January 2010 - Infovis

Extended deadline (28th Jan) for call for chapter proposals for CSE Handbook
by Jo Leng 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

The *Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline* is *extended* to the *28th of January 2010*. We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the contribution of chapters to the *“Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”*. This is a short call suggesting some possible topics. You are, however, not limited to these topics. Please feel free to propose any topics that you think are critical issues in the theme. A full call is at http://www.cse-book.com/call/index.html Please forward this call to colleagues and those with an interest in CSE. *--------------- RECOMMENDED TOPICS:* Contributions are invited from experts in CSE who have specialist knowledge of numerical methods, hpc, visualization, developing/using domain specific applications, project management, policy making, security, education and the sociological issues to do with its adoption, organisation, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary nature. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: -- *Hardware trends:* trends in computer architecture, trends in chip architecture, chip architecture and the suitability for particular problem types, IO trends and the affect on the IO bottleneck, optimisation of architecture for particular problem types -- *Numerical methods:* the use and development of numerical methods for particular applications, optimisation for interactivity (levels of detail), evaluation of numerically based software, porting numerical software -- *Programming paradigms:* new languages, changing demands for languages -- *Visualization:* review the state of the art of well known application areas, new applications to visualization, design and development, user assessment, collaborative environments, computational steering, visualization in interactive physics (simulation as a part of virtual reality and games) -- *Software development tools and practices:* review of the tools available for parallel code development and optimisation (challenges and open-source options) , review of CASE tools for serial code development (challenges and open-source options), “best practice,” the importance of standards and accreditation -- *Case studies:* state of the art applications, new applications to CSE, moving from serial to parallel, evaluation including comparing real results to computational results, computation in design, prototype engineering, the use of visualization, the use of collaborative working environments, eScience (CSE delivered through the GRID and/or Web) -- *Organisational and sociological issues: *communicating science to the public, security (both computer and socially), multi-disciplinary and/or international practices in collaborative code development , multi-disciplinary and/or international issues in the evaluation of results and allocation of success to each party, exploration of the sociological factors affecting multi-disciplinary collaboration, technology transfer of the CSE method, technology transfer of computational (numerical) methods across disciplines that use CSE, technology transfer of visualization across disciplines that use CSE, opportunities for training and skill development *--------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: * Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *January 28, 2010,* a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Details on how to submit are given at *http://www.cse-book.com/submission/index.html*. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *February 7, 2010* and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *August 15, 2010*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at editor(a)cse-book.com.

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GeoVA(T) - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time (new deadline: 28/01/2010)
by Andrienko 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

