Second Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena
Vienna, Austria, September 5, 2006
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/events/EGWNP06/
>>> Paper submission deadline extended to May 25, 2006 <<<
After several requests by authors, the deadline for submitting
papers to the EG Workshop on Natural Phenomena has been
changed to May 25, 2006.
The call for papers and the web site is enclosed in this mail.
Best regards,
Program Co-Chairs:
Norishige Chiba
Eric Galin
Call for papers
Synthesizing realistic natural scenes is a challenging and important problem
in computer graphics. The challenge stems not only from the complexity and
diversity of objects and natural phenomena interacting together, but also
from the huge amount of small details that should be modeled to obtain
realistic models and physically plausible simulations. Therefore, there is
still a need for interactive modeling and simulation techniques capable for
handling complex synthetic sceneries. The purpose of this workshop is to
explore novel techniques for modeling, animating, simulating and rendering
complex natural phenomena.
The workshop will build on work done in recent years including simulating
aging and weathering of synthetic objects, plant modeling, ecosystem
simulation, gaseous phenomena and liquid flows. It will focus on
non-concious or inanimate nature like rock, trees, oceans, wind, meadows
(animals and humans as part of nature should be excluded). Work in this
area, promising as it is, is still far from complete.
Authors are invited to submit technical papers in these or related areas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Plant structure modeling
- Ecosystem simulation
- Gaseous phenomena (clouds, fog .)
- Simulating liquid flows
- Modeling fire and smoke
- Aging and weathering
- Terrain modeling
Important Dates
May 25, 2006 Submission deadline
June 25, 2006 Notification of acceptance
July 8, 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies
September 5, 2006 Workshop (one full day)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IEEE Shape Modeling and Applications 2006 (SMI2006)
In cooperation with Eurographics, ACM SIGGRAPH, CGS
June 14-16, 2006, Matsushima, JAPAN
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/
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Advance registration deadline: May 19, 2006
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The preliminary program of the 8th International Conference on
Shape Modeling and Applications is now available from
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/program.html,
which includes 3 invited talks, 20 regular paper and 10 short
paper presentations.
Invited Talks
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- Bruno Levy
Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions: Towards an Algorithm That "Understands"
Geometry
- Fujio Yamaguchi
Shape Modeling in a Homogenized Geometric Paradigm
- Alla Sheffer
Shape Modeling for Dummies
Abstracts are available from http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/invited.html
The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.
Registration details can be found at
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/registration.html
SMI this year is co-located with the two international meetings:
Third International Symposium on Transdisciplinary Fluid Integration
(TFI-2006)(12-13th June)
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/tfi-2006/
AIM@SHAPE First International Workshop on Shapes and Semantics
(S&S2006)(17th June)
http://www.aimatshape.net/events-archive/ShapesSemantics
SHREC-3D Shape Retrieval Contest results will be presented during SMI2006.
Looking forward to seeing you in Matsushima, JAPAN this June.
Issei Fujishiro, Bianca Falcidieno
Conference Co-Chairs
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For further questions, please contact SMI2006 Conference Secretariat:
smi06(a)vis.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp
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SIACG 2006 -3rd Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics
EPCG: 14º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica
CEIG: XVI Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 5-7, 2006
http://www.labsis.usc.es/siacg2006
LAST C A L L F O R S H O R T P A P E R S
Due to numerous requests, the deadline for short papers submission
has been extended to
May 19th, 2006
Paper submission area:
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/MCP_SIACG06S/mcp/subInstructions.html
Conference information and call for papers:
http://www.labsis.usc.es/siacg2006/en/information.htm
I hope to see you in Santiago de Compostela
Best regards
Juan Carlos Torres
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Juan Carlos Torres | jctorres(a)ugr.es
Dpt. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos | http://lsi.ugr.es/~jctorres
ETS. Ing. Informatica | Phone: (+34) 958 243 181
Univ. Granada (SPAIN) | FAX: (+34) 958 243 171
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S O R R Y F O R D U P L I C A T E S !!!!!
