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Symposium on GEOMETRIC DESIGN
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COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGING 2000 (CGIM 2000)
NOVEMBER 19-23, 2000
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
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SPONSOR

The International Association of Science and Technology for Development
(IASTED)
- IASTED Technical Committee on Computer Graphics and Imaging


LOCATION

Las Vegas offers a variety of entertainment options, including shopping
malls, museums, amusement parks, Broadway shows and casinos. In fact,
tourists often find themselves so awed by the spectacular Strip and downtown
sights that many of them forget there is life, culture and a strong sense of
community just minutes away from the main visitor areas. Las Vegas has its
own curious history as reflected by its museums, monuments and other sites.
Just outside of Las Vegas you will find some of the world's most magnificent
sites: the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and Hoover Dam. All of these sites are
accessible by car or bus.


Symposium Aims and Scope:
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Computer Aided techniques for geometric design are extremely useful tools in
a number of industrial settings. Specifically, the application of geometry
to current problems of designing and manufacturing have grown at a large
scale. In addition to its critical importance in the traditional fields of
automobile and aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding, and general product
design, more recently, the CAGD methods have also proven to be indispensable
in a variety of modern industries, including computer vision, robotics,
medical imaging, visualisation, and even media.

The purpose of the Geometric Design symposium within this conference is to
focus on interdisciplinary methods and affiliate research done among various
disciplines with the goal of stimulating views and providing a forum where
researchers and practitioners can discuss the latest developments linked to
Computer Graphics and Imaging.

Papers presenting original research with the theme of "Geometric Design" are
being sought. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

** Curve and Surface Design
** Visualization
** Computer Graphics
** Geometric Modeling
** Geometric Algorithms
** Manufacturing Geometry
** Computational Geometry
** Reverse Engineering
** Solid Modeling
** Computer Aided Design (CAD)
** Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
** Character Design
** Multiresolution Methods
** Geometric Transformations
** Mesh Processing
** Shape Abstraction and Modeling
** Shape Analysis and Description
** Industrial Applications

The International Program Committee and the Technical Committee on Computer
Graphics and Imaging will make all decisions concerning the acceptance of
papers. Send your submission via email to [log in to unmask] by April 15,
2000. Please send electronic attachments in MS Word (.doc) or (.ps/.pdf)
formats. The full papers submitted for review should be no more than ten
(10) pages in length. Be sure to include references with your paper.

Please provide four keywords to indicate the subject areas of the paper with
at least one keyword from the list given under conference scope. Include a
statement in your cover letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one
of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Please indicate the
corresponding author, and provide the full names, affiliations, full mailing
addresses (including postal codes), telephone numbers, fax numbers, and
email addresses of all authors. Notification of acceptance will be emailed,
and all other author information will be available on the conference webpage
by June 15, 2000. Registration payments and camera-ready manuscripts are due
August 15, 2000. Papers may be excluded from the proceedings if registration
fees are not received by that date. Please send final manuscripts by email.
Do not send both hard and electronic copies of the final manuscript.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

June 22, 2000 Submissions due
August 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance
October 1, 2000 Registrations and camera-ready manuscripts due

For more information visit the Conference Website:
http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2000/lasvegas/cgim.htm

All inquiries should be addressed to:

Dr Muhammad Sarfraz
GD (CGIM)-2000
Department of Information and Computer Science
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
KFUPM # 1510, Dhahran 31261
Saudi Arabia.
Tel: +966-3-860-2763
Fax: +966-3-860-2174
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