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Visual Analytics Contest - a submission category of the IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium [updated]
by Plaisant, Catherine 03 May '07

03 May '07

COMPETE >> TEST YOUR RESEARCH OR PRODUCT >> WIN PRIZES >> PUBLISH Visual Analytics Contest www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07 a submission category of the IEEE Symposium on VISUAL ANALYTICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2007 http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2007 >>> NEW <<< The top entries will coauthor a joint journal paper which will appear in the Applications Department of the March 2008 issue of Computer Graphics and Application (CG&A) --- VAST 2007 Contest --- The dataset consists mostly of news stories, along with some multimedia materials and background information. The goal is to determine if inappropriate activities are taking place and to provide evidence based hypotheses and conclusions. Participants have several months to prepare their submissions. --- What's different this year? --- The general format of the event remains the same as the 200 contest but this year we also provide a pre-processed version of the dataset (e.g. with entities already extracted) so that more teams can participate. Your team will need to decide whether to enter the contest using the preprocessed data or the raw data. --- Important dates --- July 13th Deadline for submission Mid August Acceptance notification Oct 27/Nov 1 IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium in Sacramento, CA --- Contest Chairs --- Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory --- Contest webpage: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07 ---

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CFP: Visual Information Expert Workshop - VIEW2007
by Riccardo Mazza 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

****we apologize for multiple posting**** CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Visual Information Expert Workshop VIEW2007 Hungary December 3-4, 2007 www.view2007.eu Technical sponsor: IEEE EMBS Conference language: English The first Visual Information Expert Workshop explored the basis of a pixelization paradigm. Pixelization methods associate an informational entity with a single pixel so that a set of information entities can be translated to an image. Pixelization has proven to be an effective yet underutilized visualization method and thus needs further investigation to exploit its potential. During the first workshop, the following fields of inquiry were opened: * Pixelization theory, including mathematics of pixelization, pixelization per se and pixelization related to multidimensional data. * Pixelization applications, including spatial pixelization, temporal pixelization and qualitative pixelization. * Pixelization and Neurocognition. A 2nd workshop will be held to address these and other issues in visualization. Specifically, this years VIEW will be open to all 2D visualization methods. Non-exhaustively, example topics include: * Mathematics, Discrete Geometry and Statistics * Information sciences: computer sciences, Data mining, Web sciences, Networks * Physics * Medicine and Biology * Economics, Management * Psychology, Neuro-Cognitive sciences, Sociology * Engineering * Geography, Demography Important Dates: * Paper abstracts: June 5, 2007. * Papers: June 15, 2007. * Notifications: July 25, 2007. * Camera ready copy: September 5, 2007. The papers of the conference will be published in a book edited by Springer (LNCS). Conference Chairs: Laszlo Darago, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Pierre Levy, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, INSERM, UPMC, France Conference Co-chairs: Francois Poulet, ESIEA, Laval, France Riccardo Mazza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Invited Speaker: Alfred Inselberg, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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2006 UMUAI James Chen Award Recipients
by Alfred Kobsa 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the paper A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman Volume 16, Number 1 / March, 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-006-9002-9 has been elected as the winner of the 2006 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee chaired by Judy Kay from the University of Sydney, Australia. The UMUAI annual best paper award has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. It carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000. UMUAI provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that can be adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. More information is available from http://www.umuai.org or the publisher's website at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-1391/ Alfred Kobsa, Editor User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research

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APGV 07 - FINAL call for papers - Note deadline extension
by Christian Wallraven 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

