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IEEE AIxVR 2026 - Call for Papers
by Hürst, W.O. (Wolfgang) 07 Jun '25

07 Jun '25

================================ IEEE AIxVR 2026 - Call for papers 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality January 27-29, 2025 (Osaka, Japan) ================================ Deadline 1st call (full/short papers): September 26, 2025 See https://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026/ for details. ================================ IEEE AIxVR stands out as a distinctive event that brings together researchers and professionals across the spectrum of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Virtual Reality. This event serves as a global platform fostering collaboration between these diverse fields, facilitating the presentation of cutting-edge advancements, identifying emerging research avenues, and collectively shaping the future of these dynamic research domains. === AREAS OF INTEREST ========== + Integration of AI in XR + Innovation at the Intersection of AI and XR: + XR for AI + Technical and Human Challenges + Ethical Considerations in AI-driven XR + Industry Relevance === SUBMISSIONS ========== See https://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026/aixvr2026_cfp.html for details. Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Contributions of distinguished quality will be selected for best paper awards and invited to be extended for a special section in the Computers & Graphics journal (Elsevier) and International Journal of Semantic Computing. === VENUE & DATES ========== The conference will take place from Jan 26-28, 2026, at the University of Osaka, Japan.

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[VIS4DH CfP] 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Alfie Abdul Rahman 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We’re happy to announce the call for papers for the VIS4DH workshop co-located with the IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna, Austria! The VIS4DH workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2025 in two ways - you can submit to the workshop’s Paper track, or you can submit to the Agora track, which calls for provocations, artworks, work in progress, or lab talks. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities and social sciences, and to all areas of visualization research and practice. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. While the workshop theme for VIS4DH’25 remains open to all submissions exploring the intersection of the humanities and visualization, we especially invite contributions related to the theme Visualizing Peace and Conflict as a response to the global increase of violence and armed conflict (seehttps://ucdp.uu.se/encyclopedia). At the same time, however, submissions do not need to focus explicitly on conflict between warring parties. We also encourage submissions related to ideological, civil, social, environmental, or epistemic conflicts and the potential for their resolution to address a broader theme/trend of intensified division worldwide. The topic aims to bring together researchers in international relations, peace & conflict resolution, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and visualization to present and discuss how research approaches in these areas can critically inform one another and contribute to new ways of studying conflict and its peaceful resolution. Besides general contributions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide theoretical and/or applied perspectives, with this year’s theme, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: * How can visualization techniques make cultural phenomena which are substantially structured or driven by tensions, antagonisms, controversies, or conflicts visible and negotiable? * How can visualization tools be designed to inform or support the resolution of conflicts? * What visual strategies can be employed to highlight how political conflicts frequently translate into representational or interpretive conflicts (e.g., generating contested or conflicting descriptions, datasets, framings, rhetorics, or other design choices)? * What role do disagreements play in collaborative research and visualization processes, and how might those be productively visualized rather than resolved or hidden? Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 30 June 2025, 23:59 AoE Agora Track: 22 August 2025, 23:59 AoE Please, visit the workshop website on https://vis4dh.dbvis.de<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/> for more information. The organizing committee looks forward to your contributions and to lively discussions in Vienna Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Eva Mayr, Monika Schwarz, & Tomas Vancisin — vis4dh(a)gmail.com<mailto:vis4dh@gmail.com>

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Reminder - CfP VINCI '25 | International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
by Günter Wallner 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

