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Diagrams 2008, Herrsching (Germany), 19-21 Sep 2008
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2nd Call for Papers: Diagrams 2008
Herrsching, Germany
September 19 - 21, 2008
www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/diagrams2008
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We are delighted to announce our complete line up of keynote speakers:
Professor John Etchemendy, Provost of Stanford University,
W. Bradford Paley, Columbia University and Digital Image Design
Incorporated, and
Professor Dr Wilhelm Schfer, University of Paderborn.
Professor Dr Schfer will be delivering a joint keynote with the co-located
event Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing.
In addition, we are pleased that Nokia will be sponsoring the Diagrams 2008
Best Paper Award.
Diagrams 2008 Chairs
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Diagrams 2008: 5th International Conference on the Theory and Application of
Diagrams
Herrsching, Germany
September 19 - 21, 2008
Diagrams is an international and interdisciplinary conference series,
covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams.
Recent technological advances have enabled the large-scale adoption of
diagrams in a diverse range of areas. Increasingly sophisticated visual
representations are emerging and, to enable effective communication, insight
is required into how diagrams are used and when they are appropriate for
use. The pervasive, everyday use of diagrams for communicating information
and ideas serves to illustrate the importance of providing a sound
understanding of the role that diagrams can, and do, play. Research in the
field of diagrams aims to improve our understanding of the role of diagrams,
sketches and other visualisations in communication, computation, cognition,
creative thought, and problem solving. These concerns have triggered a surge
of interest in the study of diagrams.
The study of diagrammatic communication as a whole must be pursued as an
interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams 2008 is the fifth event in this
conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh during September 2000.
Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related
fields, placing the conference as a major international event in the area.
Diagrams is the only conference that provides a united forum for all areas
that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture,
artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science,
education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction,
linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software
modelling.
For the first time in its history, Diagrams will be co-located, running in
conjunction with the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric
Computing and the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization as part of Visual
Week. This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment,
enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more
widely disseminate research results. Cross-conference participation is
encouraged and the program will include joint keynote speakers.
Diagrams 2008 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed
papers, posters and tutorial sessions. We invite submissions of
long research papers (15 pages)
short research papers (7 pages)
posters (3 pages)
tutorial proposals (1 page; see the conference web page for full details)
that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present
original research results. Short papers and posters should present original
research contributions, position or problem statements, summarise software
to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere
which are of interest to the Diagrams community.
All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings will be
published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
www.springer.com/lncs.
Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the
conference web site www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/diagrams2008.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
applications of diagrams
computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagram
design of diagrammatic notations
diagram understanding by humans or machines
diagram aesthetics and layout
educational uses of diagrams
graphical communication
heterogeneous notations involving diagrams
history of diagrammatic notations
information visualization using diagrams
novel uses of diagrams
psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production
of diagrams
reasoning with diagrams
software to support the use of diagrams
theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and
formalization
usability issues concerning diagrams
Important Dates
Abstract submission 20th March 2008
Paper and tutorial submission 1st April 2008
Poster submission 11th April 2008
Notification for papers/tutorials 16th May 2008
Notification for posters 23rd May 2008
Camera ready copies due 13th June 2008
Visual Week 15th - 21st September 2008
Diagrams conference 19th - 21st September 2008
Organisation
General Chair
Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK
Program Chairs
John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
John Lee, University of Edinburgh, UK
Local Chair
Mark Minas, Universitt der Bundeswehr, Germany
Publicity Chair
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK
Web Site
Aidan Delaney, University of Brighton, UK
Program Committee
Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA)
Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA)
Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK)
Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada)
B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA)
Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK)
Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK)
Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA)
Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA)
Yuri Engelhardt (University of Amsterdam)
Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) David Gooding (Bath University)
Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK)
Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University, Japan)
Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany)
Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland)
Oliver Lemon (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Stefano Levialdi (University of Rome - "La Sapienza", Italy)
Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Grant Malcolm (University of Liverpool)
Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia)
Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia)
Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA)
N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA)
James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
Jesse Norman (University College London, UK)
Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh)
Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Mexico City)
Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK)
Thomas Rist (Fachhochschule Augsburg)
Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK)
Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada)
Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan)
Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA)
John Sowa (VivoMind Intelligence Inc.)
Keith Stenning (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Spain)
Gabi Taentzer (Technical University of Berlin)
Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA)