IVAPP is organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication.

Locally Organized and Hosted by Université d'Angers and ISTIA, École d'Ingénieurs de l'Université d'Angers en Génie des Systèmes Industriels.



SCOPE

The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference will be structured along several topics related to Information Visualization.
We welcome papers describing original work in any of the topics listed below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. 
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.


CONFERENCE TOPICS

Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also allowed.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Brian A. Barsky, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Pascal Fua, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Gabriela Csurka, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France


VENUE

The conference will be held in the University of Angers. Angers is the capital of the historic province of Anjou and is considered one of the most beautiful cities in France with its old streets, museums, gardens, gastronomic restaurants and art festivals. Angers is located in western France in the Loire Valley well known by its chateaux, just 2h30 by motorway and 1h30 by high-speed train from Paris.


PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a LCNS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
The proceedings of IVAPP 2010 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Paul Richard, University of Angers, France
José Braz, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maria Beatriz Carmo, Faculdade De Ciências Da Universidade De Lisboa, Portugal
Wei Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Yi-Jen Chiang, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, United States
David Ebert, Purdue University, United States
Sara Irina Fabrikant, University of Zurich - Irchel, Switzerland
Chi-Wing Fu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
David Gotz, IBM Research, United States
Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Hans Hagen, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research, United States
Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Lars Linsen, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy
Aidong Lu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Krešimir Matkovic, VRVis Resarch Center, Austria
Luis Gustavo Nonato, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Benoît Otjacques, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg
Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock, Germany
Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University, United States
Aidan Slingsby, City University London, United Kingdom
Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Kitware Inc., United States
Melanie Tory, University of Victoria, Canada
Huub van de Wetering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Chaoli Wang, Michigan Technological University, United States
Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States
Tino Weinkauf, New York University, United States
Jing Yang, UNC Charlotte, United States
Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University, China