CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS All accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum Important Upcoming Dates Submission of STAR sketch (two pages +references+bibliography): 13 October 2017 Invitation for full STAR submission: 3 November 2017 Submission of full STAR: 2 February 2018 EuroVis 2018 is the 20th annual scientific gathering on visualization jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. EuroVis 2018 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, from 4-8 June 2018. Like last year, all accepted EuroVis 2018 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 asked to submit an initial sketch by 13 October 2017. 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. References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted within the two page limit. Bibliographies are be limited to 200 words per author. The format of the sketch can be found at http://www.eurovis2018.org/ STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and comments on suitability and relevance will be provided by 3 Nov 2016. Authors will then be required to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where three external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. Full submissions are 25 pages maximum. To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, authors are required to submit the brief biographies of all authors as supplementary materials. Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and will be conducted using https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ according to the guidelines defined at: http://www.eurovis2018.org/ We plan to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2018 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a longer time slot than that for a full paper. For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs co-chairs: star(a)eurovis2018.org Important Dates Submission of STAR sketch (two pages +references+bibliography): 13 October 2017 Invitation for full STAR submission: 3 Nov 2017 Submission of full STAR: 2 Feb 2018 Review notification: 16 March 2018 Second round submission: 20 April 2018 Second review notification: 4 May 2018 Camera ready deadline: 18 May 2018 General Chair Barbora Kozlikova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic STAR CHAIRS (star(a)eurovis2018.org) Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University, UK Michael Sedlmair, University of Vienna, Austria G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA