WITH APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference on VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Liverpool, UK, September 9 - 12, 2002 Contributions are invited for a multi-disciplinary workshop on Visual Representations and Interpretations. This will be a multi-disciplinary meeting exploring all aspects of visual images, their interpretation, representation and modeling, and their relationships to other forms of human knowledge and activities. SCOPE AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP The value of multi-disciplinary research, the exchanging of ideas and methods across traditional discipline boundaries, is well recognised. It could be argued that many of the advances in science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one discipline become re-applied in others. The topic of "the visual" has become increasingly important as advances in technology have led to multi-media and multi-modal representations, and extended the range and scope of visual representation and interpretation in our lives. Under this broad heading there are many different perspectives and approaches, from across the entire spectrum of human knowledge and activity. The development of advanced graphics for computer games and film animations, for example, has drawn on and led developments in computational geometry. Even outside the technological sphere, recent controversies over artworks which some have considered to be blasphemous show the power of the visual to manifest wildly different interpretations, and to become a topic of everyday conversation and a focus of political activity. One goal of this workshop on Visual Representations and Interpretations is to break down cross-disciplinary barriers, by bringing together people working in a wide variety of disciplines where visual representations and interpretations are exploited. The first Workshop on Visual Representations and Interpretations was held in Liverpool in 1998. Contributions to the workshop came from researchers actively investigating visual representations and interpretations in a wide variety of areas including: art, architecture, biology, chemistry, clinical medicine, cognitive science, computer science, education, engineering, graphic design, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology and social science. VRI2002 aims to build on this good beginning, and to provide a forum for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion on visual representations and interpretations. Contributions on any aspect of visual representations and interpretations are welcomed, including, though of course not limited to: - visual representation languages - film and photographic interpretation - art as argument - diagrams and sketches - the philosophy, sociology and politics of art and images - formalization and representation of images - visual human-machine interaction - connections between visual and other human senses - computational geometry - diagrammatic reasoning - the modeling of patterns and form - blueprints and scale models - visual metaphors and knowledge discovery SUBMISSIONS Contributions in the form of original research papers are invited. Papers should be a maximum of 12 pages in length. There will be the opportunity to edit accepted papers after the Workshop for inclusion in the final published proceedings. Paper submissions should be sent to: Grant Malcolm (Conference Chair) Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Chadwick Building Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZF UK Papers can also be submitted by email, PROVIDED THEY ARE IN PDF OR POSTSCRIPT FORMAT,in which case they can be sent to: grant@csc.liv.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES Submission of contributions: 1 April 2002 Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2002 Submission deadline for pre-proceedings: 20 July 2002 VRI-2002 Conference: 9-12 September 2002 Submission deadline for Elsevier volume: 30 September 2002 The edited proceedings of the workshop will be published after the event by Elsevier Science in a volume entitled "Multidisciplinary Studies of Visual Representations and Interpretations" Submissions will be refereed by two or more members of the Program Committee: PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Caroline Baillie (Liverpool, UK) Michael Biggs (Hertfordshire, UK) Ernst Binz (Mannheim, Germany) Nicola Dioguardi (Milan, Italy) Andrée Ehresmann (Amiens, France) Paul Fishwick (Gainesville, USA) Jean-Louis Giavitto (Evry, France) Peter Giblin (Liverpool, UK) Joseph Goguen (San Diego, USA) David Goodsell (La Jolla, USA) Leo Groarke (Waterloo, Canada) Rom Harré (Oxford, UK, and Washington, USA) Robin Hendry (Durham, UK) Mike Holcombe (Sheffield, UK) John Lee (Edinburgh, UK) Charles Lund (Newcastle, UK) Michael Leyton (New York, USA) Peter McBurney (Liverpool, UK) Grant Malcolm (Liverpool, UK) Mary Meyer (Los Alamos, USA) Arthur Miller (London, UK) Irene Neilson (Liverpool, UK) Ray Paton (Liverpool, UK) Walter Schempp (Seigen, Germany) Travel and accommodation details will be posted in due course on the conference web-page: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/ Questions and inquiries should be directed to: Ray Paton Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Email: R.C.Paton@csc.liv.ac.uk **************************************************************** Peter McBurney Agent Applications, Research and Technology (Agent ART) Group Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 7ZF U.K. Tel: + 44 151 794 6768 Email: P.J.McBurney@csc.liv.ac.uk Web page: www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~peter/ ****************************************************************