[DMANET] Call for Participation: GD Contest 2020 with Remote Live Challenge

Dear Colleagues,

the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network
Visualization will be held online from September 16 to 18 due to the
uncertainty regarding future travel and physical meeting restrictions
caused by the Corona virus outbreak. Nevertheless, as has been tradition
since 1994, the symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing
Contest, allowing all community members to demonstrate their graph
drawing skills in a fun competitive setting. The contest has two parts:
the Live Challenge and the Creative Topics.


1) Live Challenge

Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held the day
before the symposium in a format similar to a typical programming
contest. Teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and
have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings.
This year, the challenge focuses on minimizing the number of crossings
in a straight-line upward drawing on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw
the graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. This year,
remote participation will be possible for both categories!
The live challenge will take place on September 15, 2020, 09:00 PDT
To solve the instances and submit your solutions, you are provided with
a dedicated tool: https://graphdrawingcontest.appspot.com/tool.jsp
For more details, visit
http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2020/challenge.html


2) Creative Topics

For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs
that you may draw with full artistic freedom.

1. Hrafnkels Saga: This is an Icelandic saga which tells of struggles
between chieftains and farmers in the east of Iceland in the 10th
century. The provided Hrafnkel Saga Network models relationships between
the actants of the saga. This graph consists of 43 vertices and 117 edges.
2. K-Pop: K-pop, short for Korean pop, is an umbrella term for popular
music originating from South Korea. The provided K-pop network models
relations between Korean artists, bands (groups), and management &
recording companies (labels). This is a larger graph with 4675 vertices
and 5094 edges.

In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like.
Submissions will be judged on a list of criteria that includes, but is
not limited to, readability, aesthetics, novelty, and design quality.
The weighting of the criteria might be different for the two graphs.
Submissions will be handled through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=gdc2020
For more details, visit
http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2020/topics.html

Submission deadline: September 08 (23:59 PDT)


3) Awards

Due to the Corona crisis and the conference being hosted completely
online, this year there will unfortunately not be any monetary prizes
(except eternal fame on the contest website).

We are looking forward to your submissions!

Best regards,
the Graph Drawing Contest Committee,
Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, Wouter Meulemans, and Ignaz Rutter
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