[Infovis] Fwd: EuroVis 2020 Call for State-of-the-Art Reports

[stoeltze]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the Call for State-of-the-Art 
Reports (STARs) of EuroVis 2020.

https://conferences.eg.org/egev20/for-submitters/eurovis-for-submitters/eurovis-stars/

For the first time the two conferences Eurographics and Eurovis (EGEV) 
will run together, as a single event, to be hosted in Norrköping, 
Sweden.

Best regards,
Eurovis STAR Chairs

Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Noeska Smit, University of Bergen, Norway
Bei Wang, University of Utah, USA



*** Eurovis Call for STARS

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 STAR or other survey [1,2].

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, social science, etc. Like last year, all accepted Eurovis STAR 
reports will be published in Computer Graphics Forum.

*** Important Dates

October 7, 2019    Submission of STAR sketch (two pages, +references, 
+bibliography)
October 28, 2019   Invitation for full STAR submission
January 25, 2020   Submission of full STAR
March 9, 2020        Review notification
April 16, 2020        Second round submission
April 30, 2020        Second review notification
May 7, 2020        Camera ready version

* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC

*** Instructions

As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs 
will undergo a multi-stage process.
Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory 
and will be conducted using the Precision Conference System.

We plan to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation 
(subject to the schedule management of the Eurovis 2020 program). In any 
circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a longer time slot than 
that of a full paper.

Any accepted STARs are required to have at least one (paid) registered 
author to attend and present the STAR at the conference.

*** STAR Sketch Submission

First, authors are asked to submit an initial sketch by October 7, 2019. 
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.

To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed 
STAR, authors are required to submit brief biographies of all authors as 
supplementary material. References and short biographies are considered 
supplementary pages and are not counted within the two page limit. STAR 
sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and comments on suitability 
and relevance will be provided on October 28, 2019.

*** Full STAR Submission

In the next stage, authors are required to submit a full STAR. Full STAR 
submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review process, 
similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, 
where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the 
STAR.
Full submissions are 25 pages maximum (including references).

*** Eurovis STAR Chairs

Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Noeska Smit, University of Bergen, Norway
Bei Wang, University of Utah, USA

For any question concerning STAR submissions please contact the STAR 
chairs: stars at eurovis2020.org

*** References

[1] M. Chen, Computer Graphics Forum: All STARs, Surveys, and Reviews, 
https://sites.google.com/site/drminchen/cgf-info/cgf-stars, 2018.

[2] L. McNabb and R.S. Laramee, A Survey of Surveys (SoS)-Mapping the 
Landscape of Survey Papers in Information Visualization, Computer 
Graphics Forum (CGF), Volume 36, Number 3, (June) 2017, pages 589-617.