[compgeom-announce] Call for Participation: Graph Drawing Contest (GD07)

[christian.duncan@acm.org]

                        Call for Participation
                      Graph Drawing Contest '07
              September 23 - 26, 2007, Sydney, Australia
              http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/gd2007/

The 14th  Annual Graph  Drawing Contest shall  be held  in conjunction
with  the 15th  International Symposium  on Graph  Drawing  (GD 2007).
Except  for the challenge  competition, which  takes place  during the
conference,  all  submissions are  due  by  September  20, 2007.   The
anticipated funding for the contest is AU$1,000.


                          Category Overviews
                          ------------------

This year,  the contest has  three graph categories.  Details  on each
can be found  at the contest web site,  mentioned above. The following
is a brief description of each of the categories:

     o Free-Style Competition:
       The free-style  competition is an  opportunity for participants
       to present their best graph visualizations.  All types of graph
       drawings can be submitted to  this contest, and judging will be
       based  on artistic  merit and  relevance to  the  graph drawing
       community.

     o Social Network Graph:
       For this category, we are requesting interesting and innovative
       visualizations  of a  social  network.  The  social network  is
       broadly defined and not restricted to any one specific graph.

     o Graph Drawing Challenge:
       The challenge  will be held  during the conference in  a format
       similar  to  a typical  programming  contest,  where teams  are
       presented  with  a  collection  of  challenge-graphs  and  have
       approximately  one   hour  to  submit   their  highest  scoring
       drawings.   Continuing from  last year,  this  year's challenge
       shall  focus  on  minimizing  the area  of  straight-line  grid
       drawings of planar graphs.

       NOTE: We are  experimenting with allowing REMOTE participation.
       Any interested  teams that are unable to  attend the conference
       should  contact the  committee as  soon as  possible so  we can
       coordinate the process.

                         Contest Submissions
                         -------------------

Submissions  for all  categories, except  for the  Challenge,  must be
received  by midnight September  20 and  should include  the following
information:
     o Names and email addresses of the contributors,
     o A picture (or movie) illustrating the graph (graphs),
     o A brief description of the graph, how it was generated, and its
       relevance to the problem or to graph drawing.

If your drawing requires special printing because of size, resolution,
or  color constraints,  you are  encouraged to  submit  via hard-copy.
Besides hard-copy  submissions, acceptable electronic  formats include
PDF  and  PostScript  for   static  images.   For  dynamic  graphs  or
animations use mpg  or avi files. Movies should  be made with standard
codecs.  All  contest submissions,  questions, and comments  should be
sent to
                           Christian Duncan
                       Computer Science Program
                      Louisiana Tech University
                           P. O. Box 10348
                      Ruston, LA 71272-0046, USA
                     Christian.Duncan(at)acm.org


                   Graph Drawing Contest Committee
                   -------------------------------
        Christian A. Duncan (Chair), Louisiana Tech University
              Stephen G. Kobourov, University of Arizona
                          Georg Sander, ILOG

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