========================================================================== 2nd Call for Papers VINCI 2025 The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction December 1-3, 2025, Linz, Austria Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Full CfP: https://www.vinci-symp.org/ ========================================================================== VINCI '25 includes tracks of Technical Papers, Art Papers, and Art and Media Galleries, as well as a new special track on Cultural Heritage. We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, artistic projects, or other visual media. Research papers should address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. ** TRACKS ** Technical Papers: A technical paper describes a new algorithm, technique, system, or theory that has not previously appeared in the literature. The description provided in the paper should be complete enough that a competent/qualified graduate student in visual information communication could implement or apply the work and should provide a formal/informal evaluation and discussion regarding its strengths and weaknesses. Art Papers: This track serves as a link between arts, design, technology, and science by offering creative views and artistic applications. We are especially interested in the submissions that demonstrate tangible and artistic ways of visual information communication and address information aesthetics. The topics range from experimental and interdisciplinary case studies and methodologies, novel and critical interfaces for VINCI topics to critical analysis of theory and reference works in the field. The art papers call is open-theme, and this year, we have three types in the Art Papers: full papers, short papers and posters. Art and Media Galleries: The VINCI Art and Media Galleries celebrates artistic creations demonstrating conceptual and technological innovation related to visual information communication and interaction. We accept project topics, including data art, generative art and design, interactive graphics, real-time simulation, scientific illustration, creative and critical visualization, and more. The art and media galleries call is open-theme. This year, we have two types in the Art and Media Galleries: Media Demos and Artworks. Cultural Heritage Special Track: A new Special Track this year to explore and advance the intersection of visual information communication and cultural heritage. This special track invites contributions that demonstrate how visual techniques, tools, and systems can be applied to safeguard, promote, study, and interact with cultural heritage, encompassing both tangible and intangible aspects. Technical papers, artistic works, and interactive systems or prototypes that contribute to the field of cultural heritage through innovative visual communication and interaction are welcomed. All submissions will be strictly peer-reviewed by at least three members of our international program committee. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST (including but not limited to) ** Topics for Technical Papers: - Visual communication metaphors - Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension - Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors - Visualization of artificial intelligence, machine learning, ... - Explainable artificial intelligence - Aesthetics in visual communication and computational aesthetics - Influence of visual arts and design to visual communication - Information visualization and visual analytics - Visual approaches to knowledge discovery - Visual interaction through multimodality - Visualization on mobile devices - Graph drawing and network visualization - Visual modeling languages - Visual programming languages - Graphical user interface design - Human-computer interaction - Explainable AI - Applications in SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, etc. Topics for Art Papers & Art and Media Galleries: - Generative Art & Design - Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) - Metaverse applications - Digital-twin applications - Creative Visualization - Critical Visualization - Visualization for Culture/Cultural Heritage - Tangible Visualization - Data Sculpturing - Visual Storytelling - Data Art & Design - Information Aesthetics - Interactive Graphics & Design - Real-time Simulation - Creative Applications of Scientific Illustration - Video Art - AI Video/Film - Digital Human applications ** PUBLICATION ** The peer-reviewed conference proceedings will be published by ACM as part of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). A number of selected high-impact full-text papers will also be considered for special issues in journals. For this year’s VINCI, we are going to set up two special issues: One in the Journal of Visualization (https://link.springer.com/journal/12650) and the other in Information Visualization (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IVI) for selected extended papers. More details will be made available soon. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Technical Papers Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Art Papers Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Art and Media Galleries Submission Deadline: June 13, 2025 Cultural Heritage Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 Notification of Acceptance (all tracks): July 25, 2025 Paper submission of revised version: August 22, 2025 Final notification: September 5, 2025 Conference: December 1-3, 2025 Full CfP: https://www.vinci-symp.org/

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IEEE VL/HCC 2025 Workshop on "Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking"
by Chris North 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

https://human-ai-sensemaking.github.io/ Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking An IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop 2025 Workshop Summary Date and Location: TBD, co-located with IEEE VL/HCC (October 6-10, 2025), Raleigh, North Carolina, United States User interfaces for Human-LLM interaction in information-intensive tasks such as sensemaking have predominantly been limited to the chatbot style of interaction. The linear nature of chat poses significant limitations on sensemaking activity that often requires nonlinear thinking, incremental formalization, use of diverse information sources, etc. Human cognition in sensemaking tasks exploits a psychological phenomenon called embodied cognition, which externalizes thought processes onto interactive visual workspaces and canvases that enable complex iterative structuring of ideas. These nonlinear structures often represent various forms of visual languages for sensemaking —- space to think. While LLMs also exploit the notion of external memory in the form of prompt context or chain of thought, these are often limited to sequential text inputs. Is there a possibility of marrying the analogous concepts of human embodied cognition and LLM context? Can the visual languages of embodied cognition serve as a common ground between human cognition and LLM processing? Can LLMs have a form of embodied AI cognition that exploits visual languages? As AI agents become increasingly autonomous, how can visual languages support incremental progression and reduce uncertainty in various sensemaking scenarios, from simple coordination to active collaboration to full teaming, while enabling trust between humans and AI? This workshop seeks contributions that push these frontiers and bring together a multi-disciplinary group of researchers in HCI, AI, cognitive science, visual languages, and computer vision. The workshop will foster a community that will discuss and prepare a forward-looking research agenda for embodied human-LLM interaction with visual languages. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Design or evaluation of visual languages for AI User interface or visualization design for human-AI interaction Theories for human-AI common ground in sensemaking Methods for human steering or explainability of AI sensemaking NLP methods for augmenting LLMs with embodied cognition capabilities Models for LLM processing of visual languages Evaluations of human-AI teaming for sensemaking Call For Participation Two types of contributions are sought, each with separate deadlines and review criteria. Research Papers: Manuscripts that contain results suitable for publication, which will be presented at the workshop. Research paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of one organizer and one knowledgeable external reviewer recruited by the organizers to ensure relevance, quality, and soundness of results. A length of 4-8 pages is required. The VL/HCC Conference plans to publish accepted workshop manuscripts in an accompanying volume published by IEEE. Submission deadline: Friday, July 11 Acceptance notification: Friday, August 1 Camera-ready deadline following minor revisions: Friday, August 8 Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair: TBA Position Statements: Statements relating to a topic of interest that can be discussed at the workshop. Position statements will be reviewed by the organizers to ensure relevance to the workshop. A length of 1-4 pages is required. Submission deadline: Friday, August 22 Acceptance notification: Friday, August 29 Submission method: TBA ORGANIZERS Contact: human-ai-sensemaking(a)googlegroups.com Chris North, Virginia Tech Joel Chan, University of Maryland Rebecca Faust, Tulane University Xuxin Tang, Virginia Tech Xuan Wang, Virginia Tech John Wenskovitch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Siyi Zhu, University of Maryland

