Graph Drawing '98

GD '98: Sixth Symposium on Graph Drawing
August 13-15, 1998
Montréal, Canada
 

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 6th Annual Symposium on Graph Drawing, which will be held in Montréal, Canada, August 13-15th, 1998.  The Symposium is organized in conjunction with the computational geometry group, at the School of Computer Science, McGill University.  It immediately follows the 10th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, also at McGill, August 10-12th.

Conference Themes

Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information. More specifically, it is concerned with the construction of geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks. The automatic generation of drawings of graphs has important applications in key computer science technologies such as database design, software engineering, VLSI and network design and visual interfaces and also in engineering, chemistry and biology. The range of issues investigated in graph drawing includes algorithms, graph theory, order theory, visual languages, and perception.

A great deal of research in graph drawing is motivated by applications to systems for viewing and interacting with graphs. The interaction between theoretical advances and implemented solutions is an important part of the area of graph drawing.

Graph Drawing Contest

Following the tradition of the Symposium, there will again be a Graph Drawing Contest this year. The rules and graph data are now available.

Call for Papers, Demos, and Posters

The detailed call for submissions is available in html, and postscript.

Proceedings

Accepted papers and descriptions of accepted demos will be published in the proceedings of GD'98, which will appear in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science of Springer Verlag. Camera-ready copies of papers are due at the workshop.

Special Issue

A special issue of the electronic Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications will be devoted to papers presented at GD '98.  Hence theoretical or applied papers that in electronic form contain interactive appendices with running demos or proof animations or hyperlinks to useful references are encouraged.

Location (tentative)

Lectures are planned to be held in the lecture hall of the Redpath Museum, lunches at Thompson House, and the banquet at the Faculty Club, all on the campus of McGill.

Previous Symposia on Graph Drawing (GD)

GD '93 (Paris)
GD '94 (Princeton)
GD '95 (Passau)
GD '96 (Berkeley)
GD '97 (Rome)

Program Committee

Chair: Sue Whitesides (McGill Univ.)
Franz Brandenburg (Univ. Passau)
Peter Eades (Univ. Newcastle)
Emden Gansner (AT&T Labs)
Michael Kaufmann (Univ. Tübingen)
Giuseppe Liotta (Univ. Rome)
Anna Lubiw (Univ. Waterloo)
Shin-ichi Nakano (Tohoku Univ.)
Janos Pach (CUNY & NYU)
Roberto Tamassia (Brown Univ.)
Ioannis Tollis (Univ. Texas at Dallas)
Dorothea Wagner (Univ. Konstanz)

Demos

Brendan Madden (Tom Sawyer Software)
Joe Marks (MERL)
other members of the program committee

Organizing Committee

Therese Biedl (McGill Univ.)
Prosenjit Bose (Carleton Univ.)
François Labelle (McGill Univ.)
Sylvain Lazard (McGill Univ.)
Giuseppe Liotta (Univ. Rome)
Steve Robbins (McGill Univ.)
Sue Whitesides (McGill Univ.) 
Questions, Comments or Suggestions?
Please contact the organizing committee.