9TH EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP
                            on
                  ANIMATION and SIMULATION
                            --
                   Call for Contributions
                            --
               August 31st - September 1st, 1998

                       Lisbon, Portugal


    ** final approval pending **


AIMS AND SCOPE:

The Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation is an
international forum of high quality where researchers representing the
animation and simulation communities come together to exchange
knowledge and experience related to the general themes of modeling,
animation, motion control, motion capture, simulation, and
visualization of dynamic scenes. The main topics of interest include:

        - motion control
        - temporal coherence
        - animator interfaces
        - graphical simulation
        - behavioral animation
        - physically based modeling
        - flight and driving simulators
        - real time animation/simulation
        - animation languages and systems
        - software and hardware for animation
        - motion blur and temporal antialiasing
        - motion capture analysis for animation
        - simulation of dynamic natural phenomena
        - character animation, human animation, synthetic actors
        - cooperation between motion analysis and motion synthesis

Moreover, this year's workshop proposes to the authors to comment on
the following theme of interest in their contribution :

        " Virtual Reality versus Animation and Simulation:
          from real time animation/simulation to physical perception of
   virtual environments "

A theme that ties together the problem of interactive animation and
simulation
and the virtual reality concepts.


CONTRIBUTIONS:

Authors are invited to send seven copies of the full paper (max 12
pages) to the workshop secretariat (see below for relevant
deadlines).  Papers submitted after the deadline will be considered,
but will be given lower priority for inclusion in the programme.

SCHEDULE:

May 11          : deadline for full paper

June 16          : notification of acceptance for the workshop

July 1           : deadline for camera ready papers

August 31 - September 1    : workshop


LOCATION AND ORGANIZATION:

The workshop, an activity of the Eurographics Working Group on
Animation and Simulation, will be held at Lisbon (Portugal)
before the annual Eurographics Conference. The local organizer is
Mario Rui Gomes (mrg@inesc.pt). Non-presenters are
welcome, but the workshop is limited to about 60 participants.
Extended discussions will be planned after each session.
Full versions of all papers will be submitted for publication of
a book to EUROGRAPHICS Series Editors. The workshop proceedings
will appear at least as a Eurographics Technical Report distributed
to the participants.


The attendance fees will be about 215 SF for EG members and 360 SF
for non-EG members. The fees will cover the cost of the meeting
facilities, as well as two lunches and a copy of the proceedings for
each participant. Accomodation is not incuded.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

Gerard Hegron (France), Bruno Arnaldi (France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bruno Arnaldi (France),
Norman Badler (USA),
Robert Bodenheimer (USA),
Ronan Boulic (Switzerland),
Michael Cohen (USA),
Sabine Coquillart (France),
Marie-Paule Cani-Gascuel (France),
Gerard Hegron (France),
Annie Luciani (France),
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Switzerland),
Daniel Thalmann (Switzerland),
Michiel Van de Panne (Canada),
Kees van Overveld (The Netherlands),
Phil Willis (UK),


SEND FULL PAPERS to

Pr Bruno Arnaldi
IRISA
Campus de Beaulieu
35043 Rennes Cedex
France
Email: arnaldi@irisa.fr