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3IA'2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Limoges (FRANCE), 23 - 24 of May, 2006
http://msi.unilim.fr/3IA
In cooperation with Eurographics
General Chair: Dimitri PLEMENOS (plemenos(a)unilim.fr)
Invited speakers: Brian Barsky (USA), Marina Gavrilova (Canada)
Zhigeng PAN (China)
REGISTRATION FEES: 180 Euro (regular participants)
120 Euro (students)
Payment by Bank transfer (see http://msi.unilim.fr/3IA)
Here is the program of the 3IA'2006 international conference. If you
wish to attend the conference, please fill the registration form
located on the web site of the conference (http://msi.unilim.fr/3IA)
and send it by fax or by postal mail to the general chair of the
conference:
Dimitri PLEMENOS
XLIM Laboratory
University of Limoges
83, rue d'Isle
87000 Limoges
FRANCE
Phone: (+33) 555 43 69 74
Fax: (+33) 555 43 69 74
e-mail: plemenos(a)unilim.fr
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INVITED SPEAKERS: Brian Barsky (USA), Marina Gavrilova (Canada)
Zhigeng PAN (China)
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Morning
09:00 a.m: Reception
09:35 a.m: Opening of the Conference
09:45 a.m: Invited speaker (Marina Gavrilova)
Geometric Algorithms in 3D Real-Time Rendering and
Facial Expression Modeling
Marina Gavrilova (CANADA)
10:45 a.m: Coffee break
1st session: Animation 1
11:15 a.m.: Using motion graph for interactive motion edit.
Le Zheng, Zhigeng Pan, Bin Tang (CHINA)
11:45 a.m.: Techniques for off-line exploration using a virtual
camera.
Benoit Jaubert, Karim Tamine, Dimitri Plemenos (FRANCE)
12:15 p.m. Lunch
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Afternoon
02:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Brian Barsky)
Direct Real Time Tessellation of Parametric
Spline Surfaces.
Adrian Sfarti, Brian A. Barsky, Todd Kosloff
Egor Pasztor, Alex Kozlowski, Eric Roman,
Alex Perelman (USA).
2nd session: Animation 2
SHORT PAPERS
03:30 p.m.: Evolving autonomous locomotion of virtual characters
in simulated physical environment via neural networks
and evolutionary strategies.
S. Marks, W. Conen, T. Kollakowsky, G. Lux (GERMANY)
03:45 a.m.: Models used by vision-based motion capture.
Regina Radlova (CZECH REPUBLIC), T. Bouwmans,
B. Vachon (FRANCE)
04:00 a.m: Coffee break
3rd session: Declarative scene modelling
04:30 p.m.: Towards project coordination environment for
collaborative declarative scene modelling.
J. Dragonas, A. Lazaridis, D. Makris, G. Miaoulis
(GREECE), D. Plemenos (FRANCE).
05:00 p.m.: MultiCAD-MOGA. A system for conceptual design of
buildings.
D. Makris, I. Havoutis, G. Miaoulis (GREECE),
D. Plemenos (FRANCE).
05:30 p.m.: An interfacing module using configuration for
declarative design of NURBS surfaces.
Mathieu Estratat, Raphaël La Greca (FRANCE)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006, Morning
09:00 p.m.: Invited speaker (Zhigeng Pan)
Digital Olympic Museum and Sports Simulation.
Zhigeng Pan (CHINA).
4th session: Machine learning and optimisation 1
10:00 a.m.: Learning methods applied to high-resolution
CT volume data classification.
Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Jesus Cerquides, Santi
Ontanon, Anna Puig, Eloi Puertas, Dani Tost
(SPAIN).
10:30 a.m.: A genetic texture packing algorithm on a graphical
processing unit.
Karsten Kaul, Christian-A. Bohn (GERMANY).
11:00 a.m.: Coffee break
5th session: Machine learning and optimisation 2
11:30 a.m.: Evolving cellular automata for 2D form generation.
Arturo Chavoya (MEXICO), Yves Duthen (FRANCE).
12:00 a.m.: Battle swarm: An evolutionary approach to complex
swarm intelligence.
Russel Ahmed Apu, Marina Gavrilova (CANADA).
SHORT PAPER
12:30 a.m.: Constructing the shortest closed tour on a set of
line segments using ant colony approach.
Vladimir D. Frolovsky, Natalie D. Ganelina (RUSSIA).
12:45 a.m.: Shape modification of surfaces using genetic
algorithm.
