[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eurographics 2017 Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV 2017) Call for Papers

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June 12-13, 2017, Barcelona, Spain

Co-located with EuroVis 2017

http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/egpgv/egpgv2017/

Dear colleagues,

The importance of parallel computing is increasing rapidly with the ubiquitous availability of multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and cluster systems. Computationally demanding and data-intensive applications in graphics and visualization are strongly affected by this trend and require novel efficient parallel solutions. The aim of this symposium is to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge exploiting and defining new trends in parallel graphics and visualization.

The proceedings of the EGPGV Symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series and in the Eurographics Digital Library. Best papers from the EGPGV symposium will be invited to submit an extended journal version to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Focusing on parallel computing, the symposium seeks papers on graphics and visualization techniques, data structures, algorithms, and systems for:

- large-data

- HPC and cloud environments

- (multi-)GPU computing, and heterogeneous, hybrid architectures

- shared and/or distributed memory architectures

- out-of-core

The symposium topics include:

- computationally and data intensive rendering

- scientific visualization (volume rendering, flow, and tensor visualization)

- information visualization and visual analytics

- in-situ analytics and in-situ visualization

- simulations for virtual environments (physics-based animation, collision detection, acoustics)

- mesh processing, level-of-detail, and geometric methods

- visual computing (image- and video-based rendering, image processing and exploitation, segmentation)

- scheduling, memory management, and data coherence

- distributed, parallel, or multi-threaded approaches

- mapReduce-based and database-related methods, algorithms or approaches, query based visualization

- advanced hardware for data handling or visualization

- large and high resolution displays, virtual environments

- scientific, engineering, and industrial applications

Submission types

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You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works. Two types of submissions are accepted, as follows.

Full papers

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Full papers are expected to be eight to ten (8-10) pages in length, with the final length appropriate to the contribution of the paper. Submissions are to be formatted along the Eurographics paper publication guidelines.

We expect that full paper submissions will clearly discuss the novel and significant contributions as well as related work in the field. Authors must highlight how their contributions differ and advance the state of the art in parallel graphics and visualization. The full paper and all supplementary material, if any, must be submitted via the PCS online system.

Short papers

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This year we introduce a new type of submission: short papers. Short papers target the same interest topics as full papers, but are maximally 4 pages in length. As such, they typically address novel ideas or work in progress which has not been sufficiently solidly validated as for full papers. Short papers can also target use-cases and applications of parallel graphics and visualization, presentation of parallel graphics and visualization tools and systems, industry success stories, and showcases of applications making use of parallel graphics and visualization. The short paper track thus broadens the visualization showcase track that was present in earlier editions of EGPGV. Short papers and their supplementary material, if any, must be submitted via the PCS online system.

Accepted papers (both full and short) will appear in the symposium proceedings and be published via the Eurographics Digital Library.

Submission process

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Papers are accepted when submitted via the PCS system (precisionconference.com). Additional details with respect to the submission process will be announced shortly on egpgv.org/egpgv2017

Reviewing process

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Both paper types (full and short) will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee (IPC), in a single review pass. Full papers deemed insufficient in terms of the contribution level expected for a full paper, but presenting otherwise interesting, novel, and valuable results, can be selected by the IPC to be accepted as short papers. The review process is not double blind; we leave it to the latitude of the authors whether they want to disclose their identity in their submissions.

Important Dates

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Papers Submission:       March 6, 2017

Author Notification:     April 20, 2017

Camera-Ready Submission: April 27, 2017

Symposium:               June 12-13, 2017

Symposium Chair

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Fernando Cucchietti, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Program Chairs

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Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA