CFP: Workshop on Databases and Visualization
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 20:13:37 GMT
Message-ID: <C7nHIq.C24_at_ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Call for Participation **************
Title: "Workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization"
Place: Visualization '93 Red Lion Inn San Jose, CA Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1993 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
A full-day workshop on the application of database technology to data visualization will be held during the 1993 IEEE Visualization Conference. The purpose of the workshop will be to provide a forum for the presentation, discussion, and evaluation of designs that apply database technology to the data visualization problem. It seeks to bring together a diverse group of researchers in the database and visualization fields, along with application developers towards creating more supportive tools to enable the exploration, analysis, and visualization of complex data. It is imperative that such cross-fertilization occur for visualization tools to better fit the task they are designed for.
IEEE VISUALIZATION'93 CONFERENCE Scientific visualization is an important research frontier shared by a variety of computational science and engineering fields. Visualization work is both interdisciplinary and a field in its own right. This conference focuses on interdisciplinary methods and supports collaboration among the developers and users of visualization methods across all of science, engineering, and commerce.
The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Data Visualization deals with the effective protrayal of data with a goal towards insight about the data. Typically, the data is of high volume, multidimensional in nature, and does not lend itself to easy display. The data is also often spatial and temporal in nature.
Data visualization software systems are very popular with end-user domain scientists who require visual tools to explore and analyze their data. Whereas the output issues for visualization production, i.e., image synthesis, have received much attention, input and data management issues have not. The visualization community has not embraced database technology to handle data access for reasons of performance and inadequacies of the available data models (such as relational). This workshop hopes to address these issues, and make a case for database technology integration into visualization.
Database issues for data visualization have become increasingly important as ever-larger data set sizes and dimensionality create problems that present-day systems cannot handle. Collaborative computing requires multiple users and multiple, heterogeneous databases. Visualization system users are only given minimal support for querying data. Querying is limited in most cases to integrating filters and output rendering methods over flat data files and fixed data types, which is hardly "interactive".
Two previous Workshops (Siggraph '90 and Visualization '91) have dealt with areas such as high-level requirements for data structures and access software, and data visualization environments. This workshop intends to deal with issues specifically related to the integration of database management systems with data visualization. This could also lead to low-level implementation issues as well. Researchers who have working applications are encouraged to present their work, for critique and evaluation.
Participation is limited to 20 people.
Position Statements and papers are welcome on the following issues as they relate to data visualization - we would like to keep discussions focused on the end result, which is improving visualization with database management systems:
- Requirements Visualization places on Databases
- Data Models and Access Structures
- Modeling the User - Tasks, Processes, Support Issues
- Advanced User Interfaces for databases
- Visual Languages for Visualization
- System Integration Issues
- Querying for Visualization
- Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Set Issues - Data Sharing
WORKSHOP FORMAT The Workshop format allows for the formal presentation of the papers in the morning session (accepted papers included in preprints). These presentations are designed to serve as catalysts for discussion. In addition, there will be a few invited papers and several afternoon workshop discussion sessions with designated discussion topics. Participants will have an opportunity to edit and resubmit their papers for possible post-workshop publication.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS (Due 15 July 1993)
Papers are solicited that present research results in the related areas of database technology as applied to visualization. Position papers will also be accepted. Papers should be limited to 5,000 words and may be accompanied by NTSC video. Please submit 5 copies of all materials to one of the workshop organizers.
ACCOMMODATION Location: The Workshop will be held at the Red Lion Hotel, the Visualization'93 Conference Hotel.
- VERY IMPORTANT NOTE ***
Accommodation inquiries:
Red Lion Hotel - Reservations
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose CA 95110
+1-408-453-4000
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS Lunch as well as coffee and tea breaks will be provided.
REGISTRATION FEE There is a single registration fee of US $75 which covers the technical session, the Workshop preprints, lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee.
Payment: the registration fee can be paid in any convertible currency by either check or credit card (American Express, Mastercard or Visa).
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
J.P. Lee
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854
and
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Avenue
Bedford MA 01730-1420
email: jlee_at_cs.ulowell.edu fax: +1-617-271-2964 phone: +1-617-271-7417
Georges Grinstein
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854
and
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Avenue
Bedford MA 01730-1420
email: ggg_at_mitre.org, fax: +1-617-271-2964, phone: +1-617-271-7714
Registration Form:
Workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization
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PAYMENT INFORMATION
Workshop Fee: $US 75.00
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Please send this form by email, fax or post no later than 1 September to:
Maria Zimmerman
IEEE Database and Visualization Workshop Manager
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford MA 01730-1420 Fax: +1-617-271-2964 Phone: +1-617-271-2513 Email: rmz_at_mitre.org ======================================================================Received on Wed May 26 1993 - 22:13:37 CEST