Dear colleagues, 

 

With this call, we invite submissions of high-quality State of the Art Reports (STAR) to be presented at the EuroVis 2023 conference (https://www.eurovis.org/) and published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal. The EuroVis 2023 conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany on June 12-16, 2023.  

 

The call for STARs is included below and further details are on the EuroVis webpage (https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/). The STAR submissions will go through a two-stage process, and the deadline for the first stage, i.e., submissions of STAR sketches of two pages (+references, +bibliography), is just around the corner on **October 21, 2022** and we look forward to receiving your submissions, details below. 

For any questions, please contact us at stars@eurovis.org 

Best wishes, 

Renata, Stefan & Cagatay 

EuroVis 2023 - Call for State of the Art Reports (STARs) 

State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent STAR or other survey [1,2]. 

We welcome submissions that introduce emerging areas of research that are of relevance and interest to visualization research, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, social science, etc. All accepted EuroVis STAR reports will be published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal. 

Important Dates 

Submission of STAR Sketch: October 21, 2022 (two pages, +references, +bibliography) 

Invitation for full STAR submission: November 18, 2022 

Submission of full STAR: February 3, 2023 

Review notification: Mar 24, 2023 

Second round submission: April 21, 2023 

Second review notification: May 5, 2023 

Camera-ready deadline: May 19, 2023 

All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated. 

Instructions 

As part of the acceptance process for Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage review process where authors first submit a 2-page STAR Sketch that they receive preliminary feedback on, followed by a full STAR submission. Submission of the STAR Sketch and full report is mandatory and will be conducted using the Precision Conference System (PCS). For detailed paper preparation and submission instructions please refer to the submission guidelines below. 

Upon acceptance, we aim to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2023 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a longer time slot than that of a full paper. 

STAR Sketch Submission 

A STAR Sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance to the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of a STAR Sketch main text is limited to two pages. To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, brief biographies of all authors are required as supplementary material. References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted within the two page limit. Authors receive feedback on their sketches to help improve the submission and to inform their decisions whether to progress to the Full STAR submission stage.   

Full STAR Submission 

In the next stage, authors are required to submit a full STAR. There is no strict maximum length for full submissions. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages (excluding references). Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review process, similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. 

STAR Chairs 

Stefan Bruckner, University of Bergen, Norway 

Cagatay Turkay, University of Warwick, UK 

Renata G. Raidou, TU Wien, Austria 

For any questions concerning State-of-the-Art Report submissions please contact the STAR chairs at stars@eurovis.org. 

Further details of the conference and the call can be accessed here:   

https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/