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From: Michael Meissner <meissner@gris.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: 2nd Call4Papers
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:51:29 +0100
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           //         2nd  C A L L     F O R     P A P E R S        //
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        //          Parallel Visualization Techniques            //
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      //                  at PDPTA'98                          //
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    //                (L A S   V E G A S)                    //
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  //         13.-16. July, just before SIGGRAPH            //
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Aims and Scope:
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The scope of this session is on parallel algorithms to increase the
performance of the visualization/rendering systems. In this context,
it is essential to address the problems of load-balancing and high
communication costs.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

   Parallel Scientific Visualization
   Parallel Biological and Medical Imaging
   Parallel Volume Visualization and Volume Graphics
   Parallel Rendering Techniques
   Parallel Animation
   Parallel Virtual Reality


Paper Submission:
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Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft
paper (about 5 pages) to the session co-chairs (address is given below)
by the due date. E-mail submissions are also acceptable. The length of
the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 8 pages.
Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted
for publication elsewhere.


Criterias for acceptance are:
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    Relevance to the session topic
    Novelty of contribution/ideas
    Achieved parallelism
    Universallity and elegance of proposed algorithms
    Proposed load-balancing

The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number,
and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the
name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a
maximum
of 5 keywords.

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN). It
will be a multivolume set. The proceedings will be available at the
conference. It is planned to select 20 papers for journal publication
in related journals (after the conference).


Address for paper submission:
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    Michael Meissner and Dirk Bartz
    Parallel Visualization Techniques Co-Chairs
    WSI/GRIS
    University of Tübingen
    Auf der Morgenstelle 10/C9
    D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

    Phone: +49.7071/29-78965 or -76361
    Email: pvt@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
    WWW: http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~pvt/


Important Dates:
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    February 20, 1998     Submission deadline
    April 3, 1998         Notification of acceptance
    May 22, 1998          Camera-Ready paper due
    July 13-16, 1998      PDPTA Conference, Las Vegas


Reviewer Commitee:
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     Kwan-Liu Ma         - NASA ICASE
     Tom Malzbender      - HP Labs, Palo Alto
     Hans-Peter Meinzer  - DKFZ Heidelberg
     Hans-Peter Pfister  - MERL, Boston
     Claudio Silva       - IBM TJ Watson Research Center
     Philipp Slusallek   - University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
     Asish Law           - Nichimen Graphics, US
     Detlev Stalling     - Zentrum Informationstechnologie Berlin (ZIB)
     Wolfgang Straßer    - University of Tübingen