Virtual Environment on a PC Cluster Workshop

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Novosibirsk, Russia July 5, 2006 Altay Mountain Resort, Russia July 6-12, 2006 http://www.kokstravel.ru/content/catalog/foto_areda1.php Conference web site: http://ccfit.nsu.ru/graphicon2006/veonpc Contact persons: Stanislav Klimenko klimenko@sim.ol.ru      Victor Debelov debelov@oapmg.sscc.ru Address for submissions: VEonPC@oapmg.sscc.ru INVITATION VEonPC 2006 is an International Workshop on research and development and application of Virtual Environment systems based on a PC cluster. The main purpose of the workshop is the discussion, information and opinions exchange on development and use of such systems. Previous workshops are held in Europe and China, this is the first time to be held in Siberia. The workshop structure this year includes two parts: the first part will be held in Novosibirsk, as affiliation of GraphiCon'2006 http://ccfit.nsu.ru/graphicon2006/ and the second one including panels and round-tables will be held in Altai Mountain Resort http://www.kokstravel.ru/content/catalog/foto_areda1.php TOPICS The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics: 1. Hardware and equipment for VE Reality centers; caves; low-cost systems based on personal computers; tracking 2. Software for VE Avango; transfer of the software to Linux; graphics algorithms; import interfaces for VE and CAD systems 3. Applications of VE Natural Science space research and space monitoring, geophysics, geochemistry, seismology, environmental research and climate studies Medicine VR-assisted surgery; educational tools; organs models; tele-medicine; clinical assessment & diagnostics; tele surgery; training & performance assessment; simulators Industry Virtual prototyping; engineering design; maintenance; project reviews; collaborative work; VR industrial applications; VR in automatic industry; Mechanical simulation; CAD; GIS Education Cooperative work; CVE (Collaborative Virtual Environment); experimentation; VE eLearning systems Game and entertainment game design, game engine, mobile game, networked game Art virtual theater; VR & cinema; interactive art Cognition Cognition; cognitive modeling; interaction; ubiquity; adaptation; learning; therapy Internet Avatars; web 3D interaction; ASP Linux VR around the world VR state of the art in different countries; international research programs We welcome proposals for presentations. The program of each session will be composed of: - A 45 minutes keynote presentation given by the invited speaker, - 30 minutes scientific talks selected by the international program committee, - Poster presentations, which will also be included in the conference proceedings. The conference languages are both English and Russian with simultaneous translation. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline => June 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance => June 20, 2006 Delivery of full papers => June 30, 2006 PROCEEDINGS Conference proceedings, in English, (including all accepted papers) will be published and will be available for the delegates in printed form after the workshop in nearest time. FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES The workshop registration fee for all presenters and participants will be $350 USA. Registration includes proceedings, traveling Novosibirsk-Altai and back (by bus), living expencies and food at the resort. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The Workshop Committee offers prospective authors to send a full paper by e-mail. All submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. The submission should also include: title of proposed paper, authors names, affiliations, addresses, name of author to contact for correspondence, e-mail address, telephone and fax number of contact author, topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords). Full papers: 5000 words. All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee (its will be processed electronically). A paper should be submitted in GraphiCon'2006 submission rules. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE Workshop Committee Co-Chairs: Stanislav Klimenko (Russia) Victor Debelov (Russia) Martin Reiser (Germany) Workshop Committee Members: Vladimir Aleshin (Russia), Valery Afanasiev (Russia), Boris Dolgovesov (Russia), Maxim Foursa (Germany), Leonid Kuligin (Russia), Anton Lipatov (Russia), Pavel Rabinovich (Russia), Anna Rozova (Russia), Alexander Serebrov (Russia), Eugene Slobodyuk (Russia) International Program Committee (IPC) IPC Chair: Stanislav Klimenko (Russia) Members: Yuri Baturin (Russia), Dieter Fellner (Germany), Andre Gagalowicz (France), Vladimir Galaktionov (Russia), Michael Gurevich (Russia), Wolfgang Heiden (Germany), Denis Ivanov (Russia), Maxim Kazakov (Japan), Konstantin Larionov (Russia), Leonid Mestetskiy (Russia), Michael Mikhailyuk (Russia), Igor Nikitin (Germany), Sergey Rotkov (Russia), Benjamin Schaeffer (USA), Alexei Sourin (Singapore), Eduard Talnykine (USA), Dmitri Vatolin (Russia), Dmitry Yurin (Russia), Wasil Urazmetov (Russia) International Advisory Board (IAB): Alexander Afanasiev (Russia), David Arnold (UK), Manfred Bogen (Germany), Alexander Bugaev (Russia), Gennady Erokhin (Russia), Anatoly Fomenko (Russia), Martin Goebel (Germany), Boris Groth (Germany), Hans Hagen (Germany), Andres Iglesias (Spain), Geoffrey Knauth (USA), Bill Lorensen (USA), Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Switzerland), Gregory Nielson (USA), Vladimir Nifontov (Russia), Timour Paltashev (USA), Jhigeng Pan (China), Vladimir Pavlov (Russia), Vladimir Petrukhin (Ukraine), Dimitri Plemenos (France), Adam Richter (USA), Alexei Romanov (Russia), John Lynn Roseman (Russia), Slava Rubaev (Russia), Yuri Saigin (Russia), Vladimir Savchenko (Japan), Jiao Ying Shi (China), Timothy K. Shih (Taiwan), Seah Hock Soon (Singapore), Vaclav Skala (Czech Republic), Yuri Smetanin (Russia), Wolgang Strasser (Germany), Daniel Thalmann (Switzerland), Alexander Tomilin (Russia)

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