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[CFP] Special track on AI for Good (AI4Good) @ ACM GoodIT 2025
by Chiara Ceccarini 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

CFP: Special track on AI for Good (AI4Good) @ ACM GoodIT 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/goodit-ai4good 3-5 September 2025, Antwerp, Belgium The “AI for Good” special track explores the dynamic relationship between artificial intelligence and sustainability from a two-fold perspective: the sustainability of AI systems themselves and the role of AI in promoting sustainable development. It highlights interdisciplinary approaches that optimize AI's environmental, social and economic footprint while leveraging its potential to address climate challenges, resource efficiency, and global sustainability goals. In this context, data visualization can serve as a powerful tool to communicate and optimize the interaction between AI and sustainability to guide strategic decisions toward a more sustainable future. ## Topics of Interest * Sustainable AI: approaches to address environmental, social and economic aspects of AI * Data visualization for the impact of AI Systems: data visualizations to monitor the carbon footprint and energy efficiency of AI systems, showing the impact of AI technologies on the environment and suggesting solutions to reduce their consumption. * AI for environmental monitoring: climate modeling, disaster prediction, and ecosystem management * AI for circular economy: waste reduction, supply chain optimization, and resource efficiency * Data visualization and AI-enhanced analytics: improving climate awareness and policy formulation * AI-powered decision-making: smart urban planning, infrastructure sustainability, and renewable energy solutions * AI applications in agriculture, biodiversity conservation, and water management * Data Visualization for Tracking Carbon Footprint of AI Models: visualize the carbon footprint of AI models, monitoring emissions during the training and inference phase. * Sustainable Large Language Models (LLMs): optimizing training and inference efficiency, reducing carbon footprint, and applying LLMs to sustainability challenges * Data Visualization Approaches for eXplainable AI: visualize explanations of AI models, focusing on specific target users. ## Important dates * Papers submission: 25th May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 8th July 2025 * Camera-ready paper due: 19th July 2025 _________________________________________ Chiara Ceccarini, PhD. Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A) Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna

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giCentre - Senior Lecturer in Data Visualization [Permanent, Full-Time Position]
by Dykes, Jason 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

The giCentre is expanding - we are hiring a new Senior Lecturer in Data Visualization! The position follows major investment of over £10 million from EPSRC and commercial partners to establish the UK’s only Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization – DIVERSE-CDT<https://diverse-cdt.ac.uk/>. This exciting initiative will support a new generation of PhD students in data visualization over the next decade and brings opportunities for new academic staff to shape the nature of the centre and the future of the field. We are building a new Data Vis Lab. giCentre is a vibrant hub for visualization and visual analytics research, situated in the heart of London’s dynamic knowledge, tech and design quarters. There are lots of great cafes. We are at City St George’s, University of London (was City, University of London), the position is for a full-time, permanent, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. If you're passionate about creative, innovative approaches to data visualization, want to enthuse and inspire students, and need a good balance of institutional support and flexibility to work in ways that suit you, this is the place to be. Read the position description<https://emea5-foc.lumessetalentlink.com/tlk/pages/fo/download_job_file.jsp?…> and apply to City St George's<https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/apply/details.html?LG=UK&id=QZPF…> before June 8th, 2025. For more information, contact us at gicentre(a)city.ac.uk<mailto:gicentre@city.ac.uk?>

