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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><b>Call for Papers: 13th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2020)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> APRIL 14-17, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> Pan Pacific, TIANJIN, China<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> http://pvis.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">PacificVis is a unified visualization symposium, welcoming all areas of visualization research such as information visualization, scientific visualization, graph and network visualization,
visual analytics, and specific applications such as (but not limited to) security, software, and biological visualization. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and application papers in all areas of visualization. We encourage papers
in any new, novel, and exciting research area that pertains to visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">All submitted papers will go through a two-stage review process to guarantee the publication of high-quality papers. All papers accepted by IEEE Pacific Visualization 2020 will be published
by IEEE and will be also included in the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be published directly in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Abstract due : Sep. 27, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Full paper due : Oct. 4, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Reviews due : Nov. 15, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">1st cycle notification : Nov. 29, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Revision due : Dec. 20, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">2nd cycle notification : Jan. 13, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Camera ready paper due : Jan. 23, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">All deadlines are due at 9:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT/PST).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Visualization Application Areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Statistical Graphics and Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Financial, Security, and Business Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Physical Sciences and Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Geographic, Geospatial, and Terrain Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Molecular, Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Medical Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Text, Document, and Software Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Social and Information Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Education and Everyday Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Multimedia (Image/Video/Music) Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Data-focused Visualization Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* High-dimensional Data, Dimensionality Reduction, and Data Compression<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Multi-field, Multi-modal, Multi-resolution, and Multi-variate Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Causality and Uncertainty Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Time Series, Time Varying, Streaming, and Flow Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Scalar, Vector, and Tensor Fields<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Regular and Unstructured Grids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Point-based Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Large-scale Data (Petabytes, ...)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Technique-focused Visualization Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Volume Modeling and Rendering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Extraction of Surfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Topology-based and Geometry-based Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Glyph-based Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Integrating Spatial and Non-spatial Data Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Machine Learning Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Graph and Network Visualization Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Design and Experimentation of Graph Drawing Algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Techniques, Interfaces, and Interaction Methods for Graphs, Trees, and Other Relational Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Visualization of Graphs and Networks in Application Areas
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Interfaces and Interaction Techniques for Graph and Network Visualizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Benchmarks and Experimental Analysis for Graph Visualization Systems
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Interaction-focused Visualization Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Icon- and Glyph-based Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Focus + Context Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Zooming and Navigation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Brushing + Linking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Coordinated Multiple Views<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* View-dependent Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Data Labeling, Editing, and Annotation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Collaborative, Co-located, and Distributed Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Manipulation and Deformation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Visual Data Mining and Visual Knowledge Discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Empirical and Comprehension-focused Visualization Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Visual Design and Aesthetics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Illustrative Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Cognition and Perception Issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* User Studies on Visualization Readability and User Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Presentation, Dissemination, and Storytelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Design Studies, Case Studies, and Focus Groups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Task and Requirements Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Metrics and Benchmarks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Evaluations of All Types: Qualitative, Quantitative, Laboratory, Field, and Usability Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Use of Eye Tracking and Other Biometric Measures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">System-focused Visualization Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Novel Algorithms and Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Taxonomies and Models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Methodologies, Discussions, and Frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Visual Design, Visualization System, and Toolkit Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Data Warehousing, Database Visualization, and Data Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Collaborative and Distributed Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hardware, Display, and Interaction Technology:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Large and High-resolution Displays<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Stereo Displays<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Mobile and Ubiquitous Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Immersive and Virtual Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Multimodal Input (Touch, Haptics, Voice, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Hardware Acceleration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* GPUs and Multi-core Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* CPU and GPU Clusters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Distributed Systems, Grid, and Cloud Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Volume Graphics Hardware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers are to be submitted online through the new Precision Conference System (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc) at the PacificVis 2020 Papers track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Original unpublished papers of up to ten (10) pages (two-column, single-spaced, 9 point font, including figures, tables, and references) are invited. Manuscripts must be written in English
