NEW: Program, Slides and Proceedings
Program and Slides are now available, or the program is downlodable as a pdf. The proceedings in ECEASST volume 13 are also available.
Associated event
This workshop is associated with the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing as part of Visual Week 2008. It is the second workshop of the series: details of the first workshop can be found here.
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 Harald Störrle, University of Innsbruck
Programme Committee
Phil Cox, Dalhousie University Holger Eichelberger, University of Hildesheim Wolfgang Glock, Mgm technology partners GmbH Ulrike Gröttrup, Bayerische Landesbank Corin Gurr, University of Reading Florian Hacklinger, Zühlke Engineering John Hosking, University of Auckland Chris Hundhausen, Washington State University Alexander Knapp, University of Munich Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia Kim Marriott, Monash University Mark Minas, Armed Forces University of Munich Nikolaus Müssigmann, FH des Saarlandes Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow Peter Rodgers, University of Kent Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universität Marburg Thomas Tensi, sd&m
Submissions
Submission of papers (in PDF) is via Easychair. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the programme committee. The intention will be to have each paper reviewed by at least one academic and at least one engineering professional.
Submissions should be in ECEASST format, either 6-8 pages (short papers) or 14-16 pages (full papers).
Publication
The electronic proceedings of the workshop will be published by
ECEASST.
We plan to organize publication of expanded versions of the top-ranked papers for journal publication.
Dates
Submission: 16 June, 2008
Notification: 14 July 2008
Final papers due: 18 August, 2008
Workshop: 15 September, 2008
Downloads
Click to download a PDF poster or a plain-text call for participation.
For further information
Please email led2008@brighton.ac.uk.