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Call for Submissions: EduVis Workshop at IEEE VIS 2025
by Keck Mandy 01 Jun '25

01 Jun '25

Dear community members, We are excited to announce the 3rd edition of the EduVis Workshop, happening in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2025! 🎉 This workshop is your opportunity to engage in cutting-edge discussions, share your work, and explore the intersection of visualization and education. Theme: Modalities of Learning and Engaging – Focusing on both education for visualization (ed4vis) and visualization for education (vis4ed). The spotlight for this year highlights innovative approaches to learning and engagement through visualization. Whether you're in visualization, learning analytics, science communication, arts and design, psychology, data science, or HCI, this is the space for you to contribute, collaborate, and inspire. What’s New This Year: * Presentations of research papers published in the IEEE Xplore library * Educator reports published in the Nightingale Magazine * Vis Activity Groups: Hands-on engagement with visualization games and playful learning activities * Discussion Groups: In-depth conversations on a wide range of topics 🔗 Submit your work to be a part of this exciting workshop. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your research and contribute to the growing field of visualization education. Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2025 👉 For more details and submission guidelines, visit: https://ieee-eduvis.github.io/ Best regards, Christina Stoiber, Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Mandy Keck, Magdalena Boucher, Jonathan C. Roberts, Lonni Besançon, Mathis Brossier, Benjamin Bach

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[VIS4DH CfP] 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Alfie Abdul Rahman 30 May '25

30 May '25

Dear colleagues, We’re happy to announce the call for papers for the VIS4DH workshop co-located with the IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna, Austria! The VIS4DH workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2025 in two ways - you can submit to the workshop’s Paper track, or you can submit to the Agora track, which calls for provocations, artworks, work in progress, or lab talks. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities and social sciences, and to all areas of visualization research and practice. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. While the workshop theme for VIS4DH’25 remains open to all submissions exploring the intersection of the humanities and visualization, we especially invite contributions related to the theme Visualizing Peace and Conflict as a response to the global increase of violence and armed conflict (see https://ucdp.uu.se/encyclopedia) At the same time, however, submissions do not need to focus explicitly on conflict between warring parties. We also encourage submissions related to ideological, civil, social, environmental, or epistemic conflicts and the potential for their resolution to address a broader theme/trend of intensified division worldwide. The topic aims to bring together researchers in international relations, peace & conflict resolution, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and visualization to present and discuss how research approaches in these areas can critically inform one another and contribute to new ways of studying conflict and its peaceful resolution. Besides general contributions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide theoretical and/or applied perspectives, with this year’s theme, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: * How can visualization techniques make cultural phenomena which are substantially structured or driven by tensions, antagonisms, controversies, or conflicts visible and negotiable? * How can visualization tools be designed to inform or support the resolution of conflicts? * What visual strategies can be employed to highlight how political conflicts frequently translate into representational or interpretive conflicts (e.g., generating contested or conflicting descriptions, datasets, framings, rhetorics, or other design choices)? * What role do disagreements play in collaborative research and visualization processes, and how might those be productively visualized rather than resolved or hidden? Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 30 June 2025, 23:59 AoE Agora Track: 22 August 2025, 23:59 AoE Please, visit the workshop website on https://vis4dh.dbvis.de<https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/> for more information. The organizing committee looks forward to your contributions and to lively discussions in Vienna Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Eva Mayr, Monika Schwarz, & Tomas Vancisin — vis4dh(a)gmail.com

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2025 IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization: November 2-7, 2025, in Vienna, Austria
by Athawale, Tushar 28 May '25

28 May '25

Tushar Athawale, David Pugmire, and Antigoni Georgiadou from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, along with Chris Johnson and Paul Rosen from the University of Utah, Kristi Potter from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Tim Gerrits from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, and Nadia Boukhelifa from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, are excited to announce the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) workshop on, “Uncertainty Visualization: Unraveling Relationships of Uncertainty, AI, and Decision-Making”. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2025 <https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/welcome> IEEE VIS Conference<https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/welcome> in Vienna, Austria, November 2-7, 2025. Uncertainty in data, algorithms, and processes is a big obstacle to reliable analysis and decision-making. Furthermore, the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive across scientific domains, but it faces a major limitation of trustworthiness of predictions due to uncertainties propagated from the data and AI models. The Call for Papers for this workshop invites you to submit short/full papers on the topics related to visualization, analysis, and treatment of uncertainty stemming from data, algorithms, and ML/AI workflows used in a broad range of science and application domains, including visualization, material science, energy science, and quantum computing, for trusted scientific discovery (more information can be found in the link below). The deadline for submission is July 10, 2025. 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞: https://tusharathawale.github.io/uncertainty-vis-workshop-2025/index.html VIS workshop 𝐰𝐞𝐛page: https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/info/program/workshops#uncertainty Contact: uncertainty-vis(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:uncertainty-vis@ieeevis.org>

