SoftVis '03 Conference - Demos/Posters

11 Mar 2003

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                         CALL FOR DEMOS/POSTERS

                  ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

                               SOFTVIS '03

                     June 11-13, 2003, San Diego, USA
                         Collocated with FCRC'03

          Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT,
                   and in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.

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Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for
researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering,
programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to
discuss and present original research on software visualization.

SoftVis '03 is the first meeting in a planned series of biennial
conferences. Our objective is to make the SoftVis series the premier
venue for presenting all types of research on software visualization.

Submission information
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We seek both demos of software visualization systems and posters about
software visualization research for a joint demo and poster session
during the conference.  Authors of accepted demos should bring their
own equipment to demonstrate their system.  Authors of accepted
posters should bring a poster highlighting the research.  Both will be
presented during an informal session in which conference attendees
will be able to browse and discuss the projects.  For students, a
special student-focused poster session will be held during the parent
FCRC conference on the evening before SoftVis begins as well.

To submit a poster or demo, you should prepare and electronically
submit a brief overview paper.  Papers must be in standard ACM
2-column format and cannot exceed 2 pages in total length. Authors
should send a PDF file of their submission to stasko@cc.gatech.edu by
Friday April 18, 2003.  For student posters, please indicate this
status in the email message.  Informal copies of all the accepted
demo/poster papers will be distributed to the conference attendees so
this will not be an "official" publication.

Venue
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SoftVis '03 is affiliated with the ACM Federated Computing Research
Conference, a collection of symposia occurring June 7-14 in San Diego, CA.
For more details on registration, hotel and travel information, please see
the FCRC 2003 web pages http://www.acm.org/fcrc.
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International Symposium on Collaborative Information Visualization
Environments
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Reminder: Deadline for paper submission is March 7th,  2003.

Special Issue on CIVEs:  http://vw.indiana.edu/cive03/

A selected set of extended CIVE papers will be published in a special issue
of Presence, MIT Press (http://mitpress.mit.edu) in April 2004.

Timeline for Special Issue:
revised papers submitted to guest editors - September 1st, 2003
revised papers approved by guest editors - October 15, 2003
revised papers approved by co-editors-in-chief  - November 1
authors' hardcopy manuscripts received at editorial office - November 15

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International Symposium on Collaborative Information Visualization
Environments
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Reminder: Deadline for paper submission is March 7th,  2003.

Special Issue on CIVEs:
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of Presence,
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revised papers submitted to guest editors - September 1st, 2003
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ACM Transactions on Applied Perception - Call for papers

(Apologies for cross-posting)

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Aims and scope
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Numerous breakthroughs in computer science have come out of the
assimilation of results from other disciplines.  Recently, there has
been an increasing appreciation of the gains that can be made through
the application of findings from the field of experimental psychology.
Similarly, the latter may benefit from computational and algorithmic
advances in computer science. The purpose of ACM Transactions on
Applied Perception is to further the development of inter-disciplinary
research that crosses the boundaries between perception and computer
science disciplines such as graphics, vision, acoustics and
haptics. This journal aims to broaden the synergy between computer
science and psychology/perception by publishing top quality papers
that help to unify research in these fields. The scope of this journal
includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that
incorporates elements of perception and computer science. Topics
include, but are not limited to:

Visual:
   perceptually based techniques in computer graphics,
   scientific/data/information visualization, digital
   imaging and computer vision.

Auditory:
   auditory display and interfaces, perceptual auditory
   coding, spatialized sound, speech synthesis/recognition

Haptics:
   haptic rendering, haptic input and perception

Sensorimotor:
   vestibular interfaces, eye/head tracking input,
   gesture input, body movement input

Multimodal rendering and multimodal interaction:

Sensory integration:

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Submission procedure
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We will begin accepting papers in March 2003 and anticipate
to publish the first issue in January 2004. Please visit the
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception web site
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Editorial board
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Andrew Beall, University of California, Santa Barbara
Perry Cook, Princeton University
Bill Cowan, University of Waterloo
Ramani Duraiswami, University of Maryland
James Elder, York University
James Ferwerda, Cornell University
Tom Funkhouser, Princeton University
Yves Guiard, CNRS & Universite de la Mediterranee
Christopher Healey, North Carolina State University
Ken Hinckley, Microsoft Corporation
Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota
Dan Kersten, University of Minnesota
Roberta Klatzky, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Langer, McGill University
Susan Lederman, Queen's University
Jack M. Loomis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gary Meyer, University of Minnesota
Karol Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik
Dinesh Pai, Rutgers University
Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Holly Rushmeier, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Pawan Sinha, MIT
William B. Thompson, University of Utah
Tom Troscianko, University of Bristol
Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire
Pavel Zahorik, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Editors-in-chief
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For further information, please visit the ACM Transactions on Applied
Perception web site (http://www.acm.org/tap) or contact
one of the editors-in-chief:

Erik Reinhard
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL32816-2362
e-mail: reinhard@cs.ucf.edu

Heinrich Buelthoff
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics Department
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Katy B=F6rner & Chaomei Chen (Eds): Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries.
Springer Verlag, LNCS 2539, 2002.

Is now available online at
http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2539.htm

Enjoy,
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Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on "Mapping Knowledge Domains"
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA
May 9-11, 2003
http://vw.indiana.edu/sackler03/
Sponsored by the The National Academy of Sciences
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Symposium Organizer
Richard M. Shiffrin
Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
tel: 812-855-4972, fax: 812-855-1086, email: shiffrin@indiana.edu

Associate Organizer
Katy B=F6rner
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN 47405
tel: 812-855-3256, fax: 812-855-6166, email: katy@indiana.edu

Organizing Committee
Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Laboratories
Chaomei Chen, Drexel University
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Corporation
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Thomas K. Landauer, University of Colorado
Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Motivation & Description
The information explosion in recent years, often in the form of
information available electronically, has sparked development of a new
interdisciplinary
area of science aimed at charting, mining, analyzing, sorting, and
displaying interesting and important aspects of this knowledge and
information. Indeed,
progress in this area is critically important for the functioning of
modern society, and particularly for the growth of scientific research,
because without
such tools it has become almost impossible to find and organize relevant
information.  We therefore propose a Sackler Colloquium aimed to
highlight
the many facets of this emerging field.
Information on this colloquium, as far as it is known at the present
time, may be found at the website: http://vw.indiana.edu/sackler03/.
The tentative
schedule is enclosed.

Database
A major goal of the proposed colloquium is to demonstrate and compare
different techniques, algorithms, and approaches that can be utilized to
map
knowledge domains. In order to facilitate this goal, registered
participants are eligible to utilize the so called PNAS Data Set. The
data set comprises full
text documents from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
covering 01-07-1997 to  09-17-2002 (148 issues containing some 93,000
journal pages). The data is available on Microsoft Access 97 format.

Paper Submission & Student Packages
Due to severe space and time limitations, a large number of researchers
who carry out highly relevant research, indeed in many cases leaders in
the field,
could not be included among the list of speakers.
However, we would like to encourage these researcher  to attend the
Colloquium and if possible to contribute to the colloquium by submitting
a 2-page
abstract by March 1st, 2003.  The organizers will review these abstracts
and select those of quality to be presented as a poster or demonstration

during a session we have set aside for this purpose.

There will be a number of student packages available, also offering the
opportunity to present a poster or demonstration (the packages will
provide the
registration fee plus $500 support). If you have students that would
like to apply, please encourage them to send a two page abstract, and
send a
supporting statement on their behalf by March 1st, 2003.

Please submit papers as well as statements in support of students to
sackler-submit@slis.indiana.edu.

We hope you will be able to attend this colloquium, and would be pleased
if you could take part.

Sincerely,
Richard Shiffrin & Katy B=F6rner

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Tentative Schedule

Friday May 9th, 2003

2:00p Welcome by Richard Shiffrin & Katy B=F6rner, Indiana University

2:15p Keynote Address: A Historiograph of Mapping Knowledge Domains by
Eugene Garfield, Founder & Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for
Scientific Information

3:30 - 4:00pm Break

Session 1: Data Bases, Data Format & Access
4:00am The Web - An Entity to be Mapped by Monika Henzinger, Director of
Research at Google
4:45pm Mapping Knowledge on the Web by Steve Lawrence, NEC
5:30am Scholarly Information Architecture by Paul Ginsparg, Cornell
University

Reception

Saturday May 10th, 2003

Session 2: Data Analysis Algorithms
9:00am From Paragraph to Graph by Thomas Landauer, University of
Colorado
9:45am Collaboration Networks and the Structure of Scientific
Communities by Mark Newman, Santa Fe Institute

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00am Poster and System Demo Session

12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Using Mixed Membership Models for Mapping Knowledge Domains by
Elena Erosheva, University of Washington, Stephen Fienberg,
Carnegie Mellon University, John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University &
Tom Minka, Carnegie Mellon University.
2:45pm Topic Dynamics in Knowledge Domains by Mark Steyvers, University
of California & Tom Griffiths, Stanford University

3:30 - 4:00pm Break

4:00pm Network Structure, Temporal Dynamics, and Information Discovery
by Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
4:45pm Combining Bibliometric and Knowledge Elicitation Techniques to
Map a Knowledge Domain by Kate McCain, Drexel University
5:15pm Visualizing Search Results, Susan Dumais, Microsoft Corporation

7:00pm Dinner

Sunday May 11th, 2003

Session 3: Visualization & Interaction Design
9:00am Information Seeking and Objects of Visual Attention by Colin
Ware, University of New Hampshire
9:45am Geovisualization for Constructing and Sharing Concepts by Alan M.
MacEachren & Mark Gaheganet, Pennsylvania State University

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00am Paradigms, Debates, and Puzzles in Science: A Visual Exploration
by Chaomei Chen, Drexel University
11:45am Process Models vs. Descriptive Models of Scientific Evolution
and Structure by Katy B=F6rner, Indiana University

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

Session 4: Promising Applications
2:00pm Indicator-Assisted Evaluation of Research, Kevin Boyack, Sandia
National Laboratories
2:45pm Analysis Experiences Using Information Visualization by Beth
Hetzler, Pacific Northwest, National Laboratory

3:30 - 4:00pm Break

4:00pm Mapping: From Science Papers to Technology Patents and on to
Company Financial Performance by Francis Narin, President of CHI
Research, Inc.

5:00pm Final Panel Discussion

--
Katy Borner, Assistant Professor
Information Science & Cognitive Science
Indiana University, SLIS
10th Street & Jordan Avenue     Phone:  (812) 855-3256   Fax: -6166
Main Library 019                E-mail: katy@indiana.edu
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA      WWW:    ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy

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Call For Papers - REMINDER- CMV 2003
International Conference on Coordinated &
Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization
Associated with IV2003
http://www.cvev.org/cmv2003.html 

15 July 2003, London, UK,

Conference Chair: Jonathan Roberts, University of Kent, UK
(Paper deadline 7 March 2003) 

Important Dates
---------------
7 March 2003  Paper submission deadline 
5 May 2003    Camera-ready copies due 
15 July 2003  Conference

Submission Instructions
-----------------------
Please prepare your submission (maximum 12 pages) according to
the conference guidelines found at
http://www.cvev.org/cmv2003/submission.html

* Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be
  published by the IEEE Computer Society.  

* Best papers will be invited to submit to a Special Issue on
  "Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization"
  of the Information Visualization Journal (Palgrove/Macmillan)

Submission Procedure
--------------------
Potential Authors are invited to submit a PDF of their submission
to cmv@cvev.org

Nadia Boukhelifa, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent,
Canterbury, Kent. CT2 7NF. UK 

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Advanced Registration is now open for

The IEEE Virtual Reality 2003 Conference (IEEE-VR2003)
     March 22-26, 2003
     Biltmore Hotel
     Los Angeles, California, USA
     http://www.vr2003.org

IEEE VR2003 is the premier international conference and exhibition
in Virtual Reality Research and Technology and provides a truly
unique opportunity to learn, share and interact with leading
researchers and practitioners. You are sure to enhance your knowledge
through exposure to the accomplishments and discoveries of your peers
from around the world. And of course, there will be time to catch up
with old friends, make new friends and take in the sights of sunny
Southern California in the springtime!

Held in conjunction with the
    11th Symposium on
    Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems
    http://www.hapticssymposium.org

Sponsored by
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics

*****Registration Deadlines*****
Student Volunteer applications: Feb 15 2003
Advanced Registration: Feb 28 2003 1700EST
Late Registration: March 19 2003, 1700EST
      after this date, please register on-site

Note there is a significant discount for early registration!
*****************************
Conference Schedule: (see website for details)

Saturday March 22

  Tutorial 1 (Full day): Recent Methods for Image-Based Modeling and 
Rendering
    Presented by: Darius Burschka, Gregory D. Hager, Zachary Dodds,
               Martin Jagersand, Dana Cobzas, Keith Yerex

  Tutorial 2 (Full Day): Virtual Humans for Virtual Reality and 
Augmented Reality
    Presented by Daniel Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  Workshop on Commodity Clusters for VR - full day
    Presented by: Marcello Knorich Zuffo, Hank Kerzmarski, Bruno Raffin, 
Zhingeng Pan
    Abstracts solicited. See Call at http://www.vr2003.org

  Haptics Symposium - full day

Sunday March 24

  Tutorial 3 (Full Day): Scalable VR Application Authoring
    Presented by: Patrick Hartling

  Tutorial 4 (Morning): Introduction to VR Technology
    Presented by: Jerry Isdale

  Tutorial 5 (Afternoon): Hollywood Meets Simulation: Creating Immersive
                         Training Environments at the ICT
    Organized by: Jonathan Gratch
    Limited to 70 attendees.  Includes visit to ICT for Lab Tour.

  Exhibits Reception:  7-9pm

Monday March 25

  Keynote 8:45am : "Taking it to the Streets:
                    How Virtual Reality Can Change Mobile Computing"
    Steve Feiner, Columbia University
  Commercial Exhibits and Research Demos: 9am-5pm
  Papers & Panels
    Paper Session I: Clusters and System Design for VR
    Panel Session I: VR in industry: Where it succeeds, fails, and needs 
improvement
    Paper Session II: Large Display Systems and Augmented Reality
  Special Event: USC/IMSC Open House, and Poster Session 7pm-9pm

Tuesday March 26
  Commercial Exhibits and Research Demos: 9am-5pm
  Papers & Panels
    Paper Session III: Applications
    Paper Session IV: VR in Medicine
    Panel Session II: Mixed reality: the continuum from virtual to 
augmented reality
    Paper Session V: Multi-User Virtual Environments and Collaboration
  SGI Sponsored Cocktail Hour 6:30pm-7:30pm
  VR2003 Banquet 7:30pm-10pm
    Banquet Keynote:
       "Toward the Innovative Collaboration between Art and Science:
        The Task in the Age of Media Culture Through Case Studies in
        the Contemporary field of Media Arts"
      Itsuo Sakane, President, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and 
Sciences (IAMAS)
        and the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences

Wednesday March 27
  Commercial Exhibits and Research Demos: 9am-1pm (Morning Only)
  Papers & Panels
    Paper Session VI: Human Performance in VR
    Paper Session VII: Tracking and User Interfaces in VR
    Paper Session VIII: Haptic Devices and Object Manipulation
    Paper Session IX: Applications II
  Closing and Awards (Yes there is a Best Paper $$ Prize!)
  Optional Special Event: Boat Cruise in Marina Del Rey 6:30pm

Research Demos:
   Integrated Virtual Human Interface System with Portable Virtual 
Reality Capability.
     Dr. Barnabas Takacs, DigitalCustom Group Inc.

   Common Office Equipment and CaveUT Make a Cheap Portable Cave
     Jeffrey Jacobson, University of Pittsburgh

   Desktop Commodity-level Immersive Environments
     Steven C. Beck, University of Iowa

Hope to see you in LA!
Now go register!
http://www.vr2003.org

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             *** DEADLINE EXTENDED  February 17, 2003 ***

       Knowledge and Information Visualisation 2003 (KIV 2003)

                     July 2, 2003, Graz, Austria

     http://www.know-center.at/en/conference/i-know03/KIV-cfp.htm

Call for Participation for the I-KNOW '03 pre-conference workshop on
Knowledge and Information Visualisation 2003

Introduction

The I-KNOW '03 workshop on Knowledge and Information Visualization
addresses the emerging field of knowledge and information
visualization, involving the visual presentation of and interaction
with abstract knowledge and information spaces and structures to
facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding. Original papers
are solicited in all areas of knowledge and information
visualization. Topics include:

* Visualisation of text corpora
* Visualisation of multimedia corpora
* Visualisation of abstract knowledge and information structures
* Visualization of complex knowledge spaces
* Visualisation of search results
* Human computer interfaces for knowledge and information visualisation
* Interactive browsing and navigation
* Empirical studies of knowledge and information visualisation techniques
* Visualisation and perception
* Visualisation of web information systems
* Mapping of knowledge structures
* Data structures and models underlying visualisation
* Adaptive visualisation metaphors
* Visual data mining

Submissions might address application areas such as decision support,
e-learning, CSCW, healthcare, mobile computing, virtual environments,
or bioinformatics.

Target Group

The topics mentioned above are addressed at researchers and developers
as well as at practitioners and providers in the fields of knowledge
management, computer supported cooperative working and learning,
business process improvement, etc.  The workshop will be held in
English.

Submission Categories

Papers: February 17, 2003

Papers should be at most 6 printed pages. Papers present previously
unpublished, original results. The submitted papers of the
participants will be published within the J.UCS conference proceedings
of the I-Know =9203 Conference. Papers submitted may, at the discretion
of the program co-chairs, be invited for publication as extended
papers (20 pages) in a "special issue" of J.UCS (http://www.jucs.org/)
to appear after the conference.

Posters: February 17, 2003

Authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract. All authors are
required to bring an explanatory hardcopy poster for display during
the scheduled evening poster session, and be available for discussion
at that time. Abstracts will be presented on the web.

We encourage submissions of original unpublished work and submissions
showcasing systems of interest to the knowledge and information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.

Submission Instructions

Please prepare your submission according to the J.UCS Author Guidelines
(http://www.jucs.org/jucs_submit/style_guide.html).

All submissions, regardless of category, should include title,
author(s), abstract, keywords, body, and references. Authors are
encouraged to include full color illustrations. Submissions longer
than the page limits will not be considered.

All submissions are to be made electronically in PDF (Adobe's Portable
Document Format)

Submissions are treated as confidential communications during the
review process, so submission does not constitute public disclosure of
any ideas therein. Submissions should contain no information or
materials that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of
publication, and should cite no publications that are proprietary or
confidential at the time of publication.

Submission Procedure

Submit your papers or two-page extended abstract via e-mail attachment
to kiv@know-center.at

Important Dates

** DEADLINE EXTENDED **
* February 17, 2003 - Papers (6 pages) and posters (2 pages abstract)
* March 17, 2003 - Notification of acceptance
* April 28, 2003 - Camera ready paper
* KIV 2003 starts Wed Jul 02, 2003

Publication

Accepted papers will be published within the J.UCS conference
proceedings of the I-Know =9203 Conference. Selected Papers will be
invited within a "special issue" of J.UCS after the conference.
Extended abstracts of accepted posters will be distributed on the web.

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		     InfoVis 2003 Call for Papers

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Changes
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New this year

* InfoVis Contest, see http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/iv03contest

* New paper categories (technique, system, design study,
  evaluation, and model), with length decoupled from category

* InfoVis starts a half-day earlier, early afternoon on Sunday 19
  October.

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Introduction
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We solicit papers, posters, and contest entries for InfoVis 2003, the
ninth annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. InfoVis is
the primary meeting in the field of information visualization, and is
held in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization 2003 (Vis03) conference.

Computer-based information visualization, or "infovis", centers around
helping people explore or explain data by designing interactive
software that exploits the capabilities of the human perceptual system.
The central design challenge in infovis is designing a cognitively
useful spatial mapping of a dataset that is not inherently spatial.
There are many possible visual encodings, only a fraction of which are
helpful for a given task. We draw 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.

We encourage submissions of papers (31 Mar 03 deadline), interactive
posters (1 Aug 03 deadline), and InfoVis Contest entries (1 Aug 03
deadline). We encourage the use of digital video to support the
submission, particularly if part or all of the work covers interactive
techniques.

======================================================================Papers: due Mon 31 March 2003 5:00pm PST
------------------------------------------------------------------------

We solicit papers in five categories: technique, system, design study,
evaluation, and model. Although many papers might include elements of
more than one of these categories, for the purposes of reviewing you
will be asked to decide which best fits your submission.

Technique

Technique papers introduce novel techniques or algorithms that have
not previously appeared in the literature. We also welcome papers that
significantly extend techniques or algorithms that have been
previously presented, for example by scaling to datasets of much
larger size than before or by generalizing a technique to a larger
class of uses.

The technique or algorithm description provided in the paper should be
complete enough that a competent graduate student in visualization
could implement the work, and the authors should create a prototype
implementation of the methods. Relevant previous work must be
referenced, and the advantage of the new methods over it should be
clearly demonstrated. There should be a discussion of the tasks and
datasets for which this new method is appropriate, and its
limitations. Evaluation through informal or formal user studies, or
other methods, will often serve to strengthen the paper, but are not
mandatory.

Past work that would fall into this category includes: algorithms for
layout and navigation of trees, graphs, and networks; interaction
techniques for infovis; browsing and navigation techniques in large
information spaces; geometric or graphics algorithms for increased
scalability of existing techniques; and techniques for visualizing
very high dimensional (100+ D) spaces. This list is not exclusive, and
we welcome submissions in these and all other areas of infovis.

System

System papers present a blend of algorithms, technical requirements,
user requirements, and design that solves a major problem. The system
that is described is both novel and important, and it has been
implemented. The rationale for significant design decisions is
provided, and the system is compared to documented, best-of-breed
systems already in use. The comparison includes specific discussion of
how the described system differs from and is, in some significant
respects, superior to those systems. For example, the proposal may
offer substantial advancements in the performance or usability of
infovis systems, or novel capabilities. Every effort should be made to
eliminate external factors (such as advances in processor performance,
memory sizes or operating system features) that would affect this
comparison. For further suggestions, please review "How (and How Not)
to Write a Good Systems Paper" by Roy Levin and David Redell at
http://www.acm.org/sigops/advice.html, and "Empirical Methods in CS
and AI" by Toby Walsh at
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~tw/empirical.html

Design Study

Design study papers explore the choices made when applying infovis
techniques in an application area, for example relating the visual
encodings and interaction techniques to the requirements of the target
task. Although a limited amount of application domain background
information can be useful to provide a framing context in which to
discuss the specifics of the target task, the primary focus of the
case study must be the infovis content. Describing new techniques and
algorithms developed to solve the target problem will strengthen a
design study paper, but the requirements for novelty are less
stringent than in a Technique paper. The work will be judged by the
design lessons learned, and on which future contributors can build.
We invite submissions on any application area. In past years
these areas have included bioinformatics, data mining and databases,
finance and commerce, telecommunications and networking, information
retrieval from large text corpora, and computer-supported
cooperative work (CSCW). This year we particularly encourage submissions
in the application area of software engineering, a shared focus with
our Vis 03 parent conference.

Evaluation

Evaluation papers are an empirical comparative study of infovis
techniques or systems. Authors are not necessarily expected to
implement the systems used in these studies themselves; the research
contribution will be judged on the validity and importance of the
experimental results as opposed to the novelty of the systems or
techniques under study. The conference committee appreciates the
difficulty and importance of designing and performing rigorous
experiments, including the definition of appropriate hypotheses,
tasks, data sets, selection of subjects, measurement, validation and
conclusions. The goal of such efforts should be to move from mere
description of experiments, toward prediction and explanation. We do
suggest that potential authors who have not had formal training in the
design of experiments involving human subjects may wish to partner
with a colleague from an area such as psychology or human-computer
interaction who has experience with designing rigorous experimental
protocols and statistical analysis of the resulting data.

Model

Model papers present new interpretations of the foundational theory of
information visualization. Example of past work in this area are
taxonomies, extensions to Bertin's theories of visual encoding,
analysis of metaphors, perception, cognitive models, visual
comparisons and indications of causality. Implementations are usually
not relevant for papers in this category. Papers should focus on basic
advancement in our understanding of how infovis techniques complement
and exploit properties of human vision and cognition.

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Papers Review Process
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The length of the paper should be commensurate with its contributions,
up to a maximum of eight (8) pages. For example, a useful idea
presented completely and concisely in four pages is more likely to be
accepted than the same idea presented in eight pages. The length limit
includes figures, which may be in color because the proceedings will
be printed in full color throughout. See the InfoVis 03 Submissions page
(http://www.infovis.org/infovis2003/submit.shtml) for details on format and
electronic submission of papers and optional accompanying digital
video.

Papers are peer-reviewed, and this year we are moving to a two-tier
reviewing model. The program committee will consist of senior
reviewers who will recruit additional external reviewers. Each paper
will be read by two senior reviewers on the program committee and two
additional external reviewers. A paper may be accepted under the
condition that its length is decreased.

All papers submitted to InfoVis03 must be original, unpublished work.
Any paper that has been previously published in equivalent or
substantially similar form by any other conference or in any other
journal will be rejected at an early stage of the review process, as
will papers that are simultaneously submitted to InfoVis03 and to any
other conference or journal. A paper is considered published if it has
appeared in a peer-reviewed journal or in published meeting
proceedings that are commercially available afterward to nonattendees.
Note that work described in the Interactive Posters or Late-Breaking
Hot Topics venues from previous InfoVis symposia is thus not
considered formally published, and you are free to submit work based
on that core (although it's unlikely to be accepted unless you've made
substantial progress since then).

Submissions are treated as confidential communications during the
review process, so submission does not constitute public disclosure of
any ideas therein. Submissions should contain no information or
materials that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of
publication (19 October 2003), and should cite no publications that
are proprietary or confidential at the time of publication.

=======================================================================Posters: due Fri 1 Aug 2003 5:00pm PST
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The interactive poster category includes both traditional posters and
demonstrations of interactive systems, either live on a laptop or
through video. We encourage both submissions of original unpublished
work and submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.
Accepted posters will be included electronically on the IEEE
Visualization 2003 Conference DVD, placed on the official infovis.org
web site, and also distributed in a hardcopy compendium to all
symposium and conference attendees.

All authors of accepted interactive posters are required to bring an
explanatory hardcopy poster for display during the scheduled evening
poster session, and be available for discussion at that time. Accepted
authors who wish to also show demos of their work are encouraged to
also bring a laptop to the poster session. There will be a limited
number of stations for showing videos during the main poster
session. Authors who wish to show a live demo but cannot provide their
own machine should contact the posters chairs in advance of the
submission deadline to discuss the logistics. All authors who plan to
show live demos or video should clearly indicate this fact in their
submissions. Authors are also required to present a very brief summary
(1-3 powerpoint slides) of their interactive poster at a short preview
session earlier in the day.

Interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page summary, in two-column
SIGGRAPH format as described <a href="#papersubmit">above</a> for
papers. Those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also
submit an accompanying video. Clearly identify the type of your
submission by including the prefix "Interactive Poster:" in the title
of your summary.

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Posters Review Process
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Each poster will be read and evaluated by both of the Posters
Chairs.  Submissions will be evaluated based on whether the content
is suitable for the venue and is not a repetition of the work of
others.  Authors of posters that are not accepted will receive summary
reviews of their poster from the chairs explaining the decision and
providing feedback.

See the InfoVis 03 Submissions page
(http://www.infovis.org/infovis2003/submit.shtml) for details on format and
electronic submission of posters and optional accompanying digital
video.

=======================================================================Contest: due Fri 1 Aug 2003 5:00pm PST
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Our goal in organizing this new participation category is to initiate
the development of benchmarks for information visualization, establish
a forum to promote evaluation methods, and create a new interesting
event at the conference.

For Infovis 2003 we are inviting the submissions of case studies of
the use of information visualization for pairwise comparison of trees.
Several pairs of datasets will be provided February 1st, along with a
description of the data and open-ended tasks. Contest entries will
consist of a 2-page summary, a video and accompanying materials. First
place entries will receive a prize and will have a speaking slot to
present their work during the contest session at the conference.
Second place entries will present a contest poster. (Note that
duplicate submissions should *not* be made to both the poster and
contest categories.) All accepted entry materials will be made
available online after the conference.

For more information: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/iv03contest/

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Submission of a paper, poster, or contest entry is considered a
commitment for at least one author to register and attend the
conference as a presenter if the work is accepted. In the case that
extraordinary circumstances arise that prevent an author from
personally presenting the work, it is the author's responsibility to
arrange in advance for an alternate presenter.

We are unable to subsidize registration or travel costs for
presenters. InfoVis is a nonprofit symposium run by volunteers, and
could not survive without the financial support of authors and
organizers alike.

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General Symposium Chair
 Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany, keim@fmi.uni-konstanz.de

Program Chairs
 Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Canada, tmm@cs.ubc.ca
 Stephen North, AT&T Research, north@research.att.com

Interactive Posters Chairs
 Alan Keahey, Visintuit, keahey@acm.org
 Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, matt@cs.wpi.edu

Contest Chairs
 Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France, Jean-Daniel.Fekete@inria.fr
 Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland, plaisant@cs.umd.edu

Publications Chair
 Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary, Canada,
sheelagh@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Publicity Chair
 John Stasko, Georgia Tech, stasko@cc.gatech.edu

Webmaster
 Carson Bloomberg, Air Force Research Lab, carson.bloomberg@rl.af.mil

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Steering Committee
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* Stuart Card, Xerox PARC, card@parc.xerox.com
* John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada, dill@cs.sfu.ca
* Steve Eick, Visintuit, eick@visintuit.com
* Steve Feiner, Columbia University, feiner@cs.columbia.edu
* Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp., gershon@mitre.org
* Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany, keim@fmi.uni-konstanz.de
* George Robertson, Microsoft Research, ggr@microsoft.com
* Steve Roth, MAYA Viz, roth@mayaviz.com

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Important Dates
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Sat  1 Feb Contest datasets released
Mon 31 Mar Papers due
Mon  9 Jun Paper acceptances announced
Mon 14 Jul Paper camera-ready due
Fri  1 Aug Poster and contest entries due
Fri  5 Sep Poster and contest acceptances announced
Fri 19 Sep Poster and contest camera-ready due
Sun 19 Oct InfoVis begins in Seattle

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       Knowledge and Information Visualisation 2003 (KIV 2003)

                     July 2, 2003, Graz, Austria

     http://www.know-center.at/en/conference/i-know03/KIV-cfp.htm

Call for Participation for the I-KNOW '03 pre-conference workshop on
Knowledge and Information Visualisation 2003

Introduction

The I-KNOW '03 workshop on Knowledge and Information Visualization
addresses the emerging field of knowledge and information
visualization, involving the visual presentation of and interaction
with abstract knowledge and information spaces and structures to
facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding. Original papers
are solicited in all areas of knowledge and information
visualization. Topics include:

* Visualisation of text corpora
* Visualisation of multimedia corpora
* Visualisation of abstract knowledge and information structures
* Visualization of complex knowledge spaces
* Visualisation of search results
* Human computer interfaces for knowledge and information visualisation
* Interactive browsing and navigation
* Empirical studies of knowledge and information visualisation techniques
* Visualisation and perception
* Visualisation of web information systems
* Mapping of knowledge structures
* Data structures and models underlying visualisation
* Adaptive visualisation metaphors
* Visual data mining

Submissions might address application areas such as decision support,
e-learning, CSCW, healthcare, mobile computing, virtual environments,
or bioinformatics.

Target Group

The topics mentioned above are addressed at researchers and developers
as well as at practitioners and providers in the fields of knowledge
management, computer supported cooperative working and learning,
business process improvement, etc.  The workshop will be held in
English.

Submission Categories

Papers: January 27, 2003

Papers should be at most 6 printed pages. Papers present previously
unpublished, original results. The submitted papers of the
participants will be published within the J.UCS conference proceedings
of the I-Know =9203 Conference. Papers submitted may, at the discretion
of the program co-chairs, be invited for publication as extended
papers (20 pages) in a "special issue" of J.UCS (http://www.jucs.org/)
to appear after the conference.

Posters: January 27, 2003

Authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract. All authors are
required to bring an explanatory hardcopy poster for display during
the scheduled evening poster session, and be available for discussion
at that time. Abstracts will be presented on the web.

We encourage submissions of original unpublished work and submissions
showcasing systems of interest to the knowledge and information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.

Submission Instructions

Please prepare your submission according to the J.UCS Author Guidelines
(http://www.jucs.org/jucs_submit/style_guide.html).

All submissions, regardless of category, should include title,
author(s), abstract, keywords, body, and references. Authors are
encouraged to include full color illustrations. Submissions longer
than the page limits will not be considered.

All submissions are to be made electronically in PDF (Adobe's Portable
Document Format)

Submissions are treated as confidential communications during the
review process, so submission does not constitute public disclosure of
any ideas therein. Submissions should contain no information or
materials that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of
publication, and should cite no publications that are proprietary or
confidential at the time of publication.

Submission Procedure

Submit your papers or two-page extended abstract via e-mail attachment
to kiv@know-center.at

Important Dates

* January 27, 2003 - Papers (6 pages) and posters (2 pages abstract)
* March 17, 2003 - Notification of acceptance
* April 28, 2003 - Camera ready paper
* KIV 2003 starts Wed Jul 02, 2003

Publication

Accepted papers will be published within the J.UCS conference
proceedings of the I-Know =9203 Conference. Selected Papers will be
invited within a "special issue" of J.UCS after the conference.
Extended abstracts of accepted posters will be distributed on the web.

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There will be a tutorial on "Analyzing and Visualizing Knowledge
Domains" by
Katy Borner, Indiana University at Electronic Imaging, Santa Clara,
California,
January 23rd, 2003.

The tutorial will introduce advanced data mining and information
visualization techniques that can be used to support science and
technology management. It will demonstrate how large amounts of, e.g.,
publication, patent, and grant data can be analyzed, correlated, and
visualized to map the semantic space of researchers, publications,
funding, etc.. The resulting visualizations can be utilized to
objectively identify major research areas, experts, institutions,
grants, publications, journals, etc. in a research area of interest. In
addition, they can assist to identify interconnections, the import and
export of research between fields, the dynamics (speed of growth,
diversification) of scientific fields, scientific and social networks,
and the impact of strategic and applied research funding programs, among
others.

More info is available at http://vw.indiana.edu/vkd-tutorial03/.

--
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International Symposium on Collaborative Information Visualization
Environments, IV03-CIVE
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/CIVE.htm
See also http://vw.indiana.edu/cive03
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16 - 17 - 18 July 2003
SOAS, University of London
LONDON ENGLAND
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Call for Papers and Participation

An increasing number of commercial, research, and educational projects
are collaborative efforts that bring together people with different
skills and expertise. Computers are evolving into mediators of
human-to-human and human-to-data interaction. Domain experts are often
spread out in space and across time zones and consultation and
collaboration has to proceed remotely instead of face-to-face.
Distributed teams need to collaborate and access shared data while some
of their team members are outside of their office environments,
presenting a new set of challenges in terms of data usage and share.
Collaborative information visualization environments (CIVEs) enable
users to interact both with visualizations of data -- e.g. access,
explore, visualize and manipulate data -- as well as enabling them to
interact with one another. Such user-user interactions may involve
referring to the data visualizations: e.g. users can chat with one
another and, in the process, be able to refer to elements of the
visualization; and/or users can annotate a part or state or even
recorded segment of the visualization so that others can see and comment
on it later. In addition, CIVEs often visualize user interactions
themselves to facilitate information access, collaboration, and
decision-making.

Currently, research on CIVEs is published in diverse subject areas such
as:
* Visual interfaces to digital libraries
* Collaborative filtering, problem solving, or learning
* Organizational memory / collective intelligence / collaborative memory
palaces
* Mobile computing
* Communicative environments
* Digital cities
* Social computing / distributed meetings
* Social visualization
* (Usability) studies of CIVEs

In organizing this symposium, we wish to bring together original CIVE
research pertinent to the design and/or evaluation of CIVEs from these
different subject areas.

OBJECTIVES
The symposium is a forum for discussion about CIVEs designed for various
user groups, application domains, and interfaces such as 2-D desktop
interfaces, 3-D virtual environments/virtual worlds, handheld devices,
etc. that utilize different information Visualization algorithms,
interaction techniques, and modes of collaboration (e.g. Synchronous,
asynchronous). Main objectives include, but are not limited to:
* Increase our understanding of the design requirements for CIVEs.
* Closely examine long-term use of particular CIVEs.
* Identify collaborative practices in collocated visualization processes
that might be supported in CIVEs.
* Gain a better understanding of architectural and infrastructure
requirements for CIVEs.

You are invited to participate in the discussion by submitting papers
and attending the Symposium.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their work for review and publication in a special journal issue on
this topic.
Last years papers are available online at http://vw.indiana.edu/cive02/.

Supported by:
GraphicsLink
VGRU, SCISM, South Bank University, UK
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, USA
Department of Visual Art, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Computer Graphics & Modelling Group - DMU Milton Keynes, UK
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
Motorola UK Research Lab
Information and Computer Science Department, KFUPM, SA
Mixed Reality Ltd, UK
Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of
Bradford, UK
University of Balearic Islands, Spain
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Technical University Graz, Austria

Co-operated by:
Information Visualisation Society

PreConference Workshop and Tutorials on 15 July 2003:
Workshop: CMV 2003 - International Symposium on Co-ordinated & Multiple
Views in Exploratory Visualization associated with IV'03, London, UK

Tutorial: Mapping Scientific Frontiers, Chaomei Chen, Ph.D, Drexel
University, USA

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Important Dates:
7 March 2002 -  Submission of papers and  Submission of tutorials &
pre-conference courses
05 May 2002 - Submission of camera-ready and early registration closes

Further details and registration form are available at the conference
website:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/CIVE.htm

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Dr Katy B=F6rner
Information Science & School of Informatics, Indiana University, 10th
Street & Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Phone: +01 812 855-3256, Fax: +01 812 855-6166
E-mail: katy@indiana.edu

OR

Dr. Raquel Navarro-Prieto, Motorola UK Research Lab
Viables Industrial Estate, Jays Close, Basingstoke RG22 4PD, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1256 484037, Fax: +44 (0) 1256 471383
E-mail: Raquel.Navarro-prieto@motorola.com

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Information Science & Cognitive Science
Indiana University, SLIS
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Main Library 019                E-mail: katy@indiana.edu
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA      WWW:    ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy

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This is the final call for papers.  Submissions are due December 16,
in less than two weeks.  The conference website listed below has
details about the electronic submission procedure.

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                  ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

                               SOFTVIS '03

                     June 11-13, 2003, San Diego, USA
                         Collocated with FCRC'03

          Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT,
                   and in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.

                  http://www.softvis.org/softvis03

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Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for
researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering,
programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to
discuss and present original research on software visualization.

SoftVis '03 is the first meeting in a planned series of biennial
conferences. Our objective is to make the SoftVis series the premier
venue for presenting all types of research on software visualization.

Papers
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We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications,
techniques, tools and case studies. Topics of interest include, but
are not restricted to, the following:

- Visualization of algorithms, including numerical, geometric, genetic,
  distributed and graph algorithms
- Program visualization
- Protocol and log visualization (security, trust)
- Visualization of parallel programs
- Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
- Visualization of the software development process
- Visualization of data and processes in applications
- Educational software in computer science, in particular visualization
  of computational models
- Graph drawing algorithm for software visualization
- Visualization of data base schemes
- Visual debugging
- 3D software visualization
- Software visualization on the internet
- Program analyses and visualization
- Integration of software visualization tools and development environments
- Empirical evaluation of software visualization system effectiveness

Papers should represent original, unpublished results and will be rigorously
reviewed by the international Program Committee. Papers must be in standard
ACM 2-column format and cannot exceed 10 pages in total length. Authors
should prepare and electronically submit a PDF version of their paper.
Videos not exceeding 5 minutes in length can accompany a paper submission.
Papers are due December 16, 2002. Further details on precise submission
guidelines will be forthcoming on the symposium web page.

Tutorials
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A set of tutorials will immediately precede the main conference. Tutorial
proposals of no more than 1 or 2 pages (for 90-minute or 3-hour tutorials)
should be submitted to the program chair by January 15, 2003. Include the
proposed title, brief description of material, intended audience, assumed
background of attendees, and the name, affiliation, contact information
(e-mail and phone), and brief biography of speaker(s). An electronic PDF
submission is preferred.

Deadlines
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Paper submission:            December 16, 2002.
Tutorial submission:         January 15, 2003.
Notification of acceptance:  January, 27, 2003.
Final papers due:            March, 3, 2003

Venue
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SoftVis '03 is affiliated with the ACM Federated Computing Research
Conference, a collection of symposia occurring June 7-14 in San Diego, CA.
For more details on registration, hotel and travel information, please see
the FCRC 2003 web pages http://www.acm.org/fcrc.

Student Travel
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The SIGSOFT Conference Attendance Program for Students (CAPS) and the
SIGPLAN Professional Activities Committee (PAC) provide financial
support to students, enabling them to attend sponsored conferences.

Symposium Organizers
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General Chair:
 Stephan Diehl, Saarland University, Saarbr=FCcken, Germany

Program Chair:
 John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Treasurer:
 Christopher D. Hundhausen, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA

Program Committee:
 Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
 Wim De Pauw, IBM Research, USA
 John Domingue, Open University, UK
 Steve Eick, Visintuit, USA
 Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
 Eileen Kraemer, The University of Georgia, USA
 Hans Hagen, University Kaiserslautern, Germany
 John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
 Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK
 Petra Mutzel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 David Notkin, University of Washington, USA
 Tom Naps, University of Wisconsin-OshKosh, USA
 Marian Petre, Open University, UK
 Steve Reiss, Brown University, USA
 Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
 Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
 Ayellet Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
 Reinhard Wilhelm, University of Saarland, Germany
 Andreas Zeller, University of Saarland, Germany

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Call For Papers - CMV 2003
International Conference on Coordinated &
Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization
Associated with IV2003
http://www.cvev.org/cmv2003.html

15 July 2002, London, UK,

Conference Chair: Jonathan Roberts, University of Kent, UK
(Paper deadline 7 March 2003)

--------------------

The goal of this conference is to bring together top
practitioners who are researching in the area of coordinated and
exploratory visualization and to analyse and discuss state-of-the
art concepts and future opportunities in this area.

Over the past few years the rise of Information Visualization has
produced a diverse range of dynamic and highly interactive visual
environments. These exploratory tools enable a user to
investigate, try out scenarios and search the information and
visual space to generate better hypothesis and develop a better
understanding of the underlying information. Such investigative
environments often utilize many different views of the same data,
so the user understands the information from different
perspectives; the views are also tightly coupled together to
allow rapid coordinated investigation and exploration.

Original papers are solicited in the area of coordinated and
exploratory visualization. In particular we encourage papers
detailing novel architectures, formal models, applications and
in-depth reviews.

Example topics include, but are not limited to:

* Multiple view techniques (including multiform views and
  multiple representations)
* Coordinated views, tight coupling, linked views
* Dynamic and rapid interactive visualization techniques
* Formal models (covering appropriate topics such as
  coordination and rapid investigation)
* Multiple views for Interactive steering
* Visualization management for view explosion
* Data transformation and re-expression for exploratory
  visualization
* Exploratory visualization methods/algorithms/tools
* Novel exploratory visualization architectures
* Visual query languages for exploratory visualization
* Case studies and applications of coordinated and
  multiple views
* Reviews and surveys of related literature
* Spreadsheet based visualization techniques
* Possible application areas such as (but not limited to):
  GeoVisualization; Mathematical and Statistical exploration;
  Bioinformatics; Medical visualization; web site data; web
  browsing strategies; Astronomical data

Submission Instructions
-----------------------
Please prepare your submission (maximum 12 pages) according to
the conference guidelines found at
http://www.cvev.org/cmv2003/submission.html

* Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be
  published by the IEEE Computer Society.

* Best papers will be invited to submit to a Special Issue on
  "Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization"
  of the Information Visualization Journal (Palgrove/Macmillan)

Submission Procedure
--------------------
Potential Authors are invited to submit a PDF of their submission
to cmv@cvev.org

Nadia Boukhelifa, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent,
Canterbury, Kent. CT2 7NF. UK

Important Dates
---------------
7 March 2003  Paper submission deadline
5 May 2003    Camera-ready copies due
5 May 2003    Early registration closes
15 July 2003  Conference

International Program Committee
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Keith Andrews      Graz University of Technology, Austria
Gennady Andrienko  Fraunhofer Institut, Germany
Natalia Andrienko  Fraunhofer Institut, Germany
Ebad Banissi       South Bank University London, UK
Ken Brodlie        University of Leeds, UK
Pak Chung Wong     Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Jason Dykes        City University, UK
Rob Erbacher       University at Albany (SUNY), USA
Stephen G. Eick    Visintuit, USA
John Grundy        University of Auckland, NZ
Pat Hanrahan       Stanford University, USA
John Hosking       University of Auckland, NZ
Jessie Kennedy     Napier University, UK
Raj Naggapan       Australian National University
Chris North        Virginia Tech, USA
Andrea Omicini     University of Bologna, Italy
Alex Pang          University of California Santa Cruz,
Tim Pattison       DSTO (Australia Department of Defence)
Peter Rodgers      University of Kent, UK
Cristina Russo
    Dos Santos     Institut Eurecom, France
Robert Spence      Imperial College, UK
Martin Theus       Universit=E4t Augsburg, Germany
Matthew Ward       Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Allison Woodruff   Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

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Graphics Interface 2003 Call for Participation

Graphics Interface 2003
www.graphicsinterface.org
June 11-13, 2003
Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada

Call for Participation

Graphics Interface 2003 will take place in Halifax, June 11-13, 2003, in
conjunction with the Vision Interface 2003 (VI) and Artificial
Intelligence 2003 (AI) conferences.

A single registration will permit attendees to attend any talk in the
three conferences, which will be scheduled in parallel tracks. The
conference will also include a banquet, and a posters and demos session.

Graphics Interface is expanding its format. In 2003 there will be more
Interface and just as much Graphics. It will have joint sessions to
accommodate the expansion and there will be separate but coordinated
sub-committees for the HCI and Graphics tracks. GI 2003 will be the 29th
Graphics Interface conference and it is the oldest continuously scheduled
conference in the field. This event consistently attracts high-quality
papers on recent advances in computer graphics, interactive systems, and
human computer interaction topics from around the world.

June is a fantastic time to visit Halifax. Founded in 1749, Halifax is
known for its beauty, maritime charm and friendliness, and quality of
life. This city by the sea offers many of the amenities of a large city --
diverse cultural activities, a vibrant downtown, museums, theatre, and
festivals, while still maintaining its small-town charm. Come and enjoy a
walk through Historic Properties, a boat cruise on Halifax Harbour or a
traditional lobster dinner.

Summary of Deadlines:

  Paper and Panel Submission: December 1, 2002 (extended!!)
  Author Notification:        February 21, 2003
  Final Papers Due:           March 31, 2003
  Poster Submission:          March 21, 2003

Keynote Speakers:

  Stuart Card - Xerox PARC
  Chris Johnson - University of Utah
  Randy Pausch - Carnegie Mellon University

How To Submit A Paper:

All papers will be peer-reviewed, and if accepted, will be printed and
published directly from their revised electronic form. PDF versions of all
papers will also be archived on the GI web site.

Papers containing original and unpublished research results, formatted as
they should appear in the final proceedings, should be submitted to the GI
web site by December 1, 2002 (extended). Parallel submissions to other
venues will result in automatic disqualification of the paper. Submissions
must be in the form of PDF files; please see the web site for detailed
submission instructions and to obtain the author's kit, which includes
style files for pdflatex and Word as well as detailed formatting
instructions. In exceptional cases, traditional hardcopy submissions will
be accepted; please contact one of the conference co-chairs.

Paper submissions are specifically requested in the following areas:

  Graphics
    Shading and rendering
    Geometric modeling and meshing
    Graphics in simulation
    Image-based rendering
    Image synthesis and realism
    Medical and scientific visualization
    Information visualization
    Computer animation
    Real-time rendering
    Non-photorealistic

  HCI
    Computer supported cooperative work
    Interaction techniques
    Human interface devices
    Virtual reality
    Augmented Reality
    Data Visualization
    Information Visualization
    Haptics
    Multimedia
    Mobile computing
    Haptic interfaces

Refereeing will be double-blind. Only the title, without any indication of
the author's identity, should be included on submitted manuscripts.
Authors' identities will be tracked by the web-based submission system.
Additional material (such as movies) may also be uploaded during the
submission process. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be
emailed to the contact author by February 21, 2003. Final submissions of
accepted papers will be due March 31, 2003.

Accepted papers will be published in an archival-quality proceedings
directly from revised PDF files submitted by the authors, using a
high-resolution 2540dpi imagesetter and process colour. The proceedings
will be distributed by ACM and CIPS and will be available through AK
Peters. The Michael A.J. Sweeney Award will be awarded to the best student
paper at the conference.

How To Submit A Poster Or Demo:

The conference will also include a Posters and Demos session. The deadline
for submitting a poster will be March 21, 2003, and should include a
preliminary PDF or Powerpoint version of the poster as well as an extended
2-page abstract in conference format. Poster abstracts will not be
published or archived on the web site, but will be made available to
conference attendees in a bound format. Poster presenters will be
encouraged to bring along a demo of their work if possible. The best
poster will receive an award at the conference.

How To Submit A Panel:

This year proposals for panel sessions will be considered. Topics should
be relevant to the conference in one or more areas of research of interest
to the international computer graphics and HCI communities.  A short
4-page summary of the panel topic and list of presenters will be included
in the conference proceedings.

Submissions must be in the form of PDF files; please see the web site
(www.graphicsinterface.org) for detailed submission instructions and to
obtain the author's kit, which includes style files for pdflatex and Word
as well as detailed formatting instructions. In exceptional cases,
traditional hardcopy submissions will be accepted; please contact one of
the conference co-chairs.

Contact Information for Program Co-Chairs:

  Colin Ware, HCI Co-Chair
    Vis Lab, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
    University of New Hampshire
    24 Colovos Road
    Durham, New Hampshire
    Tel Office: +1 603 868 1219
    Fax: +1 603 862 0839
    Email: colinw@cisunix.unh.edu
    http://www.ccom.unh.edu/vislab

  Torsten M=F6ller, Graphics Co-Chair
    Graphics, Usability and Visualization Laboratory
    Simon Fraser University
    School of Computing Science
    Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6
    Tel Office: +1 604 291 3774
    Fax: +1 604 291 3045
    Email: torsten@cs.sfu.ca
    http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca

Sponsored by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society

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We invite you to participate in the SPIE Conference
on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA 2003)

Details of the program are now available:
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Note. Early registration closes 20 December 2002.

SPIE Conference on
Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA 2003)
January 20-24, 2003
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA
http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2003/

Part of Electronic Imaging 2003.
http://electronicimaging.org/Program/03/

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                            Call for participation 

                                  VisSym '03 

                         Joint Eurographics - IEEE  TCVG 
                           Symposium on Visualization  
                                26-28 May, 2003 
                               Grenoble - FRANCE

                         http://www.inrialpes.fr/VisSym03

 Aims and Scope

 Following the first four Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on
Visualization, Vienna '99, Amsterdam'00 , Ascona'01, and Barcelona'02
we invite you to participate in the fifth  joint Eurographics - IEEE
TCVG Symposium on Visualization. Papers and case studies will form the
scientific content of the event. Both research papers and case studies
are invited that present research results from all areas of
visualization. Case studies report on practical applications of
visualization to data analysis. 

 Topics

 Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to: 
   Flow visualization             Human factors in visualization  
   Volume rendering               User interaction techniques  
   Surface extraction             Visualization systems  
   Information visualization      Large data sets  
   Internet-based visualization   Multi-variate visualization  
   Data base visualization        Multi-resolution techniques 
   Biomedical Applications 

 Case studies are invited from any application area, including:
Physics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Molecular
Biology, Finance, Mathematics, Hypermedia Structures, Data Mining. 

 Important Dates

  Deadline for submission                   November 30, 2002        
  Notification of acceptance                February 11, 2003
  Camera-ready papers due                   March 8, 2003
  Symposium                                 May 26-28, 2003

 Paper Submission  (In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH)

 As in previous years, proceedings will be published by IEEE and EG. 
In addition, the proceedings will be part of the ACM SIGGRAPH 
Members Plus offerings.
  Papers must be submitted electronically, at the URL:

    https://kobez.imag.fr/VisSym03/Submission.html

 International Symposium Co-chairs

     Georges-Pierre Bonneau, IMAG/INRIA Grenoble, France 
     Stefanie Hahmann, IMAG Grenoble, France 
     Charles Hansen, University of Utah, USA

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SPIE's 17th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing,
Simulation, and Controls
Enabling Technology for Simulation Science VII Conference
22-25 April 2003
Gaylord Palms Resort, Orlando, Florida

Dear Simulationists (and managers of same):
...
From 22-25 April 2003, there will be a conference called "Enabling
Technology for Simulation Science VII", as part of SPIE's 17th Annual
International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and
Controls; at the beautiful Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando Florida.
Inaugurated in 1997, it marked the first appearance of a conference solely
devoted to basic research in those technology areas that enhance, and in
some cases, revolutionize the way we configure, execute and analyze the
results of simulations.
Many of you have been involved in our conference from the beginning; but for
some of you this is the first you're hearing about it.  Well, we'd like to
tell you all about it... but we're late.  Very late.  Most of the deadlines
on all published announcements of the conference have passed.  The
coordinators of the SPIE Conference have requested that we provide them with
a completed schedule for the Enabling Technologies Conference by early
November.  Despite all that, we believe we can do it... with your help.

We are particularly interested in presentations regarding Information
Visualization.  If you have an interest in presenting a paper, chairing a
session, defining a panel, workshop, etc., *please* contact us so that we
can start coordinating with you and penciling in anticipated sessions.
Perhaps you and some colleagues are performing similar research; such that
together you'd form a focused session.  Also, if you are aware of anyone
else -- either individuals, or other M&S research organizations -- who might
be interested in participating, please inform him/her that time is of the
essence.  We could use all the help we can get in putting together the
conference program, especially this late in the game.

Now for some of the details...

Conference:  Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VII
(http://www.spie.org/conferences/calls/03/or/conferences/index.cfm?fuseactio
n=3DOR29)
Where: Gaylord Palms Resort, Orlando FL
(http://www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylordpalms/splash.cfm)
When: 22-25 April 03

We strongly encourage you to submit your abstract via the link on the
conference web site
(http://www.spie.org/conferences/calls/03/or/conferences/index.cfm?fuseactio
n=3DOR29).  In that we are so late in finalizing this program, we request that
you also send your abstract and contact information to us by email.  If you
wish to participate, please submit your abstract by Wednesday, 06 November.

Remember, camera ready manuscripts aren't due until March 2002, so, for now,
the abstract (and your contact information) is what we need to focus on.
Suggested topics are on Page 1 of the attached Call for Papers (or feel free
to suggest your own); instructions for submitting an abstract are on Page 2.

Last years' Conference Program can be found at:
http://www.if.afrl.af.mil/tech/conferences/ModSim/ETConfVIb.html

We appreciate your time and professional contribution toward this much
needed and specialized conference.

Your Conference Chairs,
Alex & Dawn

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Air Force Research Lab
Rome Research Site
mailto:Alex.Sisti@rl.af.mil

Dawn Trevisani
Air Force Research Lab
Rome Research Site
mailto:Dawn.Trevisani@rl.af.mil

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*** 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION IV03  ****
*************** http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/ **************
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16 - 17 - 18 July 2003
SOAS, University of London
LONDON ENGLAND
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Call for Papers, Videos and Participation

Theme and scope is planned as series of symposia listed below (details and
further information are available at:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/

InfVis - Information Visualisation Theory & Practice
DVis - Design Visualisation
KDViz - Knowledge Domain Visualisation
CIVE - Collaborative Information Visualisation Environments
VSW- Semantic Web Visualisation
VDM - Visualisation and data mining
WGV - Web Graphics and Visualisation
GeoVis - Spatial/Geographic Data Visualisation
VDB - Visualising Data Bases
CDV - Co-operative Design Visualisation
MediViz - Information Visualisation in Medical & Biological Sciences
BuiltVis - Visualisation in Built Environment
DArt - Symposium of Digital Art and Gallery
VG - Fundamentals of Visualisation & Graphics
MM - Multimedia- Theory & Practice
EIP - Education and Industrial Prospective
AVR - Augmented and Virtual Reality
CAVE - Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Render - Computer Visualisation & Graphics Rendering
VISIM - Data Real-time Visualisation of Simulation

Supported by:
GraphicsLink=85
VGRU, SCISM, South Bank University, UK
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, USA
Department of Visual Art, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Computer Graphics & Modelling Group - DMU Milton Keynes, UK
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
Motorola UK Research Lab
Information and Computer Science Department, KFUPM, SA
Mixed Reality Ltd, UK
Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of
Bradford, UK
University of Balearic Islands, Spain
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Technical University Graz, Austria

Co-operated by:
Information Visualisation Society

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Important Dates:
17 January 2003 - Submission of proposal for symposium
7 March 2002 -  Submission of papers and  Submission of tutorials & pre-
conference courses
05 May 2002 - Submission of camera-ready and early registration closes

Further details and registration form are available at the conference
wed-site:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV03/

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Visualisation & Graphics Research Unit, South Bank University,
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                            Second CALL FOR PAPERS

                  ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

                               SOFTVIS '03

                     June 11-13, 2003, San Diego, USA
                         Collocated with FCRC'03

          Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT,
                   and in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.

                  http://www.softvis.org/softvis03

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Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for
researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering,
programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to
discuss and present original research on software visualization.

SoftVis '03 is the first meeting in a planned series of biennial
conferences. Our objective is to make the SoftVis series the premier
venue for presenting all types of research on software visualization.

Papers
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We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications,
techniques, tools and case studies. Topics of interest include, but
are not restricted to, the following:

- Visualization of algorithms, including numerical, geometric, genetic,
  distributed and graph algorithms
- Program visualization
- Protocol and log visualization (security, trust)
- Visualization of parallel programs
- Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
- Visualization of the software development process
- Visualization of data and processes in applications
- Educational software in computer science, in particular visualization
  of computational models
- Graph drawing algorithm for software visualization
- Visualization of data base schemes
- Visual debugging
- 3D software visualization
- Software visualization on the internet
- Program analyses and visualization
- Integration of software visualization tools and development environments
- Empirical evaluation of software visualization system effectiveness

Papers should represent original, unpublished results and will be rigorously
reviewed by the international Program Committee. Papers must be in standard
ACM 2-column format and cannot exceed 10 pages in total length. Authors
should prepare and electronically submit a PDF version of their paper.
Videos not exceeding 5 minutes in length can accompany a paper submission.
Papers are due December 16, 2002. Further details on precise submission
guidelines will be forthcoming on the symposium web page.

Tutorials
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A set of tutorials will immediately precede the main conference. Tutorial
proposals of no more than 1 or 2 pages (for 90-minute or 3-hour tutorials)
should be submitted to the program chair by January 15, 2003. Include the
proposed title, brief description of material, intended audience, assumed
background of attendees, and the name, affiliation, contact information
(e-mail and phone), and brief biography of speaker(s). An electronic PDF
submission is preferred.

Deadlines
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Paper submission:            December 16, 2002.
Tutorial submission:         January 15, 2003.
Notification of acceptance:  January, 27, 2003.
Final papers due:            March, 3, 2003

Venue
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SoftVis '03 is affiliated with the ACM Federated Computing Research
Conference, a collection of symposia occurring June 7-14 in San Diego, CA.
For more details on registration, hotel and travel information, please see
the FCRC 2003 web pages http://www.acm.org/fcrc.

Student Travel
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The SIGSOFT Conference Attendance Program for Students (CAPS) and the
SIGPLAN Professional Activities Committee (PAC) provide financial
support to students, enabling them to attend sponsored conferences.

Symposium Organizers
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General Chair:
 Stephan Diehl, Saarland University, Saarbr=FCcken, Germany

Program Chair:
 John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Treasurer:
 Christopher D. Hundhausen, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA

Program Committee:
 Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
 Wim De Pauw, IBM Research, USA
 John Domingue, Open University, UK
 Steve Eick, Visintuit, USA
 Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
 Eileen Kraemer, The University of Georgia, USA
 Hans Hagen, University Kaiserslautern, Germany
 John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
 Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK
 Petra Mutzel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 David Notkin, University of Washington, USA
 Tom Naps, University of Wisconsin-OshKosh, USA
 Marian Petre, Open University, UK
 Steve Reiss, Brown University, USA
 Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
 Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
 Ayellet Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
 Reinhard Wilhelm, University of Saarland, Germany
 Andreas Zeller, University of Saarland, Germany

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please send email to diehl@cs.uni-sb.de and stasko@cc.gatech.edu.

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Announcement!!

In the Intelligent User Interfaces department at DFKI, Germany
(www.dfki.de) we
developed a tool called the "MAUT Machine", based on treemaps for the
visualization
of an electronic product catalogue and MAUT/AHP (see decision theory) to
recommend the
products that best suit the user preferences.

Whereas the use of treemaps for displaying a product catalogue isn't new
(see the Honeycomb product at
http://www.http://www.hivegroup.com/) the strengh of our prototype is
the combination of treemaps and
the preferences/products matchmaking algorithm because the user can
directly see how well (score between 0 and 1)
the products fulfill the different interests of the user.

Technical details:
It can be used with various application domains (cars database, travel,
etc) and integrate with any relational database.
Completely written in java it runs as an applet that interacts with
servlets running on a tomcat container.
The Treemaps layout used is based on the work from Frederic Vernier as
described in "Modifiable treemaps containing
variable-shaped units"(Extended Abstracts of the IEEE Information
Visualization 2000)

There is an online demo available at
http://www2.dfki.de:8080/mautmachine/html/index.html as well as a short
paper describing the theoretical background needed to use it.

Any comment or suggestions are welcomed.
Best regards

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Christian Schmitt
Intelligent User Interfaces
DFKI
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany

Phone : +49 681-302-5256
Mobile: +49 160-268-7535
Fax: +49 681-302-5020
Email : christian.schmitt@dfki.de

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WSCG International Conferences in Central Europe
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Deadline for uploading files changed to: October 25, 2002 24:00 GMT (London
time)
due to technical problems

Call for Papers & Participation
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Please, VISIT http://wscg.zcu.cz for detailed information and
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Access is NOT LIMITED
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Unique opportunity
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- to visit the Golden City - PRAGUE
- taste the best beer all over the world - Pilsner Urquell
- to take a part at event, where West and East meet
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Accepted papers will be published in
The Journal of WSCG Vol. 11. No 1-3, ISSN 1213-6972

                     W S C G ' 2003
(formerly the Winter School of Computer Graphics)

The 11-th International Conference in Central Europe
on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2003

in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS
to be held
at the University of West Bohemia, Plzen,
close to Prague - the Golden European City, Czech Republic

February 3 - 7, 2003

Honorary Chair
Jack E.Bresenham, Winthrop University, USA

Programme Co-Chairs
Dirk Bartz, University of T=FCbingen, Germany
Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Keynote speakers:
Gabor T.=A0Herman, City University of New York, USA:
Blobs for Representing and Visualizing 3D Objects
Dirk Bartz, University of Tuebingen, Germany:
Large Model Visualization: Techniques and Applications

Information for authors
Deadline for contributions changed: October 25, 2002 24:00 GMT (London time)
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Format A4 (strictly), max. 8 pages, additional material
(video as MPEG, AVI and similar files, color plates etc. can be submitted,
please, no video tapes) up to 5 MB

For details, please, see http://wscg.zcu.cz select WSCG'2003

Topics included
Computer graphics and scientific visualization,
computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition,
fundamental algorithms and computational geometry,
graphical human computer interface and graphical interaction,
geometric modeling and computer aided geometric design,
rendering and virtual reality,
animation and multimedia, medical imaging,
object oriented graphics, WWW technologies,
parallel and distributed graphics, CAD/CAM, DTP systems
GIS systems and Geoinformatics,
applications and related fields.

The International Program Committee and Reviewing Board members review all
papers peer-to-peer carefully and anonymously.

Selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG, Vol.11. ISSN
1213-6972,
all presented papers will be published in the WSCG proceedings with ISBN.

Both are indexed/abstracted in: Engineering Index, Inspec Database,
CompuMath Citation Index, Information Science Abstracts, Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts and others.

Organizer and conference secretariat
  Prof.Vaclav Skala
  c/o Computer Science Department
  University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8,
  Box 314, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic
  e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz	Subject: INFO WSCG2003	http://wscg.zcu.cz
  fax: +420-37 7822-578, 799 	tel./fax: +420-37-7491-188

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Information Visualization 
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html 

Important Dates (Updated: October 10, 2002)

IVS                       Mar        June       Sept       Dec
                          Vol. 2.    Vol. 2.    Vol. 2.    Vol. 2.
                          No. 1      No. 2      No. 3      No. 4

Submission Deadline       Nov 1      Feb 1      May 1      Aug 1
Notification              Dec 5      Mar 5      May 5      Aug 5
Final Version Due         Dec 15     Mar 15     May 15     Aug 15
Publication               Mar 1      June 1     Sept 1     Dec 1

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Information Visualization
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html

Information Visualization (IVS) is a peer-reviewed international journal,
launched in March 2002. The journal is published quarterly by
Palgrave-Macmillan. The journal has an ambitious goal to serve as a
dedicated forum for researchers and practitioners throughout the world on
all topics related to information visualization. The journal publishes
articles on fundamental research and applications of information
visualization, including theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations
of information visualization and its applications. The journal has the
support of distinguished associated editors and dedicated editorial board
members.

The entire first issue is now freely accessible from the journal's website,
where you can also find additional information about the journal,
instructions for authors, sample copy request forms, and subscription forms.

For readers, the journal is available in both printed and online versions.
For authors, figures can be printed in color at a very competitive rate. All
color figures are published in the online version free of charge.

On behalf the editorial board, I'd like to invite you to visit the journal's
website and consider submitting your next manuscript on information
visualization to this young and ambitious journal.

Chaomei Chen
Editor in Chief
Information Visualization
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html
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Information Visualization
Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2002

Editorial
Chen C.
Information Visualization----------1-4

Commentary
Shneiderman B.
Inventing discovery tools: combining information visualization with data
mining----------5-12

Spence R.
Rapid, Serial and Visual: a presentation technique with
potential----------13-19

Research
Keim D.A., Hao M.C., Dayal U., Hsu M.
Pixel bar charts: a visualization technique for very large multi-attribute
data sets----------20-34

Good L., Bederson B.B.
Zoomable user interfaces as a medium for slide show
presentations----------35-49

Robertson G., Cameron K., Czerwinski M., Robbins D.
Animated visualization of multiple intersecting hierarchies----------50-65

Bartram L., Ware C.
Filtering and brushing with motion----------66-79

Peuquet D.J., Kraak M-J.
Geobrowsing: creative thinking and knowledge discovery using geographic
visualization----------80-91
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Information Visualization
Volume 1 Issue 2, June 2002

Editorial
Chen C.
Aesthetics versus Functionality----------93-94

Commentary
Marcus A.
Information visualization for advanced vehicle displays----------95-102

Research
Ware C., Purchase H., Colpoys L., McGill M.
.Cognitive measurements of graph aesthetics----------103-110

Sangole A., Knopf G.K.
Representing high-dimensional data sets as closed surfaces----------111-119

Spence R.
Sensitivity encoding to support information space navigation: a design
guideline----------120-129

Sammouda M., Sammouda R., Niki N., Mukai K.
Liver cancer detection system based on the analysis of digitized color
images of tissue samples obtained using needle biopsy----------130-138

Eibl M.
DEViD: a media design and software ergonomics integrating visualization for
document retrieval----------139-157

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Editorial Board

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Editor-in-Chief:
Chaomei Chen,
Drexel University, USA

Advisory Editor:
Ben Shneiderman,
University of Maryland, USA

Associate Editors:
Mark Apperley,
University of Waikato, New Zealand

Matthew Chalmers,
Glasgow University, UK

Peter Eades,
University of Sydney, Australia

Stephen Eick,
Visintuit, USA

Daniel Keim,
AT&T Lab, USA

Alan MacEachren,
Penn State University, USA

George Robertson,
Microsoft Research, USA
Henry Small,
Institute for Scientific Information, USA

Robert Spence,
Imperial College, UK

John Stasko,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Jim Thomas,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Colin Ware,
University of New Hampshire, USA

Graham Wills,
SPSS, USA

Editorial Board
Keith Andrews,
Graz University of Technology, Austria

Ebad Banissi,
South Bank University, UK

Ben Bederson,
University of Maryland, USA

Kenneth Brodlie,
University of Leeds, UK

Mary Czerwinski,
Microsoft Research, USA

Martin Dodge,
University College London, UK

Steve Draper,
Glasgow University, UK

Paul Kahn,
Dynamic Diagrams, USA

Jasna Kuljis,
Brunel University, UK

Xia Lin,
Drexel University, USA

Sougata Mukherjea,
Verity Inc., USA

Catherine Plaisant,
University of Maryland, USA

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Annoucement - Oculus is here!!!

Oculus Info Inc. is the new company formed by William Wright
and colleagues to provide innovative business visualization software
solutions for the Fortune 500, federal government agencies and third
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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                  ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

                               SOFTVIS '03

                     June 11-13, 2003, San Diego, USA
                         Collocated with FCRC'03

          Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT,
                   and in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.

                  http://www.softvis.org/softvis03.html

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Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for
researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering,
programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to
discuss and present original research on software visualization.

SoftVis '03 is the first meeting in a planned series of biennial
conferences. Our objective is to make the SoftVis series the premier
venue for presenting all types of research on software visualization.

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We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications,
techniques, tools and case studies. Topics of interest include, but
are not restricted to, the following:
- Visualization of algorithms, including numerical, geometric, genetic,
  distributed and graph algorithms
- Program visualization
- Protocol and log visualization (security, trust)
- Visualization of parallel programs
- Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
- Visualization of the software development process
- Visualization of data and processes in applications
- Design and implementation of software visualization tools
- Educational software in computer science, in particular visualization
  of computational models
- Graph drawing algorithm for software visualization
- Visualization of data base schemes
- Visual debugging
- 3D software visualization
- Software visualization on the internet
- Program analyses and visualization
- Integration of software visualization tools and development environments
- Empirical evaluation of software visualization system effectiveness

Papers should represent original, unpublished results and will be rigorously
reviewed by the international Program Committee. Papers must be in standard
ACM 2-column format and cannot exceed 10 pages in total length. Authors
should prepare and electronically submit a PDF version of their paper.
Videos not exceeding 5 minutes in length can accompany a paper submission.
Papers are due December 16, 2002. Further details on precise submission
guidelines will be forthcoming.

Tutorials
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A set of tutorials will immediately precede the main conference. Tutorial
proposals of no more than 1 or 2 pages (for 90-minute or 3-hour tutorials)
should be submitted to the program chair by January 15, 2003. Include the
proposed title, brief description of material, intended audience, assumed
background of attendees, and the name, affiliation, contact information
(e-mail and phone), and brief biography of speaker(s). An electronic PDF
submission is preferred.

Deadlines
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Paper submission:            December 16, 2002.
Tutorial submission:         January 15, 2003.
Notification of acceptance:  January, 27, 2003.
Final papers due:            March, 3, 2003

Student Travel
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Conference Attendance Program for Students (CAPS) provides some financial
support to graduate students, enabling them to attend SIGSOFT-sponsored
conferences.

Venue
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SoftVis '03 is affiliated with the ACM Federated Computing Research
Conference, a collection of symposia occurring June 7-14 in San Diego, CA.
For more details on registration, hotel and travel information, please see
the FCRC 2003 web pages (www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/fcrc/).

Symposium Organizers
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General Chair:
 Stephan Diehl, Saarland University, Saarbr=FCcken, Germany

Program Chair:
 John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Treasurer:
 Christopher D. Hundhausen, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA

Program Committee:
 Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
 Wim De Pauw, IBM Research, USA
 John Domingue, Open University, UK
 Steve Eick, Visintuit, USA
 Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
 Eileen Kraemer, The University of Georgia, USA
 Hans Hagen, University Kaiserslautern, Germany
 John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
 Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK
 Petra Mutzel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 David Notkin, University of Washington, USA
 Tom Naps, University of Wisconsin-OshKosh, USA
 Marian Petre, Open University, UK
 Steve Reiss, Brown University, USA
 Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
 Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
 Ayellet Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
 Reinhard Wilhelm, University of Saarland, Germany
 Andreas Zeller, University of Saarland, Germany

More Information
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For more information and questions about the SoftVis'03 Symposium,
please send email to diehl@cs.uni-sb.de and stasko@cc.gatech.edu.

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INFORMATION VISUALIZATION JOBS AT LLNL
COMPUTER SCIENTIST / MATHEMATICIAN / PHYSICIST / ENGINEER (285.0, 256.0,
270.0, 249.0)
ResEarcher Information Visualization #CO-XXXXX
Center for Applied Scientific Computing - 9825  7/18/02

--> Apply directly to Jeffrey Vetter <vetter3@llnl.gov> with a resume or
CV. We prefer ASCII text or PDF formats.

NATURE AND SCOPE OF POSITION:
The Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) has an opening for a
researcher in the field of information visualization, specifically the
visualization of information organized via massive semantic graphs. The
successful applicant will develop and apply innovative techniques to
visualize the associations between graph elements. The activity will be
carried out on a variety of computing platforms, including massively
parallel systems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Conduct research in the area of information visualization, particularly
for massive graphs
- Interact with members of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and
International Security (NAI) Directorate and associates to understand
application characteristics
- Keep abreast of ongoing CASC research activities to insure programmatic
impact
- Conduct general visualization research for NAI applications
- Document research results and development progress via technical reports,
journal publications, and conference presentations

ESSENTIAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent combination of
education and experience
- Demonstrated scientific skills necessary for a research/development
environment
- Experience working on large visualization systems
-Programming experience in modern languages (e.g., JAVA/C++/ =85)
- Demonstrated experience in developing scalable visualization and software
on massively parallel computers
- Demonstrated ability to publish original research results
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members and external
collaborators
- Ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires US citizenship.

DESIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of modern database systems and web based information technology
- Experience producing effective documentation and preparing reports
- Experience developing complex software as part of a multidisciplinary team

SECURITY:       Anticipated clearance level: =93Q=94

--
      Jeffrey Vetter
      Center for Applied Scientific Computing
      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
      7000 East Avenue, MS: L-560, Livermore, CA, 94551 USA
      email: <mailto:vetter3@llnl.gov>
      url:   <http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/people/vetter>
      voice: +1.925.424.6284
      fax:   +1.925.422.6287

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     Call for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations

**********************************************************************
 The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
       IUI 2003

January 12-15, 2003
      The Palms South Beach Hotel - Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

Submission Deadlines:
      Titles and abstracts by September 30, 2002
Final submissions by October 4, 2002

http://www.iuiconf.org

**********************************************************************

Intelligent user interfaces mediate between person and machine to
increase the ease and effectiveness of user interactions.  Research in
intelligent user interfaces draws on areas such as artificial
intelligence and human-computer-interaction to support a wide range of
users, from novices to experts; to support a wide range of tasks and
task environments; and to exploit a wide range of platforms, from
traditional systems to mobile devices and novel interaction paradigms.

