VL/HCC 2022: Call for Research Papers
(Apologies for multiple postings)
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
>>> 12-16 September 2022 <<<
Rome, Italy
https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Research Papers:
(all deadlines are 23:59, AoE)
>>> Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022
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IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2022
From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge.
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people.
The 2022 symposium is scheduled to take place September 12-16 in Rome, Italy.
Our special emphasis for 2022 is Human-Centric AI. VL/HCC 2022 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC).
VL/HCC is indexed in Scopus, DBLP, IEEE Explore, WoS.
The Symposium is planned to be in presence. In any case, we are monitoring the Covid situation and will act according to decisions of the authorities to insure the safest and widest participation.
We look forward to your participation in VL/HCC!
Paolo Bottoni, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair
Gennaro Costagliola, VL/HCC 2022 General Co-Chair
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Scope and Topics
We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies for modeling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes technologies intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains).
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
If you are not sure if your paper is a good fit for VL/HCC, feel free to email the PC Co-chairs (see “Contacts” below). We welcome those new to the VL/HCC community to submit!
Special Emphasis for 2022: Human-Centric AI
This year’s special topic is “Human-Centric AI”. As AI and explainable AI (XAI) experience explosive growth, many questions arise about how to ensure that tools and explanations for AI fit the needs of the broad populations they need to serve. This year, we especially welcome papers at VL/HCC that design, build, or evaluate technologies involving or relating to human-centric AI and issues of human-centric AI, such as trust and fairness.
Paper submissions
We invite two kinds of papers:
Papers must be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference paper format.
Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated in 2019), and to select the “US letter” template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
>>> Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system. <<<
>>> The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2022 <<<
To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper submission deadline (see Important Deadlines above).
The abstract must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the abstract in the submitted paper. The abstract must be no longer than 250 words.
All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete, self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more extensive than those from short papers. Work-in-progress, which has not yet yielded a contribution, should be submitted to the Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee in a single blind review process. Authors will then receive the reviews for their submissions and will be able to answer them in a rebuttal phase. Only after this step the PC will make a final decision about the acceptance of the submissions. Submissions and reviews for the technical program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2022 and present the paper at the conference. There will be a virtual presentation option in case of travel restrictions. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.
The proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC are published in digital form by the IEEE Computer Science Society and archived in the IEEE Digital Library with an official ISBN number. Accepted papers will be available to conference attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/).
Evaluation and Justification
Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate evidence. For example, a paper that claims to improve programmer productivity is expected to demonstrate improved productivity; a paper that claims to be easier to use should demonstrate increased ease of use.
However, not all claims necessarily need to be supported with empirical evidence or studies with people. For example, a paper that claims to make something feasible that was clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim through the existence of a functioning prototype.
Moreover, there are many alternatives to empirical evidence that may be appropriate for justifying claims, including analytical methods, formal arguments or case studies. Given this criterion, we encourage potential authors to think carefully about what claims their submission makes and what evidence would adequately support these claims. In addition, we expect short papers to have less comprehensive evaluation than long papers.
Special Issue of The Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)
A select number of accepted papers will also be invited to optionally submit a revised and extended paper to a special issue of the Journal of Computer Languages (COLA). These papers will also go through the journal’s normal reviewing process. Papers accepted at both would appear both in the proceedings for VL/HCC 2022 and in COLA. Further instructions regarding formatting and the review/publication process will be provided when the invitations are made.
More information about COLA is available here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computer-languages
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VL/HCC 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chair
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
General Co-Chair
Gennaro Costagliola, University of Salerno, Italy
Program Co-Chair
Michelle Brachman, IBM Research, United States
Program Co-Chair
Mark Minas, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Publicity & Social Media Chair
Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Finance Chair
Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Publications Chair
Kim Monch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Web Chair
Mattia De Rosa, University of Salerno, Italy
Graduate Consortium Co-Chair
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Graduate Consortium Co-Chair,
Thomas LaToza, George Mason University, United States
Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair
Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy
Tutorial and Workshop Co-Chair
Vittorio Fuccella, University of Salerno, Italy
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Contacts
PC Co-Chairs:
For more information or any queries, please see our website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022