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mail.csse.monash.edu.au>Diagrams 2004 - Deadline Extension ---------------------------------- The notice of intent to submit deadline has been extended by ONE week to September 12, 2003. The deadline for submission of full papers and tutorial proposals has been extended by TWO weeks to September 26, 2003. Note that these are hard deadlines, and will not be extended further. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers: Diagrams 2004 Apologies if you receive this call for papers more than once. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Diagrams 2004: Third International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams March 22-24, 2004 Cambridge University, UK "Diagrams" is an international and interdisciplinary conference series on the theory and application of diagrams from any field of enquiry. >From early history, diagrams have been pervasive in human communication. Recent advances in multimedia technology have introduced increasingly sophisticated visual representations into everyday life. We need to improve our understanding of the role of diagrams and sketches in communication, cognition, creative thought, and problem-solving. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations, especially in academic disciplines dealing with cognition, computation and communication. The study of diagrammatic communication as a whole must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavor. "Diagrams 2004" is the third event in this conference series, which was successfully launched in Edinburgh in September 2000. It attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all academic fields that are studying the nature of diagrammatic representations, their use in human communication, and cognitive or computational mechanisms for processing diagrams. By combining several earlier workshop and symposia series that were held in the US and Europe [Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations (DR), US; Thinking with Diagrams (TWD), Europe; Theory of Visual Languages (TVL), Europe], "Diagrams" has emerged as a major international conference on this topic. It is the only conference that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, philosophy and logic, and psychology, to name a few. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * diagram understanding by humans or machines * reasoning with diagrammatic representations * diagram usage in scientific discovery| * history of diagrammatic languages and notations| * formalization of diagrammatic notations| * novel uses of diagrammatic notations| * design of diagrammatic notations * interactive graphical communication * psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension, and production of diagrams * computational models of reasoning with and interpretation of diagrams * role of diagrams in applied areas such as visualization * spatial information and diagrams * usability issues concerning diagrams| * design with diagrams "Diagrams 2004" will consist of technical sessions with presentations of refereed papers, posters and tutorial sessions. The tutorials will provide introductions to diagram research in various disciplines in order to foster a lively interdisciplinary exchange. We invite submissions of tutorial proposals, full research papers and extended abstracts of posters. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed and accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as part of their "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series. Important Dates: - --------------- 12 September: notice of intent to submit 26 September: deadline for regular research paper and tutorial proposal submission 12 November: deadline for extended abstract for poster paper submission 16 November: notification for tutorial proposals & full papers 23 November: notification for posters 15 December: camera ready copies due 22-24 March: Diagrams conference For more information visit the conference website http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~d2k4/ Conference Organisation - --------------------- Alan Blackwell (General Chair) Kim Marriott & Atsushi Shimojima (Program Chairs) Mateja Jamnik (Local Chair) Jesse Norman (Sponsorship Chair) Tony Jansen (Publicity Chair) Program Committee: Gerard Allwein, US Naval Research Center, USA Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University, USA Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK Dorothea Blostein, Queen's University, Canada Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome, Italy B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State Univ, USA Peter Cheng, University of Nottingham, UK Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA Norman Foo, University of Sydney, Australia George Furnas, University of Michigan, USA Corin Gurr, Edinburgh University, UK Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada Pat Healey, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Mary Hegarty, University of California, USA John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Roland Hubscher, Bentley College, USA Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Yasu Katagiri, ATR Media Information Science Labs, Japan Oliver Lemon, Edinburgh University, UK Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University, USA Zenon Kulpa, Institute of Fund. Technological Research, Poland Stefano Levialdi, University of Rome, Italy Ric Lowe, Curtin University, Australia Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Mark Minas, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany N. Hari Narayanan, Auburn University, USA Jesse Norman, University College London, UK Ray Paton, University of Liverpool, UK Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Priti Shah, University of Michigan, USA Atsushi Shimojima, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University, USA Keith Stenning, Edinburgh University, UK Masaki Suwa, Chukyo University, Japan Nik Swoboda, ATR Media Information Science Labs, Japan Barbara Tversky, Stanford University, USA Linguistic Subfield(s): Writing Systems, General LingMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue