[Infovis] [CfPoster Graph Drawing 2020]: Updated Call for Poster Graph Drawing Conference 2020

[David Auber]

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             Call for Posters

                 GD 2020

        28th International Symposium on
    Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

    September 16-18, 2020 Vancouver, Canada
           https://gd2020.cs.ubc.ca/

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Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs 
and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph 
Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it 
is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. 
Examples of such application areas include data science, social 
sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography, 
business intelligence, information security, and software engineering.

GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 25 years. 
Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing 
as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. 
GD 2020 will be online on September 16-18, 2020, hosted by the 
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Researchers and 
practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network 
visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters, and to 
participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest.

POSTERS
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The submission of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and 
related areas is solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for 
the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also 
appear elsewhere) to the GD community.  Due to Covid-19 poster session 
will be done online. During the conference there will be an online 
45-minute poster session where participants of the conference will have 
access to zoom rooms, one room for each accepted poster with at least 
one of the authors present in the room to answer questions.  
Furthermore, each poster will be accessible online to all participants 
during the entire conference. Authors of posters should prepare an 
abstract (up to two pages, excluding references, in LNCS style) that 
must be submitted via easychair. Abstracts of accepted posters will 
appear in the conference proceedings (two pages+references). The format 
of the poster is unrestricted this year, the authors just send a URL for 
their electronic poster. However, there are two requirements: (1) the 
poster must be accessible online during the entire period September 
10-25, (2) a participant should be able to get the main information 
within at most 5 minutes when browsing/reading the poster. A valid 
webiste  URL is mandatory to submit your poster. That url may point to a 
blank page until 19 August and you'll be able to update it until 9 
September (23:59 PDT).

Each submission will then consist of a pdf file (the two-page abstract) 
and a web link and must include names, email addresses and contact 
information of the contributors. Contributions must be submitted via 
EasyChair at the web site
      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2020

Each poster must be presented at the conference by at least an author, 
otherwise the abstract will not be included in the proceedings.


BEST POSTER AWARD
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To recognize the effort of the participants in preparing and presenting 
their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Poster 
Award voted on by the GD 2020 attendees.


PUBLICATION
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All accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings, 
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 
series. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD 
community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four 
years.

Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv 
repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access 
to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS 
proceedings version (identical, except for possibly changed references 
to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked 
appendix. Subsequent submissions of revised versions of the paper to the 
arXiv (known as arXiv ``replacements’’) are allowed. Failure to comply 
with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper.

Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author 
(barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper will not be 
included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an 
author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will 
be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means.

Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a 
special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications 
(JGAA). The authors of two selected papers in Track 2 will be invited to 
submit a substantially extended version of their work to IEEE 
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Furthermore, 
two regular TVCG papers will be presented by their authors in a TVCG 
papers session.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission deadline : June 3 (23:59 PDT)
Paper submission deadline : June 8 (23:59 PDT)
Notification of paper acceptance : July  20
Poster submission deadline : August 12 (23:59 PDT)
Notification of poster acceptance : August 21
Final versions due : August 26 (23:59 PDT)
Contest submission deadline : September 5 (23:59 PDT)
Symposium : September 16-18

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Daniel Archambault, Swansea University, UK
David Auber (co-chair), University Bordeaux , FR
Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
Romain Bourqui, University Bordeaux, FR
Steve Chaplick, University of Maastricht,  NL
Markus Chimani, Osnabrück University, DE
Sabine Cornelsen, University of Konstanz, DE
Walter Didimo, University of Perugia, IT
Stefan Felsner, TU Berlin, DE
Radoslav Fulek, IST Austria, AT
Fabrizio Frati, Roma Tre University, IT
Seokhee Hong, University of Sydney, AU
Yifan Hu, Yahoo!, US
Katherine Isaacs, University of Arizona, US
Philipp Kindermann, Universität Passau, DE
Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis, US
Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, IT
Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, CA
Martin Nöllenburg, TU Vienna University,
Arnaud Sallaberry, University of Montpellier, FR
Alexandru Telea, Utrecht University, NL
Ioannis Tollis, University of Crete, GR
Csaba Tóth, California State University, Northridge, US
Pavel Valtr (co-chair), Charles University, CZ
Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, DE

INVITED SPEAKERS
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Jeff Erickson, Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign

Sheelagh Carpendale, Professor, School of Computing Science Simon Fraser 
University

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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William Evans. Computer Science. University of British Columbia

CONTEST COMMITTEE
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Philipp Kindermann, (Chair) Universität Passau, DE
Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
Ignaz Rutter, University of Passau, DE
Wouter Meulemans, Eindhoven University, NL