Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 07:39:50 +0100 From: Theussl Thomas To: vis-group@cg.tuwien.ac.at Subject: [Fwd: Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Web-Based Information Visualization] Guido Menkhaus wrote: > > > http://kniebach.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/pub/english.cgi/d274881/cfp_webvis_2000_1.html > > WebVis 2000 > > Second International Workshop on > > Web-Based Information Visualization > > in conjunction with the > > 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems > Applications > > DEXA 2000 > Date: September 4 - 8, 2000 > Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom > > Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer > Society Press > > THEME > > Information visualization combines aspects of scientific > visualization, human-computer interaction, data mining, imaging and > graphics. It focuses on information which is often abstract. This means > that many interesting classes of information have no natural and obvious > physical representation. A key research > problem is to discover new visual metaphors for representing > information and to understand which analytical tasks they support. > The largest information space is perhaps the World Wide Web, which > contains millions of pages. > Information visualization in this domain enables users to get > information quickly, put it in a meaningful shape, and to make decisions > in a relatively short time. Web-based information visualization > describes visualization applications that use the Web as an information > source, a delivery mechanism for visualization, or both. > > The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and > practitioners who are working in key technology areas of Information > Visualization in order to discuss recent research findings and address > complementary research and development issues. Of particular interest > are papers describing different visualization techniques to make use of > the information available in the net or how Web-techniques can be used > to visualize information > > Topics of interest include but are not limited to: > > Web as new medium for visualization > Web-based visualization techniques (e.g. providing interactive > views of environmental data on the WWW) > Typical taxonomies of information visualization (e.g. data, > tasks) > Web-based development tools for visualization (e.g. VRML, Java) > Web-based visualization for data analysis (e.g. structured or > unstructured data) > Visualization examples (e.g. applications): > hierarchical information (e.g. web structures), > networks (Web-based network traffic monitoring tool) > content-based document clustering (e.g. clustering documents > into an information space based on their content) > visualization of Web search results > information space metaphors > visualization techniques for small devices (e.g. cellular > phones, palm tops) > DataBase Management and Information Retrieval oriented enabling > technologies supporting > Information Visualization on the Web > Enabling technologies supporting the integration of Web-based > Information Visualization and > Web-based Multimedia > Information Visualization supporting Web technologies (e.g. how > information visualization can make the Web easier to use) > Usage and User-Centered Web-based Information Visualization > (e.g. how to make information visualization more useful) > > The papers must clearly show how the technical solutions described > contribute to the area of web-based > information visualization. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Submission deadline: ................ March 1, 2000 > Notification of acceptance: ........April 1, 2000 > Camera-ready copies: ............... May 1, 2000 > Workshop:....................................September 4-8, 2000 > (final date has to be fixed) > > SUBMISSION DETAILS > > Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing > original, unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated > based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of > exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the > program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer > Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2000 workshops. > All submitted papers should not be longer than 10 pages (5000 words). > The IEEE author guidelines will be send to each author after the > acceptance of the paper. > > Electronic Submission > > ONLY EMAIL SUBMISSIONS of full and abstract papers in Postscript or PDF > format will be accepted. > Please send also an abstract (no more than 250 words in ASCII text) of > the paper via email including title of the paper, authors' names and 3-4 > relevant keywords. The title page must include the name and email > address of the contact author. > > Please submit your paper electronically by e-mail to : Guido Menkhaus, > menkhaus@fmi.uni-konstanz.de > > ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > > Chairs: > > Harald Reiterer + Wolfgang Pree > University of Konstanz > D-78457 Konstanz, Germany > Tel: +49-7531-88-3704 or 4433 > Fax: +49-7531-88-2048 > E-mails: Harald.Reiterer@uni-konstanz.de, > Wolfgang.Pree@uni-konstanz.de > > -- > Guido Menkhaus C.Doppler Software Research Lab > Tel +49 (0)7531 88-2188 Universitaet Konstanz > Cell +49 (0)173 6551647 78457 Konstanz sl, tom -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Theussl Thomas mailto:theussl@cg.tuwien.ac.at | | Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Computer Graphics | | Karlsplatz 13/186, A-1040 Wien Tel.: (+43-1) 58801-18656 | | http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/ThomasTheussl.html | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+