Sorry if some of you receive multiple copies of this message. Mark Minas ------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Diagrams 2002 Second International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams Callaway Gardens & Resort, Georgia, USA, April 18-20, 2002 Conference information: http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~d2k2/ Location information: http://www.callawaygardens.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Diagrams" is an international and interdisciplinary conference series on the theory and application of diagrams in any scientific field of enquiry. From early human history, diagrams have been pervasive in human communication. The recent rise of multimedia technology that has turned advanced visual communication into an integral part of our everyday reality makes a better understanding of the role of diagrams and sketches in communication, cognition, creative thought, and problem-solving a necessity. These developments have triggered a new surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations, which is driven by several different scientific disciplines concerned with cognition, computation and communication. The study of diagrammatic communication as a whole must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavor. "Diagrams 2002" is the second 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, philosophical logic, and psychology, to name a few. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * computational models of reasoning with and interpretation of diagrams * diagram understanding by humans or machines * diagram usage in scientific discovery * formalization of diagrammatic notations * history of diagrammatic languages and notations * interactive graphical communication * novel uses of diagrammatic notations * psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension, and production of diagrams * reasoning with diagrammatic representations * role of diagrams in applied areas such as visualization * spatial information and diagrams * usability issues concerning diagrams "Diagrams 2002" 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. Further information and submission details will be available from the conference web site: http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~d2k2/ Important Dates: ***************** Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday November 2, 2001 Deadline for submission of full versions: Friday November 16, 2001 Notification of authors: Friday January 11, 2002 Camera ready copies due: Friday January 25, 2002 Deadline for early registration: Friday March 1, 2002 Conference dates: Thursday April 18 - Saturday April 20, 2002 General Chair: N. Hari Narayanan, Auburn University & Georgia Tech (USA) Program Chairs: Mary Hegarty, UC Santa Barbara (USA), Bernd Meyer, Monash University (Australia) Local Chair: Roland Hubscher, Auburn University (USA) Publicity Chair: Volker Haarslev, University of Hamburg (Germany) Program Committee: Michael Anderson, University of Hartford, USA Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University, USA Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK Dorothea Blostein, Queen's University, Canada Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome, Italy Jo Calder, Edinburgh University, UK B. Chandrasekaran Ohio State University, USA Peter Cheng, University of Nottingham, UK Richard Cox, Sussex University, UK Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA Norman Foo, University of Sydney, Australia Ken Forbus, Northwestern University, USA George Furnas, University of Michigan, USA Meredith Gattis, University of Sheffield, UK Helen Gigley Office of Naval Research, USA Mark Gross, University of Washington, USA Corin Gurr, Edinburgh University, UK Volker Haarslev, University of Hamburg, Germany Patrick Healey, University of London, UK Mary Hegarty, University of California, USA John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Roland Hubscher, Auburn University, USA Maria Kozhevnikov, Rutgers University, USA Zenon Kulpa, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland Stefano Levialdi, University of Rome, Italy Robert Lindsay, University of Michigan, USA Ric Lowe, Curtin University, Australia Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Richard Mayer, University of California, USA Mark Minas, University of Erlangen, Germany Hari Narayanan, Auburn University & Georgia Tech, USA Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Tech, USA Daniel Schwartz, Stanford University, USA Priti Shah, University of Michigan, USA Atsushi Shimojima, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Sun-Joo Shin, University of Notre Dame, USA Masaki Suwa, Chukyo University, Japan Barbara Tversky, Stanford University, USA Yvonne Waern, Linkoeping University, Sweden 19-Sep-2001 17:19:39 -0300,1198;000000000001-00000017