The International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces is the
principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and
development in intelligent user interfaces.  IUI '03 solicits
submissions of original papers, posters, and system demonstrations on
significant progress and new directions in all aspects of intelligent
user interfaces.  In addition to showcasing methods for intelligently
reasoning and adapting to fit user needs, IUI '03 aims to highlight
interfaces whose focus goes beyond rational "intelligence" to address
psychological concerns such as emotion, personality, and motivation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 - Adaptive hypermedia
 - Affective interfaces
 - Conversational interfaces
 - Evaluations of implemented systems
 - Intelligent information and knowledge management systems
 - Intelligent support for pervasive computing
 - Intelligent systems for multimedia presentation
 - Intelligent visualization tools
 - Interface agents
 - Interfaces for the semantic web
 - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design
 - Multi-modal interfaces
 - Novel application-specific interfaces and interactions
 - Novel interaction paradigms
 - Personalization and adaptation of behavior
 - Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction
 - Social intelligence in user interfaces
 - Support for collaboration in multi-user environments
 - User modeling for intelligent interfaces
 - User studies of relevant techniques

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

IUI '03 solicits three types of submissions:

- FULL PAPERS: Full paper submissions should describe substantial
  contributions of novel work that has produced advanced results.
  Accepted submissions will be presented in the main conference
  program, and authors may ask to be considered for an additional live
  demonstration in the conference poster session.  Full papers should
  be at most 8 pages long.

- SHORT PAPERS: Short papers should describe novel work that is in
  progress at the time of submission.  Accepted submissions will be
  presented in the conference poster session, with optional system
  demonstrations.  Short papers should be at most 3 pages long.

- DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS: Demonstration abstracts should describe
  cutting-edge systems not described in paper submissions.  Accepted
  demonstrations will be presented in the conference poster session.
  Demonstration abstracts should summarize the system's significance
  and its performance, and should include at least one screen shot.
  Demonstration abstracts should be 1 page long.

Accepted submissions of all three categories will be included in the
conference proceedings, to be published by the ACM Press.  

Authors of full and short papers must submit abstracts of their papers
by SEPTEMBER 30, 2002, followed by the papers themselves by OCTOBER 4,
2002.  Demonstration abstracts are due by OCTOBER 4, 2002.

All submissions must follow the CHI paper format.  Web submission
procedures will be posted to http://www.iuiconf.org.  Authors are
requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final
camera-ready versions.

All submissions will be reviewed by members of an international
program committee.  

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS POLICY

IUI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is
under review for or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference.

LOCATION

IUI 2003 will be held at The Palms South Beach Hotel in Miami Beach,
Florida, U.S.A., close to the historic art deco district and South
Beach attractions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

Additional conference information and updates are available at
http://www.iuiconf.org.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CONFERENCE CHAIR
David Leake, Indiana University (US)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Lewis Johnson, USC/Information Sciences Institute (US)
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg (GE)

POSTER AND DEMONSTRATION CHAIR
John Domingue, The Open University (UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mathias Bauer, DFKI (GE)
Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University (US)
Jim Blythe, USC/Information Sciences Institute (US)
Philip Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute (US)
David De Roure, University of Southampton (UK)
Steve Feiner, Columbia University (US)
Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern University (US)
Yolanda Gil, USC/Information Sciences Institute (US)
Bjorn Granstrom, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) 
Peter Haddawy, Asian Institute of Technology (TH)
Kristian Hammond, Northwestern University (US)
Paul Heisterkamp, DaimlerChrysler AG (US)
Achim Hoffman, University of New South Wales (AU)
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research (US)
Anthony Jameson, DFKI and International University of Germany (GE)
Neal Lesh, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (US)
James Lester, North Carolina State University (US)
Henry Lieberman, MIT/Media Lab (US)
Mark Maybury, MITRE (US)
Vibhu Mittal, Google (US)
Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Kieron O'Hara, University of Southampton (UK)
Niels Ole Bernsen, Odense University (DK)
Nuria Oliver, Microsoft Research (US)
Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University (US)
Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Graduate Institute (US)
Ana Paiva, INESC (PT)
Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU)
Pearl Pu, EPFL (CH)
Angel Puerta, Redwhale Software (US)
Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (US)
John Riedl, University of Minnesota (US)
Thomas Rist, DFKI (GE)
Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam (NL)
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin at Madison (US)
Candace Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (US)
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen (UK)
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin (IE)
Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University (US)
Constantine Stephanidis, ICS-FORTH (GR)
Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe (GE)
Oliviero Stock, ITC-IRST (IT)
Alistair Sutcliffe, Center for HCI Design (UK)
Pedro Szekely, USC/Information Sciences Institute (US)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission abstracts due:  September 30, 2002
Final papers and demonstration abstracts due:  October 4, 2002
Notification of acceptance:  November 7, 2002
Camera-ready copy due:  November 26, 2002
Conference dates:  January 12-15, 2003

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

The 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces is
sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Computer & Human
Interaction (SIGCHI) and the Special Interest Group on Artificial
Intelligence (SIGART) of the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM), and RedWhale Software Corporation.  It is held in cooperation
with the British HCI Group (BCS-HCI).

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		XmdvTool Version 5.0
	   now available for free download
	      http://davis.wpi.edu/xmdv

XmdvTool is a software package developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
for
the visual exploration of multivariate data sets.  Freely available since
1994,
Xmdv supports a wide range of visualization techniques (parallel
coordinates,
scatterplot matrices, glyphs, and dimensional stacking) and interactive
navigation and selection tools.  Users can view all their data at once or,
for
large data sets, hierarchically cluster the data and explore it at multiple
resolutions.  The system, implemented using OpenGL and Tcl/Tk, will compile
and run on both Windows and Unix platforms (build tools are provided for
each).

New features provided in Version 5.0 include:

* Expanded data importation - accepts data from files or Oracle databases
* New user interface
* Enhanced zooming in all displays
* Structure-based distortion in parallel coordinates and scatterplot
displays
* Built-in clustering algorithm for hierarchical visualization/exploration
* Functions for screen capture and saving data selections to files
* Improved rendering speed
* Expanded Help menu
* Auxiliary tools for data clustering and importing Excel spreadsheets

For questions regarding XmdvTool, please e-mail Matt Ward at matt@cs.wpi.edu
and/or visit our web site at http://davis.wpi.edu/xmdv.

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========================================================================= 
RESEARCH INTERNSHIP or POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES AT MERL-CRL 
in HCI, USER INTERFACES, and VISUALIZATION 
in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 

* We are looking for a person to join our ongoing research effort 
on interactive tabletop environments. 

* The position will entail signficant implementation, design, and 
research activity. 

* See http://www.merl.com/projects/diamondspin and 
http://www.merl.com/projects/pdh 
for more information about the project, and 
http:://www.merl.com/company/crl.html 
for more information about MERL-CRL. 

* Experience with Java 2D is a must.

* Experience with interactive UI design is a plus. 

* Competitive pay; fun working environment. 

* Flexible schedule, with a six-month minimum duration. 
MERL hires interns and postdocs throughout the year, 
not restricted to the summer. 

* We would like to hear from interested parties as soon as possible, 
please send email to shen@merl.com 

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|\          Frederic VERNIER (vernier@merl.com)         /|
| \PostDoc at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs(Boston)/ |
|  \__________________________________________________/  |
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|  \       Tel: 617-621-7582  Fax: 617-621-7550       /  |
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Call for Papers & Participation
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WSCG International Conferences in Central Europe
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VISIT http://wscg.zcu.cz for detailed information
and for repository since 1992
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Unique opportunity
- to visit the Golden City - PRAGUE
- taste the best beer all over the world - Pilsner Urquell
- to take a part at event, where West and East meet
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                     W S C G ' 2003
(formerly the Winter School of Computer Graphics)

The 11-th International Conference in Central Europe
on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2003

in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS
to be held at the University of West Bohemia, Plzen, \
close to Prague - the Golden European City, Czech Republic

February 3 - 7, 2003

Honorary Chair
Jack E.Bresenham, Winthrop University, USA

Programme Co-Chairs
Dirk Bartz, University of T=FCbingen, Germany
Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Information for authors
Deadline for contributions: October 10, 2002 24:00 GMT (London time)
Format A4 (strictly), max. 8 pages, additional material (video as
MPEG, AVI and similar files, color plates etc. can be submitted,
please, no video tapes) up to 5 MB

For details, please, see http://wscg.zcu.cz select WSCG'2003

Topics included
Computer graphics and scientific visualization, computer vision, image
processing and pattern recognition, fundamental algorithms, geometric
modeling and computer aided geometric design, computational geometry,
rendering and virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical
imaging, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, WWW
technologies, parallel and distributed graphics, CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS
systems, applications and related fields.

The International Program Committee and Reviewing Board members review
all papers peer-to-peer carefully and anonymously.

Selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG, Vol.11. ISSN
1213-6972, all presented papers will be published in the WSCG
proceedings with ISBN. Both are indexed/abstracted in: Engineering
Index, Inspec Database, CompuMath Citation Index, Information Science
Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and others.

Organizer and conference secretariat
  Prof.V=E1clav Skala
  c/o Computer Science Department
  University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, Box 314, 306 14 Plzen,
  Czech Republic
  e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz	Subject: INFO WSCG2003
  http://wscg.zcu.cz
  fax: +420-(19)- 78 22 578, 799 	tel./fax: +420-(19)-74 91-188

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Subject: CFP: SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis

Call for papers

Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA 2003)
January 20-24, 2003, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2003/

--------------------------

Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA 2003)
                   Santa Clara Convention Center
                          Santa Clara, CA
                       January 20-24, 2003
                         Call for Papers
Chairs:
   Robert F. Erbacher, Computer Science Department, 
		       University at Albany - SUNY
   Katy Boerner, Indiana University
   Philip Chen, Future, Inc.
   Matti Grohn, Helsinki University of Technology
   Jonathan C. Roberts, Computing Laboratory, 
		       University of Kent at Canterbury
Program Committee:

   U. Brinkschulte (University of Karlsruhe), Steve Eick (Visual
   Insights), L. Eric Greenwade (Idaho National Engineering Lab),
   Sergey Matveyev (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft), Ing. Hans-George
   Pagendarm (German Aerospace Research Establishment), Alex Pang
   (University of California-Santa Cruz), Chris Shaw (Georgia
   Institute of Technology), Deborah Silver (Rutgers University),
   J. Edward Swan II (The Naval Research Laboratory), Craig
   M. Wittenbrink (NVIDIA), Pak Chung Wong (Pacific Northwest National
   Lab), Yingcai Xiao (The University of Akron)

This conference covers all aspects of visualization and issues
affecting successful visualizations. The conference has grown rapidly
over the years and has attracted participants from throughout the
world. We invite you to contribute quality papers covering research
results as well as works-in-progress.

The papers from this conference will be published in a bound
proceedings available from SPIE. Authors of the best papers in the
conference will have the option of having extended versions of their
papers reviewed for publication in the Journal of Electronic Imaging
or a future special issue of the Journal of Electronic Imaging
focusing on visualization. Additional information and submission
information can be found at: http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2003/.

 4 Page Extended Abstracts are due from authors June 25, 2003

Example topics include, but are not limited to:
    *  Analysis Techniques and Data Mining
    *  Biomedical Visualization and Applications
    *  Data Exploration Using Classical and Novel approaches
    *  Databases and Visualization
    *  High Performance Computing and Parallel Rendering
    *  Information and Scientific Visualization
    *  Interaction Paradigms and Human Factors
    *  Internet Imaging, Medical Imaging, Image Processing
    *  Internet, Web, and Security Visualizations
    *  Perceptual Issues covering Visual and Auditorial 
       Representations of Data
    *  Tools and Applications (including case studies)
    *  Tools and Applications Exemplified by Case Studies
    *  Virtual Environments and Data Visualization
    *  Visual Data Mining
    *  Volume and Flow Visualization

The conference organizers will also accept poster only presentations,
suggestions on panel topics, and suggestions for invited speakers.

                      Submission Information

If you would like to submit a paper for publication in the SPIE & IS&T
Conference Proceedings on the subject of analytical and exploratory
visualization (techniques and applications) please send a 4 page
extended abstract in one of the following ways:

   *  Web-Based Submission (PREFERRED)
      http://electronicimaging.org/
      The address and details of web-based submission will be updated
      as it becomes available.
   *  electronic mail - one copy to
      abstracts@mom.spie.org (ASCII format)
      (Please send one submission per email message.)
   *  fax one copy to SPIE at 360-647-1445
      (Please send one submission per fax.)
   *  mail to: (send 4 hard copies of your abstract)
      Mailing Address:
           IS&T/SPIE EI '2003
           SPIE, P.O. Box 10 Bellingham, WA 98227-0010
           Telephone: 360-676-3290, FAX: 360-647-1445

      Shipping Address:
           SPIE, 1000 20th St.
           Bellingham, WA 98225-6705

In addition, to ensure receipt of the paper, send an electronic copy
to erbacher@cs.albany.edu. Be sure each abstract includes the
following:

   1. Conference Chair and Conference Title to which the abstract is
      submitted (submit to ONLY ONE conference)
   2. Author Listing (List principal author first) for each author:
      full name [first(given) last(family] and affiliation, mailing
      address, phone/fax numbers, email
   3. Abstract/Paper Title
   4. Abstract Text 
   5. Keywords: maximum of 5 keywords
   6. Brief Biography of the principal author: 50-100 words

Please contact SPIE (spie@spie.org) or Robert Erbacher
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    ****        Final deadlines are coming up!         ****
    Posters, Interactive Demo Lab Proposals   June 28, 2002
    InfoVis Poster                            July  1, 2002
                  Call for Participation

                  IEEE Visualization 2002
     Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
                Visualization and Graphics 
             In cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH 

                October 27 - November 1, 2002
                 The Boston Park Plaza Hotel
                   Boston, Massachusetts

               http://vis.computer.org/vis2002

=======================================================================IEEE Visualization is the premier forum for innovations in
visualization methods across science, engineering, commerce, and
entertainment. It will be located at the venerable Park Plaza Hotel in
downtown Boston, close to the theater district, the Boston Public
Garden, and plenty of restaurants. Conference submission categories
include workshops, tutorials, papers, posters, panels, case studies,
demos, and exhibitions. We invite you to take part in IEEE
Visualization 2002 by submitting your original research and joining us
in Boston.

Capstone speaker on Friday, November 1st, 2002: Ray Kurzweil.

For more information visit the Vis 2002 web site: 
                http://vis.computer.org/vis2002

Co-located with IEEE Visualization 2002: 
----------------------------------------
InfoVis 2002: 
     IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
     http://www.infovis.org/infovis2002

VolVis 2002:  
     IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics
     http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~volvis02/

Conference Chairs: 
------------------
     Hanspeter Pfister, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
     Mike Bailey, San Diego Supercomputer Center 

NEW: Posters (due June 28, 2002)

The posters program offers a unique opportunity to showcase
work-in-progress, student projects, or non-traditional visualization
research. Posters will be displayed in a special one hour session
before as well as during the three hours conference reception on
Wednesday. This casual setting will allow the presenters to have
one-on-one dialogue with attendees and also to control the pace and
level of the presentations.

Poster submissions should focus on work that has produced new or
exciting ideas or findings. Case studies in all areas of science,
engineering, and medicine are also welcome. Submissions will be
reviewed by a panel of experts in the field. Review criteria include
contribution of the work to the visualization community, validity of
the results, originality of the work, and clarity of presentation.

To submit a poster proposal, prepare a two-page extended abstract in
ASCII text or PDF and email it to Kwan-Liu Ma (ma@cs.ucdavis.edu). The
authors are also encouraged to submit a preliminary PDF or Powerpoint
version of the poster. Complete contact information must be provided
with the submission. A one-page abstract of each accepted poster,
along with supporting materials, will be included in the conference
DVD.

For more information contact Kwan-Liu Ma (ma@cs.ucdavis.edu).

NEW: Interactive Demonstrations Lab (Deadline: June 28, 2002)

The Interactive Demonstrations Lab is designed to let conference
attendees interact with presenters and each other on an individual
basis. We strongly encourage the conference paper and poster
presenters, as well as contributors of ongoing work which is not in
the conference technical sessions to participate in the Interactive
Demonstrations Lab. The demo room will have a variety of workstations
on which contributors and attendees can install their materials and
visualization systems for attendees' experimentation and
enjoyment. The demo room will be open throughout the whole week,
Sunday to Friday. This is a unique opportunity for conference
attendees to interface directly with conference contributors. Please
come visit the Interactive Demonstrations Lab while you are at
Vis2002!

To participate in the Interactive Demonstrations Lab, please send your
demo proposals via email to hwshen@cis.ohio-state.edu no later than
June 28, 2002. The proposal should include names and affiliations of
the presenters, one page abstract briefly describing your work, and
the equipment requirements.

For more information contact Renato Pajarola (pajarola@acm.org) or
Han-Wei Shen (hwshen@cis.ohio-state.edu).

InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters (due July 1, 2002)

The interactive poster category includes both traditional posters and
demonstrations of interactive systems, either live on a laptop or
through video. We encourage both submissions of original unpublished
work and submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.
Interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract, and
those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also submit an
accompanying video.  Please refer to the main InfoVis CFP at
http://www.infovis.org/infovis2002/ for further submission details.

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From: John D. Prange [mailto:jprange@nsa.gov]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:27 AM
Cc: John Prange
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: ARDA's Phase II GI2Vis R&D Program BAA Has Been
Released By NIMA

Dear Information Technology Researchers/Developer,

The Advanced Research and Development Activity in Information Technology
(ARDA) is pleased to announce that the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
(NIMA) issued Friday 3 May 2002, a Broad Agency Announcement for Phase II
of:

Geo-Spatial Intelligence Information Visualization Program (GI2Vis)
        Solicitation Number: NMA401-02-BAA-0005

The full text of this BAA can be found at the following NIMA Web
Address:
    http://164.214.2.59/poc/contracts/contracts.html

or by going to the NIMA Homepage at:
    http://www.nima.mil

and following the following links: "Procurements and Contracts" --> "Broad
Agency Announcements/Research Announcements".

The announcement of this BAA has also been published in the Federal Business
Opportunities which can be found at:
    http://www.fedbizops.gov/
...
From this home page follow the following links:  "DoDBusOpps"
--> "searching for opportunities" and then search on "GI2Vis".
If you are interested in conducting advanced research in the area of
information visualization, please access and review the GI2Vis BAA that is
currently posted on the NIMA web pages.  Also please feel free to forward
this email to other researchers/developers who you believe might be
interested in this research opportunity.  While we are widely distributing
this notice, we could have easily missed or overlooked a potential,
interested party.

FYI. I have attached below additional background information on the  GI2Vis
Advanced R&D Program in general and this Phase II BAA in particular.

Thank you.

John P.
*********************************************
Dr. John D. Prange
Technical Director & GI2Vis Program Manager
Advanced Research & Development Activity (ARDA)
STE 6644
Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6644
jprange@nsa.gov
301-688-7092 (Voice)
800-276-3747 (Voice)
301-688-7410 (Fax)
http://www.ic-arda.org
*********************************************

BACKGROUND ON GI2Vis ADVANCED R&D Program
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
GI2Vis has been developed under ARDA's guidance and direction by
representatives from a number of Intelligence Community Agencies. NIMA has
agreed to issue the solicitation for GI2Vis.  The evaluation of white papers
and proposals, the selection of awardees, the execution of the resulting
contracts, and the overall management of GI2Vis will also be accomplished
jointly by NIMA and other Intelligence Community Agencies under the guidance
and direction of ARDA.

While Phase II of the GI2Vis R&D Program continues many of
the research topics and areas of interest established in Phase I, Phase II
is a new solicitation and as such stands on its own. All Phase II contract
awards will be made to Offerors who submit proposals to this current BAA
solicitation and who are selected for award based upon the government's
evaluation of all submitted optional white papers and full proposals. No
Phase I contracts will be carried over into Phase II.

Phase II of the GI2Vis R&D Program, with a performance period of 24 months,
will be devoted to in-depth research within the three GI2Vis topics of
interest listed below and described in far more detail in Part II, Section 5
of the GI2Vis BAA identified above.  Innovative ideas that address the
following research areas of interest are encouraged:
    1. Integration and Representation of Disparate and Large
        Information Sources
    2. Maximizing Visualization Effectiveness and Facilitating
        Visualization Use;
    3. Visualization of Tacit Knowledge.

ARDA believes that Information Visualization has high
potential to be a powerful force multiplier within a number of distinct
analysis and reporting functions used by all types of Intelligence Community
Analysts across the entire spectrum of the Intelligence Community.  But for
any number of reasons the high potential that information visualization
appears to tantalizingly offer has not yet been fully realized.  ARDA does
not believe that there is a single, simple, elegant way to correct this
situation.  Rather ARDA believes that significant, marked progress can be
achieved towards achieving this potential by focusing advanced R&D
activities against several key, underlying roadblocks to this progress.
ARDA's GI2Vis R&D Program has been established to focus on these selected
areas of Information Visualization on behalf of the Intelligence Community.

The Phase II GI2Vis Program BAA document describes three similar, yet
distinct "Analytic Uses of Information Visualization" that ARDA and the
GI2Vis Program have identified within the Intelligence Community that will
focus and drive the research that will conducted throughout the GI2Vis
Program. It is within the scope and context of these three analytic uses
that the technical problem descriptions of the three research areas, that
are identified above and that are described in more detail in the BAA, need
to be interpreted and understood by potential offerors of technical
proposals developed and submitted in response to this BAA.

The three Analytic Uses of Information Visualization that
ARDA and the GI2Vis Program have identified are:

Exploration of Massive, Complex, Heterogeneous Data
(Or more simply "Exploration")
*******************************************
The goal of this use of visualization is to more effectively and efficiently
assist the Analyst is performing varying degrees of undirected knowledge
discovery against potentially unknown data sources that may be massive,
diverse, and/ or complex. In this environment, the hope is that Analysts
will recognize the importance of information and knowledge when they see it.
"I'll know it when I see it".

Deep Analysis of Relevant, Related, Topical Information
(Or more simply "Deep Analysis")
*******************************************
The starting assumption in this use of visualization is that the Analyst, by
one means or another, has accumulated a manageable collection of information
that he or she believes is relevant or otherwise related to the current
intelligence requirement that the Analyst is currently working on.  The goal
of the Analyst at this stage is to discover and understand how the
individual pieces of information that he or she is starting with fit
together in a larger mosaic. The hope is that information visualization will
make this process far more effective and efficient from the Analyst's
perspective.

Presentation of Intelligence Analysis Results to Senior Decision
Makers/Intelligence Community Customers (Or more simply "Presentation")
*******************************************
In this case the Analyst has completed his or her analysis of the data and
information associated with a given intelligence requirement to a sufficient
level that reportable intelligence results are now available.  The hope is
that more formal information visualization presentations will make this
reporting function far more effective and efficient particularly when
complex, detailed intelligence results involving potentially alternative
scenarios/analyses need to be presented in a succinct, yet comprehensive
manner.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR GI2Vis Phase II BAA
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Release of BAA by NIMA
        Friday 3 May 2002
Optional White Papers due to Government
        Friday 24 May 2002  (14:00 EDT)
White Paper Feedback from Government
        Monday 10 June 2002
Full Proposals due to Government
        Friday 28 June 2002 (14:00 EDT)
Acknowledge Receipt of Proposals
        Friday 28 June 2002
Letter of intent to recommend for award
        Friday 2 August 2002 (Estimated)
Contract Award
        15 September 2002 (Estimated)

The Government evaluation completion, selection
announcement, and award dates are estimates.
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CODATA Workshop on
Information Visualization, Presentation,
and Design
10-12 July 2002
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Jardin des Plantes, 57, rue Cuvier , 75005 Paris , France
Collaborative Visualization r Visualization of Museum Collection
3D & 4D Visualization r Geo-spatial Visualization
Visualization & Virtual Laboratories
Information Presentation & Design r  Storytelling
Supported by
CODATA
CODATA France
Museum National d=92histoire Naturelle, Paris
Minist=E8re de l'Education Nationale de l'Enseignement Sup=E9rieur de la
Recherche

In cooperation with
The IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Human Centered Information
Systems (pending)
The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)

About the Symposium
Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability of fast
digital network access (e.g., the World Wide Web) have created a demand
for querying, accessing, processing, retrieving, and presenting
information and data. Unlike most scientific numerical data, information
is quite often abstract having no naturally occurring physical form or
representation.  Information Visualization involves the conversion of
the abstract into concrete visual representations and building user
interfaces supporting tasks such as searching, discovery,
identification, and data mining.  This involves using among others
computer graphics and imaging techniques.  Information visualization is
an increasingly important research and development area and is crucial
for the success of the information revolution. Effective visualization,
information design & presentation will enable users from all walks of
life to use the information highway easily and efficiently.
They are however some road blocks to the success of information
technology. They include

- Distributed visualization and collaboration
- Visualizing massive 3D and 4D dataset in real and virtual environment
- Visualization of large museum collections
- Effective visualizations, presentations and designs which will enable
users to use  information technology  easily and efficiently
- Geo-spatial data visualization
- Network-centric visualization
- Data mining
- Visualization in virtual laboratories

The workshop on "Information Visualization, Presentation, and Design"
will take place on 10-12 July 2002 at the Museum National d'Histoire
Naturelle in Paris.  The audience will consist some of the most active
and well-known researchers and developers in Information Visualization,
Presentation, and Design from Europe, U.S., Canada, Asia and Latin
America.  The participants will discuss the state-of-the art of these
important technologies and arts, what are the future directions that are
needed for research and development and for real-world implementations.
The Workshop will consist of invited talks, short papers, demonstrations
and posters in the following sessions:

- Information visualization in Museum collection
- Distributed visualization and collaboration
- Visualizing massive 3D and 4D dataset in real and virtual environment
- Geospatial data visualization
- Network-centric visualization
- Visualization in data mining application
- Visualization in virtual laboratories
- What storytelling can do for information visualization?
- Information presentation and design issues

The workshop will be supported by CODATA, the French Ministry for
Industry, and by Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris and is in
cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Task force on Human Centered
Information Systems.

For more information, please contact
NahumGershon at gershon@mitre.org AND
Jean-Jacques Royer at royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr
Michel Guiraud at giraud@mnhn.fr
Jacques-EmileDubois at dubois@paris7.jussieu.fr

Call for Contributions
Submissions of posters & demonstrations are solicited in all areas of
visualization and presentation of data, information, and knowledge.
2-page abstracts of 500 to 800 words including figures & references in
English, French (with English translation), or German (with English
translation) should be submitted for short papers, posters & short
demonstrations.   Please submit the 2-page abstract by e-mail, fax, or
mail to BOTH N. Gershon and J.-J. Royer (addresses listed below) and
include the e-mail addresses of all co- authors for acknowledgment of
receipt& notification of acceptance (subject to review). An abstract
book and a CD-ROM containing the complete papers presented at the
workshop will be distributed to the attendees.

Submission deadline: 30 April  2002
Acceptance date: May 15 2002
Camera-ready copy due: June 10 2002
Nahum Gershon at gershon@mitre.org
and
Jean-Jacques Royer at royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

Dr.Nahum Gershon
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
McLean, VA 22102,
U.S.A.
+1 (703) 883-7518,
fax: +1 (703) 883-3615
E-mail: gershon@mitre.org

Dr. Jean-Jacques Royer
LIAD/CRPG/ENSG
Rue du Doyen Marcel Roubault, Bat G
B.P. 40
54501 Vandoeuvre-L=E8s-Nancy Cedex,
France
+33 3 83 59 64 28 or 35,
fax: +33 3 83 59 64 60
E-mail: royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

Language
Both English and French are accepted for presentation. However, because
of the expected international attendance, most of the presentations will
be conducted in English.

Workshop Co-Chairs
N. Gershon, The MITRE Corp., USA
J.-J. Royer, CNRS, France
M. Guiraud, MNHN, France

Symposium Committee

Robert Abarbanel, Genset, France
Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology, Austria
H. Bestougeff, Universit=E9 Marne la Vall=E9e, France
Ken Boff,  Air Force Research Lab, USA
Judy Brown, U. of IA, USA
Jean-Pierre Caliste, Univ. of Dauphine, France
Stuart Card, Xerox PARC, USA
Tiziana Catarci, University of Roma 1, Italy
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jacques-Emile Dubois, ITODYS, France
Stephen G. Eick,  Visual Insights, USA
Steven Feiner, Columbia University, USA (invited)
Jos=E9 Encarna=E7=E3o, Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany
Jean-Daniel Fekete, Univ. of MD, USA (invited)
Stefano Foresti, Univerity of Utah, USA
Marcello Gattass, Univ. PUK, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Martin Goebel, German Research Center for Information Technology*
Janet Gomon, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, USA
Michel Guiraud, Museum National d=92Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Hans Hagen, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mountaz Hascoet, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
Suwishi Iwata, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Daniel Keim,   AT&T Research Lab., USA
Stephen North, AT&T Research Lab., USA
Ward Page, DARPA, USA  (invited)
John Rose, Unesco, Paris, France
Steven Roth, MayaViz, USA
Jean-Jacques Royer, CNRS, France
Bob Spence, Imperial College, UK
Colin Ware, University of NH, USA (invited)
William Wright, Oculus Info Inc., Canada

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Visualization & Storytelling
gershon@mitre.org
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7515 Colshire Drive
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Voice:  703 883 7518
Fax:  703 883 3615
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From: Nahum Gershon <gershon@mitre.org>
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

CODATA Workshop on
Information Visualization, Presentation,
and Design
10-12 July 2002
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Jardin des Plantes, 57, rue Cuvier , 75005 Paris , France
Collaborative Visualization r Visualization of Museum Collection
3D & 4D Visualization r Geo-spatial Visualization
Visualization & Virtual Laboratories
Information Presentation & Design r  Storytelling
Supported by
CODATA
CODATA France
Museum National d=92histoire Naturelle, Paris
Minist=E8re de l'Education Nationale de l'Enseignement Sup=E9rieur de la
Recherche

In cooperation with
The IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Human Centered Information
Systems (pending)
The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)

About the Symposium
Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability of fast
digital network access (e.g., the World Wide Web) have created a demand
for querying, accessing, processing, retrieving, and presenting
information and data. Unlike most scientific numerical data, information
is quite often abstract having no naturally occurring physical form or
representation.  Information Visualization involves the conversion of
the abstract into concrete visual representations and building user
interfaces supporting tasks such as searching, discovery,
identification, and data mining.  This involves using among others
computer graphics and imaging techniques.  Information visualization is
an increasingly important research and development area and is crucial
for the success of the information revolution. Effective visualization,
information design & presentation will enable users from all walks of
life to use the information highway easily and efficiently.
They are however some road blocks to the success of information
technology. They include

- Distributed visualization and collaboration
- Visualizing massive 3D and 4D dataset in real and virtual environment
- Visualization of large museum collections
- Effective visualizations, presentations and designs which will enable
users to use  information technology  easily and efficiently
- Geo-spatial data visualization
- Network-centric visualization
- Data mining
- Visualization in virtual laboratories

The workshop on "Information Visualization, Presentation, and Design"
will take place on 10-12 July 2002 at the Museum National d'Histoire
Naturelle in Paris.  The audience will consist some of the most active
and well-known researchers and developers in Information Visualization,
Presentation, and Design from Europe, U.S., Canada, Asia and Latin
America.  The participants will discuss the state-of-the art of these
important technologies and arts, what are the future directions that are
needed for research and development and for real-world implementations.
The Workshop will consist of invited talks, short papers, demonstrations
and posters in the following sessions:

- Information visualization in Museum collection
- Distributed visualization and collaboration
- Visualizing massive 3D and 4D dataset in real and virtual environment
- Geospatial data visualization
- Network-centric visualization
- Visualization in data mining application
- Visualization in virtual laboratories
- What storytelling can do for information visualization?
- Information presentation and design issues

The workshop will be supported by CODATA, the French Ministry for
Industry, and by Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris and is in
cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Task force on Human Centered
Information Systems.

For more information, please contact
NahumGershon at gershon@mitre.org AND
Jean-Jacques Royer at royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr
Michel Guiraud at giraud@mnhn.fr
Jacques-EmileDubois at dubois@paris7.jussieu.fr

Call for Contributions
Submissions of posters & demonstrations are solicited in all areas of
visualization and presentation of data, information, and knowledge.
2-page abstracts of 500 to 800 words including figures & references in
English, French (with English translation), or German (with English
translation) should be submitted for short papers, posters & short
demonstrations.   Please submit the 2-page abstract by e-mail, fax, or
mail to BOTH N. Gershon and J.-J. Royer (addresses listed below) and
include the e-mail addresses of all co- authors for acknowledgment of
receipt& notification of acceptance (subject to review). An abstract
book and a CD-ROM containing the complete papers presented at the
workshop will be distributed to the attendees.

Submission deadline: 30 April  2002
Acceptance date: May 15 2002
Camera-ready copy due: June 10 2002
Nahum Gershon at gershon@mitre.org
and
Jean-Jacques Royer at royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

Dr.Nahum Gershon
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
McLean, VA 22102,
U.S.A.
+1 (703) 883-7518,
fax: +1 (703) 883-3615
E-mail: gershon@mitre.org

Dr. Jean-Jacques Royer
LIAD/CRPG/ENSG
Rue du Doyen Marcel Roubault, Bat G
B.P. 40
54501 Vandoeuvre-L=E8s-Nancy Cedex,
France
+33 3 83 59 64 28 or 35,
fax: +33 3 83 59 64 60
E-mail: royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

Language
Both English and French are accepted for presentation. However, because
of the expected international attendance, most of the presentations will
be conducted in English.

Workshop Co-Chairs
N. Gershon, The MITRE Corp., USA
J.-J. Royer, CNRS, France
M. Guiraud, MNHN, France

Symposium Committee

Robert Abarbanel, Genset, France
Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology, Austria
H. Bestougeff, Universit=E9 Marne la Vall=E9e, France
Ken Boff,  Air Force Research Lab, USA
Judy Brown, U. of IA, USA
Jean-Pierre Caliste, Univ. of Dauphine, France
Stuart Card, Xerox PARC, USA
Tiziana Catarci, University of Roma 1, Italy
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jacques-Emile Dubois, ITODYS, France
Stephen G. Eick,  Visual Insights, USA
Steven Feiner, Columbia University, USA (invited)
Jos=E9 Encarna=E7=E3o, Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany
Jean-Daniel Fekete, Univ. of MD, USA (invited)
Stefano Foresti, Univerity of Utah, USA
Marcello Gattass, Univ. PUK, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Martin Goebel, German Research Center for Information Technology*
Janet Gomon, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, USA
Michel Guiraud, Museum National d=92Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Hans Hagen, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mountaz Hascoet, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
Suwishi Iwata, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Daniel Keim,   AT&T Research Lab., USA
Stephen North, AT&T Research Lab., USA
Ward Page, DARPA, USA  (invited)
John Rose, Unesco, Paris, France
Steven Roth, MayaViz, USA
Jean-Jacques Royer, CNRS, France
Bob Spence, Imperial College, UK
Colin Ware, University of NH, USA (invited)
William Wright, Oculus Info Inc., Canada

--
Nahum

Nahum Gershon
Visualization & Storytelling
gershon@mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
McLean, VA 22102-7508
Voice:  703 883 7518
Fax:  703 883 3615
Pager:  888 431 8593 (BEST!)
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Subject: CFP: InfoVis 2002

****   The short and full paper deadline is coming up!   ****
       March 29, 2002

IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION (INFOVIS 2002)

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization 
and Graphics

October 28 - 29, 2002 * Park Plaza Hotel * Boston, MA

http://www.infovis.org/infovis2002

The IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization is the premier meeting
in the emerging field of information visualization, involving the
visual presentation of and interaction with abstract information
spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and
understanding.  Original papers are solicited in all areas of
information visualization. In addition, we are encouraging submissions
on bioinformatics, following the bio-visualization theme of our parent
conference, Vis2002. In particular, the symposium is interested in all
aspects of abstract visualization of digital biology information.

Topics include:
*       Bioinformatics visualization
*       Browsing and navigation methods
*       Data structures and models underlying visualization
*       Empirical studies of information visualization techniques
*       Graph / network visualizations
*       Information presentation as storytelling
*       Interactive techniques for information visualization
*       Information visualization for heterogeneous audiences
*       Multi-dimensional information visualization
*       Visual data mining
*       Visualization and knowledge discovery
*       Visualization for mobile computing
*       Visualization in CSCW
*       Visualization applications in areas such as
        o       Algorithms
        o       Commerce and financial systems
        o       Complex information
        o       Internet and WWW
        o       Mobile computing
        o       Search results
        o       Textual information

InfoVis 2002 Full Papers (due March 29, 2002)

Full papers should be at most 8 printed pages. Full papers present
previously unpublished, original results. Papers submitted as full
papers may, at the discretion of the program co-chairs, be invited for
publication and presentation as short papers.

InfoVis 2002 Short Papers (due March 29, 2002)

Short papers should be at most 4 printed pages. The short paper
category is intended for two submission types: a) case studies
describing how information visualization has contributed to working
applications in real-life environments and b) technical notes that,
though novel and of interest to the community, do not warrant a full
paper submission. Clearly identify the type of your submission by
including the prefix "Case Study:" or "Technical Note:" in the title
of your short paper submission.

InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters (due July 1, 2002)

The interactive poster category includes both traditional posters and
demonstrations of interactive systems, either live on a laptop or
through video. We encourage both submissions of original unpublished
work and submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.

