From: "Your VE info source" Subject: CFP: Latest InfoBahn Calls for Participation ... Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:05:33 -0700 The following are some of the latest InfoBahn = Calls for Participation: --> Virtual Reality WorldWide 97 --> Call Date: 31 October 1996 --> CG International '97 --> Call date: 1 December 1996 -->The Fifth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization 97 --> Call date: 30 October 1996 --> Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simulation (MOVES) Curriculum http://www-npsnet.cs.nps.navy.mil/moves -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Virtual Reality WorldWide 97 CyberEdge Journal and Aligned Management Associates, Inc. The World's Most Important Conference for Virtual Reality Business and Technology The leading Virtual Reality publisher and the leading VR conference producer have joined forces to present what will become the most important conference for VR business and technology. April 2-4, 1997 Westin Santa Clara Hotel Santa Clara, Calif.- the heart of Silicon Valley Adjacent to the Convention Center Immediately preceding the Intl. WorldWide Web Convention YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE! Your paper abstracts, panel proposals, exhibitor, and sponsor participation are eagerly sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > Virtual Reality Research, and New Technologies > Virtual Reality Hardware, Software, and System Development > Virtual Reality Applications in all fields > VRML Techniques and Applications > Social Computing > VR and Persons with Disabilities > VR Business Cases > Modeling for use in Virtual worlds > Training/Training Management Please send papers or abstracts by October 31, 1996. Final selections will be made by November 30, 1996. Final papers due February 15, 1997 Papers should be submitted to: Ben Delaney CyberEdge Journal #1 Gate Six Road, Suite G, Sausalito, CA 94965 USA ben@cyberedge.com (Email is preferred medium for submisison) Exhibition and sponsorship oportunities are available. For registration or exhibitor information, contact: AMA, Inc., PO Box 23220, San Diego, CA 92193 USA 619 751-8841, FAX: 619 751-8842 VRWW@cyberedge.com, www.cyberedge.com/VRWW.html Virtual Reality WorldWide is a joint venture of: CyberEdge Information Services, Inc. and Aligned Management Associates, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Virtual Reality WorldWide 97 Preliminary Program Draft 1.1 9/4/97 This program is subject to change without notice. Not all session may be presented, and other sessions may be added. As of this draft (#1.1), session titles should be seen as suggestions of topics. Program dates are 2-4 April 1996. Location is Westin Santa Clara Hotel, Santa Clara, California Day One Workshops (Some of these, as demand dictates) 3D Studio for VR Executive Roundtable (Delaney moderates) Marketing the VR Company Modeling for VR System Design for User Acceptance Using dVise Using Gemini Using MultiGen Using Paradigm Using Superscape Using VREAM Using WorldToolKit/World Up VR & People with Disabilities: Building Apps & Tools VRML Programming Site Visit (one of these) SGI SUN NASA Magic Edge Tech Museum Intel Day Two Welcome Presentation (Delaney & others) Keynote 1 (One of these. In order of preference) Andy Grove Henry Fuchs Thomas Furness Plenary 1 International Overview of VR (Panel discussion) Breakout Sessions: TRACK A VR Applications Art Business visualization Design Entertainment Medicine Scientific Visualization Social/Collaborative Computing Training TRACK B VR Technology Avatars Modeling Shared Worlds Standards System Design VRML World Building CJ Awards Banquet Day Three Keynote 2 (One of these. In order of preference) Mark Pesce Brenda Laurel Jim Blinn Plenary 2 VR 2000: What is Needed to Create a Viable = VR Industry (Panel discussion) Breakout Sessions: TRACK A The Business of VR Building a VR Business Investing Legal Considerations The Effects of Standards on VR Business TRACK B Health & Safety and Disability Issues Assistive Devices Long-term Effects of VR Immersion Psychotherapy Safety Concerns in VR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CG International '97 Hasselt-Diepenbeek, Belgium, June 24 - 28, 1997 "Virtual environments and multimedia on networks and the internet" Organized by: CGS, EDM-LUC In cooperation with: ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE TC Computer Graphics, British Computer Society, Virtual Reality Society, Eurographics, IFIP WG 5.10 CGI is an international conference on computer graphics. