[GDNET] Call for Participation: GD Contest 2021
Philipp Kindermann
kindermann at uni-trier.de
Thu Apr 22 19:07:07 CEST 2021
Dear Graph Drawers & Network Visualizers!
the 29th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network
Visualization will (hopefully!) take place in Tübingen, Germany, from
September 14 to 17, 2021. As has been tradition since 1994, the
symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all
community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun
competitive setting. Due to the uncertainty regarding future travel and
physical meeting restrictions caused by the Corona virus outbreak, it is
possible that the contest will be held online (like last year). Details
of the exact format of the contest (onsite, online, hybrid) will be
announced around the Graph Drawing submission deadline. The contest has
two parts: the Creative Topics and the Live Challenge.
1) Live Challenge
Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held during the
symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams
are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have
approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This
year, the challenge focuses on
minimizing the planar polyline edge-length ratio on a fixed grid.
In the automatic category, teams use their own customized tools (or a
lot of manual effort) to draw the graphs. Participation in this category
can be remote regardless of how the conference is organized.
In the manual category, teams solve (smaller) instances and submit their
solutions via a dedicated tool, similar to the one used last year:
https://graphdrawingcontest.appspot.com/tool.jsp
In case that the conference will be organized in an online or hybrid
format, remote participation will also be possible in the manual category.
For more details, visit
http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2021/index.php?id=live-challenge
2) Creative Topics
For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs
that you may draw with full artistic freedom.
1. Movie Remakes
A movie remake is a production of a film that is based upon an earlier
production. A remake tells the same story as the original but uses a
different cast and may alter the theme or target audience. See [1] for
related work on this topic.
For this topic, you have the task to visualize a graph of movie remakes
by different directors. The data contains a list of directors, and pairs
of movies: the original and the remake (both with title, year, and
directors). The data has been crawled from Wikipedia and consists of 91
directors and 102 pairs of movies. You are free to decide which parts of
the data to visualize and how to visualize it.
2. Argumentation Network: The Great Devonian Controversy – A Logical
Reconstruction.
The network shows a logical reconstruction of a scientific debate among
19th century geologists, namely the Great Devonian Controversy.
The network contains 335 vertices which are of two types: statements and
arguments. Each argument has one or more sentences as premises and one
sentence as a conclusion. The network contains 1016 edges. The edges
connect statements to statements and statements to arguments.
In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like.
Submissions will be judged on a list of criteria that includes, but is
not limited to, readability, aesthetics, novelty, and design quality.
The weighting of the criteria might be different for the two graphs.
Submissions will be handled through EasyChair.
For more details, visit
http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2021/index.php?id=creative-topics
Submission deadline: September 08 (23:59 PDT)
3) Awards
We are planning to award a monetary prize to up to three submissions in
each of the four different categories.
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Best regards,
the Graph Drawing Contest Committee,
Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, and Wouter Meulemans
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