Evgeny Lomonosov (RUSSIA), Gabor Renner (HUNGARY).
13:00 a.m.: Lunch
Wednesday, May 24, 2006, Afternoon
6th session: Data visualisation
02:30 p.m.: 3D graph visualization prototype system for intrusion
detection: A surveillance aid to security analysts.
I. Xydas, G. Miaoulis (GREECE), P.-F. Bonnefoi,
D. Plemenos, D. Ghazanfarpour (FRANCE).
7th session: Applications
03:00 p.m.: Knowledge representation and data fusion for archaeology:
The case study of the castle of shawbak.
Julien Seinturier, Pierre Drap, Odile Papini (FRANCE),
Guido Vannini, Michele Nuccioti (ITALY).
SHORT PAPERS
03:30 p.m.: Architectural lighting ambience intentions for inverse
rendering.
Vincent Tourre, Jean-Yves Martin, Gerard Hegron (FRANCE)
03:45 p.m.: Pipeline approach used for recognition of dynamic meshes.
Milan Frank, Libor Vasa, Vaclav Skala (CZECH REPUBLIC)
04:00 p.m.: 3D-computer simulation of elliptic cones intersection
at their double osculation. AutoCAD.
Alexander Kheyfets (RUSSIA).
04:15 p.m.: The system of data processing on distributed computers.
A. Zibarov, A. Karpov, A. Medvedev, I. Komarov,
V. Elesin, E. Rygkov, D. Orlov, A. Parfilov,
V. Lesin, A. Antonova (RUSSIA).
04:30 p.m.: End of the conference.
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I Dimitri PLEMENOS I PHONE: (+33) 5 55 43 69 74 I
I Universite de LIMOGES I FAX: (+33) 5 55 43 69 77 I
I Laboratoire MSI I E-MAIL: plemenos(a)unilim.fr I
I 83,rue d'Isle I http://msi.unilim.fr/~plemenos/ I
I 87000 LIMOGES - FRANCE I I
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-- May 2, 24:00 GMT deadline for posters/demos
All contributions submitted to ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on
Computer Animation (SCA 06 Posters and Demos) must be original,
unpublished work and should not exceed 2 pages. Any work that has
previously been published or simultaneously been submitted in
substantially similar form to any other conference or journal will be
rejected. Contributions must be written and presented in English. Please
read these instructions carefully, well in advance of the submission
deadline.
Further information is available on the SCA website:
http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/SCA06/Call.html
SIACG 2006 -3rd Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics
EPCG: 14º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica
CEIG: XVI Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 5-7, 2006
http://www.labsis.usc.es/siacg2006
C A L L F O R S H O R T P A P E R S
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/MCP_SIACG06S/mcp/subInstructions.html
Deadline: 13 of May 2006
This symposium is the third of a series of similar events organised every
other year and alternating between Europe and South America. Its mission
is to foster co-operation through joint projects and the exchange of
scholars, ideas and information between the Computer Graphics communities
in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series.
This symposium replaces this year's annual events of the Spanish and
Portuguese Chapters of Eurographics.
Important Dates
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13 May 2006: Short presentations and poster proposals due
05-07 July 2006: Conference
Topics
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We invite researchers, students, academicians and practicians to
contribute papers from all areas related to computer graphics, multimedia
and hardware. In particular we are looking to novel applications,
algorithms and the human aspects of interaction with graphics.
Authors are invited to submit contributions addressing one or more of the
following (non-exhaustive) list of major areas/topics:
Computer Graphics Systems and Hardware
Visualisation
Computer Animation
Rendering Techniques and Global Illumination
Real-Time Rendering
Virtual Reality and Computer Human Interface
Computational Geometry and its Applications
Geometric Computing and Solid Modelling
Scientific Visualisation
Volume Graphics
Augmented and Mixed Reality
Game Design and Game Engine Development
Virtual Humans and Artificial Life
3D Reconstruction
GPU Programming
Graphical User Interfaces
Interaction Architectures and Models
Multimodal User Interfaces
Graphics and Multimedia
Computer Graphics for Mobile Applications
Computer Graphics applications (Arts, Education, Engineering, Entertainment, Medicine and Science)
Invited speakers
----------------
Marie-Paule Cani
GRAVIR lab, IMAG-INRIA
http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Marie-Paule.Cani/
Anselmo Lastra
Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~lastra/
Mel Slater
Department of Computer Science University College London
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Slater/
Venue
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Santiago de Compostela is mainly a monumental town, a stony miracle which
has been shaped around the Apostle St James's sepulchre along the
centuries, and which has resulted in one of the most splendid and harmonic
architectural ensembles in the world. Considered to be one of the three
spiritual capitals of Christendom together with Rome and Jerusalem, from
the Middle Ages it became the goal of religious pilgrimages, a phenomenon
that would give birth to the pilgrims' Road to Santiago, the real spine of
the art and the thought from which, as Goethe said, the idea of Europe
would be born.
