Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Section on InfoVis

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on InfoVis

THREE papers in this issue of TVCG are expanded versions of ones presented at the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2003. These examples convey the breadth of work in the InfoVis community, attacking practically motivated problems from sophisticated mathematical and scientific perspectives. They demonstrate an interaction technique for navigation, a mathematically well-found...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Intelligent Data Preparation

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Section on Virtual Reality

IN this special section, we are pleased to present extended versions of four outstanding papers that were originally presented at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2006 Conference (VR 2006). IEEE Virtual Reality is the premier international conference on all aspects of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. The conference program at VR 2006 consisted of nine sessions on the following topics: perception,...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on ACM VRST

THE ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (ACM VRST) Symposium is an annual conference devoted to the technical aspects of virtual reality that was first started in 1994. The ACM VRST 2010 was the 17th conference in the series. This special section contains the extended versions of four of the best papers from the ACM VRST 2010. The selection of these four papers was done by the guest edi...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Autonomic Network Computing

IN the paper “Slicing Distributed Systems,” Gramoli et al. consider the problem of slicing—the partitioning of nodes into subsets using an one-dimensional attribute—in distributed systems. This problem arises in peer-to-peer networks and other popular distributed systems used in today’s large data centers. Slicing can help autonomic systems shift work dynamically among nodes and react dynamical...