********* New deadline ***************** * * * Thursday, the 28th of January, 2010 * * * **************************************** ________________________________________________________________________ Dear colleagues, For the forthcoming workshop GeoVA(T): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time we are pleased to announce the keynote talk Title: Space and Time: Research Opportunities in Two Critical Foundations of Visual Analytics by Jim Thomas AAAS, PNNL Fellow Senior Science Advisor National Visualization and Analytics Center, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory President and CEO DiscoverVisualAnalytics LLC Short Bio Jim Thomas is American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow and Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with over 35 years of experience. He is founder and past Director of a Department of Homeland Security National Visualization and Analytics Center and the science of visual analytics. He is considered the father for visual analytics and specializes in the research, design, and implementation of innovative information and analytic visualization, multimedia, and human computer interaction technology; however, he has a broad working knowledge of information technology. Some of the recent technologies developed have set a new stage for the visualization of masses of multimedia information sources with several publications, patents, digital media with recent publications being widely referenced and re-printed. He received the Christopher Columbus award for science innovation supporting homeland security in the US Capital Oct 13, 2009. Jim has led teams in text, numerical, image and video, temporal and geospatial analysis for massive information spaces. He has received several international science awards including "Top 100 Scientific Innovators" (Science Digest) and twice the Research and Development's Industrial Research 100 Significant Scientific and Industry Accomplishments "Top 100 Innovators in Science and Industry". In addition, twice he was awarded the Federal Laboratories Consortium Technology Transfer Award for innovation in transferring research technology to industry and universities. Best regards, Gennady, on behalf of the workshop organizers P.S. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (up to 4-pages PDF, IEEE VisWeek style) is January 28, 2010 Workshop Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 Conference management system: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVAT2010/ ____________________________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and ____________________________________________________________ ---------------------- Call for papers ------------------------------- GeoVA(T): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 Workshop at AGILE http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt/ , 11 May 2010, and special issue of IJGIS - Int J GIScience http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/13658816.html tentative publication date: September 2010 The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on - Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference, - Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008, - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008. Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers, were published as special issues of - IJGIS, 2007, v.21(8), 2007 - Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4) - CaGIS, 2009, v.36 (3) The theme for the workshop and this special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing methods. The workshop will provide participants with the possibility to present ongoing and developing work without committing to a full journal paper. The journal special issue will provide participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in a refereed journal. Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive analysis of large data sets representing: - individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces - dynamics of geo-localised sensor data - spatio-temporal events - remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal - large high-dimensional data sets in space and time - streams of spatio-temporal data as well as - models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics - knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes - application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems Organizers and Guest Editors: ----------------------------- Gennady and Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Menno-Jan Kraak, and Heidrun Schumann ICA Commission on GeoVisualization, http://geoanalytics.net/ica Supported by: ------------- - VisMaster - Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (FET-Open Coordination Action) http://www.vismaster.eu - SPP VA - Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis Systems of Complex Information Spaces (DFG Priority Research Program) http://www.visualanalytics.de/ - MODAP - Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (FET-Open Coordination Action) http://www.modap.org - MOVE - Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (COST-Action IC0903) http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=177&action_number=IC0903 Paper submission and selection procedure: ----------------------------------------- - January 28, 2010 - submission of extended abstracts. Authors should submit extended abstracts (PDF, up to 4 pages in IEEE VisWeek format, see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html for formatting details) via the conference management system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVAT2010/ AND send a message to GeoVA2010 at geoanalytics dot net. Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome, they should be included to the PDF. Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the abstract into a full paper for the special issue - February 15, 2010 - Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors - April 16, 2010 - Full papers for the special issue are submitted - May 11, 2010, Guimaraes, Portugal - authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion - May 25, 2010 - Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue - June 25, 2010 - Deadline for submitting revised papers and responding to reviewer’s comments - July 12, 2010 - final notifications - September 2010 (tentative) - special issue published Please send all inquiries to Dr. Gennady Andrienko at GeoVA2010(a)geoanalytics.net Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 Conference management system: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVAT2010/ ________________________________________________________________________

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Extended deadline (21st Jan) for call for chapter proposals for CSE Handbook
by Jo Leng 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

