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[VISSOFT] CFP: 2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization‏‏
by vis soft 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization Sep 29 - 30, 2014, Victoria, CA http://vissoft.iro.umontreal.ca/ Call for Papers - VISSOFT 2014 The second IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2014) builds upon the success of the first edition of VISSOFT in Eindhoven, which in turn followed after six editions of the IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT) and five editions of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS). In 2014, VISSOFT will again be co-located with ICSME in Victoria, BC, Canada. Software Visualization is a broad research area encompassing techniques that assist in a range of software engineering activities, such as, specification, design, programming, testing, maintenance, reverse engineering and reengineering. Covered methods contain the development and evaluation of approaches for visually analyzing software and software systems, including their structure, execution behavior, and evolution. In this conference, we focus on visualization techniques that target aspects of software maintenance and evolution, program comprehension, reverse engineering, and reengineering, i.e., how visualization helps programmers to understand, analyze, and evolve software. We aim to gather tool developers, users and researchers from software engineering, information visualization, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. We seek theoretical, as well as practical papers on applications, techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Program visualization - Visual software analytics - Network visualizations in software engineering - Visualization of software documentations - Visualization of parallel programs - Visualization-based software in computer science and software engineering education - Visualization of workflow and business processes - Integration of software visualization tools and development environments - Visualization of web services - Visualization of software evolution - Visualization of database schemes - Protocol and log visualization (security, trust) - Graph algorithms for software visualization - Layout algorithms for software visualization - Visual debugging - Software visualization on the internet - Empirical evaluation of software visualization - Visualization to support program comprehension - Visualization to support software testing - Visualization of software repositories - Social media visualization Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to full papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a tool demo track related to the same list of topics suggested above. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. Hints for writing Software Visualization research papers are available online (http://www.st.uni-trier.de/~diehl/softvis/org/softvis06/hints.html) Submission Information Authors should prepare and electronically submit their papers or abstracts via the EasyChair submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2014) Take care that you provide all required information in EasyChair. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the work. The review process will be single-blind. All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. Make sure that you use this MS Word template (http://www.conference-publishing.com/templates/MSW_USltr_format.doc) and this LaTeX class (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls updated January 3rd, 2013). Submissions must be in PDF format. Make sure that you are using the correct IEEE style file: the title should be typeset in 24pt font and the body of the paper should be typeset in 10pt font. Latex users: please use \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} (without option compsoc or compsocconf). Submission Types Technical papers (up to 10 pages): These contributions describe in-depth mature research results in the above-mentioned areas of interest. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit such video should provide a URL to the video at the end of the abstract input box in EasyChair (not in the submitted paper itself!). NIER papers (up to 5 pages): The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. Tool papers (up to 4 pages): Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. Challenge paper (up to 4 pages): In the software visualization challenge, authors are to demonstrate the usefulness of their visualization tools on the data provided. The paper should first provide an introduction to the problem, data used, methods and tools used, results and their implications, and conclusions. Important Dates Main track (technical papers) : Abstract Submission: May 9, 2014 Paper Submission: May 16, 2014 Author Notification: June 20, 2014 Camera-ready Copies: July 14, 2014 NIER, Tool Demo, and Tool Challenge tracks: Abstract Submission: June 24, 2014 Paper Submission: July 1, 2014 Author Notification: July 25, 2014 Camera-ready Copies: August 7, 2014 Organizing Committee General Chair: Houari Sahraoui (University of Montreal, CA) Program Co-Chairs: Bonita Sharif (Youngstown State University, US) and Andy Zaidman (Delft University of Technology, NL) NIER & Tool-Demo Track Co-Chairs: Fabian Beck (University of Stuttgart, DE) and Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, CH) Publicity & Web Chair: Daniel Limberger (Hasso Plattner Institute, DE)

