Excerpt from Conference Proceedings 2003

Introduction 
We welcome you you to the tenth annual conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, originally the conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis. Over the last few years we have made many changes to the conference and seen it develop and grow. For example, we now require extended abstracts to be submitted.

Moreover, the number of submissions continues to rise, as does the quality of the submissions and thus the rejection rate has increased.

This year we received just under sixty submissions of which 26 appear here as full papers. A further seven papers appear in the proceedings that were presented as posters. As well as the papers presented here there were two invited talks. The first invited talk was by Craig Wittenbrink (NVidia) who discussed "Visual Computing Architectures" and looked at the architecture and impact of current and future PC graphics architectures. The second talk was by Katy Borner (Indiana University) who spoke about "Visualizing Knowledge Domains". Both invited talks were extremely well attended and received.

The regular contributions to the conference consisted of papers falling into the following categories: applications, biomedical visualization, algorithms, visualization techniques, volume visualization, Internet and web-based visualizations, interaction techniques, large scale data visualization, and scientific visualization. The breadth and diversity of this conference both in terms of the participants and the range of papers is phenomenal and has led to a very unique and exciting environment.

We owe the success of this conference to many, from the members of the program committee who agreed to review a large number of papers, to the outside reviewers without whom the conference would never have taken place, and finally to the authors who are the backbone of the conference.

We hope you enjoy these proceedings and will submit in the coming years. Only with your support can we continue to enjoy the success we have seen in the past few years. In return we promise to provide you with an exciting and high quality conference.

Conference Chairs: 
Robert F. Erbacher, Philip C. Chen, Jonathan C. Roberts, Matti Grohn, Katy Borner

Past Conferences

Paper by Philip Chen
P. C. Chen, "Developing A Personal Computer-Based Data Visualization System Using Public Domain Software." IS&T/SPIE 99 Proceedings, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VI, San Jose, California, January 1999.

Papers by Jonathan C. Roberts
Multiple-View and Multiform Visualization. Jonathan C. Roberts. In Robert Erbacher, Alex Pang, Craig Wittenbrink, and Jonathan Roberts, editors, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VII, Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3960, pages 176-185. IS&T and SPIE, January 2000. http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/pubs/2000/963/index.html

Piecewise Linear Hypersurfaces using the Marching Cubes Algorithm. Jonathan C. Roberts and Steve Hill. In Robert F. Erbacher and Alex Pang, editors, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VI, Proceedings of SPIE,, volume 3643, pages 170-181. IS&T and SPIE, January 1999. http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/pubs/1999/700/index.html

On Encouraging Coupled Views for Visualization Exploration. Jonathan C. Roberts. In Robert F. Erbacher and Alex Pang, editors, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VI, Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3643, pages 14-24. IS&T and SPIE, January 1999. 
http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/pubs/1999/697/index.html 

Papers by Craig M. Wittenbrink and Others
Papers Published at SPIE Conferences and Available on-line as HP Technical Reports:

* PermWeb: remote parallel and distributed volume visualization, Craig M. Wittenbrink, K. Kim, Jeremy Story, A. Pang, K. Hollerbach, N. Max. In Proceedings of SPIE Visual Data Exploration and Analysis IV, SPIE's Electronic Imaging `97, Feb. 1997, San Jose, CA, pages 100-110. Also available as Technical Report, HPL-97-34 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 1997.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/97/HPL-97-34.html

Data dependent optimizations for permutation volume rendering, Craig M. Wittenbrink and K. Kim, In the Proceedings of SPIE Visual Data Exploration and Analysis V, SPIE's Electronic Imaging `98, Feb. 1998, San Jose, CA, pages 284-294. Supercedes Technical Report, UCSC-CRL-96-24, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996. Also available as Technical Report, HPL-97-59R1 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, Mar. 1997 
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/97/HPL-97-59R1.html

Irregular grid volume rendering with composition networks, Craig M. Wittenbrink, In the Proceedings of SPIE Visual Data Exploration and Analysis V, SPIE's Electronic Imaging `98, Feb. 1998, San Jose, CA, pages 250-260. Also available as Technical Report, HPL-97-51, HPL-97-51R1 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, Mar. 1997
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/97/HPL-97-51R1.htm