APGV 07: FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION Co-located with 10th Tübingen Perception Conference Tübingen, Germany, 25th - 27th July, 2007. http://www.apgv.org Keynote by Greg Ward ------ DEADLINE EXTENSION TO TUESDAY, APRIL 3RD ------ FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------------------- Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception. Since 2004, APGV has brought together researchers from the fields of perception, graphics and visualization, to facilitate a wider exchange of ideas. Our goals are to use insights from perception to advance the design of methods for visual, auditory and haptic representation, and to use computer graphics to enable perceptual research that would otherwise not be possible. Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the intersection of computer graphics, visualization and perception. Specific examples include, but are not limited to: * applications of insights from perception to the development of algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling, rendering and/or animation * applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods for more effective representation and communication of data * the study of perception and perceptual issues in virtual environments * computational aesthetics, stylization, and perceptual aspects of non-photorealistic rendering Submissions are particularly welcome in all areas of basic perception research that have applications in computer graphics and visualization. Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be published by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be invited to be extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (http://www.acm.org/tap/) By co-locating APGV 07 with the tenth annual Tübingen Perception Conference (http://www.twk.tuebingen.mpg.de/) we aim to further promote communication with the core perception community, and also bring APGV back to Europe. The keynote this year will be given by Greg Ward - he is a pioneer in High Dynamic Range Imaging which was first employed as part of the Radiance lighting simulation system that he developed during his employment at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Greg has published numerous papers on lighting simulation as well as co-authored a recent book on High-Dynamic-Range-Imaging. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Poster Submission: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Early Registration: Friday, June 22, 2007 Late Registration: Friday, July 13, 2007 Symposium: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - Friday, July 27, 2007 TUEBINGEN --------- The beautiful town of Tuebingen is situated in southern Germany within a short distance from the Alps, Switzerland, Austria and France. Apart from its historic town quarter with the world-famous Hoelderlin Tower and picturesque old houses, Tuebingen is renowned for its excellent research facilities both from the University and the Max Planck Institutes. Tuebingen is a convenient 20 minute drive away from international Stuttgart Airport and well-connected by German Rail. It offers hotels and restaurants in all price categories and represents an ideal starting point for exploring southern Germany and the neighboring countries of Switzerland, Austria and France. CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- Christian Wallraven, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Veronica Sundstedt, University of Bristol PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Roland Fleming, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Michael Langer, McGill University PROGRAM COMMITEE ---------------- Marina Bloj, University of Bradford, UK Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University, USA David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK William Cowan, University of Waterloo, Canada Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah, USA Douglas W. Cunningham, University of Tuebingen James Elder, York University, Canada Marc Ernst, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Mark Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Yves Guiard, CNRS / Université de la Méditerranée, France Matthias Harders, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University, USA Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA Gordon Kindlmann, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA David Luebke, NVIDIA Research, USA Ann McNamara, St. Louis University, USA Gary Meyer, University of Minnesota, USA Karol Myszkowski, MPI for Informatics, Germany Shin'ya Nishida, NTT, Japan Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dinesh K. Pai, Rutgers University, USA Adar Pelah, University of York, UK Sylvia Pont, Utrecht University, Netherlands Dennis Proffitt, University of Virginia, USA Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol, UK Peter Shirley, University of Utah, USA Bill Thompson, University of Utah, USA Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire, USA Ben Watson, North Carolina State University, USA Andrew Welchman, Birmingham University, UK -- Christian Wallraven MPI for Biological Cybernetics Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany ph: +49-7071-601607 | fax: +49-7071-601616 ----- APGV 2007: http://www.apgv.org ----- web: http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~walli

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The InfoVis 2007 Contest
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

"A gripping tale that will have you glued to your seat!" - The New York Times "An unforgettable experience" - Miami Morning Herald "A frightening vision of the future" - LA Times Showdown in Sacramento - The InfoVis 2007 Contest In a world where eternal darkness has fallen on the minds of humans, where databases suck the lifeblood out of the enslaved masses, these brave young men and women are the last ones who dare to fight back ... BOOM Contest Description at http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Misc/Visualization/ BOOM Data at http://eagereyes.org/InfoVisContest2007Data.html BOOM Deadline July 13, 2007

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InfoVis 2007 - Call for Tutorials
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

