[Infovis] EuroVis 2018: CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS - STAR sketch submission deadline 13 October 2017

[G.Elisabeta Marai]

For those considering the upcoming EuroVis STAR sketch deadline on Oct
13th:

Thanks to Min Chen (serving as EiC at CGF), here is a relatively complete
list of STAR reports published so far:
https://sites.google.com/site/drminchen/cgf-info/cgf-stars
(this page is also linked from the main CGF web page.)

Hope this helps,
The STAR CHAIRS (star at eurovis2018.org <mailto:star at eurovis2018.org>)
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Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University, UK
Michael Sedlmair, University of Vienna, Austria
G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

-- Liz
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G. Elisabeta Marai
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago
http://evl.uic.edu/marai



On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Michael Sedlmair <
michael.sedlmair at univie.ac.at> wrote:

> CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS
> All accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum
>
> Important Upcoming Dates
> Submission of STAR sketch (two  pages +references+bibliography): 13
> October 2017
> Invitation for full STAR submission: 3 November 2017
> Submission of full STAR: 2 February 2018
>
> EuroVis 2018 is the 20th annual scientific gathering on visualization
> jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization
> and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. EuroVis
> 2018 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, from 4-8 June 2018.
>
> Like last year, all accepted EuroVis 2018 STAR reports will be published
> in Computer Graphics Forum.  State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended
> to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to
> the visualization research community.  We encourage the submission of
> STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent previous
> STAR or other survey.  We welcome submissions that introduce emerging
> technologies, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization
> topics.  We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and
> application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from,
> the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing,
> computer graphics, human-computer interaction, virtual reality,
> image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry,
> computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences,
> medicine, biology, economy, politology, etc.
>
> As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs
> will undergo a multi-stage process.  First, authors are asked to submit
> an initial sketch by 13 October 2017. A STAR sketch briefly describes the
> planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance to the
> visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of
> the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the
> authors. The length of a STAR sketch main text is limited to two pages.
> References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and
> are not counted within the two page limit. Bibliographies are be limited
> to 200 words per author. The format of the sketch can be found at
> http://www.eurovis2018.org/ <http://www.eurovis2018.org/>
>
> STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and comments on suitability
> and relevance will be provided by 3 Nov 2016.  Authors will then be
> required
> to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single
> blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers submitted
> to Computer Graphics Forum, where three external experts on the respective
> topic will evaluate the STAR. We do not impose strict maximum lengths for
> submitted STARs. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages in
> CGF latex style including all images but excluding references. To
> summarize,
> survey papers are up to 20 pages (excluding references). There is no page
> limit for references and author biographies are not included in the final
> version of the paper.
>
> To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR,
> authors are required to submit the brief biographies of all authors as
> supplementary materials.
>
> Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and
> will be conducted using https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ <
> https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/> according to
> the guidelines defined at:
> http://www.eurovis2018.org/ <http://www.eurovis2018.org/>
>
> We plan to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation
> (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2018 program). In any
> circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a longer time slot than
> that for a full paper.
>
> For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs
> co-chairs:
> star at eurovis2018.org <mailto:star at eurovis2018.org>
>
> Important Dates
> Submission of STAR sketch (two  pages +references+bibliography): 13
> October 2017
> Invitation for full STAR submission: 3 Nov 2017
> Submission of full STAR: 2 Feb 2018
> Review notification: 16 March 2018
> Second round submission: 20 April 2018
> Second review notification: 4 May 2018
> Camera ready deadline: 18 May 2018
>
> General Chair
> Barbora Kozlikova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
>
> STAR CHAIRS (star at eurovis2018.org <mailto:star at eurovis2018.org>)
> Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University, UK
> Michael Sedlmair, University of Vienna, Austria
> G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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