[GDNET] CfP Graph Drawing Contest 2013

[Carsten Gutwenger]

                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                  20th Graph Drawing Contest

              http://graphdrawing.de/contest2013/


The 20th Annual Graph Drawing Contest shall be held in conjunction
with the 21st International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2013).

This year, the contest has the following three topics:
Two graphs for the new creative topic, one review network, and the
graph drawing challenge.


TOPIC 1: Creative

For this topic, we only provide data sources, and your task will be
to create a meaningful graph from these data and visualize it in a
suitable way. We provide two data sources, both dealing with the
venue of this year's Graph Drawing Symposium, Bordeaux.

For details, see: http://graphdrawing.de/contest2013/topic1.html


TOPIC 2: Review network

For this topic, you are given a network of 568,454 reviews of fine
foods from Amazon, making up a bipartite graph of reviewers and
products. The task is to visualize the network, emphasizing good
products and important reviewers.

For details, see: http://graphdrawing.de/contest2013/topic2.html


TOPIC 3: Graph drawing challenge

The challenge will be held during the conference in a format similar
to a typical programming contest, where teams are presented with
a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour
to submit their highest scoring drawings. This year the challenge
shall focus on minimizing the area for orthogonal grid layouts.

For details, see: http://graphdrawing.de/contest2013/challenge.html


SUBMISSION

Submissions for the Creative and Review Network topics must be
received by

   September 20 (23:59 CEST)

and should include the following information:

* Names and email addresses of the contributors.
* A picture (or other kind of visualization) illustrating the graph.
   If any software is supplied, it would be very beneficial to include
   an accompanying demo video in case the software is not readily
   executable on the judges' systems.
* A brief description on how the graph and layout were produced.

Electronic submissions (in PDF format) are strongly encouraged.
However, if your drawing requires special printing because of size,
resolution, or color constraints, you are encouraged to submit via
hard-copy.

All contest submissions should be sent to

Carsten Gutwenger
TU Dortmund
Otto-Hahn-Straße 14
44229 Dortmund
Germany

contest at graphdrawing.de


AWARDS

The five winners (creative A + B, review network, challenge A + M)
will receive trophies, medals, and other great prizes.
More details will be announced soon.


CONTEST COMMITTEE

Christian Duncan           Quinnipiac University
Carsten Gutwenger (chair)  TU Dortmund
Lev Nachmanson             Microsoft Research
Georg Sander               IBM