title: Visualization research is growing and expanding.
abstract: Visualization has become an increasingly active area of research because of its usefulness in a wide range of applications. This special issue features invited articles from PacificVis 2008 and highlights the state of the art in visualization algorithms, systems, and applications.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. ma@cs.ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Kwan-Liu
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Issei
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fujishiro
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li