and follow the formatting guidelines (https://pacificvis.github.io/). It is recommended (but not mandatory) to submit an anonymized version of your manuscript for double-blind review - in this case, please remove all author and affiliation information from
submissions and supplemental files as well as substitute your paper’s ID number for the author name. Papers should be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format. Please provide supplemental videos in QuickTime MPEG-4 or DivX version 5, and use TIFF, JPEG,
or PNG for supplemental images.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Fabian Beck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jinwook Seo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Seoul National University, Republic of Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Chaoli Wang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">University of Notre Dame, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Email: fabian.beck@paluno.uni-due.de; jseo@hcil.snu.ac.kr; chaoli.wang@nd.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper Types<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">A visualization research paper typically falls into one of five categories: technique, system, application/design study, evaluation, or theory/model. We briefly discuss these categories
below. Although your main paper type has to be specified during the paper submission process, papers can include elements of more than one of these categories. Please see “Process and Pitfalls in Writing Information Visualization Research Papers” by Tamara
Munzner for a more detailed discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">*Technique papers* introduce novel techniques or algorithms that have not previously appeared in the literature, or that significantly extend known techniques or algorithms, for example,
by scaling to datasets of much larger size than before or by generalizing a technique to a larger class of uses. The technique or algorithm description provided in the paper should be complete enough that a competent graduate student in visualization could
implement the work, and the authors should create a prototype implementation of the methods. Relevant previous work must be referenced, and the advantage of the new methods over it should be clearly demonstrated. There should be a discussion of the tasks and
datasets for which this new method is appropriate, and its limitations. Evaluation through informal or formal user studies, or other methods, will often serve to strengthen the paper, but are not mandatory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">*System papers* present a blend of algorithms, technical requirements, user requirements, and design that solves a major problem. The system that is described is both novel and important,
and has been implemented. The rationale for significant design decisions is provided, and the system is compared to documented, best-of-breed systems already in use. The comparison includes a specific discussion of how the described system differs from and
is, in some significant respects, superior to those systems. For example, the described system may offer substantial advancements in the performance or usability of visualization systems, or novel capabilities. Every effort should be made to eliminate external
factors (such as advances in processor performance, memory sizes or operating system features) that would affect this comparison.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">*Application/design study papers* explore the choices made when applying visualization and visual analytics techniques in an application area, for example relating the visual encodings
and interaction techniques to the requirements of the target task. Similarly, application/design study papers have been the norm when researchers describe the use of visualization techniques to glean insights from problems in engineering and science. Although
a significant amount of application domain background information can be useful to provide a framing context in which to discuss the specifics of the target task, the primary focus of the case study must be the visualization content. The results of the application/design
study, including insights generated in the application domain, should be clearly conveyed. Describing new techniques and algorithms developed to solve the target problem will strengthen a design study paper, but the requirements for novelty are less stringent
than in a technique paper. Where necessary, the identification of the underlying parametric space and its efficient search must be aptly described. The work will be judged by the design lessons learned or insights gleaned, on which future contributors can
build. We invite submissions on any application area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">*Evaluation papers* explore the usage of visualization and visual analytics by human users, and typically present an empirical study of visualization techniques or systems. Authors are
not necessarily expected to implement the systems used in these studies themselves; the research contribution will be judged on the validity and importance of the experimental results as opposed to the novelty of the systems or techniques under study. The
conference committee appreciates the difficulty and importance of designing and performing rigorous experiments, including the definition of appropriate hypotheses, tasks, data sets, selection of subjects, measurement, validation and conclusions. The goal
of such efforts should be to move from mere description of experiments, toward prediction and explanation. We do suggest that potential authors who have not had formal training in the design of experiments involving human subjects may wish to partner with
a colleague from an area such as psychology or human-computer interaction who has experience with designing rigorous experimental protocols and statistical analysis of the resulting data. Other novel forms of evaluation are also encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">*Theory/model papers* present new interpretations of the foundational theory of visualization and visual analytics. Implementations are usually not relevant for papers in this category.
Papers should focus on basic advancement in our understanding of how visualization techniques complement and exploit properties of human vision and cognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">For more information and updates please visit: http://pvis.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE">Prof. Dr. Fabian Beck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE">mail: fabian.beck@paluno.uni-due.de </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE">web: http://vis.wiwi.uni-due.de</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE">Tel.: +49 201 183-7057</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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