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Aims and Scope

Following nine successful EUROGRAPHICS workshops on Visualization in Scientific Computing (Clamart '90, Delft '91, Viareggio '92, Abingdon '93, Rostock '94, Chia '95, Prague '96, Boulogne sur Mer '97, and Blaubeuren '98) the tenth event of this series was held in Vienna, Austria. To celebrate this anniversary, for 1999 this event was the first

Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization,

VisSym '99 for short. The symposium was a public event; no invitations or accepted papers were needed to attend. We appreciated strong participation from both sides of the Atlantic. Research papers as well as case studies (new!) formed the scientific content of this event and were published in a book by Springer-Verlag called ``Data Visualization '99''. Research papers came from most areas of visualization and presented original scientific ideas or significant improvements to existing techniques. Case studies reported on the successful application of visualization methods to some special problem or field. Topics of the symposium were:

Volume visualization Fluid flow visualization Information visualization Surface extraction and visualization Parallel and distributed visualization User interaction techniques Multi-variate visualization

Visualization and modeling of large datasets Data handling and data modeling Biological and medical imaging Virtual reality in visualization Visualization in education support Internet-based visualization

Symposium Format

The symposium was organized as a single-track assembly of presentations of research papers and case studies. Enough time for discussion was scheduled after the talks and inbetween the sessions. An invited talk was also included. The scientific program covered three days in May, 1999. For details see the section below (``Important Dates'').

Important Dates

1999,	May	26th	-28th		-	VisSym '99 - three days of symposium
1999,	Jan.	31st			-	Deadline for camera ready copies
1999,	Jan.	7th			-	Notification of acceptance, start of symposium registration
1998,	Nov.	11th			-	Submission deadline
1998,	Oct.	12th			-	2nd CfP, including more details
1998,	June	17th			-	1st Call for Papers

Related Events

VisSym '99 was followed by

• EGVE '99, i.e., the 5^th EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Virtual Environments. It was held in 1999, on May 31^st and June 1^st, in Vienna, Austria, also.

• lab visits to major visualization labs throughout Europe in the week before and after VisSym '99.

• a boat trip to Wachau - a very nice Danube canyon near Vienna which is famous for its wine - was organized.

Fees

The fee for the symposium (including the book by Springer-Verlag, i.e., proceedings, coffee breaks, and the symposium reception) was as follows:

ATS 3.500		-	for EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE members
ATS 4.600		-	for non-members
ATS 2.200		-	for full-time students (EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE members)
ATS 2.700		-	for full-time students (non-members)

Program Committee and Chairs

Symposium and Program Co-Chairs:

Eduard Gröller, Inst. of Computer Graphics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria (mailto:groeller@cg.tuwien.ac.at) William Ribarsky, College of Computing, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA (mailto:bill.ribarsky@cc.gatech.edu)

Program Committee:

Ken Brodlie, Univ. of Leeds, UK Roger Crawfis, Ohio State University, USA Jacques David, CEA/DI Saclay, France John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada Thomas Ertl, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany Jim Foley, MERL, USA Martin Goebel, GMD, Germany Michel Grave, ONERA Châtillon, France Eduard Gröller, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Markus Gross, ETH, Switzerland Hans Hagen, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany Chuck Hansen, Univ. of Utah, USA Hans-Christian Hege, ZIB Berlin, Germany Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University, USA Arie Kaufman, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Ulrich Lang, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany Wilfrid Lefer, Univ. of Littoral, France Helwig Löffelmann, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria

William Lorensen, GE, USA Nelson Max, LLNL, USA Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State University, USA Stefan Müller, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany Hans-Georg Pagendarm, DLR, Germany Frits Post, Delft Univ. of Technology, the Netherlands William Ribarsky, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA Larry Rosenblum, The Naval Research Laboratory, USA Martin Rumpf, Univ. of Bonn, Germany Heidrun Schumann, Univ. of Rostok, Germany Roberto Scopigno, I.E.I.-C.N.R. Pisa, Italy Deborah Silver, Rutgers University, USA Pavel Slavik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Wolfgang Straßer, Univ. of Tübingen, Germany Michael Vannier, Univ. of Iowa, USA Emanuel Wenger, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Jarke van Wijk, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, the Netherlands

Organizing Co-Chairs:

• Helwig Löffelmann, Inst. of Computer Graphics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria (mailto:helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at)
• Emanuel Wenger (venue), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria (mailto:Emanuel.Wenger@oeaw.ac.at)

Location and Organization

VisSym '99 was held in Vienna, Austria. It was organized by the visualization group at the Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, and the Austrian Academy of Science. The talks were given in a technically well-equiped conference room right in the main building of the Academy. A social event featuring the beautiful city of Vienna was included within the symposium program. For more information about the venue of VisSym '99, please refer to http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99/venue.html.

If you have any questions regarding the symposium, just ask (mailto:vissym99@cg.tuwien.ac.at).

Paper Submission

Authors were requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper (research paper: up to ten pages; case study: up to six pages), following the publishing guidelines by Springer. Accepted papers were published in a book by Springer-Verlag and, therefore, were required to be type-set using the LaTeX files by Springer. Style files and instructions for authors are available via http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99/springer.html.

To finally submit the camera-ready copy of a paper, it had to be uploaded as a `gzip'ed Postscript version (including no other fonts than `Times', `Helvetica', `Courier', and `Symbol') of the full paper using FTP to ftp://ftp.cg.tuwien.ac.at/pub/VisSym99/upload/. The file should have included everything, i.e., text and images. Note, that there was a limit of one (additional) page of color plates per paper, which were placed at the end of the book. After successfully uploading your paper, an eMail (mailto:vissym99@cg.tuwien.ac.at) had to be sent, clearly indicating the type of the paper (research paper or case study), list of authors, title, and abstract. Note, that we could not accept any Postscript file which could not be viewed/printed using ghostview - still there are too many (incompatible) versions of Postscript around.

If it was not possible to upload a paper as `ghostview'-compatible Postscript, alternatively two copies of the full paper including figures and images as well as two copies of your video (if you have one) could have been sent by regular mail to

Eduard Gröller, Symposium and Program Co-Chair of VisSym '99
Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology,
Karlsplatz 13/186/2, A-1040 Wien, Austria

Helwig Löffelmann, 1998-1999, mailto:helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at.