VLC’2007 – International Workshop on VisualLanguages and Computing Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, 6-8 September 2007 Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute Digital Arts and Sciences Lab, UF, and Visual Computing Lab, UT-Dallas
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Gennaro Costagliola, Univ. di Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello, Univ. di Salerno, Italy Monica Sebillo, Univ. di Salerno, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida, USA Kang Zhang, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alfonso F. Cárdenas, Univ. of California, USA Maria Francesca Costabile, Univ. of Bari, Italy Philip Cox, Dalhousie Univ. , Canada Stephan Diehl, University of Trier , Germany Jing Dong, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Filomena Ferruci, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Maolin Huang, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jun Kong, North Dokota State Univ., USA Zenon Kulpa Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland Robert Laurini, Univ. of Lyon, France Benjamin Lok, Univ. of Florida, USA Kim Marriott, Monash Univ., Australia Rym Mili, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Piero Mussio, Univ. of Milan, Italy Marc Najork, Microsoft, USA Luca Paolino, University of Salerno, Italy Minho Park, Stephen F. Austin State Univ., USA Joseph J. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State Univ., USA Hyunju Shim, Samsung Corporation, South Korea Nenad Stankovic, Aizu Univ., Japan David Stotts, Univ. of North Carolina, USA Noam Tractinsky, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel Athanasios Vasilakos , University of Western Macedonia , Greece IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission:    20 April 2007 Decision notification: 15 May 2007 Camera-ready copy: 15 June 2007 Early registration: 15 June 2007	SCOPE AND TOPICS Visual computing involves theory, methods and application of enhancing the visual space, along with human interaction, within the field of computing. One may visualize unstructured data, simple information structures, and more complicated structures such as automata, programs, and databases. Moreover, visual computing is a field that involves representation of artifacts and their behaviors or executions. Thus, it is possible to visualize heaps, their execution or entire programs in which the heap plays an algorithmic role. The ways in which the human interacts with the heap through pure visualization, touch, or sound becomes a relevant issue. The concept of transformation is integral to visual computing, where it is often convenient to transform one type of object into another sometimes for a specific group or individual. Aspects of visual computing are multi-facetted in goals that are to be achieved during information or language design. The following represents a short list of qualities that are of importance to the study within visual computing: efficiency, aesthetics, pleasure, emotion, engagement, immersion, collaboration, and culture. Aspects of art, engineering, and science play key roles where certain practitioners focus on design and engineering of visual interactions whereas others analyze and study these interactions (i.e., science). The International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing will explore these issues, and will be held in conjunction with the 2007 International Conference of Distributed Multimedia Systems (http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms07.html) to be held in San Francisco Bay Area, USA. 6-8 September 2007. Papers on all aspects and approaches to visual languages and computing are solicited, including interactive visual computing, computer-empowered visual computing, human-empowered visual computing, transformation algorithms for visual computing, and visual languages for visual computing. The following topics are of special interest:
	● Visual Languages ● Visual Programming ● Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning ● Visual Computing for Expert Communities ● Visual Computing on Sensed Data ● Gestural Computing ● Aesthetic Computing ● Ambient Information Interaction ● Visual Computing in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology	● Fusion of Vision with Audio and Other Modalities ● Human-Machine Interface Design ● Human Vision Systems and Models ● Visualization of Computational Processes ● Large-Scale Scientific Visualization ● Parallel/Distributed/Neural Computing and Representations for Visual Information ● Pictorial Databases and Information Systems ● Biomedical Imagery ● Computer-Assisted Visual Art and Design
	PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions that address research and development on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by the international Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of DMS2007. A selection of the best papers will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. Papers of up to six (6) IEEE double-column pages should be submitted electronically. VLC’2007 paper submission page: http://conf.ksi.edu/vlc07/submit/SubmitPaper.php.
	CONTACTS
	Paul Fishwick Computer & Information Science and Eng. Dept. University of Florida P.O. Box 116120, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Tel: +1-352-3921414 Fax: +1-352-3921220 Email: fishwick@cise.ufl.edu		Kang Zhang Dept. of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA Tel: +1-972-8836351 Fax: +1-972-8832349 Email: kzhang@utdallas.edu