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Deadline approaching April 8th - Final CfP International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, Sydney Aug 5-8
by tony huang 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please consider contributing and help to distribute. -------- Important Dates: Long papers: April 8, 2014 Short papers: April 8, 2014 Posters: May 20, 2014 -------- The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI14) will be held on August 5-8 in Sydney, Australia. VINCI14 aims to provide an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. -------- This year's edition of the conference features three exciting keynotes by Professor Peter Eades from University of Sydney, Professor Bruce Thomas from the University of South Australia and Dr. Helen Purchase from University of Glasgow. -------- Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Area 1: Visualization methodologies Information visualization Graph drawing and visualization Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Visual metaphors and symbols Usability or empirical study of new visual metaphors Design theory in the digital age Aesthetics in visual communication and digital media Interaction methods (touch-based, haptic, vision-based, multi-modality Big Data Visual languages Diagrams Art + Science Area 2: Visualization applications Visual Analytics Sketching Graphical user interface design Software visualization Visual approaches to knowledge discovery Visualization on mobile devices Animation Game design Biological visualizations Area 3: Visual design and art Interaction design Interactive art Infographie and data-driven art Visual perception and cognition Multimedia Virtual actors Interactive storytelling Augmented reality and its applications Virtual reality and its applications Computational (or digital) aesthetics Wearable computers Ubiquitous / responsive environments Entertainment technology -------- Proceedings will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI-indexed). Further, it has been confirmed that a high number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE, SCI indexed) and a special issue of International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI). To submit: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2014 For more information, visit web: http://www.vinci-conf.org/ ------ VINCI14 Organizing committee August 5-8, 2014, Sydney Australia Email: info(a)vinci-conf.org

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Personalised Multilingual Information Access 2014 - Deadline extension - Apr 8
by Ben Steichen 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

--------------- Call for Papers --------------- International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014 held in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. -------- Overview -------- With the unrelenting rise in global information production and usage, systems increasingly need to handle 1) a growing variety of user differences (including language, culture, situational context), and 2) heterogeneous and multilingual information sources. This full-day workshop aims tackle these challenges by bringing together researchers working on cross-/multi-lingual information access, personalisation for web and hypermedia, personalised search, information seeking, multilingual interfaces, multilingual semantic web, and recommender systems. The aim is to share, discuss, and combine ideas for novel solutions that support users according to their particular language abilities, as well as other characteristics (e.g. culture, domain expertise) and contexts (e.g. intent, topic) that influence what and how information should be retrieved, composed, and presented. The workshop aims to both advance the current state of the art in personalised multilingual information access, as well as to develop a detailed roadmap that identifies the most pressing current and future research challenges (e.g. novel information access interfaces, evaluation of complex systems). Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Individual user characteristics that influence information access, e.g. language proficiency, culture, personality, user intent, topic domain * Modeling of user profiles, e.g. multilingual data collection, model creation, model exploitation * Adaptive systems for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. personalised search, recommender systems * Novel interfaces, e.g. presentations of content in multiple languages, search result presentation beyond the ranked list paradigm, document summarisation * Tools and methods for multilingual and cross lingual search * Content analysis and processing, e.g. knowledge extraction, duplication detection * Content translation and localisation * Multilingual semantic web, including search and extraction * External knowledge resources for personalised multilingual information access (e.g. ontologies) * Domain modeling (e.g. adaptation to different domains) * Issues and dangers of personalisation, e.g. over-personalisation (also known as "the filter bubble"), privacy issues * Personalisation of multilingual tools * Evaluation methods and metrics for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. how to evaluate compositions from multiple languages, aggregate search evaluation. ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage submissions from diverse backgrounds and aim to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. In addition, submissions that focus on non-English data, or research with a clear application in a multilingual scenario are equally welcome. We invite submissions of more established ideas and methods as long papers (8 pages), preliminary work as short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published by CEUR. Extended versions of selected workshop papers may be included in a special journal issue (TBD). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. --------------- Important dates --------------- Apr 08, 2014: Submission Deadline May 01, 2014: Notification to Authors May 15, 2014: Camera-ready Due Jul 07 (tentative): Workshop day -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - steichen(a)cs.ubc.ca Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) - agosti(a)dei.unipd.it Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - seamus.lawless(a)scss.tcd.ie Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - vincent.wade(a)scss.tcd.ie For further questions please contact a member of the organising committee. -- Dr. Ben Steichen Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T14Z, Canada www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: VAST Challenge
by G.Elisabeta Marai 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ VAST 2014 Challenge CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 This year's VAST Challenge presents three inter-related mini-challenges and an overall Grand Challenge to test your skills. These challenges feature a mix of data types, including text, transaction, network, and geospatial / temporal. This year's challenge also features a first for the VAST Challenge - a streaming text dataset for you to analyze. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. We encourage your submissions, and look forward to seeing your innovative approaches to solving these challenges using visual analytics. Background: The Kronos Incident In the roughly twenty years that Tethys-based GAStech has been operating a natural gas production site in the island country of Kronos, it has produced remarkable profits and developed strong relationships with the government of Kronos. However, GAStech has not been as successful in demonstrating environmental stewardship. In January, 2014, the leaders of GAStech are celebrating their new-found fortune as a result of the initial public offering of their very successful company. In the midst of this celebration, several employees of GAStech go missing. An organization known as the Protectors of Kronos (POK) is suspected in the disappearance, but things may not be what they seem. As an expert in visual analytics, you are called in to help law enforcement from Kronos and Tethys assess the situation and figure out where the missing employees are and how to get them home again. Time is of the essence. The Challenges *Data Available Now! **Mini-Challenge 1* <http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+1>focuses on the disappearance itself. As an analyst, you have a set of current and historical news reports at your disposal, as well as resumes of numerous GAStech employees and email headers from two weeks of internal GAStech company email. You are being counted on to bring law enforcement up to date on the current organization of the POK and how that organization has changed over time, as well as to characterize the events surrounding the disappearance. *Description Available! **Mini-Challenge 2* <http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+2>asks you to analyze movement and tracking data. GAStech provides many of their employees with company cars for their personal and professional use, but unbeknownst to the employees, the cars are equipped with GPS tracking devices. You are given tracking data for the two weeks leading up to the disappearance, as well as credit card transaction and loyalty card usage data. From this data, can you identify suspicious behaviors? Can you identify people and locations that law enforcement should investigate? Data for this mini-challenge will be made available in April. *Description Available! **Mini-Challenge 3* <http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+3>poses a streaming analysis challenge. You will have access to real-time feeds of microblogs and emergency calls. Can you monitor this stream to identify where the missing GAStech employees are, where they may located in the near future, and what steps are needed to bring them home? Data for this mini-challenge will be made available in April. *Available Now! *In the *Grand Challenge*<http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Grand+Challenge>, you are asked to put all the pieces together. Who disappeared? Who was responsible for the disappearance? And what were the underlying motivations for the disappearance? For Further Information For more information, please see http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 or contact vast_challenge(a)ieeevis.org. The submission deadline is July 8, 2014. We look forward to seeing your creative solutions! Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs The VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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CfP: 1st International Workshop on Graph Visualization in Practice (August 2014)