All authors of accepted interactive posters are required to bring an
explanatory hardcopy poster for display during the scheduled evening
poster session, and be available for discussion at that time. Accepted
authors who wish to also show demos of their work are encouraged to
also bring a laptop to the poster session.  Authors are required to
present a very brief summary of their interactive poster at a short
preview session earlier in the day. There will be a limited number of
stations for showing videos during that session. Authors who wish to
show a live demo but cannot provide their own machine should contact
the posters chairs in advance of the submission deadline to discuss
the logistics. All authors who plan to show live demos or video should
clearly indicate this fact in their submissions.

Interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract, and
those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also submit an
accompanying video. Clearly identify the type of your submission by
including the prefix "Interactive Poster:" in the title of your
extended abstract.

Submissions:

Please prepare your submission according to the IEEE CS Press Author
Guidelines at <http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm>, with the
understanding that the papers proceedings will be printed in full
color. Submissions longer than the page limits will not be
considered. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF (Adobe
portable document format) files. Details of the submission process
will be posted on the InfoVis 2002 web site.

Submissions to any of the InfoVis 2002 categories may be accompanied
by supporting digital movies with a maximum length of 5 minutes. 
Accompanying movies will assist in the review process. Movies viewable
with QuickTime Player or Windows Media Player should be submitted
electronically.

Publication:

Accepted long and short papers will be published in an
archival-quality proceedings directly from revised PDF files submitted
by the authors. The proceedings will be printed with a high-
resolution full color printing process. The accepted papers, along
with supporting media, will also be included in the conference
DVD. The IEEE Computer Society will distribute the proceedings.

Extended abstracts of accepted interactive posters will be distributed
in the black and white InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters Compendium,
using revised PDF files submitted by the authors.  The Posters
Compendium will be available only at the conference. Abstracts and
accompanying material such as digital movies will also be made
available from the conference web site.

For detailed information concerning submission, please see the
symposium web site, or email infovis@vis.computer.org.

Symposium Committee:

General Symposium Chair
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Keith Andrews, University of Graz, Austria

Interactive Posters Co-Chair
Tamara Munzner, Compaq Systems Research Center
Alan Keahey, Visual Insights

Symposium Steering Committee:

Stuart Card, Xerox PARC
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Steve Eick, Visual Insights
Steve Feiner, Columbia University
Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp.
Daniel Keim, AT&T Shannon Research Lab
George Robertson, Microsoft Research
Steve Roth, MAYA Viz

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Please note that the deadline for submitting papers to the IASTED
International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing is
April 15, 2002.  This conference will be held in Malaga, Spain at the
Torrequebrada Hotel on the glorious Costa del Sol. This conference is being
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All information regarding this conference can be found on our website at
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In addition to the conference program, there will be a number of special
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MPEG/JPEG Standards, Implementation, and Applications

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

            13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering

                   Pisa, Italy, June 26-28, 2002

                Visual Computing Group (CNR-PISA)

                       egrw02@iei.pi.cnr.it
               http://vcg.iei.pi.cnr.it/egrw02.htm

Aims and Scope:

 Following twelve successful workshops in the last twelve years,
 the 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering will take place in
 Pisa, Italy. It is organised by the Visual Computing Group, part of
 the Information Technology CNR Institute, in association with
 Eurographics, in the context of the Eurographics Working Group on
 Rendering Activities. The workshop is well established as a major
 international forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences in
 the area of rendering algorithms and techniques.

Topics:

 Submissions are invited in (but not limited to) the following
 areas:

 - Local illumination and reflection models and methods (including
   BRDF measurement)
 - Global illumination methods (Monte Carlo, finite element
   techniques)
 - Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing
 - Visibility algorithms
 - Human perception and error measures
 - Texture models, analysis, and synthesis
 - Non-polygonal rendering (Point-based, image-based)
 - Systems and software architectures for rendering
 - New rendering hardware and new uses of existing hardware
 - Experimental or practice-and-experience comparative studies of
   existing methods
 - Rendering solutions for virtual/augmented reality and
   interactive systems
 - Inverse rendering and computer vision related algorithms
 - Real-time rendering
 - Non-photorealistic rendering

 Research and development driven by real-world applications are
 encouraged. A short paper category (6 page limit) is available in
 addition to full papers (12 page limits). The category of submitted
 papers will be decided based on the reviewing results, but authors
 may submit papers specifically to the short paper category. As has
 been the tradition in previous workshops, the presentation format
 will allow for ample discussion time. The number of participants will
 be limited to 100. Internationally known speakers will give invited
 lectures.

 In addition to both short and full papers, this year authors may also
 submit posters containing preliminary results or speculative
 ideas. These posters will be peer-reviewed and will be appear at the
 workshop, but will not be printed in the final ACM Press workshop
 proceedings.

 Authors of accepted papers may also enter a competition to produce a
 cover image for the preliminary proceedings distributed at the
 workshop. Details of the competition may be found on the workshop web
 site.

Important Dates in the Year 2002 are:

 Wednesday, March 27 Electronic abstract submission deadline
 Friday, March 29    Electronic paper/poster submission deadline
 Monday, April 1     Submission deadline for videos
 Monday, May 13      Author notification
 Saturday, June 1    Camera-ready copy deadline
 June 26 - 28        Workshop

Submission Procedure:

 NOTE: ALL SUBMISSIONS THIS YEAR ARE ELECTRONIC.

 Authors are requested to submit (via email) an abstract for their
 paper or poster by Wednesday March 27th 2002 to the following
 address:

     egwr02@cs.man.ac.uk

 Authors will then receive further information by email regarding the
 electronic submission of their papers and posters (in PDF or
 Postscript format) to the workshop ftp site. Authors experiencing
 problems with electronic submission of contributions should contact
 the program co-chairs directly.

 The abstract submission email should contain the names and
 institutions of all authors, contact information of one contact
 author (name, e-mail, postal address, phone and fax numbers), and the
 (not necessarily final) title and abstract of the submission.

 Courier-service mail will be used only for those submissions that the
 co-chairs find unusable, and for videos accompanying papers. In the
 latter case, one paper copy of the paper should be sent along with
 five copies of the accompanying videotape or CD-ROM to one of the two
 program co-chairs. In the case of videotapes an effort should be made
 to include the segment in both PAL and NTSC on the same VHS tape, to
 ensure that it can be seen by all reviewers. An authors toolkit
 including LaTeX and MS Word style files is available from the
 conference Web page. Submissions missing the deadline will be
 considered with reduced priority, to the extent practical within
 the short review cycle.

Organizing Co-chairs:

 Fabio Ganovelli
 Istituto Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.)
 Area della Ricerca C.N.R.
 Via G. Moruzzi, 1
 I-56124 Pisa (Italy)

 email: ganovell@iei.pi.cnr.it
 phone: +39 050 315 2925
 fax:   +39 050 315 2810

 Roberto Scopigno
 Istituto Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.)
 Area della Ricerca C.N.R.
 Via G. Moruzzi, 1
 I-56124 Pisa (Italy)

 email: roberto.scopigno@cnuce.cnr.it
 phone: +39 050 315 2929
 fax:   +39 050 313 8091

Programme Committee Co-chairs:

 Paul Debevec
 Institute for Creative Technologies
 University of Southern California
 13274 Fiji Way, 5th floor
 Marina del Rey, CA 90292  USA

 email: paul@debevec.org
 phone: +1 310 574 7809
 fax:   +1 310 577 9140

 Simon Gibson
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Manchester
 Oxford Road
 Manchester, M13 9PL
 United Kingdom

 email: sg@cs.man.ac.uk
 phone: +44 161 275 6141
 fax:   +44 161 275 6204

Invited Speakers:

 Dr. Doug Roble (Digital Domain)
 Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik)

Programme Committee:

 Kavita Bala (US)
 Kadi Bouatouch (FR)
 Per Christensen (US)
 Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CY)
 Daniel Cohen-Or (IS)
 Oliver Deussen (DE)
 Julie Dorsey (US)
 George Drettakis (FR)
 Fredo Durand (US)
 Jim Ferwerda (US)
 Steven Gortler (US)
 Wolfgang Heidrich (CA)
 Henrik Wann Jensen (US)
 Alexander Keller (DE)
 Dani Lischinski (IS)
 Michael McCool (CA)
 Nelson Max (US)
 Gary Meyer (US)
 Karol Myszkowski (DE)
 Bernard Peroche (FR)
 Xavier Pueyo (ES)
 Werner Purgathofer (AT)
 Holly Rushmeier (US)
 Christophe Schlick (FR)
 Peter Shirley (US)
 Francois Sillion (FR)
 Brian Smits (US)
 Jos Stam (US)

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Roberto Scopigno
CNUCE - CNR
Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa
Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa ITALY
phone: +39 050 315 2929     cell: +39 348 396 6819
fax:   +39 050 313 8091 (G3)   +39 050 313 8092 (G4)
email: roberto.scopigno@cnuce.cnr.it
web: http://vcg.iei.pi.cnr.it/~scopigno
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InfoVis Digest
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January 13, 2002, Issue #1, Volume 4

Contents

1. infovis-digest update from the editor
2. DATA MINING 2002 UPDATE
3. VisSym 2002 -  call for participation
4. CGIM 2002 - Call for Papers
5. VDA 2002 Reminder
6. Eurographics PGV 2002 -  call for papers
7. VIIP 2002 Call for Papers
8. 2002 Int'l. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Engineering
9. IEEE Vis 2002 -  call for participation
10.InfoVis 2002 -  call for participation

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moderator:                Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu
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-  Research and development projects across academia and industry
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Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

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From: Stefano Foresti
Subject: infovis-digest update from the editor

Submissions to the Infovis Digest from now on will be moderated
and sent to the list upon approval, instead of waiting for a
critical mass to be packaged.

We'll evaluate this model and see if it fits better to
dissemination and interaction in the community.

Stefano Foresti
Moderator, InfoVis Digest

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From: Rachel Green [rgreen@wessex.ac.uk]
Subject: DATA MINING 2002 UPDATE

DATA MINING 2002
Third International Conference on Data Mining Methods and
Databases for Engineering, Finance and Other Fields
25 - 27 September 2002
Bologna, Italy
http//:www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/data2002/1.html

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From: Symposium on Visualization 2002 [vissym02@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: VisSym 2002 -  call for participation

                    1st Call for papers

                         VisSym'02
    IV Joint Eurographics-IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

                     May 27-29, 2002
                    Barcelona, Spain

            http://www.lsi.upc.es/vissym2002/

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From: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences [Info@IASTED.com]
Subject: CGIM 2002 - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth IASTED International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2002)
August 12-14, 2002
Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/hawaii/cgim.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

CGIM 2002 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International
Conferences on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2002) and Internet and
Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2002).

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submissions due: March 01, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2002
Registration, full payment, and final papers due: June 01, 2002

For more information or to be placed on our mailing list, please
contact:

IASTED Secretariat - CGIM 2002
#80, 4500 - 16th Avenue N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T3B 0M6
Tel: 403-288-1195
Fax: 403-247-6851
E-mail: calgary@iasted.com
Web Site: http://www.iasted.org

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From: J.C.Roberts [J.C.Roberts@ukc.ac.uk]
Subject: VDA 2002 Reminder

Plan now to attend!

SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2002
January 20-25, 2002,
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA

Advanced Programme now available:
  http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2002/

See complete conference, course, and exhibition
information and preregister on the Web:
  http://spie.org/conferences/programs/02/pw/ei.html

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From: Eurographics PGV 2002 [egpgv02@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Eurographics PGV 2002 -  call for papers

Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics
                    and Visualization (pending)
             in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH

         Blaubeuren, Germany, September 9-10, 2002
      (in the week after the Eurographics conference
                http://www.eg.org/eg2002)

       http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/conf/egpgv02

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates:

22   April 2002                   -  Full papers due
31   May 2002                     -  Notification of acceptance
12   June 2002			  -  Camera ready deadline.
9-10 September 2002		  -  Workshop
				     (week after Eurographics conference)

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From: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences [Info@IASTED.com]
Subject: VIIP 2002 Call for Papers

2nd IASTED International Conference on
Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2002)
September 9-12, 2002
M=E1laga, Spain
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/spain/viip.htm

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submissions due: April 15, 2002
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2002
Registration, full payment, and final papers due: July 15, 2002

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From: hra@cs.uga.edu
Subject: 2002 Int'l. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Engineering

                 C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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     The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science
                  (14 Joint Int'l Conferences)

            Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                       June 24-27, 2002

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or
a proposal to organize a technical session.  All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings.
THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION ORGANIZERS/CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS
ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

The fourteen conferences are:

1.  The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

2.  The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

3.  The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

4.  The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing
    (IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

5.  The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
    (METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

6.  The 2002 International Conference on Communications in
    Computing
    (CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

7.  The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
    Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
    (ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

8.  The 2002 International Conference on VLSI
    (VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

9.  The 2002 International Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Engineering
    (IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
    Reasoning and Applications
    (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
    Applications
    (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks
    (ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering
    Research and Practice
    (SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

14. The 2002 International Conference on Security Management
    (SAM'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

(a link to each conference's URL is available
from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences)

CONFERENCES CONTACT:

    H. R. Arabnia
    Chair, The 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in Computer Science
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    email: hra@cs.uga.edu

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From: IEEE Visualization 2002 [vis2002@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: IEEE Vis 2002 -  call for participation

                  Call for Participation

                  IEEE Visualization 2002
     Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
                Visualization and Graphics
             In cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

                October 27 - November 1, 2002
                 The Boston Park Plaza Hotel
                   Boston, Massachusetts

               http://vis.computer.org/vis2002

Submission Deadlines:
---------------------
March 29, 2002:  Workshop Proposals
                 Conference Papers
                 Case Study Papers
                 Tutorial Proposals
                 Panel Proposals
                 Symposia Submissions

June 28, 2002:   Posters
                 Interactive Demonstration Lab Proposals

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From: IEEE Visualization 2002 [vis2002@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject:  InfoVis 2002 -  call for participation

IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION (INFOVIS 2002)

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization
and Graphics

October 28 - 29, 2002 * Park Plaza Hotel * Boston, MA

http://www.infovis.org/infovis2002

The IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization is the premier meeting
in the emerging field of information visualization, involving the
visual presentation of and interaction with abstract information
spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and
understanding.  Original papers are solicited in all areas of
information visualization. In addition, we are encouraging submissions
on bioinformatics, following the bio-visualization theme of our parent
conference, Vis2002. In particular, the symposium is interested in all
aspects of abstract visualization of digital biology information.

Topics include:
*       Bioinformatics visualization
*       Browsing and navigation methods
*       Data structures and models underlying visualization
*       Empirical studies of information visualization techniques
*       Graph / network visualizations
*       Information presentation as storytelling
*       Interactive techniques for information visualization
*       Information visualization for heterogeneous audiences
*       Multi-dimensional information visualization
*       Visual data mining
*       Visualization and knowledge discovery
*       Visualization for mobile computing
*       Visualization in CSCW
*       Visualization applications in areas such as
        o       Algorithms
        o       Commerce and financial systems
        o       Complex information
        o       Internet and WWW
        o       Mobile computing
        o       Search results
        o       Textual information

InfoVis 2002 Full Papers (due March 29, 2002)

Full papers should be at most 8 printed pages. Full papers present
previously unpublished, original results. Papers submitted as full
papers may, at the discretion of the program co-chairs, be invited for
publication and presentation as short papers.

InfoVis 2002 Short Papers (due March 29, 2002)

Short papers should be at most 4 printed pages. The short paper
category is intended for two submission types: a) case studies
describing how information visualization has contributed to working
applications in real-life environments and b) technical notes that,
though novel and of interest to the community, do not warrant a full
paper submission. Clearly identify the type of your submission by
including the prefix "Case Study:" or "Technical Note:" in the title
of your short paper submission.

InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters (due July 1, 2002)

The interactive poster category includes both traditional posters and
demonstrations of interactive systems, either live on a laptop or
through video. We encourage both submissions of original unpublished
work and submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.

All authors of accepted interactive posters are required to bring an
explanatory hardcopy poster for display during the scheduled evening
poster session, and be available for discussion at that time. Accepted
authors who wish to also show demos of their work are encouraged to
also bring a laptop to the poster session.  Authors are required to
present a very brief summary of their interactive poster at a short
preview session earlier in the day. There will be a limited number of
stations for showing videos during that session. Authors who wish to
show a live demo but cannot provide their own machine should contact
the posters chairs in advance of the submission deadline to discuss
the logistics. All authors who plan to show live demos or video should
clearly indicate this fact in their submissions.

Interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract, and
those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also submit an
accompanying video. Clearly identify the type of your submission by
including the prefix "Interactive Poster:" in the title of your
extended abstract.

Submissions:

Please prepare your submission according to the IEEE CS Press Author
Guidelines at <http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm>, with the
understanding that the papers proceedings will be printed in full
color. Submissions longer than the page limits will not be
considered. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF (Adobe
portable document format) files. Details of the submission process
will be posted on the InfoVis 2002 web site.

Submissions to any of the InfoVis 2002 categories may be accompanied
by supporting digital movies with a maximum length of 5 minutes.
Accompanying movies will assist in the review process. Movies viewable
with QuickTime Player or Windows Media Player should be submitted
electronically.

Publication:

Accepted long and short papers will be published in an
archival-quality proceedings directly from revised PDF files submitted
by the authors. The proceedings will be printed with a high-
resolution full color printing process. The accepted papers, along
with supporting media, will also be included in the conference
DVD. The IEEE Computer Society will distribute the proceedings.

Extended abstracts of accepted interactive posters will be distributed
in the black and white InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters Compendium,
using revised PDF files submitted by the authors.  The Posters
Compendium will be available only at the conference. Abstracts and
accompanying material such as digital movies will also be made
available from the conference web site.

For detailed information concerning submission, please see the
symposium web site, or email infovis@vis.computer.org.

Symposium Committee:

General Symposium Chair
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Keith Andrews, University of Graz, Austria

Interactive Posters Co-Chair
Tamara Munzner, Compaq Systems Research Center
Alan Keahey, Visual Insights

Symposium Steering Committee:

Stuart Card, Xerox PARC
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Steve Eick, Visual Insights
Steve Feiner, Columbia University
Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp.
Daniel Keim, AT&T Shannon Research Lab
George Robertson, Microsoft Research
Steve Roth, MAYA Viz

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October 8, 2001, Issue #6, Volume 3

Contents

1. references on visualizing resources and resource management?
2. Data Mining 2002 Conference - Call for Papers 
3. CFP -- IFIP conference on visual databases
4. CFP: Young VR (Korea)
5. CFP: Graphics Interface 2002
6. IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for registration
7. Discovery Science '01 - Algorithmic Learning Theory '01   
8. IASTED 2002 Conferences - Deadline Extension

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From: Pearl Pu Faltings [Pearl.Pu@epfl.ch]
Subject: references on visualizing resources and resource management?

I am writing a paper on visualizing resources and resource management.

Please send me references of your work or works that you know of besides
the published articles on telecom network visualization (Beck and Eick
and similar works),  energy networks (Overbye and Weber), and our own
work on visualizing resource allocation (Pu and Melissagos).

By resources, I consider the following three types:

1. Consumable - e.g., money, fuel, and energy.

2. Reusable/non-sharable -- like most equipment, aircraft, etc. They are
unavailable only while being used by a particular consumer and are
otherwise available. These resources are non-divisible and their
capacity must be wholly allocated to a single consumer.

3. Reusable/synchronized-sharable --- these resources can be
simultaneously allocated to multiple consumers but only in a temporally
synchronized manner, e.g., communication bandwidths.

4. Reusable/independently-sharable --- e.g., parking lot. They can be
simultaneouly allocated to multiple consumers and used without
synchronization.

-
Pearl Pu
Database Lab
Computer Science Department
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
LBD/DI EPFL
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
pearl.pu@epfl.ch

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From: WIT Enquiries [enquiries@wessex.ac.uk] 
Subject: Data Mining 2002 Conference - Call for Papers 

Please find the Call For Papers for Data Mining 2002, 
which is taking place from 25 - 27 September 2002 in Bologna, Italy.  

Full details can be viewed at 
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/datamining/index.html

Karen Neal 
On behalf of the Organising Committee      

Lucy Southcott
Conference Secretariat 
Data Mining 2002
Wessex Institute of Technology        
Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst,        
Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK        

Tel:  + 44 (0) 238 029 3223        
Fax:  + 44 (0) 238 029 2853
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk

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From: Pearl Pu Faltings [Pearl.Pu@epfl.ch]
Subject: CFP -- IFIP conference on visual databases

Call for paper : 6th IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database Systems
Brisbane Australia 29-31 May 2002
Submission deadline Octorber 1, 2001
Special session on information visualization

Topics include but not restricted to: Multimedia databases, 
WWW Visualization, Spatial & Temporal Databases, 
Information Visualization, Visual Query Interfaces, etc.

    www.csee.uq.edu.au/~vdb6    or type VDB6 in www.google.com

--
Pearl Pu
Database Lab
Computer Science Department
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
LBD/DI EPFL
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
pearl.pu@epfl.ch

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From: Chris Shaw [cdshaw@grenfell.cc.gt.atl.ga.us]
Subject: CFP: Young VR (Korea)

Preliminary Call for Participation

Young Investigator's Forum in Virtual Reality (YoungVR, 2001)
December 18-20, 2001
KAIST, Daejon, Korea
vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001

Call for Participation

The Virtual Reality Research Center (VRRC) in Korea
(http://vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/) invites advanced graduate students (or any
individual with similar credentials) around the world to participate
in a forum to discuss the future of virtual reality.  VRRC,
established within KAIST, is one of the highly prestegious government
supported centers in Korea that specializes in the VR research.  This
year's forum will mark its first occurrence, and will also be first of
its kind, specifically inviting only advanced graduate students for
free form discussion on the future directions of virtual reality and
related technologies.  The forum hopes to provide an execellent
opportunity for the young researchers of VR around the world to
present, discuss, and cultivate new ideas.

An extended abstract of 2000 words are solicited on all aspects of
virtual reality, in particular on the future visions of VR and related
technologies.  The main contributor of the submission must be a
graduate student, preferably who has finished one's research proposal
toward one's PhD degree.  The nature of the forum is designed to be
small-scale, free form, higly interactive, and intensive, thus we will
only accept around 10 submissions.  All accepted participants will be
provided with all or partial expenses for travel and lodging (roundtrip
plane tickets to Korea, and room/meal).  For detailed format of the
forum, visit the forum web site at vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001.  
The first two days will be consisted of presentations and discussion
rounds and during the final day, a social event is planned as an
opportunity for the participants to get to know one another more.

Submission deadline for the extended abstracts is October 1, 2001 with
notification of acceptance by November 1, 2001.  Please submit
abstracts (or inquiries) to: Gerry J. Kim at POSTECH, Korea
(gkim@postech.ac.kr).  The official language is English.

Program Chair: Prof. K. Y. Wohn, KAIST (Director of VRRC)
Program Coordinator: Gerry J. Kim, POSTECH
International Program Committee:
	Prof. Frederick Brooks, University of North Carolina
	Prof. Larry Hodges, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Jerry Isdale, Hughes Research Laboratories / VR News
	Kenji Mase, ATR, Japan
	Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
	Kwangyeon  Wohn, KAIST, Korea.

Chris Shaw                Senior Research Scientist     GVU Center
cdshaw@cc.gatech.edu      College of Computing          Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cdshaw

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From: Michael D. McCool [mmccool@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca]
Subject: CFP: Graphics Interface 2002

We would like to personally invite you to submit research papers and
posters to Graphics Interface 2002.   The paper deadline is November 19
of this year (electronic submission of PDF files).   Graphics Interface
is a small but high-quality, peer-reviewed conference that covers both
user interface and graphics topics.   If you have never submitted to GI 
before we urge you strongly to consider it!  You can find out more about 
GI by going to our website at www.graphicsinterface.org.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

Michael McCool, University of Waterloo
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University

                                                    Graphics Interface 2002
                                                  www.graphicsinterface.org
                                                            May 27-29, 2002
Call for Papers                                    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Michael McCool                        Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
mmccool@cgl.uwaterloo.ca              wolfgang@cs.yorku.ca
Department of Computer Science        Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo                York University
200 University Avenue West            4700 Keele Street
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada     Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
Tel Office: +1 519 888-4567 x3561     Tel Office: +1 416 736-2100 x33947
Tel Courier: +1 519 888-6797          Tel Courier: +1 416 736-5053
Fax: +1 519 885-1208                  Fax: +1 416 736-5872
www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~mmccool         www.cs.yorku.ca/~wolfgang

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From: IEEE Visualization 2001 [vis2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for registration

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 1

          Registration and advance program are on-line

                 October 21 - October 26, 2001
                     Paradise Point Resort
                        San Diego, CA

                   http://vis.computer.org

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From: "Smith, Carl" <smith@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Discovery Science '01 - Algorithmic Learning Theory '01   

Call For Participation

Two conferences on models and theory of learning and discovery.  
Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington D.C., November 25-28, 2001. 

   Discovery Science '01 
      http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds2001/
   Algorithmic Learning Theory '01   
      http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~roni/ALT2001/

Invited speakers: 
  http://www.tcs.mu-luebeck.de/pages/thomas/ALT_DS01/invit.html
Dana Angluin, Setsuo Arikawa, Paul Cohen, Lindley Darden, Ben Shneiderman

Local information and advance registration (closes October 16): 
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~smith/ALTDS/local.htm

=======================================================> POST 8

From: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences [Info@IASTED.com]
Subject: IASTED 2002 Conferences - Deadline Extension

Due to the recent events in the United States and numerous requests from
our members, IASTED has decided to extend the deadlines of some of our
upcoming 2002 conferences.
Please find below the updated deadlines.  These changes can also be seen
on our website at http://www.iasted.org/.

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July 17, 2001, Issue #5, Volume 3

Contents

1. IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation
2. Browse your digital photos with PhotoMesa 1.1
3. Info Vis tutorial - October 2
4. Information Visualisation (LONDON) - CFP
5. Macrofocus releases new visual tool: City'O'Scope

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   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

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From: vis2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation

          C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 1

                 October 21 - October 26, 2001
                     Paradise Point Resort
                        San Diego, CA

                   http://vis.computer.org

For further information on the conference or on submissions, contact:
Mike Bailey, Conference Co-Chair, San Diego Supercomputer Center,
Phone: +1 858 534 5142, Fax: +1 858 534 5152, EmaiL: mjb@sdsc.edu
Charles Hansen, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah,
Phone: +1 801 581 3154, Fax: +1 801 581 5843, Email: hansen@cs.utah.edu

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From: "Bederson, Ben" <bederson@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Browse your digital photos with PhotoMesa 1.1

Visualize your photos with treemaps using a Zoomable User Interface!

A new photo browser called PhotoMesa is now available.  It supports image
browsing in a family environment.  It requires no organization of photos to
get started, and supports a novel and easy-to-use zoomable interface.  By
showing many directories of photos at once, organized using a novel
variation of the "treemap" algorithm, it supports rapid browsing.  PhotoMesa
requires only a set of images on disk, and does not require the user to add
any metadata, or manipulate the images at all before browsing, thus making
it easy to get started with existing images.

While other image management systems have focused on annotating and
searching, PhotoMesa concentrates on browsing.  The interface lets you
concentrate on the images, without having to manage scrollbars, menus, or
pop-up windows.  It also lets you group images by available metadata, such
as directory location, image creation date, and words in the filename.  We
have built it intending it to be useful in informal situations, such as
looking at photos together among family members.  Others have found it
useful as a way of finding what is on their hard disk.

Available for free for non-commercial use from the University of Maryland
Human-Computer Interaction Lab at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photomesa

PhotoMesa is built using Jazz, our toolkit for Zoomable User Interfaces
available as open source code at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz

  - Ben

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| Prof. Ben Bederson        Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab |
| bederson@cs.umd.edu       Computer Science Department              |
| www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson  3171 A.V. Williams Building              |
| (301) 405-2764            University of Maryland                   |
| (301) 405-6707 (FAX)      College Park, MD 20742                   |
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From: "Shneiderman, Ben" <ben@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Info Vis tutorial - October 2

Full-day Seminar: Information Visualization
Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland

   Monday, October 1, 2001, 8:30am-5:30pm,  Cambridge, MA
   Part of "User Interface 6 East" http://www.uiconf.com/

Information visualization was mostly a dream 5 years ago, but it's now a
reality. The latest generation of visual data mining tools and animated GUIs
take advantage of human perceptual skills to produce striking results. This
tutorial by two of the field's leading researchers will show examples of
commercially successful uses of information visualization technology in
today's web and software interfaces, plus recent research breakthroughs and
hints of what's to come.

Information visualization techniques empower users to perceive important
patterns in a large amount of data, identify areas that need further
scrutiny, and make sophisticated decisions. The Visual Information-Seeking
Mantra is to "overview first, zoom and filter, then give details on demand."
But looking at information is only a start. Users also need to manipulate
and query the data, using real-time tools to zoom, filter, and relate the
information - and undo if they make a mistake.

You may be familiar with SmartMoney.com's "Map of the Market" that uses our
Treemap visualization to graphically represent US stock market data and show
overall trends and exceptions.  You may also be familiar with Spotfire's
success story in pharmaceutical drug discovery, genomic data exploration,
and other domains.  But information visualization tools can aid in any
situations that's characterized by large amounts of multi-dimensional or
rapidly changing data - online product catalogs, patient histories,
manufacturing process data - anything that has outgrown yesterday's static,
two-dimensional spreadsheet. Information visualization techniques are
already being used in a wide variety of applications such as mapping the
human genome, monitoring oil production, or even helping users select a type
of coffee to match their tastes.

This full-day seminar will follow a lecture format enhanced by a large
number of videos and live demonstrations, and with ample time for question
asking and discussion.

You Should Attend If...

... you are a web or software interface designer, information specialist, or
database programmer responsible for conveying complex information to users.
If you're a usability specialist, you may discover elegant solutions to
interface problems you've seen.

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From: banisse@sbu.ac.uk
Subject:  Information Visualisation LONDON - CFP

5th International Conference on Information Visualisation
* LONDON * ENGLAND *
25 - 26 - 27 July 2001

Call for Participation

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2001/

Conference theme is based on Information Visualisation Theory, Practice and
related disciplines is organised through 38
sessions that covers well over 120 presentations.

The Key note-lectures are:
"Information Visualization: The Path from Innovation to Adoption", Ben
Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA
"First Principles in Information Visualization Design", Mary Czerwinski,
Microsoft Research, USA
"Time as a component of Interaction Design", Robert Spence, Imperial
College, London, UK

One day Preconference course on "Information Visualisation" by Robert
Spence, Imperial College, London, UK

For more information contact Ebad Banissi at Email:banisse@sbu.ac.uk

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From: Luc Girardin <luc.girardin@macrofocus.com>
Subject: Macrofocus releases new visual tool: City'O'Scope

Where in the world should you travel - or perhaps even relocate - to
pay less, earn more, and improve your living conditions?

To help you answer this complex question, Macrofocus releases
City'O'Scope, a free interactive tool for visually analyzing prices
and earnings around the world. City'O'Scope is available at no charge
for the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems at:

  http://www.macrofocus.com/cityoscope/

Using data surveyed by the UBS Economic Research department,
City'O'Scope allows users to easily analyze, compare, query, and
explore prices and earnings indicators of 58 cities around the world.

City'O'Scope is a highly interactive visualization tool with the
following key characteristics:

- it shows the big picture by providing an overview of the essential
  relationships between cities
- it encourages the explorative discovery of interesting features and
  unexpected patterns
- it avoids the feeling of being lost in details by embedding them in
  the overall context
- it supports our way of thinking and working by taking advantage of
  the human perceptual abilities

Macrofocus GmbH specializes in solutions that help people such as
analysts, managers, knowledge workers, or consumers to understand and
manage the growing amounts of complex information that they are faced
with. Macrofocus develops interactive visualization systems that
enable faster and better-informed decisions, and support the human
thinking process. Macrofocus GmbH is a privately held company based in
Zurich, Switzerland.

--
Luc Girardin - Macrofocus GmbH, Wasserwerkstr. 10, CH-8006 Zurich
email: luc.girardin@macrofocus.com
phone: +41 1 350 52 18
fax  : +41 1 350 52 19
wwweb: http://www.macrofocus.com

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June 11, 2001, Issue #4, Volume 3

Contents

1. CFP: SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2002
2. CFP:  Information Visualization for Digital Libraries Workshop
3. Registration open for Volume Graphics 2001
4. IASTED International Conference reminder
5. Graphics Hardware 2001 - Advance Program
6. Call For Participation: Int'l Computer Science Multiconference
7. InfoVis Hot Topics, Interactive Posters submissions 26 June 2001

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-  Research and development projects across academia and industry
-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos
-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: J.C.Roberts [J.C.Roberts@ukc.ac.uk]
Subject:  CFP SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2002

CALL FOR PAPERS

	SPIE Conference on
	Visualization and Data Analysis 2002

	January 20-25, 2002
	San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA

	Part of IS&T/SPIE's 14th International Symposium
	on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology

	http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2002/

	2 page Extended Abstracts due: 25 June 2001

=======================================================> POST 2

From: "Hetzler, Beth G" <beth.hetzler@pnl.gov>
Subject: CFP:  Information Visualization for Digital Libraries Workshop

Call for Papers

Workshop:
Information Visualization for Digital Libraries -
Defining a Research Agenda for Heterogeneous Multimedia Collections

June 28, 2001
Roanoke, Virginia, USA

In conjunction with JCDL 2001 - The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on
Digital
Libraries
http://www.jcdl.org/

Lucy Nowell
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Lucy.Nowell@pnl.gov

Elizabeth Hetzler
Chief Scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute
Beth.Hetzler@pnl.gov

=======================================================> POST 3

From: vg01@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Registration open for Volume Graphics 2001

                  Final  CALL for REGISTRATION

            Advance Registration closes May 31, 2001
   Hotel discount booking deadline is coming up (May 28, 2001)

           International Workshop on Volume Graphics
                 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vg01

                        June 21-22, 2001
                        Stony Brook, USA

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics, and the Eurographics Association.

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Info [info@iasted.com]
Subject: IASTED International Conference reminder

ONE WEEK REMINDER

IASTED International Conference
Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2001)
September 3-5, 2001 - Marbella, Spain

EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 7, 2001

For formatting and submission requirements, please refer to the Call For
Papers posted on our web page at:
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2001/spain/viip.htm

Thank you!

=======================================================> POST 5

From: Graphics Hardware 2001 [hwws2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Graphics Hardware 2001 - Advance Program

GRAPHICS HARDWARE 2001
====================ADVANCE PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE AT
http://www.graphicshardware.org/program.html

Call for Participation
====================Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics

Los Angeles, California USA
Sunday and Monday, August 12-13, 2001

=======================================================> POST 6

From: Hamid Arabnia <hra@cs.uga.edu>
Subject: Call For Participation: Int'l Computer Science Multiconference

         C A L L    FOR    P A R T I C I P A T I O N
       ==============================================    PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + IC + METMBS + ERSA + ISE + CIC
         Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                     June 25-28, 2001

http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences

=======================================================> POST 7

From: Tamara Munzner [tamara.munzner@compaq.com]
Subject: InfoVis Hot Topics, Interactive Posters submissions 26 June 2001

Reminder:
** InfoVis Hot Topics, Interactive Posters submissions 26 June 2001 **

The seventh IEEE Information Visualization Symposium (InfoVis 2001)
will be held in San Diego on Oct 22-23 2001, in conjunction with IEEE
Visualization Conference. The full call for papers is available at

  http://www.infovis.org/infovis2001

This is a reminder for the two categories of submissions which are due
on 26 June 2001: Late Breaking Hot Topics and Interactive Posters.
(Interactive Posters deadline has been extended from the original
April 2nd date.)

--------------------
Late Breaking Hot Topics

Submission deadline: Tue. 26th June 2001

Late Breaking Hot Topics (LBHT) have a much later submission deadline
and are an opportunity to present exciting new findings, preliminary
results, and work in progress. LBHT submissions should be at most 4
printed pages and present original unpublished work. Accepted LBHT
papers will be published and distributed at the symposium.

Late Breaking Hot Topics Co-Chairs
  John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada, dill@cs.sfu.ca
  Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp, gershon@mitre.org

--------------------
Interactive Posters

New submission deadline: Tue. 26th June 2001

We have extended the submission deadline for the new interactive
posters category. This category includes both traditional posters and
demos, either live on a laptop or through video. In this new category,
we encourage both submissions of original unpublished work and
submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues. We
highly encourage demonstrations of interactive systems.

All authors of accepted interactive posters are required to bring a
poster to and attend the scheduled poster session. Accepted authors
who wish to also show demos of their work are encouraged to also bring
a laptop to that session. There will be a limited number of stations
for showing videos during that session, depending on demand. Authors
who wish to show a live demo but cannot provide their own machine
should contact the posters chair in advance of the submission deadline
to discuss the logistics. All authors who plan to show live demos or
video should clearly indicate this fact in their submissions.

All interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract,
and those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also
submit an accompanying video. Clearly identify the type of your
submission by including the prefix "Interactive Poster:" in the title
of your extended abstract. Extended abstracts of accepted interactive
posters will be printed in the LBHT proceedings, and accompanying
videos will be included in the electronic and/or video proceedings.

Interactive Posters Chair
  Tamara Munzner, Compaq Systems Research Center, tamara.munzner@compaq.com

=======================================================> END OF DIGEST
...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
Dear Member of the Information Visualization Community,

The field of information visualization (InfoVis) is growing rapidly 
with increasing amount of information about work done in this field 
and its applications.   To make this information available to all 
interested parties, we are starting an InfoVis email digest, and 
would welcome your subscription (see enclosed instructions).

Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include:

-  Research and development projects across academia and industry

-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures

-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos

-  Requests for help on specific research problems

-  Employment and student opportunities

-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

We expect strong interest and plan to improve the supporting 
Web site - www.infovis.org - with news, archives and other features.

Please send your suggestions or offers to help to:
Stefano Foresti, stefano@chpc.utah.edu

Thanks and welcome from the Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, ISX, jisdale@isx.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

========================================================================

InfoVis Digest
--------------

February 19, 1998, Issue #1, Volume 1

moderator:                Stefano Foresti - stefano@chpc.utah.edu
posting address:          infovis-digest@infovis.org
supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org

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========================================================================

Contents

1. OLIVE - the On-line Library of Information Visualization Environment
2. CFP: WebVis499 workshop
3. CFP: International Conference on Imaging Science (CISST'99)
4. CFP: IEEE Visualization 1999
5. CFP: InfoVis '99
6. New book on InfoVis

=======================================================> POST 1

From: ben@cs.umd.edu (Ben Shneiderman)
Subject:  OLIVE

OLIVE: the On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Announcing OLIVE -->    http://otal.umd.edu/Olive/

the On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments!  
This web-site covers eight categories of information visualization 
environments differentiated by data type:  

  1D, 2D, 3D, Multi-D, Temporal, Tree, Network, and Workspaces

Within each category we have gathered what we feel are the
most important literary citations, commercial products, research
projects, and videos.  This web-site is a class project for Dr. Ben
Shneiderman's fall 1997 CMSC 828/838S graduate course on Information
Visualization at the University of Maryland, College Park, Department
of Computer Science.

Dr. Shneiderman originally proposed a taxonomy of information
visualization environments in his paper, \"The eyes have it: A task by
data taxonomy of information visualizations.\"  Following this
taxonomy, Chris North assembled a set which he entitled, \"A Taxonomy
of Information Visualization User-Interfaces.\"  Building on that
original reference set, and Dr. Shneiderman's recent book, Designing
the User Interface (3rd Edition), our class has attempted to update,
expand, and annotate Chris North's original page.

We provide several approaches to viewing our site with the idea of
illustrating a few of the approaches available for visualizing
information presented on the web. Specifically, we offer a traditional
Graphics & Text interface, a Frames interface, a Text Only interface,
and a WebTOC interface. To avoid duplicate data that can become
inconsistent between interfaces, we dynamically rebuild the entire
web-site whenever changes are made to the input files for the site. A
detailed report on this process is available at:
http://otal.umd.edu/Olive/Report.html.

Michael Reed (reed@cs.umd.edu) & 
Dan Heller (djheller@wam.umd.edu), Editors.
University of Maryland, College Park
November 1997

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Harald Reiterer <Harald.Reiterer@uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: WebVis499 workshop

The call for papers of the WebVis99:

International Workshop on Web-Based Information Visualization,
Florence, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 1999 

is available on the Web:
http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/swe/WebVis99.html

Please distribute this url to all persons that will be able to make a
good contribution to our workshop!

Thanks for your support!

Kind regards,

Harald Reiterer

Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer
Universitaet Konstanz - Fakultaet fuer Mathematik und Informatik
Fach D 73, D-78457 Konstanz
Tel: +49 7531 883704   Fax: +49 7531 882048
URL: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/hr.html

=======================================================> POST 3

From: Hamid Arabnia <hra@cs.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP: International Conference on Imaging Science (CISST'99)

                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                     =============================

         The 1999 International Conference on Imaging Science,
                        Systems, and Technology
                                (CISST'99)
                          June 28 - July 1, 1999
                Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 1999 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and
Technology (CISST'99) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 28 -
July 1, 1999.  All aspects of image processing, graphics, and
pattern recognition are included in CISST.  The CISST'99 Conference
will be held simultaneously with the 1999 International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'99 - http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta) (same date and
location).

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 4 pages and/or a
proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission
information).  All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

Please visit the web site:

http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/cisst/cisst99/

for all information including calls for papers, advance program 
and registration.

CONFERENCE CONTACT:

          Hamid R. Arabnia
          The University of Georgia
          Department of Computer Science
          415 Graduate Studies Research Center
          Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

          Tel: (706) 542-3480
          Fax: (706) 542-2966
          E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

=======================================================> POST 4

From: \"Dirk Bartz\" <bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: CFP: IEEE Visualization 1999

First  C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

IEEE Visualization 1999
Celebrating Ten Years

October 24 - October 29, 1999
San Francisco Airport Hyatt
San Francisco, California, USA

Please visit the web site at:
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis99/

Deadlines:

- Conference Papers (due March 31, 1999)
- Panel Proposals (due March 31, 1999)
- Case Study Papers (due March 31, 1999)
- Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers (due June 15, 1999)
- Tutorial Proposals (due March 31, 1999)
- Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals (due March 31, 1999)

=======================================================> POST 5

From: John Dill <dill@cs.sfu.ca>
Subject: InfoVis '99 Call for Participation

                     Infovis '99 Call for Participation

              WWW:  http://www.erc.msstate.edu/infovis99

   InfoVis '99, the fifth Information Visualization Symposium, will be
   held to focus on the rapidly growing area of information
   visualization. Increasing amounts of data and information and the
   availability of fast digital network access are creating a rapidly
   growing demand for accessing, querying and retrieving information and
   data. However, information technology will not transform business,
   science, medicine, engineering, and education if users cannot use it
   easily and efficiently. Technology must come to the users, taking
   their needs into account. If we do not involve the users, we will
   develop useless systems. InfoVis '99 will focus on all aspects of
   information visualization and human-centered information interfaces,
   and on ways in which advances in interactive computer graphics
   hardware, mass storage, and data visualization can be used to
   visualize information. Submissions are solicited in all areas of
   information visualization and human-centered information interfaces,
   including, but not limited to, such topics as:

      * Interactive information visualization
      * Multi-dimensional information visualization
      * Information presentation
      * Visualization of complex information
      * Information visualization for heterogeneous audiences
      * Visualizing the internet and WWW
      * Browsing and other Navigation methods
      * Visualization Algorithms
      * Visualization OF Algorithms
      * Visualization of textual information
      * Visualization and Knowledge Discovery
      * Graph / Network Visualizations
      * Geographic Visualizations

   Submissions: The deadline for submission is March 31, 1999. Papers
   should be at most 8,000 words including an abstract, affiliation, and
   keywords, and should present previously unpublished original results.
   Please submit 8 copies of your paper. Video submissions (NTSC VHS)
   with papers are welcome (4 copies), but are not required. Videos will
   assist reviewers' assessment of the papers. Submit to:

   Graham Wills
   Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
   Room 1U-334
   1000 E. Warrenville Rd.
   Naperville IL 60566
   USA
   Phone: 630-979-7338
   Fax: 630-713-4982
   email: gwills@research.bell-labs.com

       For further information about the IEEE Symposium on Information
                           Visualization, contact:

                                 John Dill
                       School of Engineering Science
                          Simon Fraser University
                             Burnaby, BC V5A1S6
                                   Canada
                             Phone: 604-291-3574
                              Fax: 604-291-4951
                           email: dill@cs.sfu.ca

=======================================================> POST 6

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:16:22 -0500 (EST)
From: ben@cs.umd.edu (Ben Shneiderman)
Subject:  New book on InfoVis

Readings In Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think

Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, January 1999
  576 pages, ISBN 1-55860-533-9

   http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/1-55860-533-9.asp

This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information 
visualization and offers the first-ever collection of 43 classic papers 
of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of 
each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that 
focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using 
interactive graphics to amplify thought. This book is intended for 
research professionals in academia and industry; new graduate students 
and professors who want to begin work in this burgeoning field; 
professionals involved in financial data analysis, statistics, and 
information design; scientific data managers; and professionals 
involved in medical, bioinformatics, and other areas.

Features
 Full-color reproduction throughout
 Author power team-an exciting and timely collaboration among the 
   field's pioneering and most respected names
 The only book on information visualization with the depth necessary 
   for use as a text or as a reference for the information 
   professional
 Text includes the classic source papers as well as a collection of 
   cutting-edge work

About the Authors
Stuart K. Card is a Xerox Research Fellow and manager of the User 
Interface Research Group at Xerox PARC. He received his A.B. in physics 
from Oberlin College in 1966 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Carnegie-
Mellon University in 1978, where he pursued an interdisciplinary 
program in psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. 

Jock D. Mackinlay is a member of the User Interface Research Group at 
Xerox PARC, where he has been developing 3D user interfaces for 
information access for the last eight years. He received a Ph.D. in 
computer science from Stanford University and is a member of the 
editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction.

Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, 
head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and member of the 
Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College 
Park. He is the author and coauthor of many books, technical papers, 
and textbooks.

=======================================================> END OF DIGEST
...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

March 29, 1999, Issue #2, Volume 1

Contents

1. InfoVis TechReview & links
2. VisSym '99
3. CFP:  Management of Data, Information and Knowledge   
4. Short Book Review/Announcement for the Digest
5. Human-Computer Interaction Laborator - 16th Annual Symposium 
6. Final CFP: IEEE Visualization 1999 -- March 31, paper dedline!

========================================================================

moderator:                Stefano Foresti - stefano@chpc.utah.edu
supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
posting address:          infovis-digest@infovis.org

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-  Research and development projects across academia and industry
-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos
-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, ISX, jisdale@isx.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: Jerry Isdale <jisdale@haifa.isx.com>
Subject: InfoVis TechReview & links

Last month I covered Information Visualization in my regular 
Technology Review column for VR News magazine.  These articles 
require a fair bit of web (re)search and I have made the results 
available on my web site.

   http://isdale.com/jerry/VR/InfoVisLinks_VRNews.htm

is the short annotated list that appeared with the article. It sorts 
into Starting Places, Government Research, Companies and Events

   http://isdale.com/jerry/VR/InfoVis_Links.html

is a longer list sorted into Academic, Events, Government, Journals, 
Links, Papers, People, Products, and Reference.  I owe a fairly large
chunk of this to  Martin Graham's Information Visualization Links

(http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~marting/links.html)

Also of interest may be my trip report to IEEE InfoVis98:

   http://isdale.com/jerry/InfoVis/IEEE_InfoVis98.html

it is available as either framed, unframed or zipped MSWord format.

If you have any comments or suggestions (new links, formats, etc) 
please drop me an email at isdale@acm.org

=============
Jerry Isdale
Technology Review Editor, VR News
 email: jisdale@isx.com     ISX Corporation
 phone: (818)706-2020       4353 Park Terrace Drive
 fax:   (818)735-6895       Westlake Village, CA 91361

http://www.vrnews.com
http://www.isdale.com/jerry
http://www.isdale.com/jerry/VR/techReview.html

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Helwig Loeffelmann <helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: VisSym '99

VisSym '99 - Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCCG Symposium on Visualization

  Conference information

  When?   May 26-28, 1999
  Where?  Vienna, Austria
  URL:    http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99/

  News: - the advanced program is on-line!
	  - on-line registration is up and running.
	  - consider also EGVE '99, which is held only few days 
	    after VisSym '99 at the same location:
	    http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/egve99/

  The Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization,
  VisSym '99 for short, will be held in Vienna, Austria, from May 26
  until May 28, 1999.  The conference program (available via URL
  http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99/program.html)
  covers various issues from the field of visualization, including
  quite some papers on information visualization - also the keynote
  address will be dedicated to this topic.  Registration is on-line:
  http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99/register.html,
  therefore: register now for VisSym '99!

Helwig Loeffelmann, http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/
Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology
See also: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99/
          http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/studentwork/CESCG/
          http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/diss/

=======================================================> POST 3

From: Nahum Gershon <gershon@mitre.org>
Subject: CFP:  Management of Data, Information and Knowledge   

                    Call for Participation

          Management of Data, Information and Knowledge
                       CODATA Symposium

                        28-30 June 1999
     Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

       http://www.nrc.ca/programs/codata/99gershon.html

Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability 
of fast digital network access (e.g., the World Wide Web) 
have created a demand for querying, accessing, and retrieving 
information and data. There are however some road blocks to the 
success of the information highway. They include:

- Adequate information and knowledge management strategies and 
  methodologies which will support access and retrieval for 
  distributed and heterogeneous data sources.

- Effective visualizations which will enable users to use the 
  information highway easily and efficiently.

This symposium will discuss the state-of-the art of these important
fields and will define future directions for research and 
development and for real-world implementations. 
The Symposium will consist of invited talks and short papers 
and posters in the following sessions:

- Information and Knowledge Management in Industry
- Information & Knowledge Management in Defense Systems
- Data Mining
- Tools for Information Management
- Information & Knowledge Management in Museum Collections
- Information & Knowledge Management in Geographical Information Systems
- Information & Knowledge Management in Civil Engineering

Short contributions for short papers and posters (no longer than 
two pages) should be submitted by email by 1 April 1999 to:

Nahum Gershon, gershon@mitre.org  and

Jean-Jacques Royer, royer@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

For more info:   http://www.nrc.ca/programs/codata/99gershon.html

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Nahum Gershon <gershon@mitre.org>
Subject: Short Book Review/Announcement for the Digest

Here is a short description of a new and exciting book:

Visual Language
Global Communication for the 21st Century

Robert Horn
MacroVU, Press, 1999

Available at www.barnesandnoble.com

In this book, Bob Horn makes a compelling case for considering 
visual language- the tight integration of words and visual 
elements - a truly new language with the distinct syntax and semantics
expected of a language.  He notes that the creation of visual language
emerges from people around the world.

This book has several parts. 
- an introduction to the basic concept of visual language; 
- a concise history of over 70 major innovations that form the 
  history of the language; 
- a survey of the research on the emerging syntax and semantics
  of the language; 
- a practical guide to the applications of visual language.

I find the book to be both insightful and practical.  Another 
unique feature: it is accompanied by drawings made by the author.

Nahum Gershon
gershon@mitre.org

=======================================================> POST 5

From: BEN Shneiderman <ben@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Human-Computer Interaction Laborator - 16th Annual Symposium 

16th - 16th - 16th - 16th - 16th - 16th - 16th - 16th - 16th - 16th

                 Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
       University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies

                16th Annual Symposium & Open House

                       Friday June 18, 1999

           (Pre-Symposium Workshops Thursday June 17, 1999)

Please find all information in the web site:
             http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/

To register: contact Cecilia Kullman
             cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu
             Tel (301) 405-0304
             Fax (301) 314-9658

Organized with the
  Institute of Advanced Computer Studies
  Department of Computer Science
  College of Library and Information Services
  Department of Psychology
  Institute for Systems Research
  College of Education
  Academic Information Technology Services
  College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences

Ben Shneiderman        Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
ben@cs.umd.edu         Computer Science Department  
(301) 405-2680         University of Maryland   
(301) 405-6707 fax     College Park, Md 20742     

=======================================================> POST 6

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:42:59 +0100
From: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Final CFP: IEEE Visualization 1999

Final    C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

Details at:  http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99

                Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999
                     Celebrating Ten Years
                    Call for Participation
                 October 24 - October 29, 1999
                  San Francisco Airport Hyatt
                   San Francisco, California

    THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.

                     IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

                        Sponsored by the
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics 
                 In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

VISUALIZATION is a vital research and applications frontier shared by
a variety of science, medical, engineering, business, and
entertainment fields. The tenth IEEE Visualization conference focuses
on interdisciplinary methods. Collaboration among developers and users
of visualization methods across all of science, engineering, medicine,
and commerce is addressed at Visualization '99. Sunday through Tuesday
of Conference Week will include tutorials, symposia, and
mini-workshops. Papers, panels, case studies, and late-breaking hot
topics will be presented Wednesday through Friday.

We invite you to participate in IEEE Visualization '99 by submitting
your original research through papers, panels, case studies, late
breaking hot topics, and demonstrations. Share your perspectives
through panels and workshops, or your experience through
tutorials. Please select the forum appropriate to your submission,
where it will be considered by your peers for presentation. Particular
focuses on parallel techniques in visualization and information
visualization are addressed in special two-day symposia.

For further information on the conference or symposia contact:

Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center -
+1-650-604-4524 - Fax: +1-650-604-3957 - bryson@nas.nasa.gov

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Conference Co-Chair, 
Lockheed Martin/US EPA Scientific Visualization Center - 
+1-919-541-0207 - Fax: +1-919-541-0056 - trhyne@vislab.epa.gov

See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information and 
submission details at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99

The three conference tracks cover: 

Visualization Algorithms: Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization,
Isosurfaces, Compression, Vector and Tensor Visualization,
Sonification, etc.

Visualization Techniques: Information Visualization, Databases, 
Human Perception, Human Factors, Multi-Variate Visualization, 
Virtual Reality, etc.

Visualization Applications: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace,
Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Education, Electronics,
Environment, Finance, Mathematics, Mechanics, Molecular Biology,
Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML, HTML, AVS, Data Explorer,
Iris Explorer, Khoros, etc.

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

June 25, 1999, Issue #3, Volume 1

Contents

  1. Editors' note
  2. Change of address for Jerry Isdale
  3. Searching for patents in Information Visualization
  4. InfoVis99 Late Breaking Hot Topics: deadline July 1, 1999
  5. CODATA Paris Symposium
  6. New book in Information Visualization

========================================================================

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-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs, isdale@acm.org
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: stefano@chpc.utah.edu
Subject: Editor's note

I am pleased to announce that InfoVis Digest has reached -- 150 --
subscribers.  This certainly shows that we all want to increase
communication in the growing Information Visualization community.

Now that there is a critical mass, I would like to stimulate
more information sharing.

The posts I received so far have mostly been \"announcements\" of
conferences.  Other types of announcements that are welcome are
job openings, student/post-doc fellowships, address changes,
table of contents of journals or conference proceedings.

Moreover, I advise using the list to ..... ASK questions, request
help to solve problems, search literature or other information.

I have participated to another list for more than 10 years and
I witnessed how people with knowledge and experience are eager to
help others avoid ... to reinvent the wheel.

Stefano

=======================================================> POST 2

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 22:01:00 -0700
From: Jerry Isdale <jbisdale@gte.net>
Subject: change of address

  I have changed my day job.  I am now working for HRL Labs
(the facility formerly known as Hughes Research Labs)
in the Human-Centered Systems group.

The group does a lot of work in Virtual Environments, Augmented
Reality and a host of semi-related technologies, including Info-Vis.

My work email is   isdale@isl.hrl.hac.com  (but the isdale@acm.org
is still the best to use.  jerry@isdale.com   also works)
My work phone is 310 317 5883

I'm still writing the Technology Review column for VR News.

=============
Jerry Isdale,  Technology Review Editor, VR News
 phone: 805 379 2667       1527 Wakefield Ave
 fax:   805 496 8547       Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
 email: isdale@acm.org
 http://www.vrnews.com
 http://vr.isdale.com/techReview.html

=======================================================> POST 3

From: stefano@chpc.utah.edu
Subject: Searching for patents in Information Visualization

I am searching for concepts and methods that have been patented
in information and multi-dimentional data visualization
and would welcome any pointer to patents or other feedback.

I have been doing keyword searches in the patent database,
but the results are usually not relevant.

Thank you very much in advance,

 _____________________________________________________________________
|                                                                     |
| Stefano Foresti                                                     |
| Center for High Performance Computing  Phone: +1-801-581-3173       |
| University of Utah                     Fax:   +1-801-585-5366       |
| 155 South 1452 East  RM 418            Email: stefano@chpc.utah.edu |
| Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA        WWW:   www.chpc.utah.edu     |
|_____________________________________________________________________|

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Nahum Gershon <gershon@mitre.org>
Subject: InfoVis99 Late Breaking Hot Topics: deadline July 1, 1999.

InfoVis99 Late Breaking Hot Topics.

Submission deadline: July 1, 1999

Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking \"Hot Topics\" that
pertain to all areas of Information Visualization.
These submissions must be original, may show work in progress, and
may not exceed 2500 words or a maximum of 4 pages including images.
Images to accompany the paper are recommended.
Accepted papers will be published and distributed at the conference.

Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a
revised paper.

Submissions of printed papers (8 copies, due July 1, 1999) should
be sent to:

 Nahum Gershon
 The MITRE Corporation
 1820 Dolley Madison blvd.
 McLean, VA 22102
 USA
 Phone: +1 703-883-7518
 Fax: +1 703-883-5230
 Email: gershon@mitre.org

For more information, please contact Nahum Gershon.

=======================================================> POST 5

From: Nahum Gershon <gershon@mitre.org>
Subject: CODATA Paris Symposium

CODATA Paris Symposium on the Management of Data, Information and
Knowledge, June 28-30, 1999.

This symposium will address current issues including visual
representations of information and knowledge and data mining.
More information about this symposium is to be found at

http://codata-France.itodys.jussieu.fr/april_99_symposium.htm

 Nahum Gershon
 The MITRE Corporation
 1820 Dolley Madison blvd.
 McLean, VA 22102
 USA
 Phone: +1 703-883-7518
 Fax: +1 703-883-5230
 Email: gershon@mitre.org

=======================================================> POST 6

From: bemerson@mkp.com
Subject: New book in Information Visualization

READINGS IN INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
Using Vision to Think

Written and Edited by Stuart K. Card, Jock Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, January 1999, ISBN 1-55860-533-9

This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information
visualization and offers the first-ever collection of the classic
papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical
discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to
present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover
relationships, using interactive graphics to amplify thought. This
book is intended for research professionals in academia and industry;
new graduate students and professors who want to begin work in this
burgeoning field; professionals involved in financial data analysis,
statistics, and information design; scientific data managers; and
professionals involved in medical, bioinformatics, and other areas.

FEATURES
 -- Full-color reproduction throughout
 -- Author power team: an exciting and timely collaboration between
    the field's pioneering, most-respected names
 -- The only book on Information Visualization with the depth necessary
    for use as a text or as a reference for the information professional
 -- Text includes the classic source papers as well as a collection of
    cutting edge work

CONTENTS
Information Visualization -- Space -- Interaction -- Focus + Context
-- Data -- Mapping: Text -- Higher-Level Visualization --
Using Vision to Think -- Applications and Innovations -- Conclusion
-- Bibliography -- Index

MORE INFORMATION
http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/1-55860-533-9.asp

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
San Francisco, California
http://www.mkp.com
orders@mkp.com

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

September 27, 1999, Issue #4, Volume 1

Contents

1. CFP: New Paradigms in Information Visualization + Manipulation
2. IEEE Vis'99 early registration deadline

========================================================================

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supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
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-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, ISX, jisdale@isx.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 2
From: Chris Shaw <cdshaw@cs.uregina.ca>
Subject: CFP: New Paradigms in Information Visualsation + Manipulation

Call for Papers

Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation

November 5-6, 1999
Kansas City, Missouri

In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM'99)

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/npiv/npiv99cfp.html

The CIKM'99 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and
Manipulation will be a forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas
and techniques for accessing, visualizing and manipulating information.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

   * visualization of multidimensional information spaces;
   * visualization of large, dynamic information collections;
   * shared virtual environments and simulations;
   * dynamic data visualization;
   * applications of virtual reality, including VRML;
   * multi-modal information displays;
   * applications of Internet tools such as MUDs, MOOs, and IRCs;
   * document and corpus metrics;
   * visual data mining and knowledge discovery;
   * Web or network-based visualization;
   * applications in document analysis;
   * software and hardware architectures to support information
     visualization;
   * and social interaction in multi-user information visualization systems.

We are particularly interested in reports of work in progress,
implementation techniques, and practical experience with visualization of
information collections of all sizes. A significant portion of the workshop
agenda will be devoted to discussion of pending research questions, and
directions for future work in this area.

Prospective participants are invited (but not required) to submit position
papers. The suggested maximum length is four pages. The position papers will
be reviewed by the organizing committee, and accepted papers will appear in
the workshop proceedings. The accepted papers will be selected for informal
presentation at the workshop. Accepted papers that were submitted
electronically will be available via WWW by early November.

Final Proceedings will be published by ACM Press after the workshop. Watch
this space for further information about preparation of camera-ready copy
for accepted papers.

Mail papers in either ASCII or HTML to ebert@cs.umbc.edu by September 15,
1999. We prefer e-mail submissions, but authors who lack e-mail access may
send papers to Dr. David Ebert, Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore,
MD 21250 USA. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's
affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of
multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for
correspondence.

For more information on the CIKM'99 conference, please see the CIKM'99 Web
page: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/npiv/npiv99cfp.html

                Important Dates

 Paper submission deadline  September 15, 1999
 Notification of acceptance October 13, 1999
 Workshop date              November 5-6, 1999
Chris Shaw               University of Regina
cdshaw@cs.URegina.ca     Assistant Professor
Acting Director          Institute for Computational Discovery, UofR
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~cdshaw

=======================================================> POST 2
From: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (Dirk Bartz)
Subject: IEEE Vis'99 early registration deadline

Second    C A L L   F O R   R E G I S T R A T I O N
     Early registration deadline is coming up

                Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999
                     Celebrating Ten Years
                    Call for Participation
                 October 24 - October 29, 1999
                  San Francisco Airport Hyatt
                   San Francisco, California

                http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99
            http://davinci.informatik.uni-kl.de/vis99/

    THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.

                     IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

                        Sponsored by the
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics
                 In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

WELCOME TO IEEE VISUALIZATION '99

Welcome to the 10th annual IEEE Visualization conference! Please join
us in our celebration of 10 years of leading edge research in
scientific visualization by returning to the city where we started,
San Francisco, California. In the past decade the field of scientific
visualization and the IEEE visualization conference have grown in both
size and sophistication. Reflecting this growth, our keynote talk will
describe a series of workshops by the leaders in the scientific
visualization field, resulting in \"Data and Visualization Corridors\".
This talk will lay out some of the greatest problems facing our field
today and strategies for their solution. Our capstone speaker, Rick
Stevens, looks into the future with a presentation of \"ActiveSpaces:
The Access Grid, ActiveMural and Advanced Visualization
Systems\". Between these two talks you will find reports on the state
of the art in data visualization, including new research, case studies
and vociferous and opinionated panels. You will also be able to see
and try the new technologies close up in the demonstration area and
the Creative Applications Lab (CAL).

Preceding the main conference on Wednesday through Friday are the
Sunday through Tuesday sessions. In these sessions you will find
several tutorials by leaders in the field, providing you with an
opportunity for learning the background of their research, as well as
studying their new work in depth. You will also find two symposia, the
symposium on information visualization, where techniques for the
visualization of abstract information will be studied, and the
symposium on parallel visualization and graphics, where you will see
new work in the application of parallel computer systems to our field.

Our 10th conference celebration will be loudest at the Wednesday night
banquet, where we will have special entertainment as well as
recognition of those who started the visualization conference and
nurtured it to its current success.

Please join us in San Francisco, California October 24 through 29, to
make this celebration memorable at the 10th visualization conference!

Steve Bryson, NASA Ames Research Center
Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Lockheed Martin/U.S.,
   EPA Scientific Visualization Center
IEEE Visualization '99 Conference Co-Chairs

Please check the web pages at
http://WWW.ERC.MsState.Edu/conferences/vis99/advanceprogram/registration.htm
or
http://davinci.informatik.uni-kl.de/vis99/advanceprogram/registration.htm
for details on registration.

Sunday / Monday / Tuesday Registration

You may attend any tutorial or symposium on the day(s)
registered. Registration includes Parallel Visualization and Graphics
proceedings, Information Visualization proceedings, Monday reception,
Wednesday Keynote, Wednesday-Thursday demonstrations, the conference
videotape, and CD. All tutorial, symposia, and conference proceedings
and notes are on the Vis99 CD.

			Early Registration   Late/Onsite Registration
			(received by Oct. 1)     (Oct. 2 or later)
			1-day  2-day  3-day    1-day   2-day   3-day
IEEE/ACM member		$260  $370   $480      $310    $440    $570
Nonmember		$335  $470   $605      $390    $560    $730
Full-time student	$165  $215   $265      $200    $250    $300

Conference Registration

Includes technical sessions for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Vis99
Conference proceedings, Wednesday reception, Wednesday Keynote, Friday
Capstone, Wednesday-Thursday demonstrations, and the conference
videotape and CD. All tutorial, symposia, and conference proceedings
and notes are on the Vis99 CD.

			Early Registration  Late/Onsite Registration
			(received by Oct. 1)     (Oct. 2 or later)
IEEE/ACM member		$350                   $450
Nonmember		$450                   $550
Full-time student	$195                   $250

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

October 15, 1999, Issue #5, Volume 1

Contents

1. Infovis '99 Preliminary Program
2. SIBGRAPI'99 - LAST REGISTRATION REMINDER
3. CFP: Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization
4. CFP: PDPTA'2000/CISST'2000/IC-AI'2000 Int'l Conf

========================================================================

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supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
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-  Research and development projects across academia and industry
-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos
-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, ISX, jisdale@isx.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: Nahum Gershon <gershon@mitre.org>
Subject: Infovis '99 Preliminary Program

                 Infovis '99 Preliminary Program

           Monday                            Tuesday

8:30 - 10:00 Keynote Address     8:30 - 10:00 Papers IV:
                                 Techniques for Broad-Scope
     Crossing the Information    Problems
     Visualization Chasm:
     From Innovation to               Efficient Multi-Object
     Adoption                         Dynamic Query Histograms
     - Ben Shneiderman                - M. Derthick, A. Moore,
                                      S. Roth
         - break -
                                      Aggregate Towers: Scale
10:30 - 12:00 Papers I:               Sensitive Visualization
Understanding Time Dependent          And Decluttering of
and Evolving Information              GeoSpatial Data
                                      - J. Rayson
     Cluster and Calendar
     based Visualization of           VisageWeb: Visualizing WWW
     Time Series Data                 Data in Visage
     - J. van Wijk, E. van            - M. Higgins, P. Lucas, J.
     Selow                            Senn

     Visualizing Application                - break -
     Behaviour on SuperScalar
     Processors                  10:30 - 12:00 Late Breaking Hot
     - C. Stolte, R. Bosch,      Topics
     P. Hanrahan, M.
     Rosenblum                        Navigating Desktop
                                      GeoVirtual Environments
     Sensemaking of Evolving          - S. Fuhrmann, A.
     Web Sites Using                  MacEachren
     Visualization
     Spreadsheets                     Ordering Categorial Data
     - E. Chi, S. Card, P.            to Improve Visualization
     Pirolli                          - S. Ma, J. Hellerstein

         - lunch -                    InfoStill: A Task-Oriented
                                      Framework for Analyzing
1:30 - 3:00 Papers II:                Data Through Information
Evaluation and Design of              Visualization
Visualization Systems                 - K. Cox, S. Hibino, L.
                                      Hong, A. Mockus, G. Wills
     Does Animation Help
     Users Build Mental Maps          ThemeRiver: In Search of
     of Spatial Information?          Trends, Patterns, and
     - B. Bederson, A.                Relationships
     Boltman                          - S. Havre, B. Hetlzer, L.
                                      Nowell
     Evaluating a
     Visualization of Image           A Multiple-Focus
     Similarity as a Tool for         Visualization Technique
     Image Browsing                   Using Heat Models and
     - K. Rodden, W. Basalaj,         Force-Directed Layout
     D. Sinclair, K. Wood             - N. Osawa

     Short paper: Domain              Space Series: Simulation
     Analysis: A Technique to         Display of Spatial and
     Design a User-Centered           Temporal Data
     Visualization Framework          - D. Glaser, M. Hearst
     - O. Espinosa, C.
     Hendrickson, J. Garrett          Evaluating Space-Filling
     Jr.                              Visualizations for
                                      Hierarchical Structures
     Short paper: A Framework         - J. Stasko, M. Guzdial,
     for Focus+Context                K. McDonald
     Visualization
     - S. Bjork, L.                   Visualizing Causal
     Holmquist, J. Redstrom           Relations
                                      - C. Ware, E. Neufeld, L.
         - break -                    Bartram

3:30 - 5:00 Papers III:               Visualization of Temporal
Investigating Hierarchies and         Distances
Graphs:                               - G. Scheuerman, T.
                                      Wischgoll
     Navigating Hierarchies
     with Structure-Based                   - lunch -
     Brushes
     - Y-H. Fua, M. Ward, E.     1:30 - 3:00 Papers VI: Data
     Rudensteiner                Mining and High Dimensional
                                 Visualization
     Dynamic Hierarchy
     Specification and                The Automated
     Visualization                    Multidimensional Detective
     - R. Wilson, R. Bergeron
                                      - A. Inselberg, T. Avidan
     Short paper: Cushion
     Treemaps                         Short paper: Visualizing
     - J. van Wijk, H. van de         Association Rules for Text
     Wetering                         Mining
                                      - P. Wong, P. Whitney, J.
     Short paper: 3D                  Thomas
     Interactive
     Visualization for                Short paper: A Java-based
     Inter-Cell Dependencies          Visual Mining
     of Spreadsheets                  Infrastructure and
     - H. Shiozawa, K. Okada,         Applications
     Y. Matsushita                    - M. Hao, U. Dayal, M.
                                      Hsu, J. Baker, R. D'Eletto
         - break -
                                      Short paper: The Sunflower
5:15 - 6:00 Late Breaking Hot         Visual Metaphor, a New
Topic Case Studies                    Paradigm for Dimensional
                                      Compression
     Visualizing Situation            - S. Rose
     Data Uncertainty Using
     Dempster-Shafer                  Short paper:
     Evidential Reasoning             Constellation: A
     - P. Tinker, K. Resier,          Visualization Tool for
     M. Daily, Y. Chen, J.            Linguistic Queries from
     Fox                              MindNet
                                      - T. Munzner, F.
     Terrain Surface                  Guimbretiere, G. Robertson
     Visualization Using the
     Open GL API                            - break -
     - K. Matson and D.
     McAllister                  3:30 - 5:00 Capstone Address

     Virtual Hazard Anaysis:          Cognitive Origins of
     A Methodology For The            Graphic Displays
     Chemical Industry                - Barbara Tversky
     - R. Hale, B. Chadwell,
     G. Holderbaum, L.
     Modisette

     A Combined Visualization
     Approach for WWW-Search
     Results
     - T. Mann, H. Reiterer

     Perceptual Cognition and
     The Design of Air
     Traffic Control
     Interfaces
     - B. Fisher, J. Dill, M.
     Liljefors

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@dcc.unicamp.br>
Subject: SIBGRAPI'99 - LAST REGISTRATION REMINDER  * * *

               * * *  LAST REGISTRATION REMINDER  * * *

SIBGRAPI'99 - XII Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graphics and Image Processing

 IHC'99 - II Brazilian Workshop on Human Factors in Computer Systems

        GeoInfo'99  - I Brazilian Workshop on Geo-Informatics

         University of Campinas, Brazil - October 17-21, 1999

         + Tutorials + Invited Lectures + Panel Discussions +
      + Research Papers + Technical Posters + Product Showcase +
                   + Video Show + Electronic Art +

      *** REGISTRATION RATES WILL INCREASE AFTER OCT/08/1999 ***

    GENERAL INFORMATION: http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/sibgrapi99/
FAX REGISTRATION FORM: http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/sib99/pc/reg-form-e.html

                e-mail: sibgrapi99@dca.fee.unicamp.br
          Fone: +55 (19) 788-3776  - Fax: +55 (19) 289-1395

=======================================================> POST 3

From: Robert.van.Liere@cw
Subject: CFP: Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

                ***   C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S   ***

       Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

               May 29-31, 2000,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands

                         http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00

Aims and Scope
--------------

Following nine Eurographics workshops on Visualization in Scientific
Computing
and the Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization in 1999, we
invite
you to participate in the second

        Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

Papers and case studies will form the scientific content of the the event.
Papers are invited that present research results from all areas
of visualization. Case studies report on practical applications of
visualization to data analysis.

Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to :

- Flow visualization
- Information visualization
- Human factors in visualization
- Large data sets
- Volume rendering
- Internet-based visualization
- User interaction techniques
- Multi-Variate visualization
- Surface extraction
- Data base visualization
- Visualization systems
- Multi resolution techniques

Case studies are invited from any application area, including:
Physics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry,
Molecular Biology, Finance, Mathematics, Hypermedia Structures,
Data Mining.

Accepted papers and case studies will be published in a book by
Springer-Verlag.

