<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">=======================================================================</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for STARs</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Please forward this mail to anyone interested</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">=======================================================================</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">EUROGRAPHICS 2015</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">May 4-8, 2015</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Zurich, Switzerland</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">** NEW for EG 2015: Accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum **</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of a special topic</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">of current interest related to Computer Graphics. We welcome submissions on all topics relevant to</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">EUROGRAPHICS, and particularly encourage STARs on topics that have not been covered in any recent</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">previous STAR. A STAR can also address the use of Computer Graphics techniques in a different</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">scientific discipline or in industrial practice. For examples of suitable STAR topics, please refer</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">to the EUROGRAPHICS digital library.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">At EUROGRAPHICS 2015, the authors of a STAR will be given 90 minutes to present the report at a level</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">that also allows non-experts in the particular domain to follow this presentation.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs co-chairs by e-mail</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">(</span><a href="mailto:kai.hormann@usi.ch" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">kai.hormann@usi.ch</a><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"> and </span><a href="mailto:oliver.staadt@uni-rostock.de" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">oliver.staadt@uni-rostock.de</a><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">).</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">SUBMISSION DETAILS</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">This year, STARs will undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">papers. Hence, there is no need to prepare a STAR proposal first, and the full-length STAR with no</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">more than 25 pages must be submitted before the submission deadline. Each STAR will be reviewed by</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">three members of the IPC who are experts in the respective topic. Accepted STARs will be published in</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, which appears right before the Eurographics conference.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Submissions needing a major revision will be transferred to the standard submission track of Computer</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Graphics Forum.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Brief biographies of the authors should be included in the submission, demonstrating their</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">qualification to produce the proposed STAR.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">The deadline for the submission of STAR proposals is September 17, 2014, with notification of</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">conditional acceptance on January 14, 2015. The revised version of conditionally accepted STARs will</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">have to be submitted at a later date for a second review, and the camera ready version will be due</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">about 6 weeks before the start of the conference.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Full STAR submission: September 17, 2014</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">First review notification: January 14, 2015</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Revised STAR submission: February 11, 2015</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Second review notification: March 11, 2015</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Final STAR submission: March 25, 2015</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">PROGRAM CHAIRS</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Kai Hormann (Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Oliver Staadt (University of Rostock, Germany)</span></body></html>