICSME 2020, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. ====================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST - Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks such as StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. - Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. - Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization. - Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education. - Integration of software visualization tools with development environments. - Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye tracking. - Industrial experience with using software visualization. - Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented/mixed reality, gamification, and artificial intelligence. - Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based on data science concepts. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool Demonstrations (TD) track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. ====================================== SUBMISSION TYPES **Technical papers**: A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2020 **NIER/TD Track**: The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including bibliography). NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas. A sound evaluation is not required for NIER contributions. One of the goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different research groups. Tool Demonstrations describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will organize an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD papers are requested to demonstrate their tools. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities offered by the tool. ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 22, 2020 Technical paper submission: June 26, 2020 NIER/TD paper submission: June 26, 2020 Artifact submission: August 1, 2020 Author notification: July 24, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 7, 2020 Conference date: September 28-29, 2020 ====================================== **Statement on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)** The VISSOFT Organizing Committee is aware of the current COVID-19 situation. At this time, the conference is planned to take place as scheduled. The committee will continue monitoring conditions and will provide updates if plans change. Stay safe & we hope to see you at VISSOFT 2020! Best, Craig Anslow (General Chair) Andreas Schreiber and Takashi Ishio (Program Co-Chairs) https://twitter.com/IEEEVISSOFT

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