by Karsten Klein 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------- GVP 2014 Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Graph Visualization in Practice August 1, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-located with Diagrams 2014 and VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia GVP 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/workshops/ Diagrams 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/ VL/HCC 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2014/ The "Workshop on Graph Visualization in Practice: Challenges and Methods" is a forum to foster exchange and discussions among researchers in graph visualization and people from application areas that require graph visualization. The objective is to discuss challenges emerging from applications, recent advances in research, and how to facilitate the transfer of research results into practical applications. Graphs provide a versatile model for data from a large variety of application domains, including biology, finance, information security, telecommunication, software engineering, and social sciences. Graph visualization helps scientists and engineers to understand critical issues in these domains. However, the depth of understanding depends on the quality of the visualization and the interactive interface. Graph visualization techniques need to be intuitive for domain experts to facilitate exploration of networks within the experts' work flow. In particular, one has to take into account application semantics or user-defined constraints. In many areas, the application of graph visualization methods seems to lag behind the current state of the art in research by many years, whereas in others the most pressing challenges have not yet been addressed sufficiently by the research community. We invite researchers in the field of graph visualization and related areas as well as practitioners in fields of application both from academia and industry to submit papers. Papers should either describe substantial research in graph visualization concerned with application-driven requirements (long paper, 10 pages maximum) or ongoing research, experiences and challenges in application areas (short paper, 5 pages maximum). The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: * graph drawing * interactive graph exploration * graph-based visual data analysis * evaluation of graph visualizations * graph visualization software * graph models and analysis All submissions should be in Springer's LNCS format. The proceedings will be published by CEUR. We plan to organise a special issue of a journal for extended versions of the best papers. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: May 17, 2014 Paper submission due: May 23, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2014 Workshop: August 1, 2014 ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Markus Chimani (Osnabrück University) Walter Didimo (University of Perugia) Yifan Hu (Yahoo Labs) Quang Vinh Nguyen (University of Western Sydney) Martin Nöllenburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Carsten Gutwenger (Technical University Dortmund) ---------- Organizers ---------- Karsten Klein, The University of Sydney Steve Kieffer, Monash University Melbourne ------- CONTACT ------- If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers workshops(a)diagrams-conference.org

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Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) - Papers due Apr. 1
by Ben Steichen 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

EasyChair now open for submissions of long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). --------------- Call for Papers --------------- International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014 held in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. -------- Overview -------- With the unrelenting rise in global information production and usage, systems increasingly need to handle 1) a growing variety of user differences (including language, culture, situational context), and 2) heterogeneous and multilingual information sources. This full-day workshop aims tackle these challenges by bringing together researchers working on cross-/multi-lingual information access, personalisation for web and hypermedia, personalised search, information seeking, multilingual interfaces, multilingual semantic web, and recommender systems. The aim is to share, discuss, and combine ideas for novel solutions that support users according to their particular language abilities, as well as other characteristics (e.g. culture, domain expertise) and contexts (e.g. intent, topic) that influence what and how information should be retrieved, composed, and presented. The workshop aims to both advance the current state of the art in personalised multilingual information access, as well as to develop a detailed roadmap that identifies the most pressing current and future research challenges (e.g. novel information access interfaces, evaluation of complex systems). Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Individual user characteristics that influence information access, e.g. language proficiency, culture, personality, user intent, topic domain * Modeling of user profiles, e.g. multilingual data collection, model creation, model exploitation * Adaptive systems for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. personalised search, recommender systems * Novel interfaces, e.g. presentations of content in multiple languages, search result presentation beyond the ranked list paradigm, document summarisation * Tools and methods for multilingual and cross lingual search * Content analysis and processing, e.g. knowledge extraction, duplication detection * Content translation and localisation * Multilingual semantic web, including search and extraction * External knowledge resources for personalised multilingual information access (e.g. ontologies) * Domain modeling (e.g. adaptation to different domains) * Issues and dangers of personalisation, e.g. over-personalisation (also known as "the filter bubble"), privacy issues * Personalisation of multilingual tools * Evaluation methods and metrics for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. how to evaluate compositions from multiple languages, aggregate search evaluation. ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage submissions from diverse backgrounds and aim to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. In addition, submissions that focus on non-English data, or research with a clear application in a multilingual scenario are equally welcome. We invite submissions of more established ideas and methods as long papers (8 pages), preliminary work as short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published by CEUR. Extended versions of selected workshop papers may be included in a special journal issue (TBD). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. --------------- Important dates --------------- Apr 01, 2014: Submission Deadline May 01, 2014: Notification to Authors May 15, 2014: Camera-ready Due Jul 07 (tentative): Workshop day -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - steichen(a)cs.ubc.ca Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) - agosti(a)dei.unipd.it Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - seamus.lawless(a)scss.tcd.ie Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - vincent.wade(a)scss.tcd.ie For further questions please contact a member of the organising committee. -- Dr. Ben Steichen Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T14Z, Canada www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/

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CfP: Workshop on dirty time-oriented data @ I-KNOW 2014
by Aigner Wolfgang 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: DIRTY TIME-ORIENTED DATA: WHEREABOUTS AND BOTTLENECKS An interdisciplinary and interactive session on the handling of imperfect time-stamped information sets 16-17 September 2014 In conjunction with i-KNOW 2014 Graz, Austria, i-know.tugraz.at 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: First call for papers www.map.archi.fr/dirtytime dirtytime(a)map.archi.fr :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::: Context and motivation In a number of application fields, pieces of data and information need to be modelled and visualised so as to analyse patterns of change over time, or so as to pinpoint time-related causal chains. Briefly said, understanding facts often implies understanding processes that lead to facts, or that derive from facts – and reasoning on processes implies mastering the time parameter. However, coping with dirty time-oriented data (inaccurate, incomplete, erroneous, contradictory, etc.) remains, by and large, an open issue. If scientists and practitioners are to foster the emergence of effective solutions, it is of great importance they get an opportunity to confront their approaches, ideas, experiences and methods. The workshop’s ambition is to foster interdisciplinary scientific exchanges both on theoretical or technological aspects and on practical cases/feedbacks stemming from a wide range of application fields. ::::::::::::::: Topics of interest Handling “dirty” time-oriented data is naturally a key issue in human sciences, yet the issue is more generally raised in all activities where unreliable and/or incomplete and/or inaccurate temporal data sets have to be dealt with. The workshop wishes to host contributions covering a wide range of application fields, of scientific practices, and of theoretical or methodological approaches (historical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, conceptual modelling, health sciences, monitoring and planning activities, etc.). Accordingly, we welcome submissions related to (but not limited to) the handling of imperfect time-stamped information sets in the following research areas: Knowledge Representation, Visual Analytics & Information Visualisation • Temporal knowledge discovery, databases. • Temporal logic, temporal representation and reasoning. • Uncertainty modelling, data and information quality. • Information visualisation, visual representations and interaction techniques. • Visualisation of temporal or spatio-temporal data. • Process and workflow visualisation. Geosciences • Geovisualisation, geovisual analytics. • Simulation, multi-agent systems. • Geography, geomatics, time geography, mobility, flows, etc. • Urban planning, landscape analysis & monitoring, etc. • Risk assessment, climate research. Historical Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences • Archaeology, environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany. • Ethnology, ethnography, linguistics, etc. • History, history of art and architecture, etc. • ITC in health services. • Intelligence, social networks, etc. • Business intelligence. ::::::::::::::: Deadlines - Submission deadline: April 27, 2014 - Notifications: May 16, 2014 - Camera-ready version: June 5, 2014 - Workshop 16-17 September 2014 ::::::::::::::: Location Graz, Austria, (Messe Congress Graz , <ww.mcg.at/en>); in conjunction with i-KNOW 2014 , Graz University of Technology, Know Center <i-know.tugraz.at/> ::::::::::::::: Submissions Submissions are invited on the above topics, either as short papers (4 pages) - position papers, test cases - or as regular contributions (8 pages). Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's Programme Committee in an interdisciplinary approach (cross-examination from the application field point of view and from a KR perspective). All selected papers will be published in the workshop notes, either in conjunction with the conference proceedings or online as part of an Open Access peer-reviewed journal. Submissions will be handled electronically, formatting guidelines and address to be announced shortly here: www.map.archi.fr/dirtytime. ::::::::::::::: Event format and expected outcomes The event will combine a “traditional” workshop format - keynotes focusing on dirty time-oriented data as such and talks focusing either on theoretical or technological aspects or on feedbacks from a variety of application fields - and a collective initiative aimed at pulling together test cases and resources (interdisciplinary references on one hand, and on the other hand test benches freely usable by the community in its subsequent work). Expected outcomes of this workshop accordingly include a better acquaintance with relevant work across scientific domains and application fields as well as the emergence of ad-hoc metrics – an attempt to ease the task of cross-examining responses to data quality issues. Ultimately, the initiative wishes to contribute to the strengthening of the community of analysts dealing with quality issues in the context of temporal data and information sets. ::::::::::::::: Programme Committee F. Bertoncello - CNRS, France A. Bertone -Technical University Dresden, Germany P. Buono - University of Bari, Italy M.P. Davoine – University of Grenoble, France J. Kehrer - Vienna University of Technology, Austria O. Klein - CEPS, Luxembourg E. Leclercq – University of Burgundy, France J. Ma - University of Greenwich, United Kingdom N. Mahmood- University of Karachi, Pakistan H. Mathian – CNRS, France K. Matoušek - Czech Technical University, Czech Republic T. Nocke - Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, Germany D. O'Sullivan - University of California, Berkeley, USA T. Pellegrini - St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria A. Raffaetà - University of Venice, Italy C. Renso - CNR, Italy V. Sabol – TU Graz, Know-Center, Austria H. Senaratne - University of Konstanz, Germany C. Stasch - University of Muenster, Germany M. Streit - JKU Linz, Austria ::::::::::::::: Organisers W. Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria J.Y. Blaise, I. Dudek, CNRS (UMR 3495 CNRS/MCC MAP), France T. Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria -- WOLFGANG AiGNER Lecturer Department Technology media computing research group IC\M/T - Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Matthias Corvinus Strasse 15, 3100 St. Poelten, Austria T: +43 (0) 2742 313 228 - 611 E: wolfgang.aigner(a)fhstp.ac.at I: mc.fhstp.ac.at/people/wolfgang-aigner FN 146616m, LG St. Pölten, DVR 1028669F :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: B O O K ::: VISUALIZATION OF TIME-ORIENTED DATA Wolfgang Aigner • Silvia Miksch • Heidrun Schumann • Christian Tominski Springer, 2011 • http://www.timeviz.net :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: B O O K :::

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Reminder: CfP WSCG 2014 Deadline Extended to March 31, 2014 - Graphics, Visualization and Vision
by Vaclav Skala 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

>>> WSCG 2014 <<< >>> http://www.wscg.cz <<< >>> in cooperation with Eurographics, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed <<< To be REMOVED from the list: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE%20infovis@infovis.org or RETURN this mail with the email address in the text to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to REMOVE WSCG (DO NOT REMOVE the @mail address in the mail we sent to you). --------------------------------------------------------------- infovis(a)infovis.org REMINDER - deadline extended to March 31, 2014 ======= WSCG 2014 22. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 Plzen [Pilsen] close to Praha [Prague], Czech Republic http://www.wscg.cz Venue dates: June 2-5, 2014 >> Please, forward to your colleagues << >> and potential authors according to your mailing list << >>> EXTENDED deadline is MARCH 31, 2014 <<<< due to technical problems Recent WSCG conferences (with on-line papers in PDF) ------------------------------ Please, see: http://www.wscg.eu Digital library, Recent keynote speakers etc. Keynote speakers -------------------- Manuel M. Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tino Wienkauf, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany Important Dates ------------------- Paper submission: March 31, 2014 [EXTENDED] Acceptance notification: April 20, 2014 Venue: June 2 - 5, 2014 Main topics (but not limed to) ---------------------------------- Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modelling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modelling, shape analysis & modelling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and related topics. Publications ---------------- Accepted papers will be published in WSCG proceedings with ISBN and submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and others. Recent years have been indexed alredy. The best papers will be selected for publication in the Journal of WSCG ISSN 1213-6972 (http://wscg.zcu.cz/JWSCG/) ALL WSCG proceedings and Journal of WSCG since 1992 are available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm, access free. Travelling Info ------------------ Pilsen City is close to Prague (Praha) - the Golden European city approx. 80km from the Plzen city (60 mins. by a coach). To reach the Pilsen city from the Prague airport is approx. 75 mins. by the public transport actually faster than to reach the Prague central part. If interested in WSCG 2015 ----------------------------------- Please, register at http://wscgreg.zcu.cz to be kept informed Call for new reviewers ----------------------------- If you or colleague of yours would like to act as a reviewer for WSCG events, please, send me - First Name;Last Name;@mail URL personal page via @mail to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subj. WSCG - Reviewing Contact ---------- Feel free to contact me if you would have any question Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz SUBJ.: WSCG 2014 Date 2014-03-21 4571

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ESANN 2014: program
by Michel Verleysen 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

We apologize for possible duplicates of this message sent to distribution lists. ESANN 2014: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 23-24-25 April 2014 http://www.esann.org/ Preliminary program The preliminary program of the ESANN 2014 conference is now available on the Web: http://www.esann.org/ For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related machine learning and artificial neural networks sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much! For 22 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field of neural computation and machine learning. ESANN is a selective conference focusing on fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. The titles of the sessions are: - Advances in Spiking Neural Information Processing Systems (SNIPS) - Vector quantization- and nearest neighbor-based methods - Byte the bullet: learning on real-world computing architectures - Reinforcement learning and optimization - Nonlinear dimensionality reduction - Signal and temporal processing - Learning of structured and non-standard data - Kernel methods - Learning and Modeling Big Data - Classification - Dynamical systems and online learning - Advances on Weightless Neural Systems - Clustering - Regression, Forecasting and Extreme Learning Machines - Label noise in classification The program of the conference can be found at http://www.esann.org/, together with practical information about the conference venue, registration, etc. Other information can be obtained by sending an e-mail to esann(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:esann@uclouvain.be>. Venue ------ The conference will be held in Bruges (also called "Venice of the North"), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). Designated as the "Venice of the North", the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. Steering and local committee ---------------------------- François Blayo Ipseite (CH) Gianluca Bontempi Univ. Libre Bruxelles (B) Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Mia Loccufier Univ. Gent (B) Bernard Manderick Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) Jean-Pierre Peters FUNDP Namur (B) Johan Suykens K. U. Leuven (B) Joos Vandewalle K.U. Leuven (B) Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve Louis Wehenkel Univ. Liège (B) Scientific committee -------------------- Fabio Aiolli Univ. degli Studi di Padova (I) Davide Anguita Univ. of Genoa (I) Cecilio Angulo Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Aluizio Araújo Univ. Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) Cédric Archambeau Amazon.com (D) Miguel Atencia Univ. Malaga (E) Michael Aupetit CEA (F) Andreas Backhaus Fraunhofer-Institut (D) Lluís Belanche Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Younès Bennani Université Paris 13 (F) Michael Biehl Univ. of Groningen (NL) Martin Bogdan Univ. Leipzig (D) Hervé Bourlard IDIAP Martigny (CH) Charles Bouveyron Univ. Paris Descartes (F) Antonio Braga Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais (Brazil) Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Stéphane Canu Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F) Andreu Català Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Sylvain Chevallier University of Versailles (F) Valentina Colla Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna Pisa (I) Nigel Crook Oxford Brookes University (UK) Holk Cruse Universität Bielefeld (D) Giovanni Da San Martino Univ. of Padova (I) Bernard de Baets Univ. Gent (B) Kris De Brabanter K. U. Leuven (B) Massimo De Gregorio Istituto di Cibernetica-CNR (I) Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I) Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL) Marc Duranton CEA Saclay (F) Richard Duro Univ. Coruna (E) Mark Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Anibal Figueiras-Vidal Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E) Jean-Claude Fort Univ. Paris Descartes (F) Felipe M. G. França Univ. Federal Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Leonardo Franco Univ. Malaga (E) Damien François Université catholique de Louvain (B) Manjunath Gandhi Jacobs University (D) Alessandro Ghio Univ. of Genova (I) Luis Gonzalez Abril University of Sevilla (E) Marco Gori Univ. Siena (I) Bernard Gosselin Univ. Mons (B) Philipe-Henri Gosselin INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atl. (F) Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E) Anne Guérin-Dugué IMAG Grenoble (F) Barbara Hammer Bielefeld Univ. (D) Verena Heidrich-Meisner CAU Kiel (D) Tom Heskes Univ. Nijmegen (NL) Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler Univ. Life Sci. & Natural Resources (A) Christian Igel Univ. Copenhagen (DK) Jose Jerez Univ. Malaga (E) Gonzalo Joya Univ. Malaga (E) Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F) Juha Karhunen Aalto Univ. (FIN) Marika Kästner Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) DaeEun Kim Yonsei Univ. (South Korea) Stefanos Kollias National Tech. Univ. Athens (GR) Jouko Lampinen Aalto Univ. (FIN) Petr Lansky Acad. of Sci. of the Czech Rep. (CZ) Beatrice Lazzerini Univ. Pisa (I) John Lee Univ. cat Louvain (B) Minho Lee Kyungpook National Univ. (KR) Soo-Young Lee Korea Adv. Inst. Sci. & Tech. (KR) Amaury Lendasse Aalto Univ. (FIN) Priscila M. V. Lima Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Paulo Lisboa Liverpool John Moores Univ. (UK) José D. Martín Univ. of Valencia (E) Erzsebet Merenyi Rice Univ. (USA) David Meunier Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (F) Anke Meyer-Bäse Florida State Univ. (USA) Yoan Miche Aalto Univ. (FIN) Alessio Micheli Univ. of Pisa (I) Erkki Oja Aalto Univ. (FIN) Tjeerd olde Scheper Oxford Brookes University (UK) Madalina Olteanu Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Gilles Pagès Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) (F) Kristiaan Pelckmans Uppsala University (SE) Jaakko Peltonon Aalto University (FIN) David Picard Université de Cergy-Pontoise (F) Gadi Pinkas The Center for Acad. Studies (Israel) Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E) Didier Puzenat Univ. Antilles-Guyane (F) Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F) Fabrice Rossi Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Ulrich Rückert Bielefeld University (D) David Saad Aston Univ. (UK) Francisco Sandoval Univ.Malaga (E) Jose Santos Reyes Univ. Coruna (E) Frank-Michael Schleif Univ. Bielefeld (D) Udo Seiffert Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D) Alessandro Sperduti Università degli Studi di Padova (I) Jochen Steil Univ. Bielefeld (D) Peter Tino Univ. of Birmingham (UK) Claude Touzet Univ. Provence (F) Vanya Van Belle KUL Leuven (B) Marc Van Hulle K. U. Leuven (B) Alfredo Vellido Polytechnic University of Catalonia (E) Thomas Villmann Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) Willem Waegeman Univ. Gent (B) Heiko Wersing Honda Research Institute Europe (D) Axel Wismüller Univ. of Rochester, New York (USA) ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning http://www.esann.org/ * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be =======================================================

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Call for Submissions to ShARe/CLEF eHealth Visualisation Task 2014
by Tobias Schreck 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

(apologies for multiple postings) ========================================================== Submissions are sought until May 1, 2014 to Task 1: Health Information Visualisation - Visual-Interactive Search and Exploration of eHealth Data within the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. Please see http://clefehealth2014.dcu.ie/ for participation information. ============================================================ The ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab is a set of three shared tasks focused on interface design, natural language processing and information retrieval for clinical care. Lab registration is open at http://147.162.2.122:8888/clef2014labs/. The tasks are open to all registered lab participants. The vision for the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab is two-fold: (1) to develop tasks that potentially impact patient understanding of medical information and (2) to provide the community with an increasingly sophisticated dataset of clinical narrative to advance the state-of-the-art in information visualisation, natural language processing, information extraction and information retrieval in healthcare. CLEF eHealth ORGANISING COMMITTEE =================================== Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland Gondy Leroy, University of Arizona, USA Danielle L. Mowery, University of Pittsburg, PA, USA Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany Hanna Suominen, NICTA, Australia Sumithra Velupillai, Stockholm University, Sweden

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