Important Dates
---------------

 3 December 1999 : Paper submission deadline
17 January  2000 : Notification of acceptance
18 February 2000 : Camera ready copies
29-31 May   2000 : EG-IEEE VisSym'00

Paper Submission
----------------

Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper.
Accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag.
Accepted research and case study papers are limited to 10 pages. In the
book one additional page of color plates per paper is available.
Further instructions for the preparation and uploading of papers
are available via http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00

If you are not able to upload your paper electronically
you alternatively can send two copies of the full paper
including figures and images by regular mail to
Conference co-chair Robert van Liere (see address below)

Program Committee
-----------------

 * Dirk Bartz           Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany
 * Ken Brodlie          Univ. of Leeds, UK
 * Daniel Cohen-Or      Tel Aviv University, Israel
 * Sabine Coquillart    INRIA, France
 * Roger Crawfis        Ohio State Univ. USA
 * Stephen Eick         Visual Insights, USA
 * Thomas Ertl          Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
 * Sarah Gibson         MERL, USA
 * Michel Grave         ONERA Chatillon France
 * Eduard Groeller      Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 * Markus Gross         ETH, Switzerland
 * Hans Hagen           Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
 * Ivan Herman          CWI, the Netherlands
 * Arie Kaufman         SUNY Stony Brook, USA
 * Daniel Keim          Univ. of Halle, Germany
 * David N. Kenwright   NASA, USA
 * Wim de Leeuw CWI     the Netherlands
 * Robert van Liere     CWI, the Netherlands
 * Wilfrid Lefer        Univ. of Littoral, France
 * Nelson Max           LLNL, USA
 * Robert Moorhead      Mississippi State Univ, USA
 * Gregory Nielson      Arizona State Univ., USA
 * Hans-Georg Pagendarm DLR, Germany
 * Hanspeter Pfister    MERL, USA
 * Frits Post           Delft Univ. of Technology, the Netherlands
 * William Ribarsky     Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA
 * Martin Rumpf         Univ. of Bonn, Germany
 * Georgios Sakas       FHG, Germany
 * Roberto Scopigno     IEI-CNR Pisa, Italy
 * Deborah Silver       Rutgers University, USA
 * Pavel Slavik         Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic
 * Robert Spence        Imperial College London, UK
 * Hans Spoelder        Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 * Jarke van Wijk       Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, the Netherlands

EG-IEEE VisSym'00 Committee
---------------------------

Symposium Co-Chairs:
        Robert van Liere, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
        Ivan Herman, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
        William Ribarsky, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of
Technology

Papers Co-Chairs:
        Frits Post,Technical University Delft
        Jarke van Wijk, Technical University Eindhoven

Local organization co-chairs:
        Wim de Leeuw, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
        Guy Melancon, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science

Symposium Venue and Format
--------------------------

The event will be held in Amsterdam at the Center for Mathematics and
Computer Science. The event is open to all those with an interest in
visualization. Students, in particular, are encouraged to participate.
The three day symposium will be organized as an assembly of plenary
presentations.  Invited presentations will be included.

Related Events
--------------

VisSym'00 is followed by:

6th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments. This workshop will
be held on June 1st and 2nd also at the Center for Mathematics and
Computer Science.

Contact
-------

Any questions concerning the goals, scope and organization can
be addressed to: vissym00@cwi.nl

or to:

Robert van Liere
Symposium Co-Chair of VisSym '00
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Software Engineering
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
email: robertl@cwi.nl
tel: +31 20 5924118
fax: +31 20 5924199

Robert van Liere
Department of Software Engineering
Center of Mathematics and Computer Science
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
<http://www.cwi.nl/~robertl>

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Hamid Arabnia <hra@cs.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP: PDPTA'2000/CISST'2000/IC-AI'2000 Int'l Conf

Dear Colleagues:

I would be most grateful if you could distribute the appended
Call For Papers (for the three conferences - the CFPs are separated
with a row of stars, \"*\") to your colleagues who might be
interested.  This will be a major international gathering in year
2000.  Any help in distributing this announcement would be
most appreciated.

   1.  The 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
       Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2000),
       June 26 - 29, 2000, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

   2.  The 2000 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems,
       and Technology (CISST'2000),
       June 26 - 29, 2000, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

   3.  The 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
       (IC-AI'2000),
       June 26 - 29, 2000, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The above three conferences will be held simultaneously (same location
and dates).  Other conferences will also be added to the above list.
Those interested in organizing technical sessions for any of the
above three conferences need to submit a proposal to hra@cs.uga.edu
(see below for submission guideline.)  The names of session
organizers will appear as Associate Editors on the cover of the
conference proceedings.  Those who would like to become a member of
the Program Committee for any of the above conferences are requested
to email their short biography to hra@cs.uga.edu.

Deadlines:
    February 28, 2000 (Monday):   Draft papers (about 4 pages) due
    April 3, 2000 (Monday):       Notification of acceptance
    May 1, 2000 (Monday):         Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26 - 29, 2000:           PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI Conferences

A link to PDPTA'2000 web site will soon be available from:

                  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta

Kindest regards,
Hamid R. Arabnia

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                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                     =============================

      The 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
                Processing Techniques and Applications
                             (PDPTA'2000)

                          June 26 - 29, 2000
                  Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2000) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada,
June 26 - 29, 2000.
The PDPTA'2000 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location
and dates) with The International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems,
and technology (CISST) and The International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IC-AI).

The last conference (PDPTA'99) had research contributions from 44
countries (750 participants from all over the world.)  It is hoped that
PDPTA'2000 will also have a strong international flavor.  For information
regarding the five most recent PDPTA conferences (PDPTA'95, PDPTA'96,
PDPTA'97, PDPTA'98, & PDPTA'99), refer to:
                  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta
(there will soon be a link from the same web site for PDPTA'2000.)

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 4 pages and/or a
proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission
information).  All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS
ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

       O  Parallel/Distributed applications:
          Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and fuzzy
          logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer vision,
          computer graphics and virtual reality, parallel/distributed
          databases, banking, financial markets, ...

       O  Parallel/Distributed architectures:
          Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies,
          supercomputers, shared memory, distributed memory,
          general- and special-purpose architectures,
          instructional level parallelism, ...

       O  Building block processors:
          Applications of processors that can be used as basic building
          blocks for multicomputer systems.

       O  Networks and Interconnection networks:
          Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing issues,
          general-purpose network performance for distributed
          applications, network protocols, ATM-based systems, internet
          technology, Optical interconnections and computing,  ...

       O  Reliability and fault-tolerance:
          Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and
          application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance
          measurement.

       O  Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ...

       O  Real-time and embedded systems:
          Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance control,
          data acquisition, and analysis; configuration, routing,
          scheduling, performance guarantees.

       O  Parallel/Distributed algorithms:
          Algorithms exploiting clusters and general-purpose
          distributed and parallel systems, new vector/pipeline issues,
          shared memory, distributed memory, virtual memory, ...

       O  Mobile computation and communication.

       O  Object Oriented Technology and related issues.

       O  Multimedia Communications, Systems, and Applications:
          High-speed networking, multimedia architectures and protocols,
          multimedia applications, quality of service support,
          operating system and networking support, internet tools and
          applications, audio/video delivery over the internet, ...

       O  Software tools and environments for parallel and distributed
          platforms: Operating systems, compilers, languages,
          debuggers, monitoring tools, software engineering on parallel/
          distributed systems, ...

       O  High-performance computing in Computational Science:
          Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research programs
          and applications.

       O  Information and data fusion.

       O  Web-based simulation and computing.

       O  Education: parallel and distributed processing in computer
          science curriculum (both graduate and undergraduate levels.)

       O  Recent history (1990-1999) of parallel/distributed processing
          and what to expect during the next decade (2000-2009) if history
          repeats itself; New horizons.

       O  Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance
          computations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

      Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their
      draft paper (about 4 pages) to H. R. Arabnia (address is given
      below) by the due date.  E-mail and Fax submissions are also
      acceptable.  The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted)
      will be limited to 7 pages.  Papers must not have been
      previously published or currently submitted for publication
      elsewhere.

      The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the
      paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address,
      telephone number, and Fax number for each author.  The first
      page should also include the name of the author who will be
      presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

      Each technical session will have  at least 6 paper presentations.
      The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
      sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
      The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
      the conference proceedings.  After the conference, some sessions
      will be considered for publication in appropriate journals as
      Special Issues with the session proposer as the Guest Editor
      of the journal.

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the
      following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer,
      title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the
      session, and a short description on how the session will
      be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
      from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
      session proposer).
      Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below);
      E-mail submissions are preferred.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

      Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
      and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in
      the topical area.  The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by
      one person.

PUBLICATION:

      The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press
      (ISBN).  It will be a multivolume set.  The proceedings will
      be available at the conference.  Some accepted papers will also
      be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference).

ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS:

      A number of university faculty members and their staff
      in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division,
      Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conference.  The conference
      will be sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, &
      Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953)
      in cooperation with research centers, international associations,
      international research groups, and developers of high-performance
      machines and systems.  The complete list of sponsors and co-sponsors
      will be available at a later time.
      (Last conference's sponsors included: CSREA, the National
      Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment - DOE,
      The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in
      Simulation, The International Technology Institute (ITI), The Java
      High Performance Computing research group, World Scientific and
      Engineering Society, Sundance Digitial Signal Processing Inc.,
      the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., ...)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

      The conference will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
      hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.  This is a mega hotel
      with excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms.
      The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free
      shuttles to and from the airport.  This hotel has many
      vacation and recreational attractions, including:
      waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks,
      Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted
      tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
      sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
      shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping
      area, bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24
      hours a day and most are suitable for families and children.
      The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees
      is very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge
      for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference.

      The hotel is within walking distance from most other
      Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
      destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street
      shows, ...).
      For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of
      Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho,
      Utah, and Arizona.  Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away
      from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego,
      Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...

EXHIBITION:

      An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conference.
      We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces.  Interested parties
      should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below).
      All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors
      of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

        February 28, 2000 (Monday):   Draft papers (about 4 pages) due
        April 3, 2000 (Monday):       Notification of acceptance
        May 1, 2000 (Monday):         Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
        June 26 - 29, 2000:           PDPTA'2000 Conference

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as
      soon as possible.
      All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

      The Program Committee is currently being formed.  Those interested
      in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
      (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information:
      Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
      email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with
      research interests.

OTHER INFORMATION:

      It is planned to add other related conferences to be held
      simultaneously (same location and dates) creating an international
      multiconference.  Each conference will have it's own proceedings
      and technical/research sessions.

CONFERENCE CONTACT:

          Hamid R. Arabnia
          The University of Georgia
          Department of Computer Science
          415 Graduate Studies Research Center
          Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

          Tel: (706) 542-3480
          Fax: (706) 542-2966
          E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

***********************************************************************

                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                     =============================

         The 2000 International Conference on Imaging Science,
                        Systems, and Technology
                             (CISST'2000)

                          June 26 - 29, 2000
                Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2000 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and
Technology (CISST'2000) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26 - 29,
2000.  All aspects of image processing, graphics, and pattern
recognition are included in CISST.  The CISST'2000 Conference
will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with The
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Techniques and Applications (PDPTA) and The International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI) -
(a link for CISST'2000 will soon be available from the PDPTA's site:
http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta).

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 4 pages and/or a
proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission
information).  All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS
ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

       O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing
       O  Image display techniques
       O  Image data structures and databases
       O  Convergence of imaging media (video and computer)
       O  Virtual reality
       O  Image compression, coding, and encryption
       O  Tools for multimedia production and services
       O  Digital imaging for film and television
       O  Visualization
       O  Scene and object modeling
       O  Knowledge acquisition
       O  Visual inspection
       O  Document image understanding
       O  Image algebra
       O  Optical image processing systems
       O  Mathematical morphology
       O  Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including
          parallel architectures and algorithms)
       O  Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic
       O  Performance analysis and evaluation
       O  Software tools and environments for imaging
       O  Animation
       O  Geometric modeling and Fractals
       O  CAD/CAM systems
       O  Rendering techniques
       O  Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS,
          remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision),
          nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ...
       O  Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing
       O  Image sequence processing
       O  Information fusion
       O  Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

      Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their
      draft paper (about 4 pages) to H. R. Arabnia (address is given
      below) by the due date.  E-mail and Fax submissions are also
      acceptable.  The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted)
      will be limited to 7 pages.  Papers must not have been
      previously published or currently submitted for publication
      elsewhere.

      The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the
      paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address,
      telephone number, and Fax number for each author.  The first
      page should also include the name of the author who will be
      presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

      Each technical session will have at least 6 paper presentations.
      The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
      sessions; including, soliciting papers (recruiting), reviewing,
      selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear as
      Associate Editors in the conference proceedings.  After the
      conference, some sessions will be considered for publication
      in appropriate journals as Special Issues with the session
      proposer as the Guest Editor of the journal.

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the
      following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer,
      title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the
      session, and a short description on how the session will be
      advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
      from colleagues and researchers whose work is already known to the
      session proposer.)
      Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below);
      E-mail submissions are preferred.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

      Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
      clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two
      researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready papers
      will be reviewed by one person.

PUBLICATION:

      The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press
      (ISBN).  The proceedings will be available at the conference.
      Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal
      publication (after the conference.)

ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS:

      A number of university faculty members and their staff
      in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division,
      Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conference.  The conference
      will be sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, &
      Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953)
      in cooperation with research centers, international associations,
      international research groups, and developers of high-performance
      machines and systems.  The complete list of sponsors and co-sponsors
      will be available at a later time.
      (Last conference's sponsors included: CSREA, the National
      Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment - DOE,
      The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in
      Simulation, The International Technology Institute (ITI), The Java
      High Performance Computing research group, World Scientific and
      Engineering Society, Sundance Digitial Signal Processing Inc.,
      the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., ...)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

      The conference will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
      hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.  This is a mega hotel
      with excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms.
      The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free
      shuttles to and from the airport.  This hotel has many
      vacation and recreational attractions, including:
      waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks,
      Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted
      tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
      sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
      shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping
      area, bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24
      hours a day and most are suitable for families and children.
      The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees
      is very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge
      for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference.

      The hotel is within walking distance from most other
      Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
      destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street
      shows, ...).
      For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of
      Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho,
      Utah, and Arizona.  Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away
      from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego,
      Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...

EXHIBITION:

      An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conference.
      We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces.  Interested parties
      should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below).
      All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors
      of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

        February 28, 2000 (Monday):   Draft papers (about 4 pages) due
        April 3, 2000 (Monday):       Notification of acceptance
        May 1, 2000 (Monday):         Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
        June 26 - 29, 2000:           CISST'2000 Conference

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as
      soon as possible.
      All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

      The Program Committee is currently being formed.  Those interested
      in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
      (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information:
      Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
      email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with
      research interests.

OTHER INFORMATION:

      It is planned to add other related conferences to be held
      simultaneously (same location and dates) creating an international
      multiconference.  Each conference will have it's own proceedings
      and technical/research sessions.

CONFERENCE CONTACT:

          Hamid R. Arabnia
          The University of Georgia
          Department of Computer Science
          415 Graduate Studies Research Center
          Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

          Tel: (706) 542-3480
          Fax: (706) 542-2966
          E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

  (A link to CISST'2000 web site will soon be created from:
                  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta)

***********************************************************************

                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                     =============================

      The 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                            (IC-AI'2000)

                         June 26 - 29, 2000
               Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be
held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26 - 29, 2000.

The IC-AI'2000 will be held simultaneously (same location and dates)
with The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Techniques and Applications (PDPTA) and The International Conference on
Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST).
(A link to IC-AI'2000 web site will soon be available from:
http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta)

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 4 pages and/or a
proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission
information).  All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS
ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

             O.  Intelligent Information Systems
             O.  Intelligent Software Engineering
             O.  Intelligent Agents
             O.  Intelligent Networks
             O.  Intelligent Databases
             O.  Brain Models
             O.  Evolutionary Algorithms
             O.  Data mining
             O.  Machine Learning
             O.  Reasoning Strategies
             O.  Automated Problem Solving
             O.  Distributed AI Algorithms and Techniques
             O.  Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
             O.  Expert Systems
             O.  Fuzzy Logic
             O.  Genetic Algorithms
             O.  Heuristic Searching
             O.  Knowledge Acquisition
             O.  Knowledge Discovery
             O.  Knowledge Representation
             O.  Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques
             O.  Languages and Programming Techniques for AI
             O.  Software Tools for AI
             O.  Natural Language Processing
             O.  Neural Networks and Applications
             O.  Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications
             O.  Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion
             O.  Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion
             O.  Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques
             O.  Integration of AI with other Technologies
             O.  Evaluation of AI Tools
             O.  Social Impact of AI
             O.  Applications - Computer Vision
             O.  Applications - Signal Processing
             O.  Applications - Military
             O.  Applications - Surveillance
             O.  Applications - Robotics
             O.  Applications - Medicine
             O.  Applications - Pattern Recognition
             O.  Applications - Face Recognition
             O.  Applications - Finger Print Recognition
             O.  Applications - Finance and Marketing
             O.  Applications - Stock Market
             O.  Applications - Education
             O.  Emerging Applications

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

      Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their
      draft paper (about 4 pages) to H. R. Arabnia (address is given
      below) by the due date.  E-mail and Fax submissions are also
      acceptable.  The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted)
      will be limited to 7 pages.  Papers must not have been
      previously published or currently submitted for publication
      elsewhere.

      The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the
      paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address,
      telephone number, and Fax number for each author.  The first
      page should also include the name of the author who will be
      presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

      Each technical session will have at least 6 paper presentations.
      The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
      sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
      The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
      the conference proceedings.  After the conference, some sessions
      will be considered for publication in appropriate journals as
      Special Issues with the session proposer as the Guest Editor
      of the journal.

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the
      following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer,
      title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the
      session, and a short description on how the session will
      be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
      from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
      session proposer).
      Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below);
      E-mail submissions are preferred.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

      Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
      and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in
      the topical area.  The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by
      one person.

PUBLICATION:

      The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press
      (ISBN).  The proceedings will be available at the conference.
      Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal
      publication (soon after the conference).

ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS:

      A number of university faculty members and their staff
      in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division,
      Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conference.  The conference
      will be sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, &
      Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953)
      in cooperation with research centers, international associations,
      international research groups, and developers of high-performance
      machines and systems.  The complete list of sponsors and co-sponsors
      will be available at a later time.
      (Last conference's sponsors included: CSREA, the National
      Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment - DOE,
      The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in
      Simulation, The International Technology Institute (ITI), The Java
      High Performance Computing research group, World Scientific and
      Engineering Society, Sundance Digitial Signal Processing Inc.,
      the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., ...)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

      The conference will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
      hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.  This is a mega hotel
      with excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms.
      The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free
      shuttles to and from the airport.  This hotel has many
      vacation and recreational attractions, including:
      waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks,
      Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted
      tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
      sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
      shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping
      area, bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24
      hours a day and most are suitable for families and children.
      The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees
      is very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge
      for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference.

      The hotel is within walking distance from most other
      Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
      destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street
      shows, ...).
      For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of
      Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho,
      Utah, and Arizona.  Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away
      from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego,
      Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...

EXHIBITION:

      An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conference.
      We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces.  Interested parties
      should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below).
      All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors
      of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

        February 28, 2000 (Monday):   Draft papers (about 4 pages) due
        April 3, 2000 (Monday):       Notification of acceptance
        May 1, 2000 (Monday):         Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
        June 26 - 29, 2000:           IC-AI'2000 Conference

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as
      soon as possible.
      All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

      The Program Committee is currently being formed.  Those interested
      in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
      (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information:
      Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
      email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with
      research interests.

OTHER INFORMATION:

      It is planned to add other related conferences to be held
      simultaneously (same location and dates) creating an international
      multiconference.  Each conference will have it's own proceedings
      and technical/research sessions.

CONFERENCE CONTACT:

          Hamid R. Arabnia
          The University of Georgia
          Department of Computer Science
          415 Graduate Studies Research Center
          Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

          Tel: (706) 542-3480
          Fax: (706) 542-2966
          E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

  (A link to IC-AI'2000 web site will soon be available from:
                  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta)

***********************************************************************

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

November 23, 1999, Issue #6, Volume 1

Contents

1. CFP: Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization
2. Call for Papers for Graphics Interface 2000

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   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, ISX, jisdale@isx.com
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=======================================================> POST 1

From: Robert.van.Liere@cwi.nl
Subject: Second and LAST call for papers

      _____________________________________________________________

                ***   C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S   ***

       Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

               May 29-31, 2000,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands
      _____________________________________________________________

                         http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00

Aims and Scope
--------------

Following nine Eurographics workshops on Visualization in Scientific
Computing
and the Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization in 1999, we
invite
you to participate in the second

        Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

Papers and case studies will form the scientific content of the the event.
Papers are invited that present research results from all areas
of visualization. Case studies report on practical applications of
visualization to data analysis.

Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to :

- Flow visualization
- Information visualization
- Human factors in visualization
- Large data sets
- Volume rendering
- Internet-based visualization
- User interaction techniques
- Multi-Variate visualization
- Surface extraction
- Data base visualization
- Visualization systems
- Multi resolution techniques

Case studies are invited from any application area, including:
Physics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry,
Molecular Biology, Finance, Mathematics, Hypermedia Structures,
Data Mining.

Accepted papers and case studies will be published in a book by
Springer-Verlag.

Important Dates
---------------

 3 December 1999 : Paper submission deadline
17 January  2000 : Notification of acceptance
18 February 2000 : Camera ready copies
29-31 May   2000 : EG-IEEE VisSym'00

Paper Submission
----------------

Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper.
Accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag.
Accepted research and case study papers are limited to 10 pages. In the
book one additional page of color plates per paper is available.
Further instructions for the preparation and uploading of papers
are available via http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00

If you are not able to upload your paper electronically
you alternatively can send two copies of the full paper
including figures and images by regular mail to
Conference co-chair Robert van Liere (see address below)

Program Committee
-----------------

 * Dirk Bartz           Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany
 * Ken Brodlie          Univ. of Leeds, UK
 * Daniel Cohen-Or      Tel Aviv University, Israel
 * Sabine Coquillart    INRIA, France
 * Roger Crawfis        Ohio State Univ. USA
 * Stephen Eick         Visual Insights, USA
 * Thomas Ertl          Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
 * Sarah Gibson         MERL, USA
 * Michel Grave         ONERA Chatillon France
 * Eduard Groeller      Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 * Markus Gross         ETH, Switzerland
 * Hans Hagen           Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
 * Ivan Herman          CWI, the Netherlands
 * Arie Kaufman         SUNY Stony Brook, USA
 * Daniel Keim          Univ. of Halle, Germany
 * David N. Kenwright   NASA, USA
 * Wim de Leeuw CWI     the Netherlands
 * Robert van Liere     CWI, the Netherlands
 * Wilfrid Lefer        Univ. of Littoral, France
 * Nelson Max           LLNL, USA
 * Robert Moorhead      Mississippi State Univ, USA
 * Gregory Nielson      Arizona State Univ., USA
 * Hans-Georg Pagendarm DLR, Germany
 * Hanspeter Pfister    MERL, USA
 * Frits Post           Delft Univ. of Technology, the Netherlands
 * William Ribarsky     Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA
 * Martin Rumpf         Univ. of Bonn, Germany
 * Georgios Sakas       FHG, Germany
 * Roberto Scopigno     IEI-CNR Pisa, Italy
 * Deborah Silver       Rutgers University, USA
 * Pavel Slavik         Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic
 * Robert Spence        Imperial College London, UK
 * Hans Spoelder        Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 * Jarke van Wijk       Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, the Netherlands

EG-IEEE VisSym'00 Committee
---------------------------

Symposium Co-Chairs:
        Robert van Liere, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
        Ivan Herman, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
        William Ribarsky, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of
Technology

Papers Co-Chairs:
        Frits Post,Technical University Delft
        Jarke van Wijk, Technical University Eindhoven

Local organization co-chairs:
        Wim de Leeuw, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
        Guy Melancon, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science

Symposium Venue and Format
--------------------------

The event will be held in Amsterdam at the Center for Mathematics and
Computer Science. The event is open to all those with an interest in
visualization. Students, in particular, are encouraged to participate.
The three day symposium will be organized as an assembly of plenary
presentations.  Invited presentations will be included.

Related Events
--------------

VisSym'00 is followed by:

6th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments. This workshop will
be held on June 1st and 2nd also at the Center for Mathematics and
Computer Science.

Contact
-------

Any questions concerning the goals, scope and organization can
be addressed to: vissym00@cwi.nl

or to:

Robert van Liere
Symposium Co-Chair of VisSym '00
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Software Engineering
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
email: robertl@cwi.nl
tel: +31 20 5924118
fax: +31 20 5924199

Robert van Liere
Department of Software Engineering
Center of Mathematics and Computer Science
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

=======================================================> POST 2

From: sidney fels <ssfels@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Call for Papers for Graphics Interface 2000

                            GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2000
                               Palais des Congrès
                            Montréal, Québec, Canada
                                 15-17 May 2000

Call for Papers

GI 2000 is a unique event that presents the latest results in computer
graphics and human-computer interaction.  It offers three days of Invited
Speakers, Posters, and Submitted Papers.  A Banquet and Electronic Theatre
provide additional opportunities to meet speakers and other attendees for
informal discussion in a social setting.  This conference is sponsored by
Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society.

This year will be the 26th annual Graphics Interface. It is the oldest
regularly scheduled computer graphics and human-computer interface
conference
in the world. Graphics Interface has established a reputation for a
high-quality technical program, and the excellence of its invited speakers.
Full details are on the GI 2000 web site
(http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gi2000)

GI 2000 will be held at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Québec, Canada,
in conjunction with four other conferences: AI 2000 (Artificial
Intelligence),
VI 2000 (Vision Interface), 10th annual PRECARN-IRIS (Institute for Robotics
and Intelligent Systems), and ISR 2000 (31st International Symposium on
Robotics). This special joint event offers a unique opportunity to broaden
dissemination of the scientific results and to foster the exchange of
expertise across adjacent research fields. To promote these exchanges, all
attendees will have access to the presentations of these parallel
conferences,
as well as to the following exhibitions: Robotics of Tomorrow Exhibition,
the Montreal Fabricating and Machine Tool Show, and the National Factory
Automation Show.

Montréal is a lively Canadian city located on an island in the St. Lawrence
River. It is well connected by all major international airlines. Its four
universities, several research institutes, world class technologies
industry,
theatres, and museums have contributed to its international reputation as a
dynamic business, scientific, and cultural center. With a population
representing 80 ethnic groups, Montréal is known for its \"joie de vivre\"!

Conference and Program Chairs
Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia
Pierre Poulin, Université de Montréal

Posters Chair
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University

Videos Chair
Pierre Poulin, Université de Montréal

Program Committee
Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA, Rennes
Frédo Durand, MIT
Deborah Fels, Ryerson Polytechnic University
Mark Green, University of Alberta
Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan
Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University
Kori Inkpen, Simon Fraser University
Paul Lalonde, Electronic Arts
Michael McCool, University of Waterloo
Chris Shaw, University of Regina
Mikio Shinya, NTT, Japan
James Stewart, University of Toronto
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University
Ben Watson, University of Alberta
Shuman Zhai, IBM Almaden Research Center

Invited Speakers
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab
Demitri Terzopolous, University of Toronto

Important Dates
Papers due:              19 November 1999
Decision for Papers:      1 February 2000
Posters due:              7 March 2000
Videos due:               7 March 2000
Camera-ready papers due:  3 April 2000
Decision for Posters:    10 April 2000
Decision for Videos:     10 April 2000

Submissions

Contributions are solicited describing unpublished research results and
applications experience in all areas of computer graphics and human-computer
interaction, specifically including the following:

- Image synthesis & realism             - User interfaces & modeling
- Image-based rendering techniques      - Shading & rendering algorithms
- Windowing systems                     - Hardware techniques
- Geometric modeling & meshing          - Computer cartography
- Computer supported cooperative work   - Computer animation
- Image processing                      - Interaction techniques
- Medical graphics                      - Graphics for CAD/CAM
- Graphics in education                 - Computer-aided building design
- Graphics & the arts                   - Industrial & robotics applications
- Visualization                         - Graphics in business
- Graphics in simulation                - Mobile computing
- Haptic interfaces                     - Human interface devices

Papers (20 double-spaced pages or fewer) must be received by 19 November
1999.
The submissions this year will be entirely electronic, please visit the
Graphics
Interface web site for the description of the submission process. In
exceptional
cases, traditional submissions will be accepted by first contacting one of
the
conference co-chairs. Refereeing will be double blind. Only the title,
without
any indication of authorship or author location, should appear on the
manuscript
body. A separate file (sheet) should contain the manuscript title, abstract,
and
the full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and email
addresses for all authors.  One author should be designated the contact
author
for subsequent correspondence regarding the paper.  Accepted papers will be
published in the Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the contact author
by
1 February 2000. Camera ready copy of accepted papers is due 3 April 2000.
Each
paper will be allotted up to eight (8) pages in the proceedings. Extra
charges
will be made for papers exceeding the limit and for coloured photos. The GI
2000
proceedings will be available to SIGGRAPH Plus members.  Exceptionally good
papers will be considered for publication in journals.  Arrangements exist
for
the best graphics papers to be considered by Computer Graphics Forum and for
the
best human-computer interface papers to be considered by Behaviour &
Information
Technology.

Conference Co-Chair addresses:

Sidney Fels
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone: +1 604-822-5338
Fax:     +1 604-822-5949
Email:  ssfels@ece.ubc.ca

Pierre Poulin
Dép. I.R.O.
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7
Phone: +1 514-343-6780
Fax:     +1 514-343-5834
Email:  poulin@iro.umontreal.ca

For the latest information on the Call for Papers, the submission process,
and
the 2000 conference, visit the Graphics Interface web site at :

           http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gi2000

Important Dates

Papers due:              19 November 1999
Decision for Papers:      1 February 2000
Posters due:              7 March 2000
Videos due:               7 March 2000
Camera-ready papers due:  3 April 2000
Decision for Posters:    10 April 2000
Decision for Videos:     10 April 2000

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

December 15, 1999, Issue #7, Volume 1

Contents

1. Need Panelists for NSF's ITR Proposals
2. Ben Shneiderman's Infovis99 keynote slides
3. CFP - IEEE InfoVis 2000
4. CFP - Workshop WebVis 2000 at Dexa 2000

========================================================================

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Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

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=======================================================> POST 1

From: admin@hpcu.org
Subject: Need Panelists for NSF's ITR Proposals

Dear Colleague:

*** URGENT!*** WE NEED YOUR HELP! IMMEDIATE REPSONSE !***

NSF is preparing for the review of proposals submitted to
the Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative for
Fiscal Year 2000.  The success of this program depends
critically on our ability to enlist the help of expert
reviewers such as you to help us identify the outstanding
proposals.  We are building a pool of reviewers qualified
in IT-related research areas.  ITR is a new $90M NSF initiative
that aims to promote fundamental research in information
technology, encouraging in particular research spanning
information technology and scientific applications, and in
the area of social, ethical and workforce issues.  Specific
areas include: 1) software; 2) information technology education
and workforce; 3) human-computer interface; 4) information
management; 5) advanced computational science; 6) scalable
information infrastructure; 7) social and economic implications
of information technology; and 8) revolutionary computing.
The ITR Program Solicitation can be found on the NSF Web Page
at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm

The Fiscal Year 2000 competition requires the submission of
preproposals by January 5, 2000 for all PIs who plan to submit
full proposals requesting more than $500K.  The preproposals
will be panel-reviewed during the week of February 7, 2000 at
three locations: 1) at NSF in Arlington, VA; 2) at a location
in Chicago, IL near O'Hare Airport; and 3) at a location to be
determined in the San Francisco area.  Based on the results of
the preproposal screening, approximately 100 full proposals
will be encouraged for submission by April 17, 2000.  Full
proposals will be panel reviewed at NSF on May 22, 2000.

A separate competition is being organized for those proposals
requesting less than $500K for the full duration of the award.
For this category of proposal, no preproposal is required.
Proposals requesting less than $500K are due at NSF on February
14, 2000.   They will be reviewed at NSF during the weeks of
March 20 and March 27, 2000.

We would like to consider you as a potential panelist for this
activity. If you are involved in a proposal submitted to any
area of ITR, as PI, co-PI or otherwise as a participant, you
are ineligible to serve as a panelist. However, persons who are
submitting proposals for more than $500K can serve as panelists
to review proposals less than $500K and vice versa.  We welcome
panelists from foreign countries, national laboratories, and
industry.

*IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING PLEASE ACT TODAY!*

Indicate your availability, and provide us with your information
by completing the ITR Panelist Entry Form at the following URL:
http://www.itr.nsf.gov/panelist. We urge you to fill out the
form immediately, since we will start to select panelists for the
February 7 panel meetings within the next few days.  NSF will
pay all travel costs in addition to $130 per travel day and $260
per panel day.  If you have other questions related to serving as
a panelist, please refer to the FAQ section of the ITR Home page
at http://www.itr.nsf.gov/it2-faq.html. Finally, we would also
appreciate it if you could forward this request to other i
well-qualified IT scientists who you think may be interested.

Since ITR is a large-scale competition, and we have a number of
people involved in seeking panelists, we apologize if more than
one person contacts you in this regard.

We look forward to your reply,
Sincerely, The ITR Working Group
E-mail: itr@nsf.gov

=======================================================> POST 2

From: \"Ben Shneiderman\" <ben@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Ben Shneiderman's Infovis99 keynote slides

Ben Shneiderman's keynote address to the IEEE Information
Visualization 99 conference is available as a set of slides:

Crossing the Information Visualization Chasm

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/presentations/

Best wishes

Ben Shneiderman              email: ben@cs.umd.edu
Dept. of Computer Science    (301) 405-2680
University of Maryland       (301) 405-6707 FAX
College Park, MD 20742       http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil

=======================================================> POST 3

Subject: CFP - IEEE InfoVis 2000

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IEEE Visualization 2000
October 8 - October 13, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah

Details at  www.infovis.org/infovis2000/

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Guido Menkhaus <menkhaus@fmi.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: CFP - Workshop WebVis 2000 at Dexa 2000

Our Workshop in Florence last year had been a great success and the
organizer of Dexa 2000 have asked us to held this workshop again.

So there will be again a one day workshop called WebVis 2000
(Web-based Information Visualization) in Greenwich, UK
from 4-8 September 2000, during the DEXA 2000 (http://www.dexa.org/).

For further information about the topics see our Call for Papers:
http://kniebach.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/pub/english.cgi/d274881/cfp_webvis_2000_
1.html

Kind regards,

Guido Menkhaus			 C.Doppler Software Research Lab
Tel 	+49 (0)7531 88-2188	 Universitaet Konstanz
Cell	+49 (0)173  6551647	 78457 Konstanz

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

March 10, 2000, Issue #1, Volume 2

Contents

1. Graphics Hardware 2000 -  call for participation
2. CFP: PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + ...
3. IEEE Vis 2000 -  call for participation

========================================================================

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Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

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=======================================================> POST 1

From: HWWS2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Graphics Hardware 2000 -  call for participation

Graphics Hardware 2000
======================

in cooperation with Eurographics and ACM SIGGRAPH
(to be confirmed)

Interlaken, Switzerland
Monday and Tuesday, August 21-22, 2000

Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum
for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics
hardware. The workshop offers a unique perspective on graphics
hardware by combining discussions and constructive critique of
innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. The workshop is
an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and
brings together researchers, engineers, and architects. This year's
workshop will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland, jointly with
Eurographics 2000.

Please visit our website at http://www.merl.com/hwws00/

Schedule
--------

April 12  Deadline for paper submissions
May 8     Notification of acceptance
May 22    Camera-ready papers due
July 12   Deadline for Hot 3D Systems submissions
Aug 21-22 Workshop

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Hamid Arabnia [hra@cs.uga.edu] 
Subject:  CFP: PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + ...

             Conferences location and dates:
         Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 26-29, 2000

For details please look at the related web sites.  

There will be a major international gathering in year 2000.  
It is anticipated that this international event will attract about 
1500 participants.  This MultiConference is composed of seven (planned)
international conferences that will be held simultaneously
(same dates and location).  Attendees will have full
access to all seven conferences.

Those interested in organizing technical sessions for
any of the seven conferences need to submit a proposal
to hra@cs.uga.edu (see below for submission guideline.)
The names of session organizers will appear as Associate
Editors on the cover of the conference proceedings.
Those who would like to become a member of the
international Program Committee for any of the seven
conferences are requested to email their short biography to
hra@cs.uga.edu.

The seven conferences are:

1.  The 2000 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta
    Deadline for Call For Papers: February 28, 2000

2.  The 2000 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta
    Deadline for Call For Papers: February 28, 2000

3.  The 2000 International Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence
    (IC-AI'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:  http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta
    Deadline for Call For Papers: February 28, 2000

4.  The 2000 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological
    Sciences
    (METMBS'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:  http://www.cns.bu.edu/metmbs
    Deadline for Call For Papers: February 28, 2000

5.  International Conference on Internet Computing 2000
    (IC'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:   http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~iwic
    Deadline for Call For Papers: February 14, 2000

6.  International Conference on Communications in Computing
    (CIC'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:  http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~cic2000
    Deadline for Call For Papers: February 28, 2000

7.  First Conference on Distributed Objects in Computational
    Science
    (DOCS'2000: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000)
    URL:  http://www.jhpc.cs.depaul.edu/conferences/docs2000
    Deadline for Call For Papers: March 6, 2000

Papers can be mailed (or emailed) to me (see address below)
by the deadlines (I would then forward them to appropriate
chairs for evaluation).

Kindest regards,

----------------
Hamid R. Arabnia
   Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Kluwer)
   Associate Editor, International Journal of Parallel
      & Distributed Systems & Networks
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404
U.S.A.
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
email: hra@cs.uga.edu
----------------

=======================================================> POST 3

From: vis2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de  
Subject: IEEE Vis 2000 -  call for participation

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 0

              Paper, case study, tutorial, panel,
          mini-workshop, BOF deadline is coming up on
                        March 31, 2000

                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                 October 8 - October 13, 2000
                       Doubletree Hotel
                     Salt Lake City, Utah

   THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
                     IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information at 
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000

Infovis 2000: http://www.infovis.org/infovis2000/

IMPORTANT DATES

March 31:    Conference papers, Panels, Case Studies,
             Tutorials, Mini-Workshops, BOF proposals,
             InfoVis 2000 papers, and VolViz 2000 papers due
May 30:      Conference papers, Panels, Case Studies,
             Tutorials, Mini-Workshops, BOF proposals, and
             InfoVis 2000, and VolViz 2000 selections announced
June 15:     Conference Work in Progress and Demonstration proposals due
June 30:     InfoVis 2000 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due
July 17:     Final Conference papers, final InfoVis 2000
             papers, and VolViz 2000 papers due to publisher
August 1:    Conference Work in Progress selections announced
August 21:   Conference Work in Progress final abstracts due to publisher
August 31:   Conference Work in Progress video submissions due
September 8: Close of Early Registration
October 8:   Conference Commences
October 9:   InfoVis 2000 and VolViz 2000 Commence

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

September 6, 2000, Issue #2, Volume 2

Contents

1. Web3D 2001
2. CFP: New Paradigms in Information Visualsation + Manipulation
3. IEEE Vis 2000 - Early bird deadline September 8, 2000

========================================================================

moderator:                Stefano Foresti - stefano@chpc.utah.edu
supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
posting address:          infovis-digest@infovis.org

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-  Research and development projects across academia and industry
-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos
-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: \"Daniel A. Keim\" <keim@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Subject: Web3D 2001

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

                     WEB3D 2001 Conference

          6th International Conference on 3D Web Technology

                 (Formerly known as VRMLxx)

             19.-22. Feb. 2001, Paderborn, Germany

                    http://www.c-lab.de/web3d

The annual Web3D Symposium is a major event in the Web3D
community. This conference unites researchers, developers,
experimenters, content creators and others in a dynamic learning
environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing
or creating new 3D web technology such as VRML, X3D, Java3D and
MPEG-4.

