****** W S C G'98 ***** International Conference and Exhibition ***** Call for Papers and Participation **** !!! Deadline for papers September 30,1998 !!! Dear friend, We would like to ask you to put kindly the enclosed information on the WSCG'98 Int.Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization to your calendar. We will be pleased if you kindly forward this message to colleagues of yours who might be interested in or send us a list of e-mails where this announcement should be sent to. We would be pleased if you could recommend us new reviewers (send us their e-mail address, please). Yours Vaclav Skala for further communication please use: e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz subj. 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We have tried to clear the mailing list but many people do have many different paths for their mails, unfortunately. ======================================================== Call for Papers and Participation WSCG'98 The Sixth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization 98 in cooperation with IFIP working group 5.10 on Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds will be held in February 9 - 13, 1998 in Plzen at the University of West Bohemia close to PRAGUE, the capital of Czech Republic Conference Chairs ================= Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab-CUI, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland Vaclav Skala, Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Information for authors: ======================== Contribution deadline: September 30, 1997 - original+3 copies - delivered ---------- Please, remove all direct and indirect self-references in copies - to enable anonymous reviews of your paper Maximal length: 8 pages including tables and figures !!Preliminary format Black/White pictures for proceedings only Notification after November 30, 1997 review: Final version December 10, 1997 in Camera ready format A4 ============= and Postscript version Notification of acceptance: December 30, 1997 -------------------------- Submitted papers MUST BE PRESENTED personally. Recommendation - please fill in the registration form at http://wscg.zcu.cz/register.htm All papers will be reviewed carefully by the International Program Committee members and by external reviewers, too. Authors are asked to declare that the submitted contribution has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings with ISBN as previously that are reviewed by INSPEC, IEEE and others for cititions index and other purposes. The best selected papers will be considered for possible publication in the Journal of Visualisation and Computer Animation, Machine Graphics and Vision, Computers & Graphics. Topics included --------------- Fundamental algorithms, rendering and visualization, virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical imaging, geometric modelling and fractals, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, WWW technologies, standards, computer vision, parallel and distributed graphics, computational geometry, computer aided geometric design, CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS systems, educational aspects of related fields, usage of graphics within mathematical software (Maple, Mathematica, MathCAD etc.) in education. The program includes international books exhibition and video show, too. --------------------------------------------- W S C G '98 International Exhibition Information for exhibitors: Please contact the organiser as soon as possible -------------------------- for detailed information and conditions. The WSCGAE98 Exhibition will be held in parallel. Top leading European companies active in computer graphics, visualization and computer vision, CAD/CAM and GIS systems, virtual reality, multimedia systems and others will be presenting their latest products. Special programme will be available, too. ----------------- Some spare conference proceedings WSCG97 (three volume sets) are available, ask organizer for details if interested in. Conference fee -------------- Preliminary If payment and registration arrives before Dec.10,1997 Jan.10, 1998 reg. desk Conference fee * US$ 195 US$ 210 US$ 225 * Conference dinner and some extras are included ** Special rates for Czech and Slovak participants from Universities & Academia (full time only) are donated by sponsors, please apply as soon as possible. Organizer and conference secretariat ------------------------------------ Vaclav Skala Computer Science Dept., Univ.of West Bohemia Univerzitni 22, Box 314, Plzen, Czech Republic http://yoyo.zcu.cz/~skala e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz Subject: INFO WSCG98 tel.:+420-19-2171-188 fax:+420-19-2171-188 fax:+420-19-7822-578 The latest information is available at: http://wscg.zcu.cz In case of any problems http://herakles.zcu.cz Information on previous conferences: http://wscg.zcu.cz