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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">With this call, we invite submissions of high-quality State of the Art Reports (STAR) to be presented at the EuroVis 2023 conference (<a href="https://www.eurovis.org/"><span style="mso-color-alt:windowtext">https://www.eurovis.org/</span></a>)
and published in the <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659">
<span style="mso-color-alt:windowtext">Computer Graphics Forum journal</span></a>. The EuroVis 2023 conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany on June 12-16, 2023.
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<span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">The call for STARs is included below and further details are on the EuroVis webpage (<a href="https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/" title="https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/">https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/</a>).
The STAR submissions will 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 **<b>October 21, 2022</b>** and we look forward to receiving
your submissions, details below.</span><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">For any questions, please contact us at stars@eurovis.org</span><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Best wishes,</span><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Renata, Stefan & Cagatay</span><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:19.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">EuroVis 2023 - Call for State of the Art Reports (STARs)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:19.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">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 [1,2].</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">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><span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Computer Graphics Forum journal</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.5pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Important Dates</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Submission of STAR Sketch:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">October 21, 2022</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"> (two pages, +references, +bibliography)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Invitation for full STAR submission:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">November 18, 2022</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Submission of full STAR:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">February 3, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Review notification:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Mar 24, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Second round submission:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">April 21, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Second review notification:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">May 5, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Camera-ready deadline:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Roboto;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">May 19, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">All deadlines are at<b> 23:59 GMT</b> on the date indicated.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.5pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Instructions</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>
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<a></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">As part of the acceptance process for Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a
<b>multi-stage review process</b> where authors first submit a 2-page STAR Sketch that they receive preliminary feedback on, followed by a full STAR submission. Submission of the STAR Sketch and full report is mandatory and will be conducted using the Precision
Conference System (</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/eurovis21c"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-color-alt:windowtext">PCS</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">).
For detailed paper preparation and submission instructions please refer to the <b>
submission guidelines</b> below.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Upon acceptance, we aim to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2023 program). In any circumstance, a STAR
presentation will be given a longer time slot than that of a full paper.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">STAR Sketch Submission<o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">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
<b>two pages</b>. 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 style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.5pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Full STAR Submission</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">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><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Stefan Bruckner</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">, University of Bergen, Norway</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Cagatay Turkay</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">, University of Warwick, UK</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Renata G. Raidou,
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">TU Wien, Austria</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">For any questions concerning State-of-the-Art Report submissions please contact the STAR chairs at stars@eurovis.org.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Further details of the conference and the call can be accessed here:
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/"><span style="mso-color-alt:windowtext">https://conferences.eg.org/eurovis2023/for-submitters/stars/</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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