*** apologies for cross-posting *** 2nd Call for Papers: SIGRAD 2012 – Interactive Visual Analysis of Data ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Växjö, Sweden Date: November 29-30, 2012 Web site: http://cs.lnu.se/sigrad2012/ *** Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2012 *** SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, invites contributions to the conference SIGRAD 2012 with the presentation of high-quality visualization and computer graphics research. Papers accepted for SIGRAD 2012 are published by Linköping University E-Press both in an electronic and printed proceedings. Submissions may be full research papers or short papers which may describe proven and tested solutions, novel ideas, work-in-progress or recent results. More information on how to submit a paper can be found at * http://cs.lnu.se/sigrad2012/ The selected theme of this year's conference is "Interactive Visual Analysis of Data". However, we also invite papers on other aspects of interactive computer graphics and visualization. Thus, topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following areas: * Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization * Visual Analytics, Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery * Large Data Visualization including Streaming Data, Temporal Data, Text and Documents, Networks, ... * Geo-spatial Data in Visualizations * Visualization Taxonomies and Models * Visualization Systems and Software Architectures * Collaborative Visualization * Human-Computer Interaction for Visualization and Computer Graphics * Augmented and Virtual Reality * Solutions and Algorithms for Virtual/Augmented Reality Applications * Real-time Rendering * Procedural Methods and Texture Synthesis * Parallel Graphics Algorithms * Evaluation and User Studies * Training and Education * Teaching Interaction, Computer Graphics and Visualization * Applications Areas of Visualizations, such as Biology, Physical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business Analytics, Software Engineering, ... Invited Talks ------------- * Keynote: "Parallel Coordinates ... are better than they look!" by Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel * Capstone: "Why Watson and SPSS Are IBM’s Big Data Yin and Yang" by Steen Christoffersen, IBM Business Analytics, Denmark SIGRAD 2012 Co-Chairs --------------------- * Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Stefan Seipel, University of Gävle, Sweden International Program Committee ------------------------------- * Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Morten Fjeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Hellwig Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway * Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Vizrt Ardendo, Sweden * Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Lars Kjelldahl, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden * Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany * Martin Kraus, Aalborg University, Denmark * Robert S Laramee, Swansea University, UK * Thomas Larsson, Mälardalen University, Sweden * Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA & CIRIC, France * Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK * Timo Ropinski, Linköping University, Sweden * Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig, Germany * Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany * Falk Schreiber, IPK Gatersleben and MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany * Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock, Germany * Stefan Seipel, University of Gävle, Sweden * Jarke J. Van Wijk, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Rüdiger Westermann, TU Munich, Germany * Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2012 * Author notification: October 10, 2012 * Camera-ready paper deadline: November 1, 2012 If you have any questions, please contact the conference organizers: sigrad2012@easychair.org (This Call for Papers as PDF: http://cs.lnu.se/sigrad2012/SIGRAD12-CFP.pdf)