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                        C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S

                 ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

                           S O F T V I S ' 0 6

                           September 4-5, 2006
                              Brighton, UK=20

                       http://www.softvis.org/softvis06

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NEWS: 
 - Submission site is now open
 - Ron Baecker will be the joint keynote for VL/HCC and SoftVis.


DEADLINES

Paper submission: April 7, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2006
Final papers due: July 7, 2006


Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for
researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering,
programming languages, visualization, computer science education) to
discuss and present original research on software visualization.

Over the years SOFTIVS has become the premier venue for presenting all
types of research on software visualization. After SOFTVIS03 in San
Diego, and SOFTVIS05 in St. Louis, the third iteration of this
conference series will be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Visual
Languages and Human-Centric Computing and with the Psychology of
Programmers Interest Group (PPIG) Workshop in Brighton, UK.

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Papers

We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications,
techniques, tools and case studies. Topics of interest include, but
are not restricted to, the following:

- Visualization of algorithms and programs
- Visualization "beyond programs", eg: software design, database 
  schemas, software process, security, debugging.
- Software visualization in education
- Integration of software visualization tools with development
  environments
- Graph drawing algorithms for software visualization
- Empirical evaluation of software visualization system effectiveness

Papers should represent original, unpublished results and will be
rigorously reviewed by the international Program Committee. Papers
must be in standard ACM 2-column format and cannot exceed 10 pages in
total length. Authors should prepare and electronically submit a PDF
version of their paper. Videos not exceeding 5 minutes in length can
accompany a paper submission. Papers are due April 7, 2006. Some hints
for prospective authors are available online. For more details on the
submission process see the SOFTVIS06 web site at www.softvis.org


General Chair:
Eileen Kraemer, The University of Georgia, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
 Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
 Stephan Diehl, Catholic University Eichstaett, Germany

Program Committee:
 Rob DeLine, Microsoft Research, USA
 Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 John Hosking, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand
 Chris Hundhausen, Washington State University
 Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany
 Andreas Kerren, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
 Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USA
 Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
 Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
 Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA
 Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK
 Tom Naps, University of Wisconsin -- Oshkosh, USA
 Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK
 Steve Reiss, Brown University, USA
 John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
 Ayellet Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
 Alexandru Telea, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands