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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:#222222;background:white">After several requests, the deadline of the STAR sketches has been extended to the 15<sup>th</sup> of December 2015!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:#222222;background:white">CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="color:#222222;background:white">All accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">EuroVis 2016 is the 18</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">th</span></sup><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> annual scientific
gathering on visualization jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. EuroVis 2016 will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands from June 6-10, 2016.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">For the first time, all accepted EuroVis 2016 STAR reports will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of
interest to the visualization research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent previous STAR or other survey. We welcome submissions that introduce emerging technologies, as well as proposals
on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, computer graphics,
human-computer interaction, virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, politology, etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage process. </span><span style="color:black">First, authors are being asked to submit an initial sketch. A STAR sketch
briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance for the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length
of a STAR sketch is limited to three pages whereby the last page may only contain references. The format of the sketch can be found at
</span><u><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines</span></u><span style="color:black">. STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR program co-chairs for suitability and relevance, and the authors of
accepted sketches will be invited to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo</span><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> a single blind, double cycle review,</span><span style="color:#222222">
<span style="background:white">similar to the one for regular papers, where three external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR</span></span><span style="color:black">. Full submissions are 25 pages maximum.</span><span style="color:#222222;background:white">
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and will be conducted using</span><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/"><span style="color:#222222;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/</span></a><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> according to the guidelines defined at
</span><a href="http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#444444;background:white">We plan to schedule each STAR as a 50-100 minute presentation as in Eurographics conferences (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2016 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will always
be given a longer time slot than that for a full paper.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs</span><span style="color:#222222">
<span style="background:white">co-chairs: </span></span><span style="color:black">eurovis2016_star@list.rug.nl</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Important Dates</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Submission of STAR sketch (up to 3 pages): Extended to December 15, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Invitation for full STAR submission: December 23, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Submission of full STAR: February 14, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Review notification: March 18, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Second round submission: April 18, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Second review notification: May 1, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="color:#222222">General Chair</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#222222">Jos Roerdink, Univeristy of Gronigen, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="color:#222222;background:white">STAR Chairs</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Anna Vilanova (A.Vilanova@tudelft.nl), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Ross Maciejewski (rmacieje@asu.edu), Arizona State University, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Timo Ropinski (timo.ropinski@uni-ulm.de), Ulm University, Germany</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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