InfoVis 2007 - Call for Tutorials The IEEE Visualization / InfoVis conference is soliciting proposals for half-day tutorials. The meeting is in Sacramento and tutorials will be presented on Oct. 28-29. Though InfoVis researchers have given tutorials before, this is the first year InfoVis tutorials are represented on the organizing committee, so we want to make sure to get the best, most interesting proposals. Full-day tutorials should be broken into two half-day sections, perhaps aimed at different levels of expertise. If you're interested, please submit a proposal. The deadline is April 30. Tutorial presenters will be offered a $1000 honorarium to be shared by the speakers, and two free registrations to IEEE Visualization. For further information, visit: vis.computer.org/vis2007/tutorials_c.html from which you can find other information about the meetings. Feel free to contact the tutorial co-chairs with any questions or ideas. They are: Dirk Bartz dirk.bartz(a)medizin.uni-leipzig.de Stephen North north(a)att.com -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr INRIA Futurs, LRI tel: +33 1 69156494<-NEW 20/11/06 Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax: +33 1 69156586 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France insitu.lri.fr/~fekete

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Visual Analytics Contest - a submission category of the IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium
by Plaisant, Catherine 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

VAST 2007 CONTEST Visual Analytics Contest www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07 The contest is a submission category of the IEEE Symposium on VISUAL ANALYTICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2007 http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2007 --- VAST 2007 Contest --- The purpose of the CONTEST is to promote the development of benchmarks for visual analytics and establish a forum to advance evaluation methods. The dataset consists mostly of news stories, along with some multimedia materials and background information. The goal is to determine if inappropriate activities are taking place and to provide evidence based hypotheses and conclusions. Participants have several months to prepare their submissions. Selected entries present at the conference. --- What's different this year? --- The general format of the event remains the same as the 200 contest but this year we also provide a pre-processed version of the dataset (e.g. with entities already extracted) so that more teams can participate. Your team will need to decide whether to enter the contest using the preprocessed data or the raw data. --- Important dates --- March 1st Release of 2007 dataset >>> but you can prepare now with the 2006 data set July 13th Deadline for submission Mid August Acceptance notification Oct 27/Nov 1 IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium in Sacramento, CA --- Contest Chairs --- Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory --- Contest webpage: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07 ---

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CFP IEEE InfoVis 2007
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

