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POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND
by Giulio Jacucci 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for several researchers in these areas. Postdocs are sought for fixed-term periods of at most three years and research fellows at most five years. The deadline for the call is 6 April 2014. Further details regarding the positions and the application procedure are available at https://www.hiit.fi/node/2644. In particular please notice: ------- HIIT-Wide Focus Area “Information Exploration” The HIIT-wide focus area is a big multidisciplinary project spanning several research groups of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT at Aalto University and University of Helsinki. Several postdoc positions are now offered in the project. The postdocs will collaborate with several PI's. Information Exploration, a central aspect of Knowledge and scientific work, can be profoundly improved through computational and information retrieval methods. Novel intelligent systems will be able to better utilize the massive explosion in raw data, documents, distributed information and links between these. Information Exploration as a focus of research develops information technology methods and pilot applications for making the data-driven fields such as modern biology, business intelligence, and others revolutionizing the way we search and access and share information. In particular improving the general problem solving method of science, in collaboration with the other fields, is the best way for our research community to contribute to solving the grand challenges of the humanity. http://www.hiit.fi/augmentedresearch Example profiles and positions: • Analysing ubiquitous sensor data • Interactive Visualization • Psychophysiology for Implicit Interaction and Brain Computer Interfaces • Intelligent user interfaces, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems • Machine Learning and Data Analysis for Context based information retrieval • Probabilistic modelling and data analysis for bioinformatics ------- Open position for Senior / Postdoc Developer for Future Intelligent Information Retrieval, Professor Giulio Jacucci, Department of Computer Science & HIIT, University of Helsinki. Unique position to lead the development of a future generation system for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The position has both development of a system for real wide deployment as also cutting edge research environment with academic impact. As senior / postdoc developer the candidate will be responsible of leading the development of a new generation intelligent information retrieval system that is utilising latest techniques in distributed computing, machine learning, adaptive computing, visualisation and user modelling. Beside academic research activities the practical work includes: Programming backend, organising modular development, issuing guidelines for development. Needed competencies and experiences: wide experience in programming in large real deployment projects, Strong skills in selected programming languages, experience of appropriate frameworks (MVC frameworks, such as Spring), Hands on experience in Web development, Experience in working with DBs - MongoDB, Postgres, etc. Duration: 5 years, salary 3 200–4 000 according to qualifications. ------- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT open call for postdocs and research fellows. Contact persