Call for Papers

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*  APVIS 2005 Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualisation 2005  *
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(Formerly known as Invis.au)

January 27 - 29, 2005, Sydney, Australia 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/apvis/

Information visualisation involves the visual representation, presentation and 
exploration of abstract information. Successful visualisation is a powerful tool 
with which to tackle the increasing size and complexity of data sets in a wide 
range of application areas. Examples of application domains include capital 
markets, software structure, military logistics, social networks, program traces 
and bio-informatics. The discipline includes elements of many fields, including 
human-computer interaction, computer graphics, cognitive psychology, statistics, 
graphic design, algorithms, virtual and augmented reality, and software 
engineering. The Asia Pacific Information Visualisation Symposium provides an 
opportunity for the community of researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to share 
the progress that has been made toward the fulfilment of this promise with 
colleagues from other parts of the world.

Scope
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing original and unpublished 
research. The topics include, but are not limited to:
* Interaction techniques
* Display and interaction devices
* Visual representations
* Graph drawing
* Animation
* Case studies
* Visual models and languages
* Algorithms
* Applications

Submission Guidelines
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Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper. Papers 
should be a maximum of 10 pages. All papers should be submitted electronically. 
Contributions must be packed in a single file. Papers should be submitted on or 
before September 30, 2004 by e- mail in postscript or PDF format to: 
apvis_2005@nicta.com.au. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with 
published proceedings is not allowed.

Publication
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Submitted papers will be refereed and the accepted submissions will be in the 
official proceedings of the symposium. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee 
that their paper will be presented at the conference. After the symposium, 
selected papers will be published in a special issue of a journal (to be 
decided).

Important Dates
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* Submission:    September 30, 2004
* Notification:   November 14, 2004
* Final Version:  December 12, 2004

Invited Speaker:
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Jim Thomas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Symposium Chair
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Seokhee Hong (National ICTAustralia Ltd (NICTA), University of Sydney, Australia)

Location:
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Sydney (venue: Mercure Hotel Sydney on Broadway)

Program Committee
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* James Abello (DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theorethical Computer 
  Science, Rutgers University, United States) 
* Mark Billinghurst (Director, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, New Zealand)
* Neville Churcher (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
* Seokhee Hong (NICTA, University of Sydney, Australia), Chair
* Hideki Koike (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)
* Takao Nishizeki (Tohoku University, Japan) 
* Stephen C. North (AT&T Labs, United States)
* Edmond C. Prakash (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 
* SungYong Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
* Kozo Sugiyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
* Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, Australia)
* Rudi Vernik (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
* Pak Chung Wong (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
* Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Organizing Committee
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* Seokhee Hong (NICTA, University of Sydney, Australia),Chair
* Nik Nikolov (NICTA, Australia)
* Kevin Xu (NICTA, Australia)
* Barbara Munday (NICTA, Australia)
* Xiaoyan Fu (NICTA, Australia)

Contact
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For more information, please contact the Organizing Committee by email at:

apvis_2005@nicta.com.au.