SoCG'03 Call for Papers
Dave MOUNT
mount at cs.umd.edu
Thu Aug 22 17:39:08 PDT 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS, VIDEOS AND MULTIMEDIA
19th ACM Symposium on
Computational Geometry
http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/socg/
June 8-10, 2003 - San Diego, USA
In conjunction with FCRC 2003
Sponsored by ACM SIGACT and SIGGRAPH
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 19th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, featuring
both theoretical and applied research, and a video review, will be held
at the Town and Country Resort & Conference Center in San Diego (USA) as
part of the Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC 2003). We
invite high-quality submissions in the following research areas:
* Geometric algorithms and combinatorial geometry;
* Implementation issues and applications of computational geometry.
The accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings
published by the ACM and distributed at the symposium. The proceedings will
also be available separately for purchase from the ACM. A selection of
papers from the conference will be invited to special issues of
journals. There will be a prize for the best student-authored paper (see
below).
Research in computational geometry is very diverse, ranging from applied
to theoretical, and the topics of the Symposium reflect this. Examples
of more applied topics are: experimental analysis of algorithms and data
structures; mathematical and numerical issues arising from
implementations; and novel uses of computational geometry in other
disciplines, such as robotics, computer graphics, geometric and solid
modeling, manufacturing, geographical information systems, and molecular
biology. Examples of more theoretical topics are: design and theoretical
analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures; lower bounds for
geometric problems; and discrete and combinatorial geometry.
Paper Submission
Electronic submissions are preferred, but authors may instead mail 8
copies of an extended abstract to arrive by December 5, 2002 to either
of the two Program Co-Chairs
Mark de Berg David Mount
Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science
TU Eindhoven University of Maryland
P.O.Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven College Park, MD 20742
the Netherlands USA
markdb at cs.uu.nl mount at cs.umd.edu
Important Dates
Thu, December 5, 2002 Papers due
Sat, February 15, 2003 Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers
Sat, March 15, 2003 Camera-ready papers due
June 8-10, 2003 Symposium
Submission Guidelines
Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract, which
begins with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation, and
e-mail address, followed by a succinct statement of the problems and
goals that are considered in the paper, the main results achieved, the
significance of the work in the context of previous research, and a
comparison to past research. The abstract should provide sufficient
detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality,
and relevance of the contribution. The entire extended abstract should
not exceed 10 pages, using 11 point or larger font and with at least
one-inch margins all around. If the authors consider it absolutely
essential to include additional technical details that do not fit into
10 pages, these details may be added in a clearly marked appendix that
should appear after the body of the paper and the references; this
appendix will not be regarded as a part of the submission and will be
considered only at the program committee's discretion.
Abstracts in hard copy must be received by December 5, 2002. Abstracts
in electronic form are due by December 5, 5:00 PM EST; for further
details please visit the conference webpage,
http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/socg/
These are firm deadlines; late submissions will not be considered.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 15,
2003. A full version of each contribution in final form will be due by
March 15, 2003 for inclusion in the proceedings.
Best Student Paper Award
A prize will be given to the author(s) of the best student-authored
paper. The program committee may decline to make the award, or may
split it among more than one paper. A paper is eligible if all of its
authors are full-time students at the time of submission. This must be
indicated during the electronic submission process, or, for hard copy
submissions, in the cover letter.
Conference Chair
Steve Fortune (Bell Labs)
Program Committee
Mark de Berg, co-chair (TU Eindhoven)
Prosenjit Bose (Carleton University)
Erik Demaine (MIT)
Tamal Dey (The Ohio State University)
Olivier Devillers (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
Leo Guibas (Stanford University)
Matthew Katz (Ben-Gurion University)
Joe Mitchell (Stony Brook University)
David Mount, co-chair (University of Maryland)
Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University)
Gert Vegter (University of Groningen)
Emo Welzl (ETH Zurich)
CALL FOR VIDEOS AND MULTIMEDIA
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Videos are sought for the 12th Annual Video Review of Computational
Geometry. This video review showcases the use of visualization in
computational geometry for exposition and education, as an interface and
a debugging tool in software development, and for the visual exploration
of geometry in research. Algorithm animations, visual explanations of
structural theorems, descriptions of applications of computational
geometry, and demonstrations of software systems are all appropriate.
Videos that accompany papers submitted to the technical program
committee are encouraged.
This year the video review is experimenting with interpreting "video"
broadly as any form of multimedia that can be rendered visually over
time. In addition to the standard notion of videos (moving picture and
sound), we allow submissions of PowerPoint animations, Java applets, and
limited forms of other computed programs that generate video. These
programs must have a "demo mode" that requires no interaction (after
e.g. pressing a "demo" button) and demonstrates the program
automatically. Audio can be generated by the program itself (e.g.,
PowerPoint animations can have a voice-over), or specified by a separate
track. We prefer that such submissions are accompanied by standard
videos, but when such preparation is difficult for the authors, the
video rendering will be prepared by the video committee. All of these
nonstandard arrangements must be coordinated with the video chair at
least two weeks prior to submission.
Accepted videos will be collected onto a DVD and distributed to
attendees of the conference. The conference proceedings will include a
submitted one- or two-page textual description of each video. In
addition, authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations
about accepted videos, how they were made, and brief background. These
presentations will be interleaved with the showing of the videos during
a video review session at the conference.
Important Dates
Fri, February 7, 2003 Video submissions due
Fri, February 21, 2003 Notification of acceptance or rejection of videos
Sat, March 15, 2003 Video abstracts due
Fri, April 4, 2003 Final versions of videos due
June 8-10, 2003 Symposium
Video Submission
Submissions are due by February 7, 2003. We strongly encourage
electronic submission of videos. Electronic submissions should be in
MPEG-2 format, although other arrangements can be made with the video
chair. Specific requirements on encoding, instructions for preparing
submissions, and methods of submission will be detailed soon on the
webpage. Arrangements for nonelectronic submissions must be made at
least two weeks prior to the deadline with the video chair.
Each video must be accompanied by a one- or two-page description of the
material shown in the video, and where applicable, the techniques used
in the implementation. References to additional material describing the
contents of the videos, such as accompanying papers, are encouraged.
Please format the descriptions following the guidelines for ACM
proceedings. The descriptions should be submitted electronically by
e-mailing a PostScript or PDF file to the video chair. If electronic
submission is impossible, authors should mail seven hardcopies of the
description to the video chair:
Erik Demaine
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
USA
Phone: (+1) 617-253-6871
Fax: (+1) 617-253-0415
edemaine at mit.edu
Notification
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and given
reviewers' comments by February 21, 2003. For each accepted video, the
final version of the textual description is due by March 15, 2003 for
inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of accepted videos are due
by April 4, 2003.
Video Program Committee
Erik Demaine, chair (MIT)
Fredo Durand (MIT)
Steven Gortler (Harvard University)
Piotr Indyk (MIT)
Diane Souvaine (Tufts University)
Seth Teller (MIT)
Shang-Hua Teng (Boston University)
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