[General] STAR EuroVis 2016 - sketch deadline extended to December 15

After several requests, the deadline of the STAR sketches has been extended to the 15th of December 2015! --------------------------------- CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS All accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum EuroVis 2016 is the 18th annual scientific gathering on visualization jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. EuroVis 2016 will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands from June 6-10, 2016. For the first time, all accepted EuroVis 2016 STAR reports will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. 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 previous STAR or other survey. We welcome submissions that introduce emerging technologies, 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, politology, etc. As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage process. First, authors are being asked to submit an initial sketch. A STAR sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance for 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 is limited to three pages whereby the last page may only contain references. The format of the sketch can be found at http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines. STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR program co-chairs for suitability and relevance, and the authors of accepted sketches will be invited to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers, where three external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. Full submissions are 25 pages maximum. Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and will be conducted using <https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/> https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ according to the guidelines defined at <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines> http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines We plan to schedule each STAR as a 50-100 minute presentation as in Eurographics conferences (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2016 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will always be given a longer time slot than that for a full paper. For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs co-chairs: eurovis2016_star(a)list.rug.nl Important Dates Submission of STAR sketch (up to 3 pages): Extended to December 15, 2015 Invitation for full STAR submission: December 23, 2015 Submission of full STAR: February 14, 2016 Review notification: March 18, 2016 Second round submission: April 18, 2016 Second review notification: May 1, 2016 Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2016 General Chair Jos Roerdink, Univeristy of Gronigen, The Netherlands STAR Chairs Anna Vilanova ( <mailto:A.Vilanova@tudelft.nl> A.Vilanova(a)tudelft.nl), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ross Maciejewski ( <mailto:rmacieje@asu.edu> rmacieje(a)asu.edu), Arizona State University, USA Timo Ropinski ( <mailto:timo.ropinski@uni-ulm.de> timo.ropinski(a)uni-ulm.de), Ulm University, Germany