The International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) is an annual academic conference

Academic conference

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 in which researchers present peer review

Peer review

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ed papers on graph drawing

Graph drawing

Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graphs arising from applications such as social network analysis, cartography, and bioinformatics...

, information visualization

Information visualization

Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth".- Overview...

 of network

Network theory

Network theory is an area of computer science and network science and part of graph theory. It has application in many disciplines including statistical physics, particle physics, computer science, biology, economics, operations research, and sociology...

 information, geometric graph theory

Geometric graph theory

In mathematics, a geometric graph is a graph in which the vertices or edges are associated with geometric objects or configurations. Geometric graph theory is a specialization of graph theory that studies geometric graphs...

, and related topics.

Significance

The Graph Drawing symposia have been central to the growth and development of graph drawing as a research area: as Herman et al. write, "the Graph Drawing community grew around the yearly Symposia." Nguyen lists Graph Drawing as one of "several good conferences which directly or indirectly concern with information visualization", and Wong et al. report that its proceedings "provide a wealth of information". In a 2003 study the symposium was among the top 30% of computer science research publication venues, ranked by impact factor

Impact factor

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.

History

The first symposium was held in Marino, near Rome

Rome

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, Italy

Italy

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, in 1992, organized by Giuseppe Di Battista, Peter Eades

Peter Eades

Peter D. Eades is an Australian computer scientist, a professor in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, known for his expertise in graph drawing....

, Pierre Rosenstiehl

Pierre Rosenstiehl

Pierre Rosenstiehl is a French mathematician at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . He is particularly active in graph theory and recognized for his work on planar graphs and graph drawing...

, and Roberto Tamassia

Roberto Tamassia

Roberto Tamassia is a computer scientist, the Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and since 2007 has been chair of the Brown Computer Science department...

. The first two symposia did not publish proceedings, but reports are available online. Since 1994, the proceedings of the symposia have been published by Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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 series.

Countries in which the conference has been held include Australia

Australia

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, Austria

Austria

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, Canada

Canada

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, the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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 (twice), Greece

Greece

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, Ireland

Ireland

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, Italy

Italy

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 (three times), and the USA (five times).

Citation data and its analysis

A graph

Graph (mathematics)

In mathematics, a graph is an abstract representation of a set of objects where some pairs of the objects are connected by links. The interconnected objects are represented by mathematical abstractions called vertices, and the links that connect some pairs of vertices are called edges...

 having vertices representing the papers in the 1994–2000 Graph Drawing symposia and having edges representing citations between these papers was made available as part of the graph drawing contest associated with the 2001 symposium.
The largest connected component of this graph consists of 249 vertices and 642 edges; clustering analysis reveals several prominent subtopics within graph drawing that are more tightly connected, including three-dimensional graph drawing and orthogonal graph drawing.

See also

• The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

External links

• graphdrawing.org, the official web site of the conference series.