After the successful Web3D/VRML Symposia in San Diego (1995), Monterey
(1997, 1998, 2000) and Paderborn (1999) the world's leading
scientific/technological event in the field of Web3D will again be
held in Europe.The duration of the conference is four days: the first
two will consist of courses and workshops, and the second two days
will feature peer-reviewed papers and panels. A variety of different
events will be organized during the evenings.

-------- VRML -- X3D -- Java3D -- MPEG-4 -- and more ---------------

Papers
======

Web3D 2001 will accept papers in the following three categories:
applications, research, and systems. All content must be innovative
and meaningful to the advancement of 3D technologies on the web. An
international program committee will review all submitted
papers. Papers should be submitted in electronic form.

Videos
======

Short video submissions complimenting a technical paper will be
considered for the inclusion in a tape loop. The video will run in the
Web3D 2001 lobby.

Panels
======

Ideally, panels should address current issues in the Web3D
community. Panels should present topics of interest to the audience;
have informed, opinionated, controversial speakers; and feature
focused, structured discussions.

Workshops and Courses
=====================

Web3D 2001 is accepting applications for workshops and courses
providing instruction exposure to techniques and uses of Web3D
technologies.

Web3D RoundUp
=============

No true Web3D event is complete without the legendary Web3D RoundUp!
Each presenter must give their demonstration within a five-minute
period. The audience has the ability to judge the presentation and
control its duration.

Exhibition
==========

There will be an exhibition at Web3D 2001. Similar conditions apply as
in previous conferences.  New products, innovative tools and other
high-performance Web3D technology are sought for display.

Deadlines
=========
  Paper                           13 Oct 2000
  Notification of Acceptance      24 Nov 2000
  Video submission                14 Jan 2001
  Panel submission                17 Nov 2000
  Workshops submission            17 Nov 2000
  Courses submission              23 Oct 2000
  Web3D RoundUp submission        14 Jan 2001
  Exhibition                      14 Jan 2001

Organizing Committee
====================

Chair: Stephan Diehl, University of Saarland; Saarbrücken,  Germany
Program Chair: Michael Capps,Naval Postgraduate School; Monterey, USA
Local Chair: Frank Freykamp, C-LAB; Paderborn, Germany
Program Committee:
- Mikael Bourges-Sevenier; iVast, Inc., USA;
- Christian Bouville, France Telecom R&D, France;
- Wolfgang Broll, GMD Bonn, Germany;
- Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School, USA;
- Christian Doegl, Virtual Real-Estate, Austria;
- Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn, Germany;
- Christian Geiger, C-Lab Siemens, Germany;
- Robert Lipman, National. Institute of Standards&Technology, USA;
- Wolfram Luther, University of Duisburg, Germany;
- Wolfgang Müller, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany;
- Richard Puk,Intelligraphics, Inc. USA;
- Martin Reddy, SRI International, USA;
- Dieter Schmalstieg, Technical University of Vienna, Austria;
- Dave Snowdon, Xerox Research Center, France;
- Henry Sowizral, TeraBeam Networks, USA;
- Ed Swing, National Security Agency, USA;
- Michael G. Wagner, Arizona State University, USA

The Web3D/VRML event series is traditionally sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH.
This year it will be co-sponsored by the Web3D Consortium and in
cooperation with the GI. For more information contact Stephan Diehl
at diehl@cs.uni-sb.de.

---------------------- http://www.c-lab.de/web3d ---------------------

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Chris Shaw <cdshaw@grenfell.cc.gt.atl.ga.us>
Subject: CFP: New Paradigms in Information Visualsation + Manipulation

Call for Papers

Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation

November 10-11, 2000
Washington D.C. USA

In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM 2000)

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/npivm2000/index.html

The CIKM'99 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and
Manipulation will be a forum for presentation and discussion of new
ideas and techniques for accessing, visualizing and manipulating
information. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

	Visualization of multidimensional information spaces;
	Visualization of large, dynamic information collections;
	Vhared virtual environments and simulations;
	Dynamic data visualization;
	Applications of virtual reality to visualization problems,
		including VRML;
	Multi-modal information displays;
	Document and corpus metrics;
	Visual data mining and knowledge discovery;
	Web or network-based visualization;
	Applications in document analysis;
	Software and hardware architectures to support information
		visualization;
	Computer Supported Cooperative Work in multi-user
		information visualization systems.

We are particularly interested in reports of work in progress,
implementation techniques, and practical experience with visualization
of information collections of all sizes.

The suggested maximum length of extended abstract is four pages. The
extended abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee, and
accepted extended abstracts will appear in the workshop proceedings,
and will be presented by the authors at the workshop. Accepted
extended abstracts that were submitted electronically will be available
via WWW by early November.

Final Proceedings containing full papers will be published by ACM Press
after the workshop.

Submission of Extended Abstract

Email extended abstracts in any of ASCII, HTML, PostScript of PDF to
ebert@cs.umbc.edu by September 13, 2000. Papers must be in a form that
can be printed anywhere, so special fonts should be avoided.

We prefer e-mail submissions, but authors who lack e-mail access may
send papers to Dr. David Ebert, Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County,
Baltimore, MD 21250 USA.

Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation,
e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple
authors, please indicate which author is responsible for
correspondence.

Notification to Authors

The contact author will be notified of the reviewing results by
October 13, 2000 by email, using the contact information provided by
the authors. At least one author of each accepted paper must register
for NPIVM. Otherwise, the paper will not be included in the final
proceedings.

For more information on the NPIVM 2000 workshop, please see the Web page:
    http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/npivm2000/index.html

                Important Dates

 Extended Abstract Submission:	September 13, 2000 (e-mail)
 Notification of Acceptance:	October 13, 2000
 Workshop Dates:		November 10-11, 2000
 Camera Ready Copies:		November 30, 2000 (In hardcopy and PDF)
Chris Shaw                    Research Scientist      GVU Center
cdshaw@cc.gatech.edu          College of Computing    Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cdshaw

=======================================================> POST 3

From: vis2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: IEEE Vis 2000 - Early bird deadline September 8, 2000

       Final   C A L L   F O R   R E G I S T R A T I O N

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 0

            Early registration deadline is coming up
                       (September 8, 2000)

                    CALL FOR REGISTRATION
                 October 8 - October 13, 2000
                         Hilton Hotel
                     Salt Lake City, Utah
              http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000
     http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000/registration.html

   THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
                     IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

Visualization is a vital research and applications frontier shared by
a variety of scientific, medical, engineering, business, and
entertainment fields. IEEE Visualization 2000 focuses on inter-
disciplinary methods and collaboration among developers and users of
visualization methods across all of science, engineering, medicine,
and commerce. Sunday through Tuesday of Conference Week will include
tutorials, symposia, and mini-workshops. Papers, panels, case studies,
and works in progress will be presented Wednesday through Friday.

We invite you to participate in IEEE Visualization 2000 by
registrating for the conference. Particular focus on volume
visualization and information visualization are addressed
in special two-day symposia.

For further information on the conference or symposia contact:
Charles Hansen, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah,
Phone: +1 801 581 3154, Fax: +1 801 581 5843, Email:  hansen@cs.utah.edu
Chris Johnson, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah,
Phone: +1 801 581 7705, Fax: +1 801 585 6513, Email: crj@cs.utah.edu
Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center
Phone: +1 650 604 4524, Fax: +1 650 604 3957, Email:  bryson@nas.nasa.gov

See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information at
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000
and at
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000/registration.html

The three conference tracks cover:
Visualization Algorithms:
  Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization, Isosurfaces, Compression,
  Vector and Tensor Visualization, Sonification, etc.
Visualization Techniques:
  Information Visualization, Databases, Human Perception, Human Factors,
  Multivariate Visualization, Virtual Reality, etc.
Visualization Applications:
  Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine,
  Chemistry, Education, Electronics, Environment, Finance, Mathematics,
  Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML,
  HTML, AVS, Data Explorer, Iris Explorer, Khoros, vtk, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES

September 8: Close of Early Registration
October 8:   Conference Commences
October 9:   InfoVis 2000 and VolViz 2000 Commence

       Sunday / Monday / Tuesday Registration

You may attend any tutorial or symposium on the day(s) registered.
Registration includes Volume Visualization proceedings, Information
Visualization proceedings, Monday reception, Wednesday Keynote,
Wednesday-Thursday demonstrations, BOFS, the conference videotape,
the CD and the Friday Capstone. All tutorial, symposia, and conference
proceedings and notes are on the Vis2000 CD.

                Early           Late/Onsite
            Registration        Registration
            (received by        (Sept. 9 or
              Sept. 8)             later)

          1-day 2-day 3-day   1-day 2-day 3-day
IEEE/ACM
member    $250  $350  $450    $300  $420  $540
Nonmember $325  $450  $575    $380  $540  $700
Full-time
student   $155  $195  $235    $190  $230  $270

             Conference Registration

Includes technical sessions for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
Vis2000 Conference proceedings, Wednesday reception, Wednesday
Keynote, Friday Capstone, Wednesday-Thursday demonstrations, and
the conference videotape and CD. All tutorial, symposia, and
conference proceedings and notes are on the Vis2000 CD.

                Early           Late/Onsite
             Registration       Registration
             (received by       (Sept. 9 or
               Sept. 8)            later)
IEEE/ACM
member           $350               $450
Nonmember        $450               $550
Full-time
student          $195               $250

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...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

January 8, 2001, Issue #3, Volume 1

Contents

1. VisSym'01
2. Information Visualization - CFP
3. Volume Graphics 2001 -  call for participation
4. CFP - The 2001 International MultiConference
5. IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation
6. Graphics Hardware 2001 - First Call For Papers 

========================================================================

moderator:                Stefano Foresti - stefano@chpc.utah.edu
supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
posting address:          infovis-digest@infovis.org

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-  Research and development projects across academia and industry
-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos
-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: Jean Favre (CSCS) <vissym01@cscs.ch>
Subject: VisSym'01

Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

May 28-30, 2001,  Ascona, Switzerland

Web page:  http://www.cscs.ch/vissym01/
Email:     vissym01@cscs.ch

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Tamara Munzner <tmm@pa.dec.com>
Subject:  Information Visualization - CFP

			   Call for Papers

		      Information Visualization

	  Special Issue of IEEE CG&A, January/February 2002
		     Guest Editor: Tamara Munzner

		     Submissions due: 31 May 2001
		  Acceptance notices: 23 August 2001
		 Final revisions due: 1 October 2001

Computer-based information visualization, or \"infovis\", draws on ideas
from several intellectual traditions, including computer graphics,
human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, semiotics, graphic
design, cartography, and art. A distinct field centered around helping
people explore or explain data by designing software that exploits the
properties of the human visual system has emerged over the past
several years. New methodologies and techniques are critical for
helping people keep pace with the torrents of data. One of the few
quantities increasing faster than the speed of computer hardware is
the amount of data to be processed.

The theme for the January/February 2002 issue of IEEE Computer
Graphics and its Applications is information visualization. The design
challenge of finding a spatial mapping for an abstract dataset that is
cognitively useful for a specific task is considerable. We solicit
papers that describe innovative results in this area. Potential topics
for articles include:

     visualization of networks, both geographic and topological 
     visualization of the Web 
     visualization of large text document collections 
     visualization techniques for multi-dimensional data 
     layout, navigation and browsing of large information spaces 
     interaction design for infovis systems 
     empirical user studies of infovis systems or techniques 
     infovis systems or techniques that scale to large datasets 
     application case studies and infovis success stories 

Papers should be less than ten magazine pages, where a page is 900
words or five images. Cite only the ten most critical references, and
consider providing background in sidebars for non-expert readers.
Color images may be interspersed through the body of the paper.
Detailed CG&A style and length guidelines are available at
http://www.computer.org/cga/author.htm.

Send final submissions in PDF format via email to the guest editor,
Tamara Munzner (tmm@pa.dec.com), by 31 May 2001. Please also direct
any correspondence prior to submission to the guest editor:

Tamara Munzner
Compaq SRC, 130 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301
email: tmm@pa.dec.com
phone: +1 650 853 2253, fax: +1 650 853 2235

=======================================================> POST 3

From: vg01@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Volume Graphics 2001 -  call for participation

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

            International Workshop on Volume Graphics
                 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vg01

                        June 21-22, 2001
                        Stony Brook, USA

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics, and the Eurographics Association.

Important Dates
================

o Paper submission deadline:    December 15,  2000
o Notification of acceptance:   February 15,  2001
o Camera-ready papers due:      April 15,     2001
o Workshop:                     June 21-22,   2001
o Book chapters due:            July 15,      2001

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Hamid Arabnia <hra@cs.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP - The 2001 International MultiConference

              C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
              =============================

    PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + IC + METMBS + ERSA + ISE + CIC
         Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                     June 25-28, 2001
             (Submission Deadline: March 1, 2001)

The eight conferences are:
(a link to each conference's URL is or soon will be available
from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences)

1.  The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

2.  The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

3.  The 2001 International Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence
    (IC-AI'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

4.  International Conference on Internet Computing 2001
    (IC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

5.  The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological
    Sciences
    (METMBS'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

6.  The First International Conference on Engineering of
    Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
    (ERSA'01: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

7.  The 2001 International Symposium on Information
    Systems and Engineering
    (ISE'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

8.  The 2001 International Conference on Communications
    in Computing
    (CIC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

THE 2001 MULTICONFERENCE CONTACT:

      Hamid R. Arabnia
      The University of Georgia
      Department of Computer Science
      415 Graduate Studies Research Center
      Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

      Tel: (706) 542-3480
      Fax: (706) 542-2966
      E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

=======================================================> POST 5

From: vis2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation

C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 1

              Paper, case study, tutorial, panel,
            BOF deadline, PGV 2001: March 31, 2000

                 October 21 - October 26, 2001
                     Paradise Point Hotel
                        San Diego, CA

             *** New conference web address ***

                   http://vis.computer.org

=======================================================> POST 6

From: hwws2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (Graphics Hardware 2001)
Subject: Graphics Hardware 2001 - First Call For Papers 

GRAPHICS HARDWARE 2001 - Call for Participation

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics (to be confirmed)

Los Angeles, California USA
Sunday and Monday, August 12-13, 2001

Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum
for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics
hardware. The workshop offers a unique perspective on graphics
hardware by combining discussions and constructive critique of
innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. The workshop is
an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and
brings together researchers, engineers, and architects. This year's
workshop will be held in Los Angeles, California, jointly with
SIGGRAPH 2001. 

Please visit our website at http://www.graphicshardware.org
or email info@graphicshardware.org

April 11        Deadline for paper submissions

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...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

March 12, 2001, Issue #3, Volume 2

Contents

1. IV2001 - CFP
2. Springer Book Series on Information Visualization - CF book P
3. IEEE 2001 PVG 2001 - CFP
4. Graphics Interface 2001
5. CHI2001 Tutorial - April 2, 2001
6. Treemap Implementations and Applications - May 31, 2001
7. PDPTA+CISST+IC-AI+IC+CIC: extended deadline March 13, 2001
8. Graphics Hardware 2001

========================================================================

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-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: Shneiderman, Ben [ben@cs.umd.edu]
Subject: IV2001

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION IV2001

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2001

25 - 26 - 27 JULY 2001
Held at: SOAS, University of London, LONDON ENGLAND

Call for Papers, Videos and Participation

Theme and scope is planned as series of symposia listed below - details and
further information are available at:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2001/

InfVis- International Symposium of Information Visualisation Theory &
Practice
DVis- Symposium of Design Visualisation
DLib- Symposium of Information Visualisation in Digital Libraries
MCE- Symposium of Information Visualisation in Mobile Communications
Environments
DArt- Symposium and Gallery of Digital Art
AVR- Symposium on Augmented and Virtual Reality
WGV- Symposium of Web Graphics and Visualisation
BuiltVis- Symposium of Visualisation in Built Environment
MediViz- Symposium of Visualisation in Medical & Biological Sciences
CAGD- Symposium of Computer Aided Geometrical Design
CDV- Symposium of Co-operative Design and Visualisation
EIP- Symposium on Education and Industry Partnerships in Visualization
MM- Delivering Multimedia in the 21st Century - Multimedia 2001
Render- Symposium of Computer Visualisation & Graphics Rendering
VISIM- Symposium on Real-time Visualisation of Simulation Data
Animation- Symposium of Computer Animation

Supported by:  GraphicsLink
The Proceedings of IV2001 will be published and distributed by
IEEE Computer Society

Keynote speakers: Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland),
  Robert Spence (Imperial College), and Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft).

Important Dates:
22 January 2001 - Submission of proposal for symposium
31 March 2001 -  Submission of papers r Submission of tutorials &
                   pre-conference courses
05 May 2001 - Submission of camera-ready r Early registration closes
18 May 2001 - Submission of digital art gallery r computer animation
                   & special effects show

Further details and registration form are available at the conference
web-site: http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2001/

=======================================================> POST 2

From: Chaomei Chen [Chaomei.Chen@brunel.ac.uk]
Subject: Call for Book Proposals

Springer Book Series on Information Visualization

Call for Book Proposals
  http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrccc2/infoviz-series/

Aims and Scope

The Springer book series on Information Visualization aims to provide a
focused collection of books on the state of the arts in various aspects of
information visualization from multiple disciplines. The series will include
books suitable for postgraduate courses, researchers, and practitioners.
Book proposals concerning all aspects of information visualization are
welcome. The book series will cover monographs and edited volumes on
theoretical foundations, methodologies, algorithms, case studies, and
real-world applications of information visualization. The book series also
encourages books that appeal to an interdisciplinary audience, such as
astronomy, bioinformatics, economics, finance, and geographic information
systems.

Series Editor:

Dr Chaomei Chen
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University
Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK
Tel: +44 1895 20 30 80
Fax: +44 1895 251 686
Email: chaomei.chen@brunel.ac.uk
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrccc2/infoviz-series

Information for Authors

Authors who are interested in writing or editing a book for the Springer
book series on Information Visualization should complete a book proposal
form. The completed proposal should be sent to Mary Ondrusz, Springer Verlag
London Ltd, Sweetapple House, Godalming, Surrey GU7 3DJ, UK or via e-mail at
mary@svl.co.uk.

We aim to complete the review of a book proposal in around two months. We
strongly encourage electronic submissions of proposals in PDF or Word format
via email to speed up the process.  Springer-Verlag London will notify the
review outcomes of book proposals to authors directly.

General enquiries regarding the book series should be made to the Series
Editor, any member of the Editorial Board, or Mary Ondrusz at
Springer-Verlag London (mary@svl.co.uk).  Enquiries regarding the status of
a proposal submitted to the book series should be made to Springer-Verlag
London.

=======================================================> POST 3

From: David Breen [david@druggist.gg.caltech.edu]
Subject: IEEE 2001 PVG 2001

IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics
(PVG 2001)

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
and in cooperation with Eurographics and ACM SIGGRAPH

October 22-23, 2001	Paradise Point Hotel	San Diego, California

PVG 2001, the IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization
and
Graphics, will be held on October 22-23, 2001 in conjunction with IEEE
Visualization 2001.  This is the 5th meeting in a series that began with the
Parallel Rendering Symposium.  The current title reflects an expanded
emphasis
on large data models, scientific visualization and graphics, in addition to
photorealistic rendering.  This emphasis is intended to address subject
areas outside the bounds of larger conferences, e.g. IEEE Visualization or
ACM SIGGRAPH.

Papers are due March 31, 2001 and are expected to address issues of large
data
models, parallelism, or both, as applied to problems in visualization and
graphics.
Although large data models and parallelism are often linked, submission of
papers
focusing on small-scale parallelism and non-parallel large data techniques
is
encouraged.  We are also interested in hardware, survey papers, and
state-of-the-art
case studies.

Possible topics include:

	o Parallel algorithms, architectures and software
	o Load balancing, scalability and performance
	o Mesh/data simplification
	o Feature extraction
	o Multi-resolution and out-of-core techniques
	o Isocontouring and volume rendering
	o Vector/tensor field visualization
	o Parallel rendering, modeling and simulation
	o Displays, multi-model interaction and virtual reality
	o Graphics/network accelerators and systems

Submission: The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2001. Final papers
will be
limited to 8 proceedings pages plus one page of color figures.  Case studies
are
limited to 4 proceedings pages plus one page of color figures.  E-mail your
submission in either PDF or compressed Postscript to

	pvg2001@gg.caltech.edu.

Specify the type of submission in the subject line of your e-mail (PAPER or
CASE
STUDY).  In addition, send five copies of any accompanying NTSC video to the
following postal address:

	Dr. Alan Heirich/PVG2001
	2024 Touraine Lane
	Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
	USA

Electronic submission of video and animation in Quicktime, AVI or Shockwave
formats
will also be accepted.

URL: http://www.gg.caltech.edu/PVG01

Symposium Co-Chairs

David Breen, California Institute of Technology
Alan Heirich, Compaq Computer Corporation
Anton Koning, SARA Computing and Networking Services (Amsterdam)

=======================================================> POST 4

From: gi01@cs.sfu.ca
Subject: Graphics Interface 2001

                    GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2001
                    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
                         7-9 June 2001

GI 2001 is a unique event that presents the latest results in computer
graphics and human-computer interaction. This year will be the 27th annual
Graphics Interface. It is the oldest regularly scheduled computer graphics
and human-computer interface conference in the world. Graphics Interface has
established a reputation for a high-quality technical program, and the
excellence of its invited speakers.  Full details are on the GI 2001 web
site
		http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/gi2001/

                         CALL FOR POSTERS

Submission Deadline:  26 March 2001
Submission URL: www.cs.sfu.ca/~gi01
Notice of Acceptance: 16 April 2001
Conference:	      7-9 June 2001

Posters provide an opportunity to present on-going or late-breaking work.
They are displayed during the conference with scheduled times for attendees
to meet the researchers and discuss the work.

Contributions are solicited describing unpublished research results and
applications experience in all areas of computer graphics and human-computer
interaction, specifically including the following:

- Image synthesis & realism             - User interfaces & modeling
- Image-based rendering techniques      - Shading & rendering algorithms
- Windowing systems                     - Hardware techniques
- Geometric modeling & meshing          - Computer cartography
- Computer supported cooperative work   - Computer animation
- Image processing                      - Interaction techniques
- Medical graphics                      - Graphics for CAD/CAM
- Graphics in education                 - Computer-aided building design
- Graphics & the arts                   - Industrial & robotics applications
- Visualization                         - Graphics in business
- Graphics in simulation                - Mobile computing
- Haptic interfaces                     - Human interface devices

Submit the electronic version of your proposed poster (postscript, pdf)
at www.cs.sfu.ca/~gi01. It should consist of a 2-page abstract and a
1-page diagram showing the proposed layout of the poster presentation.
The proposed poster should be received by the Posters chair by March 26
2001.
A notice of decision will be mailed by 16 April 2001.  Accepted poster
abstracts will be copied and bound in a Posters Package, and distributed
at the conference.

For more information, contact the GI 2001 Posters chair:

    Torsten Moeller
    School of Computing Science
    Simon Fraser University
    Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6
	Canada
    Phone: (604) 291-3774
    Fax: (604) 291-3045
    Email: gi01@cs.sfu.ca

=======================================================> POST 5

From: Shneiderman, Ben [ben@cs.umd.edu]
Subject: CHI2001 Tutorial

CHI2001 Tutorial
Seattle, April 2nd

Information Visualization

Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland

http://www1.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chi2001/ap/technical-program/monday-tutorial
s.html
See TUTORIAL 30.  Monday All Day

Benefits
Participants will learn about key information visualization concepts and
recent research results, and how they can be applied to interface design.

Features
o	The case for Information Visualization
o	Data and task taxonomy
o	Early systems
o	Hierarchical and network information visualization
o	Temporal data visualization
o	Focus+Context, Zooming interfaces
o	Document visualization
o	2D versus 3D
o	Coordination of visualizations
o	Universal access issues

Audience
This beginning to intermediate level tutorial is intended for user interface
designers and their managers.

Presentation
This all day tutorial will follow a lecture format enhanced by a large
number of videos and live demonstrations, and with ample time for questions
and discussion.

Instructors
Ben Shneiderman (Professor in the Department of Computer Science) and
Catherine Plaisant (Associate Research Scientist) are both at the
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) at the University of Maryland
at College Park. Dr. Plaisant has an engineering background from France and
has been a successful user interface designer and researcher for 15 years.
Dr. Shneiderman is the author of Designing the User Interface: Strategies
for Effective Human-Computer Interaction and co-editor of Readings in
Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (attendees will receive a
20% book discount).

=======================================================> POST 6

From: Shneiderman, Ben [ben@cs.umd.edu]
Subject: Treemap Implementations and Applications

Treemap Implementations and Applications
One-Day Workshop   May 31, 2001

at the 18th Annual Symposium of the
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
University of Maryland
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil

Organized in Cooperation with Smartmoney

Treemaps are a space-filling visualization for hierarchical structures that
are extremely effective in showing attributes of leaf nodes by size and
color coding.  Treemaps enable users to compare sizes of nodes and of
sub-trees, and are especially strong in spotting unusual patterns.  They
were developed by Ben Shneiderman at the Human-Computer Interaction
Laboratory (HCIL) of the University of Maryland, during the 1990s.  A review
of treemaps and their growing set of applications appears at:
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemaps    Treemaps are a continuing topic of research
and application at the HCIL and at Smartmoney (www.smartmoney.com) whose
marketmap has attracted international attention and design awards.

To promote discussion and share insights, the HCIL and Smartmoney are
organizing a one-day workshop with 15-25 people.  Potential participants
should send a title for their presentation and a one paragraph abstract for
us to include in the website.  Send to Ben Shneiderman (ben@cs.umd.edu)

=======================================================> POST 7

From: Hamid Arabnia [hra@cs.uga.edu]
Subject: PDPTA+CISST+IC-AI+IC+CIC: extended submission March 13, 2001.

Due to an enormous number of requests, the submission deadline
for the following conferences have been extended to March 13, 2001.
We expect to have about 1,500 conference participants.

              C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

            PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + IC + CIC
         Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                     June 25-28, 2001

(a link to each of the following conferences and three
others is available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences
Eight conferences are planned to be held simultaneously: same
time and location.)

1.  The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

2.  The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

3.  The 2001 International Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence
    (IC-AI'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

4.  International Conference on Internet Computing 2001
    (IC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

5.  The 2001 International Conference on Communications
    in Computing
    (CIC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)

=======================================================> POST 8

From: Graphics Hardware 2001 [hwws2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Graphics Hardware 2001

GRAPHICS HARDWARE 2001

2nd Call for Participation

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics
(to be confirmed)

Los Angeles, California USA
Sunday and Monday, August 12-13, 2001

Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum
for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics
hardware. The workshop offers a unique perspective on graphics
hardware by combining discussions and constructive critique of
innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. The workshop is
an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and
brings together researchers, engineers, and architects. This year's
workshop will be held in Los Angeles, California, jointly with
SIGGRAPH 2001.

Please visit our website at http://www.graphicshardware.org
or email info@graphicshardware.org

Schedule
--------

April 11        Deadline for paper submissions
May 7		Notification of acceptance
May 21          Camera-ready papers due
May 31          Deadline for Hot 3D Systems abstracts
June 29         Deadline for Hot 3D Systems final presentations
Aug 12-13       Workshop

=======================================================> END OF DIGEST
...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

April 26, 2001, Issue #3, Volume 3

Contents

1. Jazz 1.1 - A Java Toolkit for Zoomable User Interfaces ...
2. Workshop on Visual Data Mining
3. Treemap Implementations and Applications
4. VisSym'01 Conference Program and Registration
5. IEEE Vis 2001
6. Registration open for Volume Graphics 2001
7. Graphics Hardware 2001

========================================================================

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supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
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-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
-  Interesting papers, web sites, videos
-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: \"Bederson, Ben\" <bederson@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Jazz 1.1 - A Java Toolkit for Zoomable User Interfaces, and other
	 Structured Graphics

Jazz, version 1.1, is now available.   Jazz is a general-purpose toolkit for
creating Zoomable User Interface (ZUI) applications using 2D graphics.
Zoomable User Interfaces display graphical information on a virtual canvas
that is very broad and has very high resolution. A portion of this huge
canvas is seen on the display through a virtual \"camera\" that can pan and
zoom over the surface.  Jazz is a generic package for supporting structured
graphics and information visualization, and is also appropriate for
non-zooming applications.  Jazz is built entirely in Java and runs on all
platforms that support Java 2.  Jazz uses the Java2D renderer, and is
organized to support efficient animation, rapid screen updates, and high
quality stills.

Jazz borrows many of the structural elements common to 3D scenegraph
systems, such as Sun's Java3D and SGI's OpenInventor. By using a basic
hierarchical scenegraph model with cameras, Jazz is able to directly support
a variety of common as well as forward-looking interface mechanisms. This
includes hierarchical groups of objects with affine transforms (translation,
scale, rotation and shear), layers, zooming, internal cameras (portals),
lenses, semantic zooming, and multiple representations.

Jazz is completely Open Source and version 1.1 is now available at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz

  - Ben

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Prof. Ben Bederson        Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab |
| bederson@cs.umd.edu       Computer Science Department              |
| www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson  3171 A.V. Williams Building              |
| (301) 405-2764            University of Maryland                   |
| (301) 405-6707 (FAX)      College Park, MD 20742                   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

=======================================================> POST 2

From: \"Daniel A. Keim\" <keim@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Subject: Workshop on Visual Data Mining

                                  KDD Workshop on

                        V i s u a l   D a t a   M i n i n g

    to be held  August 26, 2001  in San Francisco (in conjunction with
KDD-2001)

         http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~keim/KDD_Workshop/VisDM-CFP.html

    Submission
        regular papers   on visual data mining techniques and their
integration
                          with automatic data mining algorithms
        survey talk proposals  on information visualization techniques,
                                representing the \"best of InfoVis\" relevant
to KDD
    The submission process will be electronic using the paper submission
interface
    (available April 14, 2001).

    Deadlines
        May 15, 2001      Submission of Papers
        June 15, 2001     Notification of Acceptance
        July 16, 2001     Final Version of Accepted Papers

    Topics of interest   include (but are not limited to)
       visual data mining techniques
       information visualization techniques for KDD
       visual data mining systems
       integration of visualization into KDD systems
       evaluation of visual data mining applications of visual KDD

    Organizers:
      Daniel A. Keim (keim@informatik.uni-konstanz.de)
      Steve Eick (eick@visualinsights.com)
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim      e-mail: keim@informatik.uni-konstanz.de
Computer Science Institute    URL: http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/db_vis/
University of Konstanz
Universitdtsstr. 10 - D73     Phone: (+49) 7531 88 3161
D-78457 Konstanz              Fax:   (+49) 7531 88 3062
Germany                       Phone: (+49) 345 5515512 (private)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---

=======================================================> POST 3

From: Shneiderman, Ben [ben@cs.umd.edu]
Subject: Treemap Implementations and Applications

Treemap Implementations and Applications
  One-Day Workshop   May 31, 2001
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/2001/w2.shtml

at the 18th Annual Symposium of the
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Univ. of Maryland
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh

  Organized in Cooperation with Smartmoney

Treemaps are a space-filling visualization for hierarchical structures that
are effective in showing attributes of leaf nodes by size and color coding.
A review of treemaps and their growing set of applications appears at:
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemaps    Treemaps are a continuing topic of research
and application at the HCIL and at Smartmoney (www.smartmoney.com) whose
marketmap has attracted international attention and design awards.

To promote discussion and share insights, the HCIL and Smartmoney are
organizing a one-day workshop with 15-25 people.  Potential participants
should send a title for their presentation and a one paragraph abstract for
the website.  Send to Ben Shneiderman (ben@cs.umd.edu)

These presentations have been accepted as of April 24, 2001:

Trees and cushions
  Jack van Wijk, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
  Eindhoven University of Technology

Crossing the Chasm: Smartmoney's success story with the marketmap
  Marc Frons, Smartmoney

Modifiable Treemap Containing Boxes of Variable Size
  Frederic Vernier, PostDoc at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Ordered Treemap Layouts
  Ben Shneiderman, Univ. of Maryland
  Martin Wattenberg, Smartmoney & Columbia University

Visualizing Social Cyberspaces
  Marc A. Smith, Microsoft Collaboration and Multimedia Group
  Andrew Fiore, Cornell University

A Free Java Library for Treemap Visualization
  Christophe Bouthier, Computer Science PhD, Nancy - France

Musings on Treemaps
  John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology

Adding Dynamic Queries to Interactive Treemaps
  K Babaria, B Bederson, S Betten, J Blowitski, R. Chalasani,
    C Plaisant, B Shneiderman,  Univ. of Maryland

Ben Shneiderman           www.cs.umd.edu/~ben
Dept of Computer Science  301-405-2680
University of Maryland    301-405-6707 fax
College Park, MD 20742    www.cs.umd.edu/hcil

=======================================================> POST 4

From: vissym01@cscs.ch
Subject: VisSym'01 Conference Program and Registration

                             V i s S y m   ' 0 1

          Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization
                            May 28 - May 30, 2001
                             Ascona, Switzerland

                         http://www.cscs.ch/vissym01/

                   Call for Registration and Advance Program

        Registration:    http://www.cscs.ch/vissym01/registration.html

        Advance Program:  http://www.cscs.ch/vissym01/program.html

    Sessions

        Monday, May 28
            Keynote Speaker: Hanspeter Pfister, MERL

            Session  1: Visualization of Geoscience Data
            Session  2: Multi-Resolution and Adaptive Techniques
            Session  3: Unstructured Data, Multi-Scale and Visibility
            Session  4: Flow Visualization

        Tuesday, May 29
            Session  5: Biomedical Applications
            Session  6: Information Visualization
            Session  7: Object Representation

        Wednesday, May 30
            Session  8: Volume Rendering
            Session  9: Information Visualization Applications
            Session 10: Automotive Applications

We acknowledge the corporate donation by: AVS, Inc. (http://www.avs.com)

=======================================================> POST 5

From: vis2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation

          C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 1

              Paper, case study, tutorial, panel,

                 October 21 - October 26, 2001
                     Paradise Point Hotel
                        San Diego, CA

             *** New conference web address ***

                   http://vis.computer.org
              (The webpage will be filled soon)

     THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
                     IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

=======================================================> POST 6

From: vg01@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Registration open for Volume Graphics 2001

CALL for PARTICIPATION

                    Registration is now open
            (Advance Registration closes June 1, 2001)

            International Workshop on Volume Graphics
                 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vg01

                        June 21-22, 2001
                        Stony Brook, USA

=======================================================> POST 7

From: Graphics Hardware 2001 [hwws2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Graphics Hardware 2001

GRAPHICS HARDWARE 2001
======================

Call for Participation
======================

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics
(to be confirmed)

Los Angeles, California USA
Sunday and Monday, August 12-13, 2001

Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum
for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics
hardware. The workshop offers a unique perspective on graphics
hardware by combining discussions and constructive critique of
innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. The workshop is
an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and
brings together researchers, engineers, and architects. This year's
workshop will be held in Los Angeles, California, jointly with
SIGGRAPH 2001.

Please visit our website at http://www.graphicshardware.org
or email info@graphicshardware.org

=======================================================> END OF DIGEST
...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

June 11, 2001, Issue #4, Volume 3

Contents

1. CFP: SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2002
2. CFP:  Information Visualization for Digital Libraries Workshop
3. Registration open for Volume Graphics 2001
4. IASTED International Conference reminder
5. Graphics Hardware 2001 - Advance Program
6. Call For Participation: Int'l Computer Science Multiconference
7. InfoVis Hot Topics, Interactive Posters submissions 26 June 2001

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   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: J.C.Roberts [J.C.Roberts@ukc.ac.uk]
Subject:  CFP SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2002

CALL FOR PAPERS

	SPIE Conference on
	Visualization and Data Analysis 2002

	January 20-25, 2002
	San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA

	Part of IS&T/SPIE's 14th International Symposium
	on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology

	http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2002/

	2 page Extended Abstracts due: 25 June 2001

=======================================================> POST 2

From: \"Hetzler, Beth G\" <beth.hetzler@pnl.gov>
Subject: CFP:  Information Visualization for Digital Libraries Workshop

Call for Papers

Workshop:
Information Visualization for Digital Libraries -
Defining a Research Agenda for Heterogeneous Multimedia Collections

June 28, 2001
Roanoke, Virginia, USA

In conjunction with JCDL 2001 - The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on
Digital
Libraries
http://www.jcdl.org/

Lucy Nowell
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Lucy.Nowell@pnl.gov

Elizabeth Hetzler
Chief Scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute
Beth.Hetzler@pnl.gov

=======================================================> POST 3

From: vg01@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Registration open for Volume Graphics 2001

                  Final  CALL for REGISTRATION

            Advance Registration closes May 31, 2001
   Hotel discount booking deadline is coming up (May 28, 2001)

           International Workshop on Volume Graphics
                 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vg01

                        June 21-22, 2001
                        Stony Brook, USA

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics, and the Eurographics Association.

