Programme now available. The proceedings in ECEASST volume 7 are also available. Details of the 2008 workshop can be found here.
Associated event
This workshop is associated with and runs immediately after the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing.
About the Workshop
Traditionally, diagrams play an important role in many disciplines such as electrical engineering (e.g. Karnaugh-diagrams), civil and mechanical engineering (construction plans), geography (maps), etc. In Software Engineering today, diagrammatic languages like IDEF, UML or ARIS are commonplace, and with the rise of model driven development and domain specific languages, the use of such languages will become even more widespread in the future. All in all, diagrams play an important role in communication between engineers.
Given the visual nature of diagrams, it is obvious that the quality of diagram layout greatly contributes to the quality of communication based on these diagrams. However, creating task-adequate layouts is surprisingly hard, and the cognitive factors involved are not very well understood. Furthermore, tool support is rarely satisfactory (e.g. consider the sorry state of automatic layout support in UML tools).
With this workshop, we wish to bring together scientists and professionals interested in the layout of diagrams. We hope to create a stimulating environment to start discussions, share knowledge and incite fertilization across disciplinary boundaries.
We solicit submissions in the following areas:
Submissions in other, related areas are also welcome.
Co-chairs
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton Alexander Knapp, University of Munich Harald Störrle, University of Innsbruck
Programme Committee
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck Phil Cox, Dalhousie University Holger Eichelberger, University of Hildesheim Wolfgang Glock, Mgm technology partners GmbH John Grundy, University of Auckland Florian Hacklinger University of Munich John Hosking, University of Auckland Nora Koch, FAST GmbH Mark Minas, Armed Forces University of Munich Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow Peter Rodgers, University of Kent Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck
Submissions
Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the programme committee.
Submissions should be in ECEASST format, either 6-8 pages (short papers) or 14-16 pages (full papers).
To submit, please create a PDF of your paper called "<name>.pdf"
where <name> is the name of the corresponding author, and email it to led2007@brighton.ac.uk.
The email to which your paper is attached should include the title of the paper you are submitting.
If you are submitting more than one paper (as corresponding author), please name them "<name>-a.pdf", "<name>-b.pdf", etc.
Publication
The electronic proceedings of this workshop will be published by
ECEASST (ISSN 1863-2122).
We plan to organize publication of expanded versions of the top-ranked papers for journal publication.
Dates
Submission: NEW DATE: July 9, 2007
Notification: August 1, 2007
Final papers due: August 14, 2007
Downloads
Click to download a PDF poster or a plain-text call for participation.
For further information
Please email led2007@brighton.ac.uk.