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GD 2025: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Andreas Kerren 27 May '25

27 May '25

Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ================================================================ GD 2025: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025) September 24-26, 2025, Norrköping, Sweden https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/ ================================================================ PDF version: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/assets/pdfs/Call_for_Papers-2025.pdf HTML version: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/pages/cfp/ ================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: June 3 - Paper submission deadline: June 10 - Author notification: July 23 - Poster submission deadline: August 22 - Poster notification: September 1 ================================================================ *Graph Drawing* is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of *Network Visualization*. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications for which it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, life sciences, geography, business intelligence, information security, and software engineering. Graph Drawing has been the main annual conference in this area for more than 30 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing, their experimental evaluation, as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to participate in the symposium as well as the graph drawing contest. GD 2025 will be held in Norrköping, Sweden, on September 24-26, 2025 with a reception on the evening of September 23. A preconference PhD school will take place September 22-23, 2025. GD 2025 is designed to be held on-site. It is expected that regular papers are presented on site by one of the authors. To address the global challenges and as an offer for authors who are unable to attend we allow for a limited number of remote presentations, as further explained below. The code of conduct for the GD conference can be found at http://graphdrawing.org/safetoc.html ================================================================ PAPERS We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. To promote a balanced coverage of the field, GD has two distinct tracks, and papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of the two tracks. However, all program committee members may review papers from either track. *TRACK 1:* Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects This track is mainly devoted to *fundamental theoretical graph drawing advances*, such as combinatorial and algorithmic aspects. We aim at covering a diverse set of topics, which for this track includes (but is not limited to): - Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms - Geometric and topological graph theory - Computational topology of graphs on surfaces - Graph representations - Geometric advances and computing in graph drawing - Combinatorics and optimization in graph drawing *TRACK2 :* Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects This track is mainly devoted to the *practical aspects of graph drawing*, such as experimental evaluations of graph drawing related algorithms, the development and/or evaluation of related libraries and tools, or systems and interfaces in different application areas. We aim at covering a diverse set of topics, which for this track includes (but is not limited to): - Engineering of graph drawing algorithms and network visualization systems - Interfaces, methods, and high-quality tools for interacting with graphs and networks - Benchmarks and experimental studies in the context of graph drawing and network visualization - Cognitive studies on network visualization aesthetics and user interaction - Visualization of networks in real world applications - Machine learning methods in graph drawing & network visualization - Graph drawing & network visualization for AI explainability Authors of accepted papers in this track are encouraged to show a demo of their software/system during the poster session. *SHORT PAPERS* In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate track for short papers. Here we welcome smaller and less elaborate contributions on relevant topics. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. *REMOTE PRESENTATIONS* For authors who cannot present their paper in person we offer the possibility for remote presentation, which must be declared at submission time. Authors of accepted papers in this category have to register for the conference. Papers in this category are evaluated and selected by the program committee by applying the same high standards as for the other tracks. In addition, the authors have to submit a recording of their presentation two weeks after the submission of the paper. The remote submission chair can influence the score of papers in this track based on the quality of the recorded talk and even reject submissions if the quality of the recorded talk is inappropriate. There is a limit of six remote presentations. *POSTERS & CONTEST* Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract that must be submitted together with the poster itself. Each submission will thus consist of two pdf files (the abstract and the poster). Details about the traditional *Graph Drawing Contest*, which is held at the conference, are provided at the website <https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/2025/>. ================================================================ RULES FOR SUBMISSION Results that have been previously published (or are scheduled for publication) in another conference proceedings or journal, as well as simultaneous submissions of results to other conferences with published proceedings or journals are not permitted, except for poster submissions. With the exception of remote presentations, each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author, otherwise the paper can be excluded from publication in the proceedings. ChatGPT and similar large language models may be used to improve the paper’s language, but its use should be mentioned as a footnote and the authors remain responsible for the full paper. In particular, the unattributed use of any such tools in the creation of the paper’s scientific content is forbidden. *SUBMISSION FORMAT* The proceedings will be published in the LIPIcs <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publishing/series/details/lipics> series. To facilitate the process, submissions have to be prepared