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EXTENDED DEADLINE for Submission: May 1, 2003
The deadline has been extended because of the impact on submissions
and travel uncertainties due to the unfortunate current war situation,
impacting attendance to all major international conferences.
International Conference 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/
This conference 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 to
both: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] 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: May 1, 2003 !!!
Notification of Acceptance: June 25, 2003
Final version of paper: July 15, 2003
Conference: 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
Ralf Doerner, Fraunhofer AGC, Germany, Publicity Chair
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