ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

September 16-17 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany

Co-Located with IEEE VL/HCC'08 and Diagrams'08

NEWS:
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SOFTVIS is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.

Important Dates

Papers Due:
11 April 2008

Notification:
20 June 2008

Symposium:
16-17 September 2008

Registration

see related information on VL/HCC08 website

Travel and Venue

see related information on VL/HCC08 website

Organization

General chair:
Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany

Program co-chairs:
Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA

Alexandru Telea, Groningen University, Netherlands

Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its evolution. The ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, now at its fourth edition, is the premiere forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, and computer science education) to present original research on software visualization. We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications, techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Visualization of algorithms
Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
Visualization-based software in computer science and software engineering education
Visualization of workflow and business processes
Integration of software visualization tools and development environments
Visualization of data and processes in applications
Visualization of web services
Visualization of software evolution
Visualization of the software development process
Visualization of data base schemes
Protocol and log visualization (security, trust)
Source code visualization
Graph algorithms for software visualization
Visual debugging
3D software visualization
Software visualization on the internet
Empirical evaluation of software visualization

Papers should present original, unpublished results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. Papers must be in standard ACM 2-column format and cannot exceed 10 pages in total length. Authors should prepare and electronically submit a PDF version of their paper following the instructions for authors of conferences sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH. Videos not exceeding 5 minutes in length can accompany a paper submission. Some hints for prospective authors are available online.

In addition to technical papers, we are also looking for poster submissions. Posters offer the opportunity to present new ideas and work in progress during an interactive session. Authors should prepare and submit poster descriptions of up to 2 pages in ACM two-column format. Accepted poster submissions will be included in the conference proceedings.

International Program Committee
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Arie van Deursen, Delft University / CWI, Netherlands Stephan Diehl, Trier University, Germany Holger Eichelberger, Univ. of Hildesheim, Gemany Harald Gall, University of Zürich, Switzerland John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand Eileen Kraemer, The University of Georgia, USA Andreas Kerren, University of Växjö, Sweden Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland	Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada Lauri Malmi, Helsinki U Techn., Finland Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University Malcolm Munro, University of Durham, UK Tom Naps, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA N. Hari Narayanan, Auburn University, USA Wim De Pauw, IBM Research, USA Marian Petre, Open University, UK	Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA Jürgen Rilling, Concordia University, Canada Susan Rodger, Duke University, USA Jorma Sajaniemi, Univ. of Joensuu, Finland John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada