Graph Drawing 2007

14th Annual Graph Drawing Contest

Call for Participation (short PDF version)

The 14th Annual Graph Drawing Contest shall be held in conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2007). Except for the challenge competition, which takes place during the conference, all submissions are due by September 20, 2007. The anticipated funding for the contest is AU$1,000.

Contest Overview

This year, the contest has three graph categories. The following links provide details and data for each category.

Free-Style Competition
The free-style competition is an opportunity for participants to present their best graph visualizations. All types of graph drawings can be submitted to this contest, and judging will be based on artistic merit and relevance to the graph drawing community.
Social Network Graph
Similar to the free-style competition, this category however is directed towards interesting and innovative visualizations of social networks.
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. As with last year, this year the challenge shall focus on minimizing the area of straight-line grid drawings of planar graphs.
In addition, we are allowing remote participation for those unable to attend the conference itself.

Submissions

Submissions for all categories, except for the Challenge, must be received by midnight September 20 and should include the following information:

Names and email addresses of the contributors,
A picture (or movie) illustrating the graph (graphs),
A brief description of the graph, how it was generated, and its relevance to the problem or the graph drawing community.

Electronic submissions 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. Acceptable electronic formats include PDF and PostScript for static images. For dynamic graphs or animations, please use mpg or avi files. Movies should be made using standard codecs.

All contest submissions should be sent to

Christian Duncan
Computer Science Program
Louisiana Tech University
P. O. Box 10348
Ruston, LA 71272-0046, USA
Christian.Duncan(at)acm.org

Contest Committee

Christian A. Duncan (Chair), Louisiana Tech University
Stephen G. Kobourov, University of Arizona
Georg Sander, ILOG

Questions or comments should be sent to Christian.Duncan(at)acm.org