in accordance with the LIPIcs author instructions <https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author>, the page provides links to the LIPIcs class file along with an example and detailed author instructions. For the submission, the use of the LaTeX class file gd-lipics-v2.cls <https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2025/assets/template/gd-lipics-v2.cls> is requested. The class file is a wrapper around the standard LIPIcs class and implements line counting, see CG-linecount.pdf <https://www.computational-geometry.org/guidelines/linecount_2022_09_19.pdf> for details. Submissions must not exceed the following limits: - 500 lines for full papers, - 225 lines for short papers, - 80 lines for posters’ abstracts. The above limits do not include front matter (title, authors, and affiliations), references, or appendices. The class files provide line counting which should be accurate in most cases. Authors should avoid substantial amounts of text in unnumbered lines. In addition, the main content of the paper must not exceed the following page limits excluding references: - 15 pages for long papers, - 7 pages for short papers, - 3 pages posters’ abstracts. The claims of full and short papers should be fully substantiated. If this information does not fit within the line limit, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. For poster submissions, no appendix is expected. We also encourage authors to avoid "et al." in citations in favor of an equal mention of the surnames of all authors. For references with few authors, it is recommended to name all of them; if the number of authors is large, consider writing "(It is shown that) X [#]" or "The authors in [#] show that X" instead of "A et al. [#] show that X". *PAPER SUBMISSION, PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE* Papers should be submitted electronically via Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2025>. The proceedings will be published in the *Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)* series and are available open access. Selected papers from Track 1 and Track 2 will be invited for submission to a special issue of the *Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)*. The authors of two selected papers in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended and enhanced version of their work to *IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)*. A special TVCG papers session at the Graph Drawing conference will also feature regular TVCG papers. Further details can be found at https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tvcg/tvcg-partners-with-c… ================================================================ LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW PROCESS The review process of regular and short papers will be handled in a lightweight double-blind mode. This means that authors are not allowed to reveal their identity in the submitted paper, but are free to disseminate draft versions of the paper prior to the conference and to give talks on the topic as they normally would. In particular, the submitted paper should not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses. References to their own related work are allowed, as long as the supporting text maintains anonymity (e.g., using sentences in the third person). Members of the Program Committee will not have the identity of the authors of any paper revealed to them during the entire review process. To handle conflicts of interest effectively, authors will be required to declare conflicts of interest with PC members when they submit their paper. Poster submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee in a single-blind mode. In particular, the submitted abstract should contain the authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses. ================================================================ AWARDS For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2025 will bestow a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2025 attendees. ================================================================ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Andreas Kerren, Linköping University, Sweden (general co-chair) Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden (general co-chair) Claudio Linhares, Linnaeus University, Sweden (PhD school chair) Nico Reski, Linköping University, Sweden (Decision Arena chair) Zeyang Huang, Linköping University, Sweden (web chair) ================================================================ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessio Arleo, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Michael Bekos, University of Ioannina, Greece Markus Chimani, University of Osnabrück, Germany Éric Colin de Verdière, CNRS, LIGM, Marne-la-Vallée, France Giordano Da Lozzo, Roma Tre University, Italy Sara Di Bartolomeo, TU Wien, Austria Vida Dujmovic, University of Ottawa, Canada (program co-chair) Henry Förster, TU Munich, Germany Fabrizio Frati, Roma Tre University, Italy Robert Ganian, TU Wien, Austria Daniel Gonçalves, CNRS & University of Montpellier, France Siddharth Gupta, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, India Thekla Hamm, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, Japan Philipp Kindermann, Trier University, Germany Stephen Kobourov, TU Munich, Germany Kostiantyn Kucher, Linköping University, Sweden Silvia Miksch, TU Wien, Austria Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, Italy (program co-chair) Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada Tamara Mchedlidze, Utrecht University, Netherlands Giacomo Ortali, University of Perugia, Italy Sergey Pupyrev, Meta, USA Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University, USA Raphael Steiner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Andrew Suk, University of California San Diego, USA Antonios Symvonis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Csaba D. Tóth, CSU Northridge, USA Torsten Ueckerdt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Pavel Valtr, Charles University, Czech Republic Tatiana von Landesberger, University of Cologne, Germany Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel ================================================================ CONTEST COMMITTEE Sara Di Bartolomeo, University of Konstanz, Germany Fabian Klute, UPC Barcelona, Spain (chair) Debajyoti Mondal, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Jules Wulms, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands

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