IEEE InfoVis 2007 Call for Participation http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/ We solicit papers, posters, artistic works, and contest entries for IEEE InfoVis 2007. In addition, we encourage the submission of proposals for InfoVis-related tutorials, workshops, interactive demos, and panels to be held during the conference week (see Vis conference web site for details). InfoVis is the primary meeting in the field of information visualization, and is held on October 28 through 30, in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization 2007 (Vis07) conference and the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Symposium (VAST 07) in Sacramento, California, the week of October 28 through November 1, 2007. Computer-based information visualization, or "InfoVis", centers around helping people explore or explain data through interactive software that exploits the capabilities of the human perceptual system. A key challenge in information visualization is designing a cognitively useful spatial mapping of a dataset that is not inherently spatial and accompanying the mapping by interaction techniques that allow people to intuitively explore the dataset. Information visualization draws on the intellectual history of several traditions, including computer graphics, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, semiotics, graphic design, statistical graphics, cartography, and art. The synthesis of relevant ideas from these fields with new methodologies and techniques made possible by interactive computation are critical for helping people keep pace with the torrents of data confronting them. One of the few resources increasing faster than the speed of computer hardware is the amount of data to be processed. ** Important Deadlines ** March 21, 2007 Paper Abstracts (mandatory for paper submissions) March 31, 2007 Full Papers April 30, 2007 Tutorial Proposals April 30, 2007 Workshop Proposals May 31, 2007 Panel Proposals June 30, 2007 Posters June 30, 2007 Art Exhibit Submissions July 13, 2007 Contest Entries July 31, 2007 Interactive Demos Sept 15, 2007 Birds of a Feather ------------ PAPERS Abstracts due (mandatory): March 21, 2007 Full papers due: March 31, 2007 Papers can be up to a maximum of eight (8) pages in length, including full-color figures throughout. We encourage the use of digital video to support the submission, particularly if part or all of the work covers interactive techniques. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the work, and authors will also be required to present a very brief one-minute summary of their talk at the opening papers preview session. All papers accepted at InfoVis will also appear in an issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). For more information on paper categories (technique, system, design study, valuation, and model) and the review process, see the InfoVis 07 site: http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/papers.html ------------ INTERACTIVE POSTERS Due: June 30, 2007 The InfoVis Poster Program provides a forum for researchers to present work that is in progress and not yet sufficiently mature for a regular paper submission. Posters are typically summaries of ongoing work that authors present to gain feedback from the community. In addition to having a two-page article in the Conference Compendium, authors will create a large poster summarizing their work and will be available to discuss it during the scheduled evening conference reception and poster session. Accepted poster summaries will be included electronically on the IEEE Vis/InfoVis 2007 Conference DVD, placed on the official InfoVis web site, and also distributed in a hardcopy compendium to all symposium and conference attendees. At least one author of an accepted poster must attend the conference to present the work at the evening poster session, and authors will also be required to present a one-minute summary of their work at a posters preview session earlier in that day. For details on format and electronic submission of posters and optional accompanying digital video, see: http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/posters.html ------------- ART EXHIBIT Due: June 30, 2007 Traditionally the tool of the statistician and engineer, information visualization has increasingly become a powerful new medium for artists and designers as well. Owing in part to the mainstreaming of computer graphics and the democratization of information sources on the Internet, this new cadre of creative researchers has discovered the possibility of visualization techniques to reveal thought-provoking but otherwise hidden narratives. Often using little more than home computers and widely available programming toolkits, artists and designers have taken material evidence into their own hands and expanded the conceptual horizons of information visualization as a mode of artistic practice and critical inquiry. The IEEE InfoVis Art Exhibit examines the merging of artistic intention and visualization technique. We seek artworks that reveal information patterns in aesthetic, provocative and innovative ways. The goal of the exhibit is to prompt viewers towards greater introspection about what information is worth visualizing and why. The InfoVis Art Exhibit will consider the following types of work: * Interactive CD/DVD-ROM work * Interactive web-based work * Printed artwork Interactive pieces should run on a standard computer configuration (Windows Operating System, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive, 1024 x 768 pixel monitor resolution) as such systems will be available at the exhibit. If both standalone and networked versions of interactive projects are available, please send standalone versions. Accepted art submissions will be included and/or documented electronically on the IEEE Vis/InfoVis 2007 Conference DVD, exhibited during InfoVis, and summarized in a hardcopy compendium distributed to all conference attendees. For instructions on how to submit your work, see the submission page at: http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/art_exhibit.html --------------------------------- CONTEST Due: July 13, 2007 Contest Dataset and Tasks: http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/contest.html Following last year's U.S. Census 2000 data, the InfoVis Contest "goes to the movies." The goal of the contest is to promote the development of benchmarks for information visualization, establish a forum to promote evaluation methods, and encourage creativity and utility. The data set consists of data about Hollywood movies, including actors, actresses, awards, and similar. This years focus is on the design aspects of the visualization in addition to its exploratory and analytical aspects, and entrants are encouraged to augment the data set with any publicly available data. Contest entries will be submitted as a two (2) page summary, a video and accompanying materials. All accepted entry materials will be made available online after the conference. At least one author of an accepted entry must attend the conference to present the work. Authors of first place entries will present their work during the main contest session. Authors of second place entries will present their work during the poster session. Duplicate submissions should *not* be made to both the poster and contest categories. ------------------------------- TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS, INTERACTIVE DEMOS, BoF We encourage submissions about InfoVis-related topics to any of the categories listed above. Due dates vary, and can be found earlier in this message. For more details on each of these categories, please see the main InfoVis Conference web page at: http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/