The conference venue will be the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, at
the Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñería (Rúa Lope Gómez de Marzoa,
15782-Santiago de Compostela)
Short Paper Submission
-----------------------
Submissions are invited as short paper of 2 to 4 pages (A4 paper), and will
be presented as posters. The papers must be written in English. The program committee,
composed of internationally renowned experts, will review the submissions.
Guidelines for the authors and submission area:
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/MCP_SIACG06S/mcp/subInstructions.html
Organized by
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Eurographics Spanish Chapter
Eurographics Portuguese Chapter
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Conference co-chair
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António Ramires Fernandes, U. Minho (PT)
Juan Carlos Torres, UGR (ES)
International Program Committee Co-chairs
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Pere Brunet, UPC (ES)
Nuno Correia, U. Nova de Lisboa (PT)
Gladimir V. G. Baranoski, U. Waterloo (CA)
International Program Committee
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Dolors Ayala Vallespi (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
George Baciu (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Rui Bastos (nVidia, U.S.A.)
Imma Boada (Univ. de Girona, Spain)
Beatriz Carmo (DI/FC/UL, Portugal)
Eva Cerezo (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Teresa Chambel (DI/FC/UL, Portugal)
Paolo Cignoni (CNR, Italy)
Mário Costa Sousa (University of Calgary, Canada)
Francisco Feito (Universidad de Jaen, Spain)
Adérito Fernandes Marcos (CCG-DSI/EE/UM, Portugal)
Pablo Figueroa (University of Andes, Colombia)
Julian Flores (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Alex Garcia-Alonso (CEIT, San Sebastian, Spain)
Christian Hofsetz (Unisinos, Brazil)
Joaquim A. Jorge (INESC-IST/UTL, Portugal)
HyungSeok Kim (MiraLab, Switzerland)
Anselmo Lastra (University of North Carolina, U.S.A.)
Marcio Lobo Netto (USP, Brazil)
Adriano Lopes (DI/FCT/UNL, Portugal)
Joaquim Madeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Manuel Menezes de Oliveira Netto (UFRGS, Brazil)
Isabel Navazo (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Fernando Nunes Ferreira (FEUP, Portugal)
Maria Cristina F. de Oliveira (USP, Brazil)
Francisco Perales (Universidad de les Illes Balears, Spain)
João Pereira (IST/UTL, Portugal)
Manuel Próspero dos Santos (DI/FCT/UNL, Portugal)
Xavier Pueyo (Universidad de Girona, Spain)
Anna Puig (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain)
Ricardo Quiros (Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, Spain)
Christophe Renaud (Universite du Littoral, France)
Robson Rodrigues Lemos (UCS, Brazil)
Jon G. Rokne (The University of Calgary, Canada)
Teresa Romão (University of Évora, Portugal)
José Miguel Salles Dias (ADETI-ISCTE, Portugal)
Mateu Sbert Casasayas (University of Girona, Spain)
Jacob Scharcanski (UFRGS, Brazil)
Francisco Jose Seron (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Claudio Silva (University of Utah, USA)
Vaklav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
A. Augusto de Sousa (University of Porto, Portugal)
Beatriz Sousa Santos (IEETA/UA, Portugal)
José Carlos Teixeira (FCT/UC, Portugal)
Juan Carlos Torres (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Carlos Ureña (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Alvar Vinacua (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Roberto Vivo (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
Burkhard Wunsche (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Local Organising Committee
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Julián Flores, USC (ES)
Pedro Saco, USC (ES)
Juan E. Arias, USC (ES)
Jose Taboada, USC (ES)
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Juan Carlos Torres | jctorres(a)ugr.es
Dpt. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos | http://lsi.ugr.es/~jctorres
ETS. Ing. Informatica | Phone: (+34) 958 243 181
Univ. Granada (SPAIN) | FAX: (+34) 958 243 171
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S O R R Y F O R D U P L I C A T E S !!!!!
