International Workshop on
VISUAL LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING
at the
9th Intl. Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems
Florida International University
Miami, Florida, USA
September 24-26, 2003
http://www.vlc03.cs.ucla.edu/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2003
International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems
( http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms03cfp.html )
AIMS AND SCOPE
Visual computing is computing on visual objects. Some visual
objects such as images are inherently visual in the sense that
their primary representation is the visual representation.
Some visual objects such as data structures are derivatively
visual in the sense that their primary representation is not
the visual representation, but can be transformed into a visual
representation. Images and data structures are the two extremes.
Other visual objects such as maps may fall somewhere in between
the two. Visual computing often involves the transformation from
one type of visual objects into another type of visual objects,
or into the same type of visual objects, to accomplish certain
objectives such as information reduction, object recognition and
so on.
In visual computing it is important to ask the following question:
who performs the visual computing? The answer to this question
determines the approach to visual computing. For instance it is
possible that primarily the computer performs the visual computing
and the human merely observes the results. It is also possible
that primarily the human performs the visual computing and the
computer plays a supporting role. Often the human and the computer
are both involved as equal partners in visual computing and there
are visual interactions. Formal or informal visual languages are
usually needed to facilitate such visual interactions. With the
advances in bio-computing it is conceivable that visual computing
may involve animals, robots, cyborgs and other hybrid life forms
so that visual languages can be either natural or artificial.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Visual Languages
- Visual Programming
Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning
Visual Computing for Expert Communities
Visual Computing on Sensed Data
Gestural Computing
Visual Computing in Bioinformatics
- Human-Machine Interface Design
- Multi-Media Communications
- Pictorial Databases
- Pictorial Information Systems
- Information Retrieval Systems and Algorithms
- Cognitive Aspects of Human-Machine Systems
Cognitive Vision
Fusion of Vision with Audio and Other Modalities
- Human Vision Systems and Models
- Visualization of Computational Processes
- Large-Scale Scientific Computing
- Parallel/Distributed/Neural Computing and
Representations for Visual Information Processing
- Advanced Applications in Geographic Information Systems
- Pictorial Archiving and Communication Systems
- Biomedical Imagery
- Industrial Automation
- Computer Animation
- Computer-Assisted Visual Arts
PAPER SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing is
intended to explore the issues mentioned above. Papers on all
aspects and approaches to visual languages and computing are
solicited, including interactive visual computing, computer-
empowered visual computing, human-empowered visual computing,
transformation algorithms for visual computing, and visual
languages for visual computing. Papers are solicited on the
means of accepting imprecise, fuzzy and inexact information
from the human so that interactive visual computing can be
performed. Papers on the theoretical foundation of formal/informal,
natural/artificial visual languages, and theory of visual
interactions, are also welcome. Experimental and new-idea
innovative shorter papers will be also considered.
E-mail a letter of submission with attached paper in pdf format
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Eight pages maximum, IEEE double-column and format.
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of DMS2003
(http://www.cs.fiu.edu/DMS2003/). A selected number of accepted
papers will be invited for subsequent publication in a special
issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: March 1, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2003
Final version of paper: July 1, 2003
Workshop: September 24-26, 2003
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Alfonso F. Cárdenas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Piero Mussio, University of Brescia, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tim Arndt, Cleveland State University, USA
Alberto Del Bimbo, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Marc H. Brown, Vendavo Inc., USA
S. K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ralf Doerner, Fraunhofer AGC, Germany
George Furnas, University of Michigan, USA
Stephen Guest, Groupworks, USA
Erland Jungert, Swedish Defence Research Establishment, Sweden
Zenon Kulpa, Inst. of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland
Robert Laurini, University of Lyon, France
Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy
Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia
Nikolay Mirenkov, University of Aizu, Japan
Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Marc Najork, Microsoft, USA
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University, USA
David Stotts, University of North Carolina, USA
Genny Tortora, Universita' di Salerno, Italy
Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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