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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Call for participation</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20.0pt">: Graph Drawing Contest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm">The 30th Annual Graph Drawing Contest shall be held in conjunction with the
<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgd2023.ing.unipg.it%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cd00a0a8f3f2c4cda0c3208db0b5bac83%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C1%7C0%7C638116260586669979%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=iZ4%2B9DLiEIUzL%2BBcdAL3wdT2%2FnVeOwMlMhsmjI8mH04%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">
31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2023)</a>. The contest has two parts: the Creative Topic and the Live Challenge.<span lang="EN-US"> They are briefly described below -- details on both contests can be found on the
contest webpage:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/2023/">http://www.graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/2023/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Creative Topic</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm">The creative topic is provided a year in advance and focusses on free-form visualisation of a specific graph. Participants are invited to submit a creative drawing of this graph that evokes exploration and understanding the graph. The
submissions will be judged by the contest committee. This year’s topic is Boardgame Recommendations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Live Challenge</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm">The live challenge will be held during the conference (<i>exact date and time to be announced</i>) 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 (either created manually, or automatically). This year the challenge will focus on minimizing crossings, when drawing a graph by assigning its vertices to a given set of locations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Awards</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm">Awards will be given to the top submissions in each of the contests.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt">Contest committee</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Philipp Kindermann (Universität Trier)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Fabian Klute (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Tamara Mchedlidze (Utrecht University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Wouter Meulemans (</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">chair,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">TU Eindhoven)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Debajyoti Mondal (University of Saskatchewan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The contest committee can be reached at
<a href="mailto:gdnvcontest@gmail.com" target="_blank">gdnvcontest@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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