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2nd Call for Papers: SIGRAD 2012 – Interactive Visual Analysis of Data
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Location: Växjö, Sweden
Date: November 29-30, 2012
Web site: http://cs.lnu.se/sigrad2012/

    *** Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2012 ***

SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, invites contributions to 
the conference SIGRAD 2012 with the presentation of high-quality 
visualization and computer graphics research. Papers accepted for SIGRAD 
2012 are published by Linköping University E-Press both in an electronic 
and printed proceedings. Submissions may be full research papers or 
short papers which may describe proven and tested solutions, novel 
ideas, work-in-progress or recent results. More information on how to 
submit a paper can be found at

* http://cs.lnu.se/sigrad2012/

The selected theme of this year's conference is "Interactive Visual 
Analysis of Data". However, we also invite papers on other aspects of 
interactive computer graphics and visualization. Thus, topics for 
submissions include but are not limited to the following areas:

* Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization
* Visual Analytics, Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Large Data Visualization including Streaming Data, Temporal Data, Text 
and Documents, Networks, ...
* Geo-spatial Data in Visualizations
* Visualization Taxonomies and Models
* Visualization Systems and Software Architectures
* Collaborative Visualization
* Human-Computer Interaction for Visualization and Computer Graphics
* Augmented and Virtual Reality
* Solutions and Algorithms for Virtual/Augmented Reality Applications
* Real-time Rendering
* Procedural Methods and Texture Synthesis
* Parallel Graphics Algorithms
* Evaluation and User Studies
* Training and Education
* Teaching Interaction, Computer Graphics and Visualization
* Applications Areas of Visualizations, such as Biology, Physical 
Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business Analytics, Software 
Engineering, ...

Invited Talks
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* Keynote: "Parallel Coordinates ... are better than they look!" by 
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
* Capstone: "Why Watson and SPSS Are IBM’s Big Data Yin and Yang" by 
Steen Christoffersen, IBM Business Analytics, Denmark

SIGRAD 2012 Co-Chairs
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* Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
* Stefan Seipel, University of Gävle, Sweden

International Program Committee
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* Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Morten Fjeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
* Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* Hellwig Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway
* Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Vizrt Ardendo, Sweden
* Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
* Lars Kjelldahl, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
* Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
* Martin Kraus, Aalborg University, Denmark
* Robert S Laramee, Swansea University, UK
* Thomas Larsson, Mälardalen University, Sweden
* Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA & CIRIC, France
* Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK
* Timo Ropinski, Linköping University, Sweden
* Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany
* Falk Schreiber, IPK Gatersleben and MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
* Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock, Germany
* Stefan Seipel, University of Gävle, Sweden
* Jarke J. Van Wijk, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Rüdiger Westermann, TU Munich, Germany
* Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK

Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2012
* Author notification: October 10, 2012
* Camera-ready paper deadline: November 1, 2012

If you have any questions, please contact the conference organizers: 
sigrad2012@easychair.org

(This Call for Papers as PDF: http://cs.lnu.se/sigrad2012/SIGRAD12-CFP.pdf)