28 Jul 2014
Melbourne, Australia
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ED 2014 Call For Papers: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams, July 28, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Co-Located with Diagrams 2014 and VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia ** ED 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/ED2014 Diagrams 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014 VL/HCC 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2014/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Euler diagrams represent relationships between sets, including intersection, containment, and disjointness. These diagrams have become the foundations of various visual languages and have notably facilitated the modelling of, and logical reasoning about, complex systems. Over the years, they have been extensively used in areas such as biosciences, business, criminology and national security to intuitively visualize relationships and relative cardinalities of sets. This widespread adoption has allowed analysis of complex collections of data. The workshop will cover all aspects of Euler diagram research, including, but not limited to: Theoretical Advances: ?drawability, layouts, logic, reasoning, Software Support: diagram generation, automated reasoning, data exploration, Real-World Applications: system modelling, information visualization, education, Cognition and Perceptual Principles: readability, aesthetics and evaluation, including comparison to other representations. Recently, there have been significant advances in all of the above areas. This workshop of peer-reviewed submissions will afford the growing Euler diagrams community the opportunity to present and discuss new research, and share multi-interdisciplinary expertise. We envisage that this will stimulate collaborations on current and future research needs. This will be the second time the workshop has run as part of the Diagrams conference series and the fourth Euler diagrams workshop (after successful workshops in 2012, 2004 and 2005). The workshop will bring together researchers with diverse backgrounds, from both academia and industry including those with expertise in mathematic, computer science, artificial intelligence, information design, visualization, human-computer interaction, as well as end-users from various application area. We solicit submissions on the topics mentioned above, in the following forms: full papers (15 pages), consisting of: - original research - surveys short papers (7 pages), consisting of: - systems descriptions - software demonstrations - position statements - original research contributions All submissions should be in Springer?s LNCS format. The proceedings will be published by CEUR. We plan to organise a special issue of a journal for extended versions of the best papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission (optional): April 21st Paper submission: April 28th Notification: May 27th Although abstract submission is optional, authors are strongly encouraged to upload their abstract. Program Committee members will be asked to bid on papers for review, between the abstract and paper submission dates. Making your abstract available will help to ensure that the most appropriate experts review your paper. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Jim Burton, University of Brighton Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton Program Committee (to be completed) Francesco Bellucci, Tallinn University of Technology Peter Chapman, University of Brighton Rosario de Chiara, Poste Italian Renata de Freitas, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeira Tim Dwyer, Monash University Jean Flower, Autodesk Luana Micallef, University of Kent Mitsuhiro Okada, Keio University Peter Rodgers, University of Kent Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers ed2014@easychair.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Jim Burton Senior Lecturer in Computing School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics University of Brighton