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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 24 May 2010 --


IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010
Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
(http://www.web3dw-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2010)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Yukako Yagi, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

* Conference background and goals
This conference addresses important topics of today like education, health, corporate image and make customers feel at home at your internet site.
Virtual reality already proved its superiority in involving the user. Indeed, medical, defense, architecture and even the car industry managed to increase learning effects and sensation.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Themes related to educational or edutainment web3DW, are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

- Web3D in education, health and energy
- Innovative 3D graphics applications for Web/Multimedia in industry, science, medicine, and education
- Geometric Modeling
- Methods for modeling and rendering complex geometry, structure and behaviors
- Virtual Reality
- Graphical User Interface
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer (Educational) Games
- User-interface paradigms and interaction methods for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computational Geometry
- Natural Phenomena Modeling
- GPU and Graphics Systems
- Data Representation
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- Scientific Visualization
- Information Visualization
- Visualization Algorithms
- Software Visualization
- Terrain Visualization
- Flow Visualization
- Interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems
- High-performance 3D graphics
- Animated humanoids (avatars)

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (1st call extension): 24 May 2010
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 14 June 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call extension): Until 30 June 2010
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 30 June 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@web3DW-conf.org
Web site: http://www.web3dw-conf.org/

* Program Committee
WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 Program Chair
Tomaz Amon, Amnim, Center for Scientific Visualization, Ljubljana, Slovenia

General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.web3D-conf.org/committees.asp