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Visual Analytics Digital Library
by stasko＠cc.gatech.edu 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

InfoVis colleagues: You may be aware of the NVAC (National Visualization and Analytics Center) research program sponsored here in the U.S. at the Pacific Northwest National Labs. (See http://nvac.pnl.gov for more info.) This research program focuses on the area of visual analytics which is certainly related to and shares many motivations with information visualization. We have created a Visual Analytics Digital Library to house visual analytics-related educational materials including course notes, slides, video lectures, homework assignments, exam questions, papers, etc. This note is simply to advertise the website and to encourage you to submit materials that may be relevant to visual analytics. (I am uploading video lectures from my infovis class into the library this spring, for instance.) The URL for the site is http://vadl.cc.gatech.edu. Please take a look and do consider submitting some of your materials. There is a submission form on the site that assists with this process. You may also find materials there that can assist you in your teaching and research. --John ps. A temp version of the InfoVis '07 website http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007/ now has preliminary information about conference categories and deadlines. The full site should be up soon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- John Stasko, Professor & Assoc. Chair phone: (404) 894-5617 School of Interactive Computing/GVU Center fax: (404) 894-3146 Georgia Institute of Technology stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu 85 5th St. NW www.cc.gatech.edu/~john.stasko Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0760 Information Interfaces Research Group: www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii

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CFP IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2007
by Wong, Pak C 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Call for Participation ====================== IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2007 October 29 - 31, 2007 http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2007/ Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2007, 5:00 pm PST IEEE VAST, founded in 2006, is the first international symposium dedicated to advances in visual analytics science and technology. The scope of the symposium, co-located with the annual IEEE Visualization Conference and the IEEE InfoVis Conference, is based on the research agenda published in the book Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, J. J. Thomas and K. A. Cook, editors, IEEE CS Press. We invite you to participate in IEEE VAST 2007 by submitting your original research and joining us in Sacramento, California, October 30 to November 1, 2007. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by highly interactive visual interfaces. People use visual analytics tools and techniques to synthesize information into knowledge; derive insight from massive, dynamic, and often conflicting data; detect the expected and discover the unexpected; provide timely, defensible, and understandable assessments; and communicate assessments effectively for action. The issues stimulating this body of research provide a grand challenge in science: turning information overload into the opportunity of the decade. Visual analytics requires interdisciplinary science, going beyond traditional scientific and information visualization to include statistics, mathematics, knowledge representation, management and discovery technologies, cognitive and perceptual sciences, decision sciences, and more. Your submission should help develop and/or apply the science of Visual Analytics, clearly showing an interdisciplinary approach. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Visual representations and interaction techniques including the principles for depicting information, new visual paradigms, statistical graphics, geospatial visualizations, the science of interaction, and approaches for generating visual analytic visualization and interactions, - Data management and knowledge representation including scalable data representations for high volume and stream data, statistical and semantic signatures, and synthesis of information from diverse data sources, - Analytical reasoning including the human analytic discourse, knowledge discovery methods, perception and cognition, and collaborative visual analytics, - Presentation, production, and dissimilation methods including methods and tools for capturing the analytics process, and story telling for specific and varying audiences, and - Evaluation methods, security & privacy, interoperability, and technology practice & experience, as far as they contribute to the science of visual analytics. We will again have a visual analytics contest and, new this year, a poster session. Please visit our website (http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2007/) for the most up-to-date information. For questions, send email to: vast(a)vis.computer.org. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. Conference Chairs ----------------- John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada William Ribarsky, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Co-located with IEEE VAST 2007 are: ----------------------------------- IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE Vis 2007) October 30 - November 1 http://vis.computer.org/vis2007/ IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (IEEE InfoVis 2007) October 27 - 29, 2007 http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2007 The combined Vis 2007, InfoVis 2007, and VAST 2007 make this week in Sacramento the place to be to participate in this rapidly expanding field. Best regards, Pak Chung Wong http://www.pnl.gov/wong

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