The *Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline* has been *extended* to the *28th of January 2010*. We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the contribution of chapters to the *“Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”*. The following outline identifies objectives for this manuscript collection, as well as suggestion of some possible topics on which you may wish to contribute. You are, however, not limited to these topics. Please feel free to propose any topics that you think are critical issues in the theme. Please forward this call to colleagues and those with an interest in CSE. *--------------- INTRODUCTION:* CSE is an emerging, rapidly developing, and potentially very significant force in changing scientific practice by offering a ‘third way’ of carrying out research in addition to, or indeed, instead of, theory and experiment. This handbook will provide a basic reference text for the fundamental elements making up CSE and showing their interdependence in a way that (a) reviews state of the art and current achievements; (b) explores imminent developments that will advance the state of play; and (c) presents these in a form accessible to as wide an audience of interested parties as possible. Since this handbook is produced in a time of transition, it will invite key figures to evaluate the state of play in their specialist areas and to identify main lines of future development, attempting to survey the critical elements in CSE, ranging from fundamental technological developments, through pioneering applications of computational sciences to the impact on the organisational infrastructure of scientific research, particularly with respect to the level and integration of the multiple resources and competences involved in a way that alerts readers to the hurdles facing further development of computational science in their discipline, as well its advantages. Over time the techniques used in CSE have broadened as more academic disciplines use computers as research tools. While social scientists are still not great users of academic HPC services or CSE, there is an adoption pathway from the natural sciences through the humanities to the social sciences and arts in the western world via central government’s funding for the development of eScience. Equally, there is an adoption pathway from the developed world to the developing world. In a world of globalised Internet access amongst researchers, CSE is, from the beginning, a means of inter- and multi-national research collaboration. Equally, by its very nature, CSE involves interdisciplinary collaboration in order to produce meaningful results, often between computational specialists and different scientific disciplines. *--------------- OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK: * This handbook is timely, since the development of computing and its application in the sciences are undergoing paradigm shifts and CSE is achieving takeoff. Until the present, however, much of the discussion about and understanding of CSE has been confined to high performance computing (HPC) and its concern with disseminating the use of the latest developments in computer hardware; but the situation is changing and there is a need to familiarise a much wider audience with a much wider range of issues in CSE which can be done through the handbook’s twinned emphasis on theory and practice. The handbook aims at a comprehensive and organised survey of the state of research in CSE. The chapters should be designed to report on advanced developments, but, as this is such a cross-disciplinary field, the contributors are not expected to be writing exclusively to people within their own specialisms, so whilst one reader can usefully consult the book for up-to-date work in their own specialism, it is important that readers outside that specialism can also access its contents as a means of understanding the topography of computational science and guiding the reader to sources of more advanced understandings. Each chapter should clearly focus on the research role of computational science, but be framed into the context of the book, which is meant to capture the architecture of computational science. In this way, the handbook will discuss the field of computational science rather than the research outputs of the various disciplines that currently use the methodology which are diffuse, reported separately, and largely not read by those interested in the general field. *--------------- TARGET AUDIENCE: * This handbook is designed to act as an information source for those largely unfamiliar with the nature and potential of computational science or those involved in the low-end who wish to up their game. It aims to be of use to research decision makers as well as to scientific researchers, making them aware of the nature and range of developments now under way, allowing the reader to understand long term implications of early technology choices that may later create problems that will be difficult to rectify. It will also act to familiarise those in computational disciplines with the ways in which their skills and interests interface with scientific work, enabling research beginners to understand what computational resources and technologies can be applied in their field, and how these are currently being exploited in cutting edge work. Equally, it alerts research scientists to the priorities and concerns of computational specialists. Although many key developments are now concentrated in the most advanced industrial economies such as the U.S. and Europe, the handbook will reflect the extent to which CSE and eScience are an increasingly globalised and globalising activity. *--------------- RECOMMENDED TOPICS:* Contributions are invited from experts in CSE who have specialist knowledge of numerical methods, high performance computing, visualization, developing/using domain specific applications, project management, policy making, security, education and the sociological issues to do with its adoption, organisation, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary nature. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: -- *Hardware trends:* trends in computer architecture, trends in chip architecture, chip architecture and the suitability for particular problem types, IO trends and the affect on the IO bottleneck, optimisation of architecture for particular problem types -- *Numerical methods:* the use and development of numerical methods for particular applications, optimisation for interactivity (levels of detail), evaluation of numerically based software, porting numerical software -- *Programming paradigms:* new languages, changing demands for languages -- *Visualization:* review the state of the art of well known application areas, new applications to visualization, design and development, user assessment, collaborative environments, computational steering, visualization in interactive physics (simulation as a part of virtual reality and games) -- *Software development tools and practices:* review of the tools available for parallel code development and optimisation (challenges and open-source options) , review of CASE tools for serial code development (challenges and open-source options), “best practice,” the importance of standards and accreditation -- *Case studies:* state of the art applications, new applications to CSE, moving from serial to parallel, evaluation including comparing real results to computational results, computation in design, prototype engineering, the use of visualization, the use of collaborative working environments, eScience (CSE delivered through the GRID and/or Web) -- *Organisational and sociological issues: *security (both computer based and socially based), multi-disciplinary and/or international practices in collaborative code development , multi-disciplinary and/or international issues in the evaluation of results and allocation of success to each party, exploration of the sociological factors affecting multi-disciplinary collaboration, technology transfer of the CSE method, technology transfer of computational (numerical) methods across disciplines that use CSE, technology transfer of visualization across disciplines that use CSE, opportunities for training and skill development The book is directed at both the academic and non-academic audience including researchers, users, organisations, policy initiators, students and practitioners in the field, meaning that chapters should address advanced issues, but should attempt to do this in a manner accessible to non-specialists. *--------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: * Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *January 28, 2010,* a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. The web site *http://www.cse-book.com/* is dedicated to the development of this handbook and submissions will be received through this site. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *February 7, 2010* about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *August 15, 2010*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at editor(a)cse-book.com. *--------------- PUBLISHER: * This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com <http://www.igi-global.com/>. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010. *--------------- IMPORTANT DATES: * January 7, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline January 28, 2010: Extended Proposal Submission Deadline February 7, 2010: Notification of Acceptance April 30, 2010: Full Chapter Submission July 15, 2010: Review Result Returned August 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission September 15, 2010: Final deadline

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FW: Special Issue on Multimedia Analytics!
by Ribarsky, William 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Please post the following announcement right away; it is time sensitive. Thanks. Bill Ribarsky ++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW DEADLINE IS JANUARY 27. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! Call for Papers Special Issue on Multimedia Analytics IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Submission deadline: 27 Jan. 2010 Target publication date: Sep./Oct. 2010 Multimedia make up 95 percent of the digital universe, and the percentage is growing. Most of these media are unstructured or, at best, semistructured, so it's hard to retrieve, analyze, and understand their content. Multimedia are now the main components of online news, blogs, medical imagery, general picture databases, scientific data, patient or health records, and many other types of digital collections. This special issue will focus on current tools and research in this very challenging and important area. Work on video analytics, either by itself or as part of multimedia analysis, is of special interest as are exploratory interactive visualization methods. Possible topics include, but aren't limited to, · user interfaces for multimedia analysis that optimize cognition; · tools for exploring multimedia collections; · applications that categorize multimedia based on content; · capabilities to fuse multimedia content into one conceptual space; · annotation schema for multimedia analysis; · automated or social methods of annotating multimedia for improved retrieval; · image, speech, soundtrack, and text processing that supports analysis of large multimedia collections; · methods for handling real-time or streaming multimedia; · methodologies for determining originator, message, and audience impacts of multimedia; and · applications that support reporting multimedia analysis results in a multimedia format. A workshop on video analytics that was held at IEEE VisWeek 2009 (http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009) provides context for the importance of multimedia analytics and for some of these topics. We expect that a report on the outcomes of the workshop will appear in this issue of CG&A or in an issue around this time. Articles should be no more than 8,000 words, with each figure counting as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to a total of 10. You can find CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html. Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer-review coordinator at cga-ma(a)computer.org. Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors: Nancy Chinchor, nancyc(a)rccb.osis.gov; William Ribarsky, ribarsky(a)uncc.edu; and Michael Christel, christel(a)cs.cmu.edu ----------- Dr. William Ribarsky Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology Chair, Computer Science Department Director, Charlotte Visualization Center College of Computing and Informatics University of North Carolina at Charlotte www.viscenter.uncc.edu

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Post-doc position
by Guy Melançon 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a post-doc position on interactive visualization of dynamic graphs through multilevel representations. The selected candidate is expected to look at a number of issues posed by the interactive visualization of dynamic graphs, within the context of semantic graphs visualization. The problem of graph clustering is challenged and the idea of a just-in-time strategy requires to have a closer look at how neighborhoods are defined/computed for dynamic graphs. For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon at inria.fr or go to GRAVITÉ's website http://gravite.labri.fr -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 269

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