GD 2020
28th International Symposium on
Graph Drawing and Network Visualization
September 15-18, 2020 Vancouver, Canada
https://gd2020.cs.ubc.ca/
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: GD 2020 will be organized as an online meeting. We
plan to keep all the important dates of the conference as announced.
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Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs
and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph
Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it
is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets.
Examples of such application areas include data science, social
sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography,
business intelligence, information security, and software engineering.
GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 25 years.
Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing
as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces.
GD 2020 will take place September 15-18, 2020, at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Researchers and practitioners
working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are
invited to contribute papers and posters, and to participate in the
symposium and the graph drawing contest.
PAPERS
We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of
theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network
visualization. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of two
distinct tracks described below. Papers submitted to one track will not
compete with papers submitted to the other track.
Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects
This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such
as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for
this track includes (but is not limited to):
- Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms
- Geometric and topological graph theory
- Computational topology of graphs on surfaces
- Geometric network design and optimization
- Geometric computing
Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects
This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing,
such as the development of network visualization systems and interfaces
in different application areas. The range of topics for this track
includes (but is not limited to):
- Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications,
including big data analysis - Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems
- Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms
- Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems
and user interfaces - Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction
- Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs
Authors of applied papers will have the opportunity to show a demo of
their software/system during the conference.
SHORT PAPERS
In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate category
for short papers, describing theoretical or applied contributions of
shorter length. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time
for presentation during the conference.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
All submissions must be formatted using the appropriate LaTeX style file, either
gd-llncs.cls for long papers or gd-llncs-short.cls for short papers, derived from the one used for the
conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by
Springer. The default margins and fonts must not be modified; in
particular, the use of packages such as times.sty is not allowed.
Submissions that do not comply with this format risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. To promote inclusion of more figures in
the submitted papers, submission will have a strict number of lines
limit and the possibility to have one page more compared to previous
years. REGULAR PAPERS HAVE AT MOST 400 lines (excluding references and
figures) AND AT MOST 13 PAGES (excluding references). Short papers have
at most 200 lines (excluding references and figures) AND at most 7 pages
(excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fully
substantiated. If this information does not fit within the page limits,
the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length
is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own
discretion. All submissions will be handled through EasyChair at the web
site : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd2020
POSTERS & CONTEST
Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and
related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum
for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also
appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare
an abstract (up to 2 pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted
together with the poster itself.
Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the
conference are provided on the conference web site.
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers (including the two-page poster abstracts) will
appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The LNCS proceedings
will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and
openly accessible to anyone after four years.
Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv
repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access
to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS
proceedings version (identical, except for possibly changed references
to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked
appendix. Subsequent submissions of revised versions of the paper to the
arXiv (known as arXiv “replacements’’) are allowed. Failure to comply
with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper.
Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author
(barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper will not be
included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an
author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will
be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means.
Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a
special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
(JGAA). The authors of two selected papers in Track 2 will be invited to
submit a substantially extended version of their work to IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Furthermore,
two regular TVCG papers will be presented by their authors in a TVCG
papers session.
IMPORTANT DATES
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- Abstract submission deadline : June 3 (23:59 PDT)
- Paper submission deadline : June 8 (23:59 PDT)
- Notification of paper acceptance : July 20
- Poster submission deadline : August 12 (23:59 PDT)
- Notification of poster acceptance : August 21
- Final versions due : August 26 (23:59 PDT)
- Contest submission deadline : September 8 (23:59 PDT)
- Contest live challenge : September 15 (09:00 PDT)
- Symposium : September 16-18
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Daniel Archambault, Swansea University, UK
- David Auber (co-chair), University Bordeaux , FR
- Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
- Romain Bourqui, University Bordeaux, FR
- Steve Chaplick, University of Maastricht, NL
- Markus Chimani, Osnabrück University, DE
- Sabine Cornelsen, University of Konstanz, DE
- Walter Didimo, University of Perugia, IT
- Stefan Felsner, TU Berlin, DE
- Radoslav Fulek, IST Austria, AT
- Fabrizio Frati, Roma Tre University, IT
- Seokhee Hong, University of Sydney, AU
- Yifan Hu, Yahoo!, US
- Katherine Isaacs, University of Arizona, US
- Philipp Kindermann, Universität Passau, DE
- Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis, US
- Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
- Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, IT
- Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, CA
- Martin Nöllenburg, TU Vienna, AT
- Arnaud Sallaberry, University of Montpellier, FR
- Alexandru Telea, Utrecht University, NL
- Ioannis Tollis, University of Crete, GR
- Csaba Tóth, California State University, Northridge, US
- Pavel Valtr (co-chair), Charles University, CZ
- Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, DE
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Jeff Erickson, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sheelagh Carpendale, Professor, School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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- William Evans. Computer Science. University of British Columbia
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CONTEST COMMITTEE
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- Philipp Kindermann (chair), Universität Passau, DE
- Tamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
- Ignaz Rutter, University of Passau, DE
- Wouter Meulemans, Eindhoven University, NL