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3IA'2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Limoges (FRANCE), 23 - 24 of May, 2006
http://msi.unilim.fr/3IA
In cooperation with Eurographics
General Chair: Dimitri PLEMENOS (plemenos(a)unilim.fr)
Invited speakers: Brian Barsky (USA), Marina Gavrilova (Canada)
Zhigeng PAN (China)
REGISTRATION FEES: 180 Euro (regular participants)
120 Euro (students)
Payment by Bank transfer (see http://msi.unilim.fr/3IA)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Morning
09:00 a.m: Reception
09:35 a.m: Opening of the Conference
09:45 a.m: Invited speaker
Geometric Algorithms in 3D Real-Time Rendering and
Facial Expression Modeling
Marina Gavrilova (CANADA)
10:45 a.m: Coffee break
1st session: Animation 1
11:15 a.m.: Using motion graph for interactive motion edit.
Le Zheng, Zhigeng Pan, Bin Tang (CHINA)
11:45 a.m.: Techniques for off-line exploration using a virtual
camera.
Benoit Jaubert, Karim Tamine, Dimitri Plemenos (FRANCE)
12:15 p.m. Lunch
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Afternoon
02:30 p.m.: Invited speaker
Direct Real Time Tessellation of Parametric
Spline Surfaces.
Adrian Sfarti, Brian A. Barsky, Todd Kosloff
Egor Pasztor, Alex Kozlowski, Eric Roman,
Alex Perelman (USA).
2nd session: Animation 2
SHORT PAPERS
03:30 p.m.: Evolving autonomous locomotion of virtual characters
in simulated physical environment via neural networks
and evolutionary strategies.
S. Marks, W. Conen, T. Kollakowsky, G. Lux (GERMANY)
03:45 a.m.: Models used by vision-based motion capture.
Regina Radlova (CZECH REPUBLIC), T. Bouwmans,
B. Vachon (FRANCE)
04:00 a.m: Coffee break
3rd session: Declarative scene modelling
04:30 p.m.: Towards project coordination environment for
collaborative declarative scene modelling.
J. Dragonas, A. Lazaridis, D. Makris, G. Miaoulis
(GREECE), D. Plemenos (FRANCE).
05:00 p.m.: MultiCAD-MOGA. A system for conceptual design of
buildings.
D. Makris, I. Havoutis, G. Miaoulis (GREECE),
D. Plemenos (FRANCE).
05:30 p.m.: An interfacing module using configuration for
declarative design of NURBS surfaces.
Mathieu ESTRATAT, Raphaël LA GRECA (FRANCE)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006, Morning
09:00 p.m.: Invited speaker
Digital Olympic Museum and Sports Simulation.
Zhigeng Pan (CHINA).
4th session: Machine learning and optimisation 1
10:00 a.m.: Learning methods applied to high-resolution
CT volume data classification.
Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Jesus Cerquides, Santi
Ontanon, Anna Puig, Eloi Puertas, Dani Tost
(SPAIN).
10:30 a.m.: A genetic texture packing algorithm on a graphical
processing unit.
Karsten Kaul, Christian-A. Bohn (GERMANY).
11:00 a.m.: Coffee break
5th session: Machine learning and optimisation 2
11:30 a.m.: Evolving cellular automata for 2D form generation.
Arturo Chavoya (MEXICO), Yves Duthen (FRANCE).
12:00 a.m.: Battle swarm: An evolutionary approach to complex
swarm intelligence.
Russel Ahmed Apu, Marina Gavrilova (CANADA).
SHORT PAPER
12:30 a.m.: Constructing the shortest closed tour on a set of
line segments using ant colony approach.
Vladimir D. Frolovsky, Natalie D. Ganelina (RUSSIA).
12:45 a.m.: Shape modification of surfaces using genetic
algorithm.
Evgeny Lomonosov (RUSSIA), Gabor Renner (HUNGARY).
13:00 a.m.: Lunch
Wednesday, May 24, 2006, Afternoon
6th session: Data visualisation
02:30 p.m.: 3D graph visualization prototype system for intrusion
detection: A surveillance aid to security analysts.
I. Xydas, G. Miaoulis (GREECE), P.-F. Bonnefoi,
D. Plemenos, D. Ghazanfarpour (FRANCE).
7th session: Applications
03:00 p.m.: Knowledge representation and data fusion for archaeology:
The case study of the castle of shawbak.
Julien Seinturier, Pierre Drap, Odile Papini (FRANCE),
Guido Vannini, Michele Nuccioti (ITALY).
SHORT PAPERS
03:30 p.m.: Architectural lighting ambience intentions for inverse
rendering.
Vincent Tourre, Jean-Yves Martin, Gerard Hegron (FRANCE)
03:45 p.m.: Pipeline approach used for recognition of dynamic meshes.
Milan Frank, Libor Vasa, Vaclav Skala (CZECH REPUBLIC)
04:00 p.m.: 3D-computer simulation of elliptic cones intersection
at their double osculation. AutoCAD.
Alexander Kheyfets (RUSSIA).
04:15 p.m.: The system of data processing on distributed computers.
A. Zibarov, A. Karpov, A. Medvedev, I. Komarov,
V. Elesin, E. Rygkov, D. Orlov, A. Parfilov,
V. Lesin, A. Antonova (RUSSIA).
04:30 p.m.: End of the conference.
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I Dimitri PLEMENOS I PHONE: (+33) 5 55 43 69 74 I
I Universite de LIMOGES I FAX: (+33) 5 55 43 69 77 I
I Laboratoire MSI I E-MAIL: plemenos(a)unilim.fr I
I 83,rue d'Isle I http://msi.unilim.fr/~plemenos/ I
I 87000 LIMOGES - FRANCE I I
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CALL FOR PAPERS Paper Due: 10th May 2006
2006 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS
November 28-30, 2006, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Organized by EPFL VRlab in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGWEB, CUSO, and INTUITION EU Network of Excellence
Cyberworlds are information worlds being formed on Internet either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without design. As information worlds, they are either virtual or real, and can be both. In terms of information modelling, the theoretical ground for the Cyberworlds is far above the level of integrating spatial database models and temporal database models. This conference will deal with large distributed information worlds on Internet as well as methods and tools used for creating such worlds.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The conference topics include but are not limited to the following areas.
- Philosophy, Evolution, and Ethics of Cyberworlds
- Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds
- Cyberethics and Cyberlaws
- Cybersecurity
- Visual Cyberworlds
- Human animation in Cyberworlds
- Virtual Reality in Cyberworlds
- Computer vision and augmented reality for Cyberworlds
- Intelligent agents in Cyberworlds
- Communication in Cyberworlds
- Distributed virtual environments
- Shared virtual worlds
- Data mining and warehousing in Cyberworlds
- Bioinformatics for Cyberlife and medicine
- Healthcare in Cyberworlds
- Cyberworlds for bioengineering
- Cyberinformation systems
- E-business in Cyberworlds
- Cyberworlds for education
- Collaborative work using Cyberworlds
- Cyberworlds for manufacturing
- Cyber fairs and Cyber museums
- Multi-user web games
CW2006 will provide an opportunity for scientists, engineers, and researchers from around the world to share the latest research, ideas, and developments in these fields.
The conference will consist of formal paper sessions and hands-on demonstrations where research groups and vendors will show the state-of-the-art in the field.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Due: 10th May 2006
Notice of Acceptance: 1st July 2006
Camera Ready Due: 28th July 2006
Conference: 28-30 Nov 2006
Full and Short Papers (in English) containing original and unpublished results are solicited. Full papers are limited to maximum 8 pages (single space, two columns) including figures. Short papers are limited to 5 pages. All paper submissions must reach us by 10th May, 2006. Accepted papers will be included in a conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society.
THE BEST FULL PAPERS WILL BE INVITED FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE VISUAL COMPUTER JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER.
