IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL 2000) Seattle, Washington September 10-14, 2000 http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/ Call For Papers VL 2000 is the premier international conference on visual and multimedia computer-mediated communication. Our conference attracts those interested in the use of visual/multimedia techniques in the creation and maintenance of software, and in electronic communication, commerce, and other services. We are interested in programming language aspects, in software visualization, in maximization of the usability of visual programming languages, in end-user programming, in the use of visual techniques in software design and testing, and in visual representations and grammars for web-based human languages and services. This year, several special features are planned. Here are the ones we have in place so far: Keynote talks by Brad Myers of Carnegie Mellon University, and Tony DeRose of Pixar Animation Studios. Satellite workshop Sept. 10: The Visual End User Satellite workshop Sept. 14: Visual Methods for Parallel/Distributed Programming Satellite workshop Sept. 14: Multimedia Computing on the World Wide Web _____________________________________________________________________ Research papers are solicited on any aspect of visual languages. Sample topics include (but are not limited to): * Visual programming languages * Software visualization and animation * End-user programming * Demonstrational languages * Usability of visual languages * Visual languages for human communication * Visual database languages * Theory of visual languages * Empirical studies and evaluations * Visual software engineering Original research papers should make clear what new contribution the work makes to visual languages, and how the work differs from related works. We are especially interested in how this work adds new insights: how does a particular feature provide greater support for some task than has been accomplished before? Who does this feature help, why, and how do we know? How is it different from other approaches? What is needed to make even more gains? To help authors prepare the best paper possible, these materials will be made available on our web site soon: How to write a research paper for VL. Sample review forms. Links to recent "Best Paper Award" papers. In addition to research papers, poster papers and tutorial proposals are solicited. Poster papers are most suitable for interactive discussion. Work in early stages is especially encouraged, but work in any stage of development that would benefit from an interactive presentation is encouraged. Poster authors will have a special forum for showcasing their work and having one-on-one discussions with attendees. Research papers: maximum 8 pages in IEEE 2-column conference publication format Poster papers: maximum 2 pages in IEEE 2-column conference publications format See http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm for details of this format. Formatting files for Latex users can be picked up at the IEEE ftp site: ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/outgoing/cspress/proceedings/ (Start with file LATEX.TXT, and it will tell you what else you might need.) An appropriately initialized Word document is also available at that ftp location. Details on tutorial proposal submission will appear on the web page soon. Deadlines: All submissions are due February 15, 2000. Submission instructions will be available on our web site when the deadline is closer. _______________________________________________________________________ Information Sources More information: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000 Questions: vl2000@cs.nmsu.edu _____________________________________________________________________ Steering Committee: Allen Ambler, University of Kansas Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh Ephraim Glinert, National Science Foundation Stefano Levialdi, University of Rome Steven Tanimoto, University of Washington Genoveffa Tortora, University of Salerno General Chairs: Steven Tanimoto, University of Washington Masahito Hirakawa, Hiroshima University Piero Mussio, Brescia University Program Co-Chairs: Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., New Mexico State University John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology Tutorials Chair: Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome Publicity Chair: Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University Local Arrangements: Christopher Dupuis, Syntax Program Committee: Alan Blackwell (Univ. Cambridge) M. Francesca Costabile (Univ. Bari) Philip Cox (Dalhousie Univ.) Isabel Cruz (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.) Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. Florence) Max Egenhofer (Univ. Maine) Stephen Eick (Visual Insights) Gregor Engels (Univ. Paderborn) John Grundy (Univ. Auckland) Volker Haarslev (Univ. Hamburg) Yasunori Harada (NTT) John Hosking (Univ. Auckland) Bertrand Ibrahim (Univ. Geneva) Stuart Kent (Univ. Kent at Canterbury) Dan Kimura (Washington Univ.) Hideki Koike (Univ. Electro-Communications) Henry Lieberman (MIT) Tiziana Margaria (Univ. Dortmund) Kim Marriott (Monash Univ.) Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Inst. Technology) Bernd Meyer (Monash Univ.) Paul Mulholland (Open Univ.) Marc Najork (COMPAQ Systems Research Center) Bonnie Nardi (AT&T Research Labs West) Alex Repenning (Univ. Colorado) Andy Schuerr (Univ. Federal Armed Forces Munich) Trevor Smedley (Dalhousie Univ.) Brad Vander Zanden (Univ. Tennessee) Susan Wiedenbeck (Dalhousie Univ.) Masoud Yazdani (Univ. West of England) Kang Zhang (Macquarie Univ.) and the members of the Steering Committee and the General Chairs