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Info [info@iasted.com]
Subject: IASTED International Conference reminder

ONE WEEK REMINDER

IASTED International Conference
Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2001)
September 3-5, 2001 - Marbella, Spain

EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 7, 2001

For formatting and submission requirements, please refer to the Call For
Papers posted on our web page at:
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2001/spain/viip.htm

Thank you!

=======================================================> POST 5

From: Graphics Hardware 2001 [hwws2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Graphics Hardware 2001 - Advance Program

GRAPHICS HARDWARE 2001
======================

ADVANCE PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE AT
http://www.graphicshardware.org/program.html

Call for Participation
======================

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics

Los Angeles, California USA
Sunday and Monday, August 12-13, 2001

=======================================================> POST 6

From: Hamid Arabnia <hra@cs.uga.edu>
Subject: Call For Participation: Int'l Computer Science Multiconference

         C A L L    FOR    P A R T I C I P A T I O N
       ================================================

    PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + IC + METMBS + ERSA + ISE + CIC
         Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                     June 25-28, 2001

http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences

=======================================================> POST 7

From: Tamara Munzner [tamara.munzner@compaq.com]
Subject: InfoVis Hot Topics, Interactive Posters submissions 26 June 2001

Reminder:
** InfoVis Hot Topics, Interactive Posters submissions 26 June 2001 **

The seventh IEEE Information Visualization Symposium (InfoVis 2001)
will be held in San Diego on Oct 22-23 2001, in conjunction with IEEE
Visualization Conference. The full call for papers is available at

  http://www.infovis.org/infovis2001

This is a reminder for the two categories of submissions which are due
on 26 June 2001: Late Breaking Hot Topics and Interactive Posters.
(Interactive Posters deadline has been extended from the original
April 2nd date.)

--------------------
Late Breaking Hot Topics

Submission deadline: Tue. 26th June 2001

Late Breaking Hot Topics (LBHT) have a much later submission deadline
and are an opportunity to present exciting new findings, preliminary
results, and work in progress. LBHT submissions should be at most 4
printed pages and present original unpublished work. Accepted LBHT
papers will be published and distributed at the symposium.

Late Breaking Hot Topics Co-Chairs
  John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada, dill@cs.sfu.ca
  Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp, gershon@mitre.org

--------------------
Interactive Posters

New submission deadline: Tue. 26th June 2001

We have extended the submission deadline for the new interactive
posters category. This category includes both traditional posters and
demos, either live on a laptop or through video. In this new category,
we encourage both submissions of original unpublished work and
submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues. We
highly encourage demonstrations of interactive systems.

All authors of accepted interactive posters are required to bring a
poster to and attend the scheduled poster session. Accepted authors
who wish to also show demos of their work are encouraged to also bring
a laptop to that session. There will be a limited number of stations
for showing videos during that session, depending on demand. Authors
who wish to show a live demo but cannot provide their own machine
should contact the posters chair in advance of the submission deadline
to discuss the logistics. All authors who plan to show live demos or
video should clearly indicate this fact in their submissions.

All interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract,
and those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also
submit an accompanying video. Clearly identify the type of your
submission by including the prefix \"Interactive Poster:\" in the title
of your extended abstract. Extended abstracts of accepted interactive
posters will be printed in the LBHT proceedings, and accompanying
videos will be included in the electronic and/or video proceedings.

Interactive Posters Chair
  Tamara Munzner, Compaq Systems Research Center, tamara.munzner@compaq.com

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From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

July 17, 2001, Issue #5, Volume 3

Contents

1. IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation
2. Browse your digital photos with PhotoMesa 1.1
3. Info Vis tutorial - October 2
4. Information Visualisation (LONDON) - CFP
5. Macrofocus releases new visual tool: City'O'Scope

========================================================================

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-  Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures
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-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: vis2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for participation

          C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 1

                 October 21 - October 26, 2001
                     Paradise Point Resort
                        San Diego, CA

                   http://vis.computer.org

For further information on the conference or on submissions, contact:
Mike Bailey, Conference Co-Chair, San Diego Supercomputer Center,
Phone: +1 858 534 5142, Fax: +1 858 534 5152, EmaiL: mjb@sdsc.edu
Charles Hansen, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah,
Phone: +1 801 581 3154, Fax: +1 801 581 5843, Email:
hansen@cs.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 2

From: \"Bederson, Ben\" <bederson@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Browse your digital photos with PhotoMesa 1.1

Visualize your photos with treemaps using a Zoomable User Interface!

A new photo browser called PhotoMesa is now available. It supports
image browsing in a family environment. It requires no organization of
photos to get started, and supports a novel and easy-to-use zoomable
interface. By showing many directories of photos at once, organized
using a novel variation of the \"treemap\" algorithm, it supports rapid
browsing. PhotoMesa requires only a set of images on disk, and does
not require the user to add any metadata, or manipulate the images at
all before browsing, thus making it easy to get started with existing
images.

While other image management systems have focused on annotating and
searching, PhotoMesa concentrates on browsing. The interface lets you
concentrate on the images, without having to manage scrollbars, menus,
or pop-up windows. It also lets you group images by available
metadata, such as directory location, image creation date, and words
in the filename. We have built it intending it to be useful in
informal situations, such as looking at photos together among family
members. Others have found it useful as a way of finding what is on
their hard disk.

Available for free for non-commercial use from the University of
Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photomesa

PhotoMesa is built using Jazz, our toolkit for Zoomable User
Interfaces available as open source code at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz

  - Ben

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Prof. Ben Bederson        Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab |
| bederson@cs.umd.edu       Computer Science Department              |
| www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson  3171 A.V. Williams Building              |
| (301) 405-2764            University of Maryland                   |
| (301) 405-6707 (FAX)      College Park, MD 20742                   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

=======================================================> POST 3

From: \"Shneiderman, Ben\" <ben@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Info Vis tutorial - October 2

Full-day Seminar: Information Visualization
Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland

   Monday, October 1, 2001, 8:30am-5:30pm,  Cambridge, MA
   Part of \"User Interface 6 East\" http://www.uiconf.com/

Information visualization was mostly a dream 5 years ago, but it's now
a reality. The latest generation of visual data mining tools and
animated GUIs take advantage of human perceptual skills to produce
striking results. This tutorial by two of the field's leading
researchers will show examples of commercially successful uses of
information visualization technology in today's web and software
interfaces, plus recent research breakthroughs and hints of what's to
come.

Information visualization techniques empower users to perceive
important patterns in a large amount of data, identify areas that need
further scrutiny, and make sophisticated decisions. The Visual
Information-Seeking Mantra is to \"overview first, zoom and filter,
then give details on demand.\" But looking at information is only a
start. Users also need to manipulate and query the data, using
real-time tools to zoom, filter, and relate the information - and undo
if they make a mistake.

You may be familiar with SmartMoney.com's \"Map of the Market\" that
uses our Treemap visualization to graphically represent US stock
market data and show overall trends and exceptions. You may also be
familiar with Spotfire's success story in pharmaceutical drug
discovery, genomic data exploration, and other domains. But
information visualization tools can aid in any situations that's
characterized by large amounts of multi-dimensional or rapidly
changing data - online product catalogs, patient histories,
manufacturing process data - anything that has outgrown yesterday's
static, two-dimensional spreadsheet. Information visualization
techniques are already being used in a wide variety of applications
such as mapping the human genome, monitoring oil production, or even
helping users select a type of coffee to match their tastes.

This full-day seminar will follow a lecture format enhanced by a large
number of videos and live demonstrations, and with ample time for
question asking and discussion.

You Should Attend If...

... you are a web or software interface designer, information
specialist, or database programmer responsible for conveying complex
information to users. If you're a usability specialist, you may
discover elegant solutions to interface problems you've seen.

=======================================================> POST 4

From: banisse@sbu.ac.uk
Subject:  Information Visualisation LONDON - CFP

5th International Conference on Information Visualisation
* LONDON * ENGLAND *
25 - 26 - 27 July 2001

Call for Participation

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2001/

Conference theme is based on Information Visualisation Theory,
Practice and related disciplines is organised through 38 sessions that
covers well over 120 presentations.

The Key note-lectures are:
"Information Visualization: The Path from Innovation to Adoption\", Ben
Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA
"First Principles in Information Visualization Design\", Mary
Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA
"Time as a component of Interaction Design\", Robert Spence, Imperial
College, London, UK

One day Preconference course on \"Information Visualisation\" by Robert
Spence, Imperial College, London, UK

For more information contact Ebad Banissi at Email:banisse@sbu.ac.uk

=======================================================> POST 5

From: Luc Girardin <luc.girardin@macrofocus.com>
Subject: Macrofocus releases new visual tool: City'O'Scope

Where in the world should you travel - or perhaps even relocate - to
pay less, earn more, and improve your living conditions?

To help you answer this complex question, Macrofocus releases
City'O'Scope, a free interactive tool for visually analyzing prices
and earnings around the world. City'O'Scope is available at no charge
for the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems at:

  http://www.macrofocus.com/cityoscope/

Using data surveyed by the UBS Economic Research department,
City'O'Scope allows users to easily analyze, compare, query, and
explore prices and earnings indicators of 58 cities around the world.

City'O'Scope is a highly interactive visualization tool with the
following key characteristics:

- it shows the big picture by providing an overview of the essential
  relationships between cities
- it encourages the explorative discovery of interesting features and
  unexpected patterns
- it avoids the feeling of being lost in details by embedding them in
  the overall context
- it supports our way of thinking and working by taking advantage of
  the human perceptual abilities

Macrofocus GmbH specializes in solutions that help people such as
analysts, managers, knowledge workers, or consumers to understand and
manage the growing amounts of complex information that they are faced
with. Macrofocus develops interactive visualization systems that
enable faster and better-informed decisions, and support the human
thinking process. Macrofocus GmbH is a privately held company based in
Zurich, Switzerland.

--
Luc Girardin - Macrofocus GmbH, Wasserwerkstr. 10, CH-8006 Zurich
email: luc.girardin@macrofocus.com
phone: +41 1 350 52 18
fax  : +41 1 350 52 19
wwweb: http://www.macrofocus.com

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...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

October 8, 2001, Issue #6, Volume 3

Contents

1. references on visualizing resources and resource management?
2. Data Mining 2002 Conference - Call for Papers 
3. CFP -- IFIP conference on visual databases
4. CFP: Young VR (Korea)
5. CFP: Graphics Interface 2002
6. IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for registration
7. Discovery Science '01 - Algorithmic Learning Theory '01   
8. IASTED 2002 Conferences - Deadline Extension

========================================================================

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supporting web site:      http://www.infovis.org
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-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1

From: Pearl Pu Faltings [Pearl.Pu@epfl.ch]
Subject: references on visualizing resources and resource management?

I am writing a paper on visualizing resources and resource management.

Please send me references of your work or works that you know of besides
the published articles on telecom network visualization (Beck and Eick
and similar works),  energy networks (Overbye and Weber), and our own
work on visualizing resource allocation (Pu and Melissagos).

By resources, I consider the following three types:

1. Consumable - e.g., money, fuel, and energy.

2. Reusable/non-sharable -- like most equipment, aircraft, etc. They are
unavailable only while being used by a particular consumer and are
otherwise available. These resources are non-divisible and their
capacity must be wholly allocated to a single consumer.

3. Reusable/synchronized-sharable --- these resources can be
simultaneously allocated to multiple consumers but only in a temporally
synchronized manner, e.g., communication bandwidths.

4. Reusable/independently-sharable --- e.g., parking lot. They can be
simultaneouly allocated to multiple consumers and used without
synchronization.

-
Pearl Pu
Database Lab
Computer Science Department
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
LBD/DI EPFL
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
pearl.pu@epfl.ch

=======================================================> POST 2

From: WIT Enquiries [enquiries@wessex.ac.uk] 
Subject: Data Mining 2002 Conference - Call for Papers 

Please find the Call For Papers for Data Mining 2002, 
which is taking place from 25 - 27 September 2002 in Bologna, Italy.  

Full details can be viewed at 
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/datamining/index.html

Karen Neal 
On behalf of the Organising Committee      

Lucy Southcott
Conference Secretariat 
Data Mining 2002
Wessex Institute of Technology        
Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst,        
Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK        

Tel:  + 44 (0) 238 029 3223        
Fax:  + 44 (0) 238 029 2853
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk

=======================================================> POST 3

From: Pearl Pu Faltings [Pearl.Pu@epfl.ch]
Subject: CFP -- IFIP conference on visual databases

Call for paper : 6th IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database Systems
Brisbane Australia 29-31 May 2002
Submission deadline Octorber 1, 2001
Special session on information visualization

Topics include but not restricted to: Multimedia databases, 
WWW Visualization, Spatial & Temporal Databases, 
Information Visualization, Visual Query Interfaces, etc.

    www.csee.uq.edu.au/~vdb6    or type VDB6 in www.google.com

--
Pearl Pu
Database Lab
Computer Science Department
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
LBD/DI EPFL
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
pearl.pu@epfl.ch

=======================================================> POST 4

From: Chris Shaw [cdshaw@grenfell.cc.gt.atl.ga.us]
Subject: CFP: Young VR (Korea)

Preliminary Call for Participation

Young Investigator's Forum in Virtual Reality (YoungVR, 2001)
December 18-20, 2001
KAIST, Daejon, Korea
vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001

Call for Participation

The Virtual Reality Research Center (VRRC) in Korea
(http://vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/) invites advanced graduate students (or any
individual with similar credentials) around the world to participate
in a forum to discuss the future of virtual reality.  VRRC,
established within KAIST, is one of the highly prestegious government
supported centers in Korea that specializes in the VR research.  This
year's forum will mark its first occurrence, and will also be first of
its kind, specifically inviting only advanced graduate students for
free form discussion on the future directions of virtual reality and
related technologies.  The forum hopes to provide an execellent
opportunity for the young researchers of VR around the world to
present, discuss, and cultivate new ideas.

An extended abstract of 2000 words are solicited on all aspects of
virtual reality, in particular on the future visions of VR and related
technologies.  The main contributor of the submission must be a
graduate student, preferably who has finished one's research proposal
toward one's PhD degree.  The nature of the forum is designed to be
small-scale, free form, higly interactive, and intensive, thus we will
only accept around 10 submissions.  All accepted participants will be
provided with all or partial expenses for travel and lodging (roundtrip
plane tickets to Korea, and room/meal).  For detailed format of the
forum, visit the forum web site at vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001.  
The first two days will be consisted of presentations and discussion
rounds and during the final day, a social event is planned as an
opportunity for the participants to get to know one another more.

Submission deadline for the extended abstracts is October 1, 2001 with
notification of acceptance by November 1, 2001.  Please submit
abstracts (or inquiries) to: Gerry J. Kim at POSTECH, Korea
(gkim@postech.ac.kr).  The official language is English.

Program Chair: Prof. K. Y. Wohn, KAIST (Director of VRRC)
Program Coordinator: Gerry J. Kim, POSTECH
International Program Committee:
	Prof. Frederick Brooks, University of North Carolina
	Prof. Larry Hodges, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Jerry Isdale, Hughes Research Laboratories / VR News
	Kenji Mase, ATR, Japan
	Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
	Kwangyeon  Wohn, KAIST, Korea.

Chris Shaw                Senior Research Scientist     GVU Center
cdshaw@cc.gatech.edu      College of Computing          Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cdshaw

=======================================================> POST 5

From: Michael D. McCool [mmccool@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca]
Subject: CFP: Graphics Interface 2002

We would like to personally invite you to submit research papers and
posters to Graphics Interface 2002.   The paper deadline is November 19
of this year (electronic submission of PDF files).   Graphics Interface
is a small but high-quality, peer-reviewed conference that covers both
user interface and graphics topics.   If you have never submitted to GI 
before we urge you strongly to consider it!  You can find out more about 
GI by going to our website at www.graphicsinterface.org.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

Michael McCool, University of Waterloo
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University

                                                    Graphics Interface 2002
                                                  www.graphicsinterface.org
                                                            May 27-29, 2002
Call for Papers                                    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Michael McCool                        Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
mmccool@cgl.uwaterloo.ca              wolfgang@cs.yorku.ca
Department of Computer Science        Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo                York University
200 University Avenue West            4700 Keele Street
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada     Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
Tel Office: +1 519 888-4567 x3561     Tel Office: +1 416 736-2100 x33947
Tel Courier: +1 519 888-6797          Tel Courier: +1 416 736-5053
Fax: +1 519 885-1208                  Fax: +1 416 736-5872
www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~mmccool         www.cs.yorku.ca/~wolfgang

=======================================================> POST 6

From: IEEE Visualization 2001 [vis2001@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: IEEE Vis 2001 -  call for registration

         I E E E   V i s u a l i z a t i o n   2 0 0 1

          Registration and advance program are on-line

                 October 21 - October 26, 2001
                     Paradise Point Resort
                        San Diego, CA

                   http://vis.computer.org

=======================================================> POST 7

From: \"Smith, Carl\" <smith@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Discovery Science '01 - Algorithmic Learning Theory '01   

Call For Participation

Two conferences on models and theory of learning and discovery.  
Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington D.C., November 25-28, 2001. 

   Discovery Science '01 
      http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds2001/
   Algorithmic Learning Theory '01   
      http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~roni/ALT2001/

Invited speakers: 
  http://www.tcs.mu-luebeck.de/pages/thomas/ALT_DS01/invit.html
Dana Angluin, Setsuo Arikawa, Paul Cohen, Lindley Darden, Ben Shneiderman

Local information and advance registration (closes October 16): 
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~smith/ALTDS/local.htm

=======================================================> POST 8

From: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences [Info@IASTED.com]
Subject: IASTED 2002 Conferences - Deadline Extension

Due to the recent events in the United States and numerous requests from
our members, IASTED has decided to extend the deadlines of some of our
upcoming 2002 conferences.
Please find below the updated deadlines.  These changes can also be seen
on our website at http://www.iasted.org/.

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...
From stefano.foresti@utah.edu
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 00:00:01 -0600
Subject: InfoVis Digest
InfoVis Digest
--------------

January 13, 2002, Issue #1, Volume 4

Contents

1. infovis-digest update from the editor
2. DATA MINING 2002 UPDATE
3. VisSym 2002 -  call for participation
4. CGIM 2002 - Call for Papers
5. VDA 2002 Reminder
6. Eurographics PGV 2002 -  call for papers
7. VIIP 2002 Call for Papers
8. 2002 Int'l. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Engineering
9. IEEE Vis 2002 -  call for participation
10.InfoVis 2002 -  call for participation

========================================================================

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-  Requests for help on specific research problems
-  Employment and student opportunities
-  Commercial product announcements and descriptions

Organizing Committee:

   Stefano Foresti, University of Utah, stefano@chpc.utah.edu
   Nahum Gershon, MITRE, gershon@mitre.org
   Jerry Isdale, HRL Labs LLC, jerry@isdale.com
   Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben@cs.umd.edu

Questions/problems about infovis digest to  stefano@chpc.utah.edu

=======================================================> POST 1
From: Stefano Foresti
Subject: infovis-digest update from the editor

Submissions to the Infovis Digest from now on will be moderated
and sent to the list upon approval, instead of waiting for a
critical mass to be packaged.

We'll evaluate this model and see if it fits better to
dissemination and interaction in the community.

Stefano Foresti
Moderator, InfoVis Digest

=======================================================> POST 2
From: Rachel Green [rgreen@wessex.ac.uk]
Subject: DATA MINING 2002 UPDATE

DATA MINING 2002
Third International Conference on Data Mining Methods and
Databases for Engineering, Finance and Other Fields
25 - 27 September 2002
Bologna, Italy
http//:www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/data2002/1.html

=======================================================> POST 3
From: Symposium on Visualization 2002 [vissym02@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: VisSym 2002 -  call for participation

                    1st Call for papers

                         VisSym'02
    IV Joint Eurographics-IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization

                     May 27-29, 2002
                    Barcelona, Spain

            http://www.lsi.upc.es/vissym2002/

=======================================================> POST 4
From: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences [Info@IASTED.com]
Subject: CGIM 2002 - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth IASTED International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2002)
August 12-14, 2002
Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/hawaii/cgim.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

CGIM 2002 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International
Conferences on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2002) and Internet and
Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2002).

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submissions due: March 01, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2002
Registration, full payment, and final papers due: June 01, 2002

For more information or to be placed on our mailing list, please
contact:

IASTED Secretariat - CGIM 2002
#80, 4500 - 16th Avenue N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T3B 0M6
Tel: 403-288-1195
Fax: 403-247-6851
E-mail: calgary@iasted.com
Web Site: http://www.iasted.org

=======================================================> POST 5
From: J.C.Roberts [J.C.Roberts@ukc.ac.uk]
Subject: VDA 2002 Reminder

Plan now to attend!

SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2002
January 20-25, 2002,
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA

Advanced Programme now available:
  http://www.futurevisions.net/SPIE/vda2002/

See complete conference, course, and exhibition
information and preregister on the Web:
  http://spie.org/conferences/programs/02/pw/ei.html

=======================================================> POST 6
From: Eurographics PGV 2002 [egpgv02@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Eurographics PGV 2002 -  call for papers

Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics
                    and Visualization (pending)
             in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH

         Blaubeuren, Germany, September 9-10, 2002
      (in the week after the Eurographics conference
                http://www.eg.org/eg2002)

       http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/conf/egpgv02

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates:

22   April 2002                   -  Full papers due
31   May 2002                     -  Notification of acceptance
12   June 2002			  -  Camera ready deadline.
9-10 September 2002		  -  Workshop
				     (week after Eurographics conference)

=======================================================> POST 7
From: IASTED - Upcoming Conferences [Info@IASTED.com]
Subject: VIIP 2002 Call for Papers

2nd IASTED International Conference on
Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2002)
September 9-12, 2002
Malaga, Spain
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/spain/viip.htm

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submissions due: April 15, 2002
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2002
Registration, full payment, and final papers due: July 15, 2002

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From: hra@cs.uga.edu
Subject: 2002 Int'l. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Engineering

                 C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                 =============================

     The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science
                  (14 Joint Int'l Conferences)

            Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                       June 24-27, 2002

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or
a proposal to organize a technical session.  All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings.
THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION ORGANIZERS/CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS
ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

The fourteen conferences are:

1.  The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

2.  The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

3.  The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

4.  The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing
    (IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

5.  The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
    (METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

6.  The 2002 International Conference on Communications in
    Computing
    (CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

7.  The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
    Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
    (ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

8.  The 2002 International Conference on VLSI
    (VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

9.  The 2002 International Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Engineering
    (IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
    Reasoning and Applications
    (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
    Applications
    (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks
    (ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering
    Research and Practice
    (SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

14. The 2002 International Conference on Security Management
    (SAM'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

(a link to each conference's URL is available
from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences)

CONFERENCES CONTACT:

    H. R. Arabnia
    Chair, The 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in Computer Science
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    email: hra@cs.uga.edu

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From: IEEE Visualization 2002 [vis2002@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: IEEE Vis 2002 -  call for participation

                  Call for Participation

                  IEEE Visualization 2002
     Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
                Visualization and Graphics
             In cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

                October 27 - November 1, 2002
                 The Boston Park Plaza Hotel
                   Boston, Massachusetts

               http://vis.computer.org/vis2002

Submission Deadlines:
---------------------
March 29, 2002:  Workshop Proposals
                 Conference Papers
                 Case Study Papers
                 Tutorial Proposals
                 Panel Proposals
                 Symposia Submissions

June 28, 2002:   Posters
                 Interactive Demonstration Lab Proposals

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From: IEEE Visualization 2002 [vis2002@gris.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject:  InfoVis 2002 -  call for participation

IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION (INFOVIS 2002)

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization
and Graphics

October 28 - 29, 2002 * Park Plaza Hotel * Boston, MA

http://www.infovis.org/infovis2002

The IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization is the premier meeting
in the emerging field of information visualization, involving the
visual presentation of and interaction with abstract information
spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and
understanding.  Original papers are solicited in all areas of
information visualization. In addition, we are encouraging submissions
on bioinformatics, following the bio-visualization theme of our parent
conference, Vis2002. In particular, the symposium is interested in all
aspects of abstract visualization of digital biology information.

Topics include:
*       Bioinformatics visualization
*       Browsing and navigation methods
*       Data structures and models underlying visualization
*       Empirical studies of information visualization techniques
*       Graph / network visualizations
*       Information presentation as storytelling
*       Interactive techniques for information visualization
*       Information visualization for heterogeneous audiences
*       Multi-dimensional information visualization
*       Visual data mining
*       Visualization and knowledge discovery
*       Visualization for mobile computing
*       Visualization in CSCW
*       Visualization applications in areas such as
        o       Algorithms
        o       Commerce and financial systems
        o       Complex information
        o       Internet and WWW
        o       Mobile computing
        o       Search results
        o       Textual information

InfoVis 2002 Full Papers (due March 29, 2002)

Full papers should be at most 8 printed pages. Full papers present
previously unpublished, original results. Papers submitted as full
papers may, at the discretion of the program co-chairs, be invited for
publication and presentation as short papers.

InfoVis 2002 Short Papers (due March 29, 2002)

Short papers should be at most 4 printed pages. The short paper
category is intended for two submission types: a) case studies
describing how information visualization has contributed to working
applications in real-life environments and b) technical notes that,
though novel and of interest to the community, do not warrant a full
paper submission. Clearly identify the type of your submission by
including the prefix \"Case Study:\" or \"Technical Note:\" in the title
of your short paper submission.

InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters (due July 1, 2002)

The interactive poster category includes both traditional posters and
demonstrations of interactive systems, either live on a laptop or
through video. We encourage both submissions of original unpublished
work and submissions showcasing systems of interest to the information
visualization community that have been presented in other venues.

All authors of accepted interactive posters are required to bring an
explanatory hardcopy poster for display during the scheduled evening
poster session, and be available for discussion at that time. Accepted
authors who wish to also show demos of their work are encouraged to
also bring a laptop to the poster session.  Authors are required to
present a very brief summary of their interactive poster at a short
preview session earlier in the day. There will be a limited number of
stations for showing videos during that session. Authors who wish to
show a live demo but cannot provide their own machine should contact
the posters chairs in advance of the submission deadline to discuss
the logistics. All authors who plan to show live demos or video should
clearly indicate this fact in their submissions.

Interactive poster authors must submit a 2 page extended abstract, and
those who intend to show demos are highly encouraged to also submit an
accompanying video. Clearly identify the type of your submission by
including the prefix \"Interactive Poster:\" in the title of your
extended abstract.

Submissions:

Please prepare your submission according to the IEEE CS Press Author
Guidelines at <http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm>, with the
understanding that the papers proceedings will be printed in full
color. Submissions longer than the page limits will not be
considered. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF (Adobe
portable document format) files. Details of the submission process
will be posted on the InfoVis 2002 web site.

Submissions to any of the InfoVis 2002 categories may be accompanied
by supporting digital movies with a maximum length of 5 minutes.
Accompanying movies will assist in the review process. Movies viewable
with QuickTime Player or Windows Media Player should be submitted
electronically.

Publication:

Accepted long and short papers will be published in an
archival-quality proceedings directly from revised PDF files submitted
by the authors. The proceedings will be printed with a high-
resolution full color printing process. The accepted papers, along
with supporting media, will also be included in the conference
DVD. The IEEE Computer Society will distribute the proceedings.

Extended abstracts of accepted interactive posters will be distributed
in the black and white InfoVis 2002 Interactive Posters Compendium,
using revised PDF files submitted by the authors.  The Posters
Compendium will be available only at the conference. Abstracts and
accompanying material such as digital movies will also be made
available from the conference web site.

For detailed information concerning submission, please see the
symposium web site, or email infovis@vis.computer.org.

Symposium Committee:

General Symposium Chair
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Keith Andrews, University of Graz, Austria

Interactive Posters Co-Chair
Tamara Munzner, Compaq Systems Research Center
Alan Keahey, Visual Insights

Symposium Steering Committee:

Stuart Card, Xerox PARC
John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Steve Eick, Visual Insights
Steve Feiner, Columbia University
Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp.
Daniel Keim, AT&T Shannon Research Lab
George Robertson, Microsoft Research
Steve Roth, MAYA Viz

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Subject: [InfoVis] CFP 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:59:29 -0700
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

            13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering

                   Pisa, Italy, June 26-28, 2002

                Visual Computing Group (CNR-PISA)

                       egrw02@iei.pi.cnr.it
               http://vcg.iei.pi.cnr.it/egrw02.htm

Aims and Scope:

 Following twelve successful workshops in the last twelve years,
 the 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering will take place in
 Pisa, Italy. It is organised by the Visual Computing Group, part of
 the Information Technology CNR Institute, in association with
 Eurographics, in the context of the Eurographics Working Group on
 Rendering Activities. The workshop is well established as a major
 international forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences in
 the area of rendering algorithms and techniques.

Topics:

 Submissions are invited in (but not limited to) the following
 areas:

 - Local illumination and reflection models and methods (including
   BRDF measurement)
 - Global illumination methods (Monte Carlo, finite element
   techniques)
 - Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing
 - Visibility algorithms
 - Human perception and error measures
 - Texture models, analysis, and synthesis
 - Non-polygonal rendering (Point-based, image-based)
 - Systems and software architectures for rendering
 - New rendering hardware and new uses of existing hardware
 - Experimental or practice-and-experience comparative studies of
   existing methods
 - Rendering solutions for virtual/augmented reality and
   interactive systems
 - Inverse rendering and computer vision related algorithms
 - Real-time rendering
 - Non-photorealistic rendering

 Research and development driven by real-world applications are
 encouraged. A short paper category (6 page limit) is available in
 addition to full papers (12 page limits). The category of submitted
 papers will be decided based on the reviewing results, but authors
 may submit papers specifically to the short paper category. As has
 been the tradition in previous workshops, the presentation format
 will allow for ample discussion time. The number of participants will
 be limited to 100. Internationally known speakers will give invited
 lectures.

 In addition to both short and full papers, this year authors may also
 submit posters containing preliminary results or speculative
 ideas. These posters will be peer-reviewed and will be appear at the
 workshop, but will not be printed in the final ACM Press workshop
 proceedings.

 Authors of accepted papers may also enter a competition to produce a
 cover image for the preliminary proceedings distributed at the
 workshop. Details of the competition may be found on the workshop web
 site.

Important Dates in the Year 2002 are:

 Wednesday, March 27 Electronic abstract submission deadline
 Friday, March 29    Electronic paper/poster submission deadline
 Monday, April 1     Submission deadline for videos
 Monday, May 13      Author notification
 Saturday, June 1    Camera-ready copy deadline
 June 26 - 28        Workshop

Submission Procedure:

 NOTE: ALL SUBMISSIONS THIS YEAR ARE ELECTRONIC.

 Authors are requested to submit (via email) an abstract for their
 paper or poster by Wednesday March 27th 2002 to the following
 address:

     egwr02@cs.man.ac.uk

 Authors will then receive further information by email regarding the
 electronic submission of their papers and posters (in PDF or
 Postscript format) to the workshop ftp site. Authors experiencing
 problems with electronic submission of contributions should contact
 the program co-chairs directly.

 The abstract submission email should contain the names and
 institutions of all authors, contact information of one contact
 author (name, e-mail, postal address, phone and fax numbers), and the
 (not necessarily final) title and abstract of the submission.

 Courier-service mail will be used only for those submissions that the
 co-chairs find unusable, and for videos accompanying papers. In the
 latter case, one paper copy of the paper should be sent along with
 five copies of the accompanying videotape or CD-ROM to one of the two
 program co-chairs. In the case of videotapes an effort should be made
 to include the segment in both PAL and NTSC on the same VHS tape, to
 ensure that it can be seen by all reviewers. An authors toolkit
 including LaTeX and MS Word style files is available from the
 conference Web page. Submissions missing the deadline will be
 considered with reduced priority, to the extent practical within
 the short review cycle.

Organizing Co-chairs:

 Fabio Ganovelli
 Istituto Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.)
 Area della Ricerca C.N.R.
 Via G. Moruzzi, 1
 I-56124 Pisa (Italy)

 email: ganovell@iei.pi.cnr.it
 phone: +39 050 315 2925
 fax:   +39 050 315 2810

 Roberto Scopigno
 Istituto Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.)
 Area della Ricerca C.N.R.
 Via G. Moruzzi, 1
 I-56124 Pisa (Italy)

 email: roberto.scopigno@cnuce.cnr.it
 phone: +39 050 315 2929
 fax:   +39 050 313 8091

Programme Committee Co-chairs:

 Paul Debevec
 Institute for Creative Technologies
 University of Southern California
 13274 Fiji Way, 5th floor
 Marina del Rey, CA 90292  USA

 email: paul@debevec.org
 phone: +1 310 574 7809
 fax:   +1 310 577 9140

 Simon Gibson
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Manchester
 Oxford Road
 Manchester, M13 9PL
 United Kingdom

 email: sg@cs.man.ac.uk
 phone: +44 161 275 6141
 fax:   +44 161 275 6204

Invited Speakers:

 Dr. Doug Roble (Digital Domain)
 Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik)

Programme Committee:

 Kavita Bala (US)
 Kadi Bouatouch (FR)
 Per Christensen (US)
 Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CY)
 Daniel Cohen-Or (IS)
 Oliver Deussen (DE)
 Julie Dorsey (US)
 George Drettakis (FR)
 Fredo Durand (US)
 Jim Ferwerda (US)
 Steven Gortler (US)
 Wolfgang Heidrich (CA)
 Henrik Wann Jensen (US)
 Alexander Keller (DE)
 Dani Lischinski (IS)
 Michael McCool (CA)
 Nelson Max (US)
 Gary Meyer (US)
 Karol Myszkowski (DE)
 Bernard Peroche (FR)
 Xavier Pueyo (ES)
 Werner Purgathofer (AT)
 Holly Rushmeier (US)
 Christophe Schlick (FR)
 Peter Shirley (US)
 Francois Sillion (FR)
 Brian Smits (US)
 Jos Stam (US)

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Roberto Scopigno
CNUCE - CNR
Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa
Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa ITALY
phone: +39 050 315 2929     cell: +39 348 396 6819
fax:   +39 050 313 8091 (G3)   +39 050 313 8092 (G4)
email: roberto.scopigno@cnuce.cnr.it
web: http://vcg.iei.pi.cnr.it/~scopigno
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Subject: InfoVis: visualization in networking
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:15:35 -0700
Dear InfoVis Digest Readers:

I would like to know if anyone has worked on visualization of network
data or intrusion detection.

Also here is the announcement of a workshop in Computer Intrusion Detection
for who is interested in the subject.

Thank you and best regards,

Stefano Foresti
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                               Call for Papers

Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Computer
Intrusion Detection

June 11-13, 2002
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Whiting School of Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

Researchers in Computer Security are invited to participate.

The following topic areas are of potential interest.

 * Data Mining in Intrusion Detection/Network Data
 * Pattern Recognition Techniques in Computer Security
 * Statistical Measures of Network Traffic
 * Intrusion Detection Datasets and Databases
 * Evaluating IDS systems/Performance Measures
 * Visualization of Network Data
 * Visualization of Intrusion Data
 * Program Profiling
 * User Profiling
 * Machine Profiling
 * Computer Virus Epidemiology
 * Virus detection
 * Random Graph Techniques
 * Anomaly Detection
 * Fingerprinting
 * Host Monitoring
 * Network Monitoring

TECHNICAL PAPERS We encourage technical papers that relate to any of
the above topics or other aspects of intrusion detection. Speakers
will present current or recent work in a 30 minute talk. The focus
should be more on recent work and research ideas than on well
known results. Papers will be published in electronic form.

SESSION CHAIRS Anyone interested in chairing a session, either
on one of the above topics or a related topic are encouraged
to contact us. Each session will consist of 3-4 speakers
chosen by the session chair. Chairs are encouraged, but not
required, to provide discussants or to lead discussion at the
end of the session.

PROPOSED SESSIONS AND CHAIRS
 * Intrusion Detection at ONR, W. Martinez ONR
 * Visualization of Network Data, J. Solka NSWC
 * Visualization of Intrusion Data, E. Wegman GMU
 * Passive Fingerprinting, P. Carter NSWC
 * Steganography and Watermarking, N. Johnson GMU
 * User Profiling, T. Goldring NSA
 * ID Datasets and Databases, S. Scott USC
 * Profiling Program Execution, D. Naiman JHU

COST Early registration fee is $75. Housing will be provided
at Johns Hopkins at a cost of $52.51 per person per day, which
includes breakfast and lunch.

DEADLINES
 * The deadline for volunteering to chair a session is Dec 15, 2001.
 * Unsolicited abstracts will be accepted up until Dec 15, 2001.
 * Payment to ensure low conference rate for housing due Dec 31, 2001.
 * Session chairs should have their sessions filled by Feb 1, 2002.
 * Early registration due Apr 1, 2002.

Payment of housing fee and registration (payable to Johns Hopkins
University) should be sent to:

Amy Berdann, Administrator
Department of Mathematical Science
The Johns Hopkins University
104 Whitehead
3400 N. Charles
Baltimore, MD 21218
berdann@jhu.edu
410-516-7195

For more information, or to volunteer to chair a session, or
to submit an abstract, please contact:

David Marchette
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code B10
17320 Dahlgren Rd.
Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000  USA
marchettedj@nswc.navy.mil

This workshop is sponsored by the Department of Mathematical
Sciences and the Information Security Institute of the
Johns Hopkins University.

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