[General] EuroVis : 2nd Call for Papers

Call for Papers: EuroVis 2006 Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization In cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH (Pending) May 8-10, 2006 Lisbon, Portugal www.eurovis.org * Theme Convergence of Data & Information Visualization: Interaction meets Images * Important Dates Deadline for submissions: 16 December 2005, 5:00PM GMT Notification of acceptance: 30 January 2005 Camera-ready copy due: 27 February 2006 Conference dates: 8-10 May 2006 * Invited Speaker: Chris Johnson, University of Utah * Aims and Scope: EuroVis 2006 is the eighth annual visualization symposium (formerly known as 'VisSym'), jointly organised by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. We invite you to participate in EuroVis 2006, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-10, 2006. We invite papers reporting significant new research results and practical applications of visualization. Contributions from all areas of visualization are welcome. * Topics: Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to: * Theoretical foundations of visualization * Usability and human factors in visualization * Visual knowledge discovery and visual analytics * Visual Data Mining * Information visualization * Software visualization * Flow visualization * Volume visualization * Surface extraction * Compression and multi-resolution techniques * Large data visualization * Time-varying data * Visualization systems * Multi-modal visualization * Distributed, collaborative, and grid-based visualization * Parallel visualization and graphics clusters * Visualization over the internet * Mobile and ubiquitous visualization * Visual Data Mining Application papers are invited from any application area, including, but not limited to: * Physical sciences and engineering * Earth, space and environmental sciences * Bioinformatics, life sciences, medical research and practice * Business, finance, and data mining * Submission information: Paper submission is electronic only. Full details, including formatting instructions and the submission procedure are provided at the Eurovis Submission site: Papers should be formatted according to the EG publication guidelines. You are strongly recommended to use the EG LaTeX style files available [zip file, or gzip'd tar file]. Papers should not exceed 8 pages in length. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and will appear in the proceedings, which will be published in the Eurographics Workshop Series. There will by a limit of one half-page of full-colour per accepted paper in the published proceedings. Supplementary material (e.g. videos) can also be provided, and will be considered when the paper is reviewed; see the submission site for full details. * Conference Location EuroVis 2006 will be held in Lisboa, Portugal as a part of the Eurographics Portuguese Week. Lisboa is one of the most popular cities for organizing scientific meetings and international symposia. Its location on the river Tejo coupled with the mild Portuguese climate make it a very popular touristic and cultural destination. * Three Great Events - One Attractive Country EuroVis 2006 will be co-located with EGVE'06 to take place in the Gulbenkian Foundation Congress Centre, from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10. These two events will be followed by EG Symposium in Parallel Graphics and Visualization to take place in Braga from Thursday 11 to Friday 12. * Conference Chair Joaquim A Jorge Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Portugal * IPC Co-Chairs: Beatriz Sousa Santos Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Thomas Ertl Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany Ken Joy University of California at Davis, USA * Publicity Chair Adriano Lopes Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Program Committee (Please check conference site)