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Survey on volume data (MRI/CT/PET scans) analysis tasks
by Bireswar Laha 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hello Friends and Colleagues: **** Apologies for cross posting**** We seek respondents for a survey we are conducting on visual analysis tasks with volume datasets. Anyone who works with *volume data (e.g., MRI or CT or PET scans)* is eligible.* Also, please forward the survey link to your colleagues working with volume data.* The survey consists of questions related to tasks performed with volume data, and also gathers demographics, but not name or identity. The survey should take about 20 minutes. As a token of appreciation, respondents who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to receive one of ten $20 gift cards from amazon.com. This study has been approved, as required, by the Institutional Review Board of Virginia Tech (protocol 13-138), Blacksburg, VA, USA. *Please note that you should be more than 18 years old to take this survey. * The survey is available here: https://virginiatech.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3xiRpIrvsh1sl93. Please email *blaha(a)vt.edu* if you have any questions. Thanks and Best Regards, Bireswar Laha and Doug Bowman, Virginia Tech <blaha(a)vt.edu> blaha(a)vt.edu <http://people.cs.vt.edu/blaha/> http://people.cs.vt.edu/blaha/

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There is still time to participate in VAST Challenge 2013
by Cook, Kristin A 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

[Apologies for cross-posting] There is still time to submit your entries for VAST Challenge 2013. See http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2013 for details. This year's challenge presents three distinct mini-challenges to test your skills. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. Creative approaches to visual analytics are encouraged. Submissions are due July 31 for Mini-Challenge 1. Mini-Challenge 1 focuses on predictive analytics for movie openings. It will challenge your ability to use visual analytics for predictive analysis, as well as your ability to manage large data and to make decisions in a short timeframe. Using data we specify, you will use your interactive visualization tools to predict upcoming movies' opening weekend box office successes and viewer ratings. It is decidedly different from previous VAST Challenges in that it will be continuous and iterative with reviewing and recognition being presented from now until the final judging session. Please visit boxofficevast.org for more information and to register. Submissions are due July 8 for Mini-Challenge 2. Mini-Challenge 2 tests your skills in visual design. The fictitious Big Enterprise is searching for a design for their future situation awareness display. The company's intrepid network operations team will use this display to understand the health, security, and performance of their entire computer network. This challenge is also very different from previous VAST Challenges, because there is no data to process and no questions to answer. Instead, the challenge is to show off your design talents by producing a creative new design for situation awareness. Please visit VAST Challenge 2013: Mini-Challenge 2 for more information. Submissions are due July 8 for Mini-Challenge 3. Mini-Challenge 3 focuses on unusual happenings on the computer network of a marketing company. Can you identify what looks amiss on the network using the network flow and network health data provided? And can you ask the right questions to help you piece together the timeline of events? Please visit http://www.vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2013MC3 for more details. For more information, please contact vast_challenge(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vast_challenge@ieeevis.org>. We look forward to seeing your creative solutions. Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs

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VizSec Workshop @ IEEE VIS 2013
by Sophie Engle 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

VizSec will be held in Atlanta GA, USA on October 14, 2013. VizSec brings together researchers and practitioners in information visualization and security to address the specific needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. VizSec will be held as a workshop at IEEE VIS. # Call for Papers # Full papers offering novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We encourage papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situational awareness / understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigation - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation / User testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security - Cyber intelligence - Human factors in cyber security Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Please see <http://www.vizsec.org/> for the full call for papers. # Call for Posters # Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Please see <http://www.vizsec.org/> for the full call for posters. # Important Dates # - Jul 08 2013: Paper Submission Deadline - Aug 16 2013: Paper Notification Deadline - Aug 23 2013: Poster Submission Deadline - Sep 15 2013: Poster Notification Deadline - Oct 14 2013: VizSec @ IEEE VIS 2013 # Contact Information # - Website: <http://www.vizsec.org/> - Email: <vizsec2013(a)easychair.org> - Google Group: <http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec>

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VDA 2014 online CFP
by Mark A. Livingston 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hello all! With apologies for cross-posting... SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis will take place in San Francisco, CA in early February 2014. Submissions will be due on 23 July 2013. See the attached call and the web site referenced in it for all the details. Enjoy, Mark

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CFP - Submit papers now for the Visualization and Analytics Minitrack at HICSS 47, January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii - Deadline June 15, 2013
by David S. Ebert 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

We are soliciting paper in visualization and analytics for decision support, operational management, and scientific discovery as part of the minitrack with the same name at HICSS 47. Accepted paper will appear in the proceedings as well as the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS is always one of the top conferences for downloads in the IEEE Digital Library! A description of the paper topics is below. Please contact us with any questions. Here are the relevant links: - CFP document: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf - the conference homepage: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm and - our track: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/da.html We look forward to receiving your submissions, David, Tom, Kelly David Ebert Tom Ertl Kelly Gaither ------------------------------------------ This minitrack will have applications in a broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. Examples include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, safety and security (aircraft safety, law enforcement, antiterrorism, disaster relief) and business processes. We encourage submissions that extend the areas of use to include a broader range of analytic tasks such as science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, and other domains where interactive visualization systems may be used to improve human decision making. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. -------------------------------------------------- - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, www.purvac.org - - ebertd(a)purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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2013 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: entries due Sept. 30, 2013
by Zemankova, Maria 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

