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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">With this call, we invite submissions of high-quality State of the Art Reports (STAR) to be presented at the

 EuroVis 2022 conference (</span><a href="http://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)

 and published in the </span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Computer Graphics Forum journal</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">.

 The EuroVis 2022 conference will be held in Rome, Italy on June 13-17, 2022 and further details could be accessed here:

</span><a href="https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/stars/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/stars/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> .</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">The STAR submissions go through a two-stage process, and the deadline for the first stage, i.e., submissions

 of STAR sketches of two pages (+references, +bibliography), is just around the corner on **</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">October 15, 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">**

 and we look forward to receiving your submissions, details below.</span></p>

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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">For any questions, please contact us at<span> </span></span><a href="mailto:stars@eurovis.org" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">stars@eurovis.org</span></a></p>

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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Best wishes,</span></p>

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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Katerina, Stefan & Cagatay.</span></p>

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<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">EuroVis 2022 - Call for State of the Art Reports</span></h1>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">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 STAR or other survey.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">We welcome submissions that introduce emerging areas of research that are of relevance and interest to visualization research, 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, social science, etc. All accepted EuroVis STAR reports will be published

 in the </span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Computer Graphics Forum journal</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Important Dates</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Submission of STAR Sketch:

</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">October 15, 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> (two pages, +references, +bibliography)</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Invitation for full STAR submission:

</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">November 12, 2021</span></p>

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<span style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Submission of full STAR:

</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">February 1, 2022</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Review notification:

</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Mar 25, 2022</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Second round submission:

</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">April 20, 2022</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Second review notification:

</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">May 3, 2022</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Camera-ready deadline:

</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">May 13, 2022</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">As part of the acceptance process for Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage review process where authors first submit a 2-page STAR Sketch that they receive preliminary

 feedback on, followed by a full STAR submission. Upon acceptance, we aim to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2022 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given

 a longer time slot than that of a full paper.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">A STAR Sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance to 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 main text is limited to two pages. To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, brief biographies of all authors are required

 as supplementary material. References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted within the two page limit. Authors receive feedback on their sketches to help improve the submission and to inform their decisions whether to

 progress to the Full STAR submission stage.  </span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">In the next stage, authors are required to submit a full STAR. There is no strict maximum length for full submissions. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages (excluding

 references). Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review process, similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Stefan Bruckner, University of Bergen, Norway</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Cagatay Turkay, University of Warwick, UK</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Katerina Vrotsou, Link�ping University, Sweden</span></p>

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</span><a href="https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/stars/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2022/stars/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> </span></p>

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