Dear Colleagues, the combination of visual languages and formal methods is one of the traditional main topics of the IEEE VL/HCC conference series with a history of more than 20 years! It is still time to write a submission for this year's event (and to book a flight to Dallas ... ). Hope to see you in Dallas later this year! Andy Schürr ----------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05) Dallas, Texas, USA, 21-24 September 2005 *************************************************** * New Deadline of Paper Submission: 30 March 2005 * *************************************************** http://viscomp.utdallas.edu/vlhcc05/ ------------------------------------------------------ | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: | | | | Allen Cypher, IBM Almaden Research Center | | Henry Fuchs, Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | ------------------------------------------------------ Visual languages (VLs) have long been a means of effective communication between human and machine. Today, they are successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, rapid prototyping, and design activities by people of many disciplines including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual languages and technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet Web technology, and electronic mobile devices. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual languages and their applications. This year, VL/HCC'05 together with several satellite events will be held in Dallas, Texas, USA, in the heart of the complex of over 600 major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor. SCOPE AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on some aspect of visual language or human-centric computing technology, whether it be visual technology, text, sound, taste, virtual reality, the Web, or other multimedia technologies. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * End-User and Domain-Specific Languages * Empirical Studies of Visual Languages and End-User Programming * Human-Centric Software Development * Multimedia Authoring Languages * Multi-Modal Interaction * Software Visualization and Animation * Theory of Visual Languages * Visual Languages for Design * Visual Languages for Education * Visual Languages in Software Engineering * Visual Modeling and Specification Languages * Visual Programming Environments * Visual Query Languages and Databases * Visual Techniques for Business Processes and Workflow STUDENT EVENT VL/HCC is anticipating a fully funded graduate student consortium for graduate students working on research relevant to VL/HCC. As in prior years, funding to provide transportation, housing, and registration for graduate student participants is anticipated. The application process details should be similar to that of prior years; details will become available later this year. PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstration proposals on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by the international Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of VL/HCC'05 by the IEEE Computer Society. A selection of the best papers will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. Research papers and experience reports of up to eight (8) and tool demonstrations of up to two (2) IEEE double-column pages should be submitted electronically. Detailed information on electronic submission can be found at the VL/HCC'05 Web site: http://viscomp.utdallas.edu/vlhcc05. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 30 March 2005 Notification of decision: 22 May 2005 Camera-ready copy: 19 June 2005 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Allen Ambler, University of Kansas, USA Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Andy Schuerr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Chris Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA FINANCE CHAIR Jing Dong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA TUTORIAL/WORKSHOP CHAIR Mark Minas, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany LOCAL CHAIR Kendra Cooper, University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Thomas Baar, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Alan Blackwell, University of Cambdridge, UK Adam Borkowski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, Italy Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Maria Francesca Costabile, Universita di Bari, Italy Gennaro Costagliola, Universita di Salerno, Italy Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Gregor Engels, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany Mark Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Chris Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, IT Mark Minas, Universitaet der Bundeswehr in Muenchen, Germany Pierre-Alain Muller, Universite de Haute Alsace, France Marc Najork, Microsoft, USA Noritaka Osawa, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France Steve Reiss, Brown University, USA Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nenad Stankovic, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shin Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA Guido Wirtz, Universitaet Bamberg, Germany WEB MASTERS Jun Kong, Guanglei Song, University of Texas at Dallas CONTACT Kang Zhang Visual Computing Lab, Dept of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA Tel: +1-972-8836351 (direct) Fax: +1-972-8832349 (dept.) Email: vlhcc05@utdallas.edu http://viscomp.utdallas.edu/vlhcc05/