10th Anniversary International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and AAAS Science Journal http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science created the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge to celebrate the grand tradition of science visualization and to encourage its continued growth. The spirit of the competition is to communicate science, engineering and technology for education and journalistic purposes. Judges appointed by NSF and Science will select winners in five categories: * Photography * Illustration * Posters & Graphics * Games & Apps * Video. The winning entries will appear in a special section of Science (with one entry chosen for the front cover) and be hosted at ScienceMag.org<http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye?http://www.sciencemag.org/> and NSF.gov<http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners.jsp>. In addition, each winner will receive a one-year online subscription to Science and a certificate of appreciation. Winners 2003 - 2012: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners.jsp You and your colleagues are encouraged to enter the competition. Important Dates: * The deadline for all entries is 11:59 p.m. EST on Sept. 30, 2013. * Competition judging rounds take place in October 2013. * The 2013 winning entries will be published in a February 2014 issue of the journal Science. Guidelines: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/guidelines.jsp If you have questions, please contact: scivis(a)nsf.gov<mailto:scivis@nsf.gov>

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CfP: International Workshop on Diagram Logic and Cognition 2013 -- DLAC 2013
by James Burton 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please pass this on to colleagues and students who may be interested in submitting a paper to DLAC 2013. ------------------------------------------ International Workshop on Diagram Logic and Cognition 2013 Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 28th and 29th October 2013 http://www.cem.brighton.ac.uk/dlac2013/ Our world is increasingly visual, and diagrams are an essential aspect of many of the fields that try to make sense of it. These include demography, cartography, medical imaging, aviation, and so on. In particular, diagrammatic logic is gaining ground in logic and mathematics as an alternative to or when used in parallel with symbolic logics, and recent years have seen the appearance of increasingly expressive diagrammatic systems. Considering the growing interest in reasoning with diagrams in India, a session has been planned on the history, current state-of-the-art and future of diagrammatic logics such as Euler-Venn diagrams, concept diagrams and spider diagrams, to mention a few recent and representative systems. Though our main focus is on the following topics, submissions need not be limited to these. . History of diagrams . Inference in diagrammatic logics . Diagrams and cognition . Aesthetics and visual complexity We invite authors to submit an extended abstract (3-4 pages) via easychair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlac2013. Documents should be formatted using IEEE style (see http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Accepted authors will then be required to prepare an 8-page paper for inclusion in the proceedings, which will be published online by CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org) As well as the refereed talks, we are delighted to be able to present several keynote speakers, including Dr Gem Stapleton -- see below for details. We also hope to include talks from several other distinguished researchers, whose names will be announced when available. The purpose of the workshop is twofold. Firstly, we want to gain deeper insights into the activities involved in reasoning with diagrammatic systems. The questions under consideration include: how can a modern, highly-expressive diagrammatic logic help with inferential tasks in practice, such as those undertaken in the field of knowledge engineering? What are the advantages and limitations of such a logic when considered for these tasks, and to what extent are any limitations defined by notations, tools, or the nature of the information itself? Answering these questions will lead to more suitable notations and better tools, and has a wide potential impact. Our second purpose, closely related to the first, is cognition. Reasoning through diagrams facilitates inferential tasks for a group of users known as the "visualisers". Recent research in cognitive science has examined the verbaliser-visualiser cognitive style classification. The category of visualiser can be divided into two contrasting groups: those with relatively high or low spatial ability. In recent work, Kozhevnikov has showed visualizers with high spatial ability usually generate abstract images whereas visualizers with low spatial ability tend to generate detailed pictorial images of individual objects. Barbara Tversky claims that when congruent mappings are made, the abstract concept matches the spatial representation, implying that abstract thought has roots in spatial world. The elegance of diagrams needs to be investigated from this perspective and these concepts should be considered in the context of the logic of diagrams. Finally, the use of diagrams as a vehicle of reasoning calls for simplicity, accessibility, visual clarity and expressiveness. Accordingly, our meeting will also focus on the topics of diagram aesthetics and visual complexity. Attendance at the workshop is free, but you will need to register in advance. Accommodation at Jadavpur University can be arranged at a minimal fee by contacting Dr Lopmudra Choudhury (choudhuryl(a)yahoo.com) . Keynote speakers Gem Stapleton on Inference in Diagrammatic Logics (title and abstract to be announced) Dr Gem Stapleton is a Reader in Computer Science at the University of Brighton. She first began research into diagrams during 2001 and has continued working on them ever since. She has published around 70 articles on topics spanning diagrammatic logics, automated reasoning, automated diagram generation and layout, and sketch recognition technologies. Much of this research has been collaborative, with colleagues at the Universities of Auckland, Cambridge and Kent. Her research has been supported by Nokia, who are applying results of her research in practice. Gem has undertaken many roles in the diagrams and visual languages communities, including being the Steering Committee Chair for the Diagrams Conference Series and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. . Program Committee Dave Barker Plummer, Stanford University, US Mihir Kumar Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, India Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Peter Rodgers, University of Kent, UK Ryo Takemura, Keio University, Japan . Important dates Submission period ends: 2nd July 2013 Notification to authors: 6th August 2013 Registration opens: 6th August 2013 Workshop: 28th and 29th October 2013 The workshop is followed by the annual meeting of The Kolkata Logic Circle, 30th October to 2nd November 2013. If you have any queries, please contact one of the organisers Jim Burton (j.burton(a)brighton.ac.uk) or Lopmudra Choudhury (choudhuryl(a)yahoo.com) -- Dr Jim Burton Lecturer in Computing School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics University of Brighton ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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ISSI 2013, Vienna - 14th Int. Conf. on Scientometrics and Informetrics: Call for Registration
by Steinbrunner Silvia 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

(Apologies for cross postings) The preliminary programme is online! ISSI 2013 - 14th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics July 15-19, 2013, Vienna, Austria http://www.issi2013.org The Conference Organizing Committee cordially invites you to attend the 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference 2013 in Vienna, Austria, hosted by the University of Vienna and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna. Best regards, Juan Gorraiz & Edgar Schiebel Conference Chairs

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