Submission Information: http://vrlab.epfl.ch/cw2006/ For general enquiries please contact Daniel Thalmann, EPFL VRlab, Station 14, CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: Daniel.Thalmann(a)epfl.ch
Fax: +41-21-693-5328
**** GAMES 2006 Congress ****
International Digital Games Conference
(iDig 2006)
September 26-28, 2006
Portalegre, Portugal
First Call for Papers
In the scope of the GAMES 2006 Congress, the
first International Digital Games Conference
(iDiG Conference) aims to promote excellence in
research, creativity, and innovation in games
related areas. It constitutes a privileged forum
to foment interdisciplinary collaboration and
cooperation between industry and academia.
The goal of the conference is to get everyone
related to digital games together to promote a
comprehensive discussion of game issues and share visions of future gaming.
Papers containing ongoing research or fresh
results are most welcome. Both full papers (up to
12 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) can be submitted to the conference.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
. Game Concept Design
. Storytelling and Game Narrative
. Game Criticism
. Game Programming & Engine
. Game Rendering & Animations
. Computer Vision
. Audio & Music
. Visual Arts
. Game AI & Artificial Life
. Game Physics
. Networking Games
. Online Games
. Mobile Games
. Affective Interaction in Games & Virtual Reality
. Business & Project Management
All proposals will follow a process of blind
peer-review by the Scientific Committee on the
basis of its originality, technical quality,
style and clarity of presentation, and in its
relevance to the field. Prospective authors are
expected to present their paper at the conference.
At the present moment, the conference
organization is working on an agreement with a
major scientific publisher for the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 9, June
Short Paper Submission Deadline: 30, June
Notification of Acceptance (full papers): 21, July
Notification of Acceptance (short papers): 28, July
Final Paper Submission (both short and full): 4, August
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
José Dionísio, Instituto Superior Técnico
António Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho
STEERING COMMITTEE:
John Sutherland, Abertay University
Frans Mäyrä, University of Tempere / DiGRA
Stephane Natkin, CNAM
Paulo Gomes, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre / APROJE
A. Augusto de Sousa, Universidade do Porto / APROJE
Luis Teixeira, Universidade Católica Portuguesa / APROJE
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Adérito Marcos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Alan Chalmers, Bristol University, UK
Ann DeMarle, Champlain College, US
António Coelho, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Bary W. Pollack, Sierra Nevada College, US
Brian Winn, Michigan State University, US
Catherine Pelachaud, Univesity of Paris 8, France
Cécile Le Prado, ENJMIN, France
David Adrian Cheock, Mixed reality laboratory / NTU, Singapure
Didier Stricker, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Dmitri Williams, University of Illinois, US
Frank Schoeffel, VRCOM, Germany
Gabriel Zachmann, Bonn University, Germany
Gastão Marques, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal
Gerber Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Glyn Heatley, Algoma University College, Canada
Gonzalo Frasca, TU University of Copenhague, Denmark
Janet H. Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Jesper Juul, TU University of Copenhague, Denmark
Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University, US
João Madeiras Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC, Portugal
John Sutherland, Abertay University, UK
José Creissac Campos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
José Miguel Salles Dias, ISCTE / MICROSOFT, Portugal
Katherine Isbister, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Lee Sheldon, Anti-LinearLogic, US
Leonard Paul, Vancouver Film School / Electronic Arts, Canada
Licinio Roque, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Filipe B. Teixeira, Universidade Lusofona, Portugal
Luis Filipe Marcelino, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Paulo Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Manuel Próspero dos Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Marcos Fernández Marín, Valencia University / ARTEC, Spain
Mark H. Overmars, Utrecht University, Netherland
Mauro Figueiredo, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Mehdi Qas, Univesity of Wolverhampton, UK
Nelson Zagalo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Pascal Estraillier, Université de la Rochelle, France
Peter Astheimer, Glasgow ITI University, UK
Philippe Martins, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal
Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, Netherland
Raquel Morais, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Portugal
Rui Bastos, NVIDIA, US
Stephan Gruenvogel, University of Berlin, Germany
Stephane Natkin, ENJMIN / CNAM, France
Stephen Jacobs, Rochester Institute of Technology, US
Susan Gold, Sierra Nevada College, US
Tony Manninen, University of Oulu, Finland
Verónica Orvalho, Dynamic Simulation Lab, Argentine
Veronica Zammito, Angry Machine, US
Yansheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
WEB PAGE:
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CONTACT:
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