[GDNET] The GDCC Wants You!

[Fabian Klute]

The GDCC Wants You!

The Graph Drawing Contest with its first occurrence 1994 is about as old as
the Graph Drawing & Network Visualization conference itself. It has run
annually since, to promote new creative designs to show graph-based data
and research into algorithms engineering for drawing graphs, but also as a
social activity at the conference itself to engage with manually solving
challenging instances. See http://www.graphdrawing.org/gdcontest for more
information and a history of the contest.

The contest committee is looking for *two* new members to bolster its ranks
for the coming years. In the current setup, this involves the following
activities:

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   Creative topics:
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      Select a topic every year, by finding interesting, real, graph-based
      datasets to be visualized.
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      Prepare the datasets for distribution
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      Evaluate submissions before the conference
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   Live challenge
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      Select a topic every other year, by defining a (usually known, hard)
      optimization problem regarding graph drawing
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      Prepare the contest instances, manual solving tool, submission server
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      Enjoy teams struggling to find the perfect solution to that one
      instance
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   General
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      Promote the graph drawing contest, maintain the website, etc.
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      Announce winners at the conference banquet
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      Think about how the contest may evolve in the future



The ideal* candidate contributes to all these activities, takes initiatives
for new ideas and topics, always attends the conference, and can serve on
the committee for approximately four years. *of course, no one is perfect!

If you are interested in helping us run this tradition at our conference,
please send us an email at gdnvcontest at gmail.com with a brief motivation.

Deadline for applications is November 17th.

We are looking forward to your application!

Best regards,

The GD contest committee

- Fabian Klute

- Wouter Meulemans

- Debajyoti Mondal
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