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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">*** Call for Papers: Diagrams 2021 ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">12<sup>th</sup> International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">September 28 – 30, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Virtual Event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">www.diagrams-conference.org/2021</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">*** Highlights ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- FREE REGISTRATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Proceedings published by Springer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Three Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Graduate Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Submission dates in April 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of
 diagrams and has a multidisciplinary emphasis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">For 2021, *MAIN TRACK* conference topics include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">– applications of diagrams,<br>
– computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams,<br>
– design of diagrammatic notations,<br>
– diagram understanding by humans or machines,<br>
– diagram aesthetics and layout,– evaluation of diagrammatic notations,<br>
– graphical communication and literacy,<br>
– heterogeneous notations involving diagrams,<br>
– history of diagrammatic notations,<br>
– information visualization using diagrams,<br>
– nature of diagrams and diagramming,<br>
– novel technologies for diagram use,<br>
– reasoning with diagrams,<br>
– semiotics of diagrams,<br>
– software to support the use of diagrams, and<br>
– usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In addition to the main track, Diagrams 2021 will have two further tracks: Philosophy, and Psychology and Education; for
 their topics of interest, see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/main-track/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/main-track/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/philosophy/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/philosophy/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/psychology-of-diagrams/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/psychology-of-diagrams/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">If the main research contribution of your submission is considered to fit either of the other tracks then you are strongly
 encouraged to submit to the respective special track, each of which has a dedicated program committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Authors of accepted submissions will be expected to be in attendance at the virtual conference to present their research
 and respond to questions presented by delegates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The conference will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside a graduate symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We invite submissions for peer review that focus on any aspect of diagrams research, as follows:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Long Papers (16 pages),
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Abstracts (3 pages),
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Short Papers (8 pages),
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Posters (4 pages – this is both a maximum and minimum requirement).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">More details and all important dates can be found on at
</span><a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">www.diagrams-conference.org/2021</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AEAAAA;mso-fareast-language:DA">________________________________</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AEAAAA;mso-fareast-language:DA">Mikkel Willum Johansen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AEAAAA;mso-fareast-language:DA">Associate professor</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AEAAAA;mso-fareast-language:DA">Department of Science Education</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AEAAAA;mso-fareast-language:DA">University of Copenhagen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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