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for discussing both solutions to classical computer graphics issues and new directions in human-computer interaction, mulimedia and networking. Previous conferences were held in Australia (1994), the United Kingdom (1995) and Korea (1996). Future conferences will take place in Germany (1998) and Canada (1999). CALL FOR PAPERS Papers presenting original research in computer graphics are being sought Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): * Real Time Graphics * Rendering Techniques * Geometric and Solid Modeling * Physically Based Modeling * Computational Geometry * Volume Visualization * Computer Animation * Scientific Visualization * Virtual Reality * Cyberspace applications * Virtual Studio's * Synthetic Worlds * Graphics Hardware Architecture * Interactive TV * Multimedia and telematics * Multimedia Modeling * Computer Graphics and Internet (VRML, Java,..) Information for Authors: Original unpublished papers of up to 15 pages, including figures, are invited. High quality pictures and diagrams should be added on a seperate sheet of paper. To submit a paper, send five hard copies of double-spaced manuscript in English. The first part of the paper should include a title, an abstract, keywords and phrases: author's name(s), title, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address and signed statement of commitment that "if the paper is accepted, one of the authors will present it at CG International '97 conference." Guidelines that have to be followed by the authors can also be found on the www page http://edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97. The selected papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society in a proceeding book. A selection of the best CGI97 papers will be published in the 'The Visual Computer' journal. A reward will be given for the three best papers published by young scientists. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/COURSES In addition to technical papers, proposals for half day or full day tutorials/courses are welcomed. Suggested topics are those mentioned in the call for papers. Information for Authors: To submit a proposal for a tutorial, send five copies of the proposal. The cover page of the proposal should include a title, an indication of the level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, high-level), length of the tutorial (half-or full day), author's name(s), title, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address and signed statement of commitment that "if the tutorial proposal is accepted, one of the authors will present it at CG International '97 conference." The tutorial proposal consists furthermore of a description of the course aims and the intended public (max. 1 page) and an overview of the topics covered in the tutorial (max. 2 pages). Guidelines that have to be followed by the authors can also be found on the www page http://edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97. Important dates: Proposals for courses and full papers will be due December 1, 1996. Notice of acceptance and reviewers' comments will be given by February 1, 1997. Camera-ready paper will be due February 28, 1997. Honorary Conference Chair: T.L. Kunii Conference Co-Chairs: E. Flerackers, R. Earnshaw and D. Thalmann Program Co- Chairs: F. Van Reeth and J. Vince International Program Committee: N. Badler (U. of Pennsylvania), C. Bajaj (Purdue U.), T.S. Chua (National U. of Singapore), M.F. Cohen (Microsoft), S. Coquillart (INRIA), R. Earnshaw (U. of Bradford), G. Elber (Technion), J. Encarnacao (TU Darmstadt), G. Farin (Arizona State U.), S.K. Feiner (Columbia U.), E. Flerackers (EDM-Limburg U.C.), O. Faugeras (INRIA.), C. Grimsdale (Division Ltd.), J.K. Hahn (George Washington U.), F.W. Jansen (TU Delft), A. Kaufman (State U. of New York at Stony Brook), M.S. Kim (POSTECH), S.V. Klimenko (Inst. for High Energy Physics), T.L. Kunii (U. of Aizu), N. Magnenat-Thalmann (U. of Geneva), N. Max (U. of California & Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), E. Nakamae (Hiroshima Inst. of Techn.), T. Nishita (Fukuyama U.), N. Patrikalakis (MIT), Y. Shinagawa (U. of Tokyo), S.Y. Shin (KAIST), Y. Suenaga (NTT), Z. Tang (Tsinghua U.), D. Thalmann (Ecole Polytechnique FEdErale de Lausanne), L. Velho (PUC-Rio), J. Vince (Bournemouth U.), T. Whitted (U. of North Carolina), G. Wolberg (City College of New York), F. Wolter (U.Hannover), T.C. Woo (U. of Michigan),B. Wyvill (Calgary U.), G. Wyvill (U. of Otago), S. Yang (National Tsing Hua U.), C. Yap (NYU), D. Zeltzer (MIT), M.J. Zyda (Naval Postgraduate School) Domestic Program Committee: F. Arickx (U. of Antwerp), J. Brouckhoven (U.of Antwerp), L. Claesen (IMEC), B. Claeys (Kinepolis), K. Coninx (EDM-Limburg U.C.), A. De Backer (Limburg U.C.), L. Desimpelaere (Barco), T. D'Hondt (V.U. Brussel), L. Ercken (EDM-Limburg U.C.), E. Flerackers (EDM-Limburg U.C.), I. Jacobs (Limburg U.C.), J. Pirot (Alcatell Bell), L. Smeeths (VDAB), W. Smeulders (Philips), F. Van Reeth (EDM-Limburg U.C.), Y. Willems (K.U. Leuven) SPECIAL EVENTS CGI '97 will include an exhibition of suppliers and publishers in the domain of the topics mentioned before. An evening film festival is being arranged. ADDRESS SUBMISSIONS and INFORMATION to: F. Van Reeth EDM (Expertise Centre for Digital Media)-LUC Wetenschapspark 2 B-3590 Diepenbeek Belgium Tel: +32-11-26 84 11, Fax: +32-11-26 84 00, E-mail: CGI97@luc.ac.be http://edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97 ********************************************************************* WSCG'97 = CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION ********************************* The Fifth International Conference in Central Europe = on Computer Graphics and Visualization 97 in cooperation with IFIP working group 5.10 on Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds will be held in February 10-14, 1997 in Plzen at the University of West Bohemia close to PRAGUE, the capital of Czech Republic Conference Chairs ****************************** Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab-CUI, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland Vaclav Skala, Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Republic International Program committee ****************************** Vera Anand (USA) Wilhelm Barth (A) Alan Chalmers (UK) Steve Cunningham (USA) John Day (AU) Dieter Fellner (D) Andrej Ferko (SK) Eduard Groeller (A) Roger Hubbold (UK) Laszlo Sirmay-Kalos (H) Lars Kjelldahl (S) Tosiyasu L.Kunii (J) Annie Luciani (F) Alan E.Middleditch(UK) Vojtech Mockrzycki (PL) Laura Moltedo (I) Werner Purgathofer (A) Hans-Peter Seidel (D) Francois Sillion (F) Jiri Sochor (CR) Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (A) Alade Tokuta (USA) Philip Willis (UK) Charles Albert Wutrich (D) Roni Yagel (USA) Jiri Zara (CR) Invited Speakers (Preliminary) ****************************** G. Greiner, H.-P. Seidel, University of Erlangen, Germany R. Yagel, The Ohio State University, USA Information for authors: ----------------------- Contribution deadline: October 30, 1996 in Camera ready format A4 ---------- MUST be sent by mail - no fax/e-mail contributions, please. Maximal length: 10 pages including tables and figures Black/White pictures only for proceedings 3 copies, 1 1/2 spacing, size 12 points A4 will be reduced to A5 or B5 Notification after review: December 10, 1996 Information on previous WSCG conferences: http://herakles.zcu.cz All papers will be reviewed carefully by the International Program Committee members and by external reviewers, too. Authors are asked to declare that the submitted contribution has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings with ISBN as that are reviewed by INSPEC, IEEE and others for cititions index and other purposes. Three selected best papers will be considered for possible publication in the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation. Topics included --------------- Fundamental algorithms, rendering and visualization, virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical imaging, geometric modelling and fractals, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, standards, computer vision, parallel and distributed graphics, computational geometry, computer aided geometric design, CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS systems, educational aspects of related fields, usage of graphics within mathematical software (Maple, Mathematica, MathCAD etc.) in education. The program includes international exhibition, video show, ------------------------------------- books and journals exhibition, too. ----------------------------- Information for exhibitors: Please contact the organiser as soon as possible for detailed information and conditions. The WSCGAE97 Exhibition will be held in parallel. Top leading european companies active in computer graphics, visualization and computer vision, CAD/CAM and GIS systems, virtual reality, multimedia systems and others will be presenting their latest products. Special programme will be available, too. Some spare conference proceedings WSCG95 (two volume sets) are available, ask organizer for details if interested. Organizer and conference secretariat ****************************** Vaclav Skala Computer Science Dept., Univ.of West Bohemia Univerzitni 22, Box 314, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic e-mail: wscg97@kiv.zcu.cz Subject: INFO The latest information will be available at: http://yoyo.zcu.cz/~skala/wscg97.html, http://yoyo1.zcu.cz/~skala/wscg97.html (!maybe faster!) or via http://herakles.zcu.cz select item WSCG Information on previous conferences: http://yoyo.zcu.cz/cg_group or via http://herakles.zcu.cz Please report any problew with URL etc. (include it, please) to >>>>>>>>>>>>>> skala@kiv.zcu.cz <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<