Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP'15)

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2015) which was organized and sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE VGTC and IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. The proceedings here published, demonstrate new and innovative solutions, and highlight technical problems in each field that are challenging and worthwhile. GRAPP 2015 was organized to promote a discussion forum between researchers, developers, manufactures and end-users, about the conferences research topics and to establish guidelines in the development of more advanced solutions. We received a high number of paper submissions for this edition of GRAPP, 93 in total, with contributions from all five continents which attest to the success and global dimension of GRAPP. To evaluate each submission, we used a double-blind evaluation method and each paper was reviewed by at least three experts. At least three experts were from the International Program Committee. Among them the Primary expert was in charge of leading a discussion together with all the reviewers of the papers in order to propose an initial recommendation to the Area chairs and Program Chairs. The Area Chairs and Program Chairs made the final selection. In the end, 16 papers were selected for publication as full papers; 16 papers were accepted for short presentation and 28 were accepted for poster presentation. The result was an oral-paper acceptance ratio of 34% and a high-quality program that is attractive to experts from the Computer Graphics area. We hope that these Conference Proceedings, submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI, may help the Computer Graphics community to find Inspiring research work. Furthermore, a short list of presented papers will be selected to be expanded into a forthcoming book of VISIGRAPP Selected Papers to be published by Springer during 2015 in the CCIS series. All papers presented at this conference will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The conference schedule included a Doctoral Consortium which will certainly provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field. Moreover, we are proud to inform that the program also includes four plenary keynote lectures, given by internationally distinguished researchers, namely Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), Daniel Thalmann (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Gerik Scheuermann (Universtät Leipzig, Germany) and Mauro Barni (Universita` di Siena, Italy), thus contributing to increase the overall quality of the conference and to provide a deeper understanding of the conference interest fields. Finally, we would like to express our thanks, first of all, to the authors of the technical papers, whose work and dedication made possible to put together a program that we believe very exciting and of high technical quality. Next, we would like to thank all the members of the program committee and auxiliary reviewers, who helped us with their expertise and time. The area chairs namely Roland Geraerts, Arjan Egges, Tobias Ritschel and Jérôme Grosjean, had a crucial and most essential role in the conference and therefore they also deserve a big thank you. We would also like to thank the invited speakers for their invaluable contribution and for sharing their vision in their talks. Special thanks should be addressed to the INSTICC Steering Committee, and organizing team whose invaluable work made possible this event. We wish you all an exciting conference and an unforgettable stay in Berlin, Germany. We hope to meet you again for the next edition of GRAPP, details of which are available at http://www.grapp.visigrapp.org

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Board's diversity and the recognition of integrated reports: Are they related?

This paper investigates the influence of Board of Directors’ diversity on the external reputation of highly Integrated Reports, using a set of international entities. Globalization and competitive environment lead companies to diversify their responsibilities to stakeholders and to the society as a whole. Notwithstanding the need to prepare reports to providers of capital, companies currently must report to a broader audience than shareholders, capturing the attention of several categories of stakeholders. They want to know why, where and how companies create and add value, and how they deal with responsibility and sustainability issues. While an increasingly number of entities are disclosing sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) information, there is still little connection between such information, financial information, performance and value creation strategy. This gap has been over debate, and Integrated Reporting () has emerged. Still voluntary in almost all the world, it is indeed gradually encouraged and supported by regulators, institutional investors and organizations, as an innovative nature in promoting a holistic and integrated vision of the company, where the Board of Directors must play an important role (defining strategies, promoting policies and implementing best practices). The main issue we address is whether different characteristics of Directors seated on the Board impact on the external decision to consider the Integrated Report of that company as a Recognized, instead of a Regular one. Differences between Reference and Regular are supported in the attribution of a premium by external parties, or on the independent recommendation to serve as benchmark. Our sample includes 377 entities all over the world identified as preparers, from whom people expect to be accountable for the transparency of their external communication process. Main findings reveal that while the role duality of the CEO has a negative influence, the board size, the independence of the board and the gender diversity are positively contributing to the diffusion of integrated reports of higher recognition, and Experience is not statistical significant. The results are maintained when institutional characteristics of the countries are included.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio