From 100434.3031@CompuServe.COM Mon Feb 17 18:12:00 1997 Received: from arl-img-5.compuserve.com (arl-img-5.compuserve.com [149.174.217.135]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA26261 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:11:54 +0100 Received: by arl-img-5.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id LAA21837; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:59:59 -0500 Date: 17 Feb 97 11:56:20 EST From: Jean Stride <100434.3031@CompuServe.COM> To: IST/31 Cc: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Subject: CFP: Eurographics Workshop on Programming Paradigms in Graphics Message-ID: <970217165619_100434.3031_JHU107-3@CompuServe.COM> For information ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Philipp Slusallek, INTERNET:Philipp.Slusallek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de TO: Jean Stride, 100434,3031 DATE: 15/02/97 10:13 RE: CFP: Eurographics Workshop on Programming Paradigms in Graphics Sender: slusalle@faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Received: from faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.2.45]) by arl-img-7.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id FAA26993; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 05:06:40 -0500 Received: from faui90d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (faui90d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.39.8]) by uni-erlangen.de with SMTP id LAA07938 (8.7.6/7.5c-FAU); for <100434.3031@compuserve.com>; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 11:06:36 +0100 (MET) From: Philipp Slusallek Message-Id: <199702151006.LAA07938@faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Subject: CFP: Eurographics Workshop on Programming Paradigms in Graphics To: 100434.3031@compuserve.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 11:06:34 +0100 (MEZ) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We would like to invite you to participate in this years "Eurographics Workshop on Programming Paradigms in Graphics". The workshop will take place September 8-9, 1997 right after Eurographics '97 in Budapest, Hungary. You can find details in the Call for Contributions below and on our Workshop WEB page http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Misc/wppg97/wppg97.html. DEADLINE for full paper submission is May 7, 1997. Please also forward this CFP within your organization and to other interested colleagues. Philipp Slusallek and Fahrad Arbab =================================================================== 6th EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP ON PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS IN GRAPHICS CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Budapest, Hungary, 8-9 September, 1997 =================================================================== THEME: The steadily increasing availability of hardware and software support for concurrent, parallel, and geographically distributed processing presents new challenges also to programming paradigms. This is particularly true for modern computer graphics, with its inherent focus on interactive, low-latency, and real-time processing. What are these challenges? How and where do they strain or break our existing techniques, and paradigms? How do we extend and/or augment our existing techniques, tools, and paradigms? Do we need to conceive new tools and paradigms to meet these challenges? Can the current object-oriented paradigm cope with these new challenges? AIMS AND SCOPE: Previous Eurographics workshops in this series were mainly focussed on exploring the advantages of different programming paradigms for computer graphics in general. In this new workshop, we will continue this general theme but shift our attention towards the challenges of concurrent, parallel, and distributed processing for graphics. The availability of powerful, low-cost parallel systems and high-speed networks, the phenomenal popularity of World Wide Web, the advent of global computing, and the promise of information super-highways all allow graphics applications to push the envelope of how computers can impact our professional, personal, and social lives. Concurrency, parallelism, and distribution are key issues that become unavoidable in this context. The object-oriented methodology has been perceived as the most effective approach widely used to construct computer graphics applications. However, shortcomings of the object-oriented methodology have been identified is several areas, including the conflict between strict encapsulation and the need for global information, relations among objects, and constraint management. Concurrent, parallel, and distributed processing is another area, the leadership of the object-oriented methodology is challenged. What are the weak spots of the object-oriented paradigm in this context? Can it be augmented by adapting extensions from other paradigms, or do we need new and better suited paradigms to cope with these new challenges? In this workshop, we intend to investigate the applicability, merits, and limitations of various programming techniques, tools, and paradigms for concurrent, parallel, and distributed processing in computer graphics applications. MAIN TOPICS INCLUDE (but are not limited to): - Paradigms: What are the shortcomings of the object-oriented paradigm for graphics programming with respect to concurrency and parallelism? How do we cope with this challenges? Which other paradigms offer better methodologies and tools? Can and should they be integrated with the object-oriented paradigm or do we need completely new paradigms? - Techniques: What are appropriate analysis, design, and implementation techniques for concurrent, parallel, and distributed graphics? How can existing graphics applications be extended for parallel and distributed processing? - Tools: What tools are available for the design and implementation of concurrent, and distributed graphics programming? How well do they exploit the different underlying hardware and software architectures? - Standards, Architectures, Frameworks: Are object-oriented standard like CORBA, OpenDoc, OLE, Premo, etc. appropriate answers to the requirements of concurrent and distributed graphics applications? Are HTTP, HTML, VRML, JAVA, etc. sufficient for both distributed Multimedia and general graphics applications on the Internet? What would be appropriate alternatives or extensions? How can specific architectures and frameworks support the development of parallel and distributed applications. In this workshop series, the terms "Graphics" and "Computer Graphics" are taken in a broad sense, to include topics such as graphics programming, rendering, human interfaces, animation, visualization, multimedia, geometric modeling, and virtual reality. CONTRIBUTIONS: Authors are requested to submit full research papers for review by the program committee by the deadline given below. The length should be no more than 12 pages. Please include the address of the authors including e-mail, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. We prefer submissions in Postscript or PDF format sent by email or ftp to one of the program chairs, otherwise send five copies of the printed paper. LaTeX macros are available via WWW (see below) or directly from the chairs. Shorter position papers (2-4 pages) may be accepted according to their relevance to the workshop. Submissions missing the deadline can only be considered in exceptional cases and with reduced priority. A copy of accepted papers will be distributed to the participants. It is the intention of the organizers to publish a selection of presented papers. This will either be as a collection of papers in a book, as has happened in the past, or in a special issue of some appropriate journal. SCHEDULE: 7 May, 1997: Deadline for full paper 1 July, 1997: Notification of acceptance of full papers and deadline for position paper for in proceedings 1 August, 1997: Final paper deadline and latest date for position paper for participation 8-9 September 1997: Workshop. MORE INFORMATION: Up-to-date information about this workshop can be found in the World Wide Web under the URL: http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Misc/wppg97/wppg97.html ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place in Budapest, Hungary and is organized in association with EUROGRAPHICS. Up-to-date information about this workshop can always be found in the World Wide Web under the URL: http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Misc/wppg97/wppg97.html CHAIRMEN: Farhad Arbab Philipp Slusallek CWI University of Erlangen, IMMD 9 P.O. Box 94079 Am Weichselgarten 9 1090 GB Amsterdam D-91058 Erlangen The Netherlands Germany farhad@cwi.nl Philipp.Slusallek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de PROGRAM COMMITTEE: M. Beynon (UK), E. Blake (South Africa), A. Borning (USA), S. Cunningham (USA), P. Egbert (USA), E. Fiume (CA), E. Gobbetti (I), I. Herman (NL), W. Leler (USA), T. Priol (F), R. Veltkamp (NL), P. Wisskirchen (D)