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Cfp: IJWET -- Special Issue on Visualization and Integration on the Web
by Alessandro Bozzon 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S IJWET -- Special Issue on Visualization and Integration on the Web Journal Website: http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1093&detailst… **************************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING (IJITWE) SPECIAL ISSUE ON Visualization and Integration on the Web *SUBMISSION DUE DATE*: August 20, 2011 Aims and Scope -------------- Recent years witnessed a proliferation of semi-structured, structured, and semantically annotated data on the Web: an increasing amount of individuals, public organization and enterprises, is currently publishing information for free usage. The nature and the abundance of such structured data shifts the nature of user interactions, where models based on navigation of documents are replaced by paradigms that leverage the exploration of object repositories; in such a context, providing a satisfactory user experience has proven to be a challenging task for application developers. In addition, as the richness and value of data also increases, Web applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. Contextually, the availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as mash-up platforms ‚Äì has offered to developers (and to end users) several means for the integration of such data, enabling novel applications and business scenario. The usage of the Web as a common publication, mediation, aggregation, and consumption platform decreased the existing gap between Web and enterprise applications, which often leverage common data integration methodologies and tools. As a consequence, a deeper understanding of data integration, visualization and user interaction issues is becoming more and more compelling in applications design and development. In order to tackle the new challenges provided by a Web of Data, data integration, visualization and user interaction methodologies and tools need to be revised to effectively manage the design and the interaction application with information. The objective of this special issue is to review recent works that address state-of-the-art of analysis and design techniques on how to create effective Web applications where the integration, visualization and interaction with data is a main concern, as well as the application of assessed methods and techniques to existing design and development environments. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Integration and visualization of heterogeneous data on the Web * Interfaces for Web-scale and large-scale data repositories search and exploration * Linked Data visualization and exploration * Taxonomies and ontologies for data visualization * Lightweight (semantic) metadata or knowledge integration * Conceptual models for data visualization and exploration * Data visualization for next-generation mobile devices * Studies on quality, usability, effectiveness of data visualization techniques * Innovative uses of tag clouds * Ambient information displays * Data visualization for large screens and interactive tablets * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces * Visualizations for multimodal interaction * Tools for Web data visualizations * Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse Guest Editors ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Sara Comai (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Moira Norrie (ETH Z≈±rich, Switzerland) Submission Procedure -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web on or before August 20, 2011. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL‚ÄôS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igiglobal.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. All submissions should be directed to the attention of: Alessandro Bozzon, Sara Comai, Moira Norrie Guest Editors INT. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING E-mails: alessandro.bozzon(a)polimi.it, sara.comai(a)polimi.it, norrie(a)inf.ethz.ch About IJITWE ------------ This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ijitwe The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING is published quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) since 2006 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ‚ÄúInformation Science Reference‚Äù (formerly Idea Group Reference), ‚ÄúMedical Information Science Reference‚Äù, ‚ÄúBusiness Science Reference‚Äù, and ‚ÄúEngineering Science Reference‚Äù imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. -Editors-in-Chief- * Ghazi I. Alkhatib (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan) * Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy) Indices ------- Burrelle's Media Directory, Cabell's Directory, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), CSA Illumina. DBLP, Gale Directory of Publication & Broadcast Media, GetCited, Google Scholar, The Index of Information Systems Journals, INSPEC, MediaFinder, SCOPUS, The Standard Periodical Directory, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

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Your help needed: the effect of aesthetics on visualization
by Martin Tomitsch 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

We are currently running an online study on the effect of aesthetics in data visualization. The purpose of the study is to measure what non-trivial and unexpected insights are found from interacting with a specific data representation. The study is part of a collaborative research project between K.U. Leuven, Vienna University of Technology, and the University of Sydney. If you have about 10-20 minutes of uninterrupted time please help us by completing the study at: http://www.aesthetic-impact.com/ The main task that will be expected from you, is to interact with a visualization, and to describe what you have learned from it. The study is anonymous and the collected data will only be used for research purposes. Should you have any questions about the study, please don't hesitate to contact us at study(a)aesthetic-impact.com. Please help us by distributing this message, including people outside the infovis community. Thank you in advance.

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REVISED DEADLINE: CFP - 5th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI)
by Urska Cvek 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

5th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) ** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/IVbm.htm ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED ** Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2011 ** EXTENDED --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium: July 13, 2011 * London * United Kingdom ** Call for Papers and Participation Proceeding will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and to be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines. Organized as part of the 2011 International Information Visualisation Conference, the 5th International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original research in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical data. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization and issues affecting presentation and interaction with large and complex data sets. We encourage submission of papers covering new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications, and in-depth surveys. ** Examples of biomedical topics include, but are not limited to: Next-Gen Sequencing data Biochemical networks Phylogenies Sequence alignment Medical records Clinical data Proteomics, metabolomics, bio-repositories Biosignatures of diseases ** Examples of visualization topics include, but are not limited to: Comparative methods / User studies / Surveys Interaction methods Colors Large data sets Temporal data visualization Real-time data visualization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Important Dates: March 21, 2011 - Submission of papers through online submission system (updated) May 5, 2011 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) May 15, 2011 - Early registration deadline July 13, 2011 - Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/IVbm.htm Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/PAPERS.htm IV 2011 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/ ** Symposium chairs: Urska Cvek, Sc.D., MBA Computer Science Department Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Email: ucvek (AT) lsus.edu Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstein (AT) cs.uml.edu Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Computer Science Department Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus.edu ** Instructions for Authors Reviewing is applied to all submitted papers. Authors are invited to upload full original papers to the conference online submission system by March 21, 2011. Electronic submission (PDF) is required and should be formatted according to the instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/PAPERS.htm. The final manuscripts for full papers are expected to be no more than 6 pages - up to 4 excess pages may be purchased and is set by publisher at 25 GBP per page. With the camera ready paper submission for publication, you agree to pay the registration fee (or reduced registration fee if your registration form is received on or before the early registration date) and published papers must be presented by at least one of the authors.

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