----- We apologize, if you receive this message more than once. ----- 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/ LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Deadline for Submission: April 1st, 2003 ! 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: April 1, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 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 ---- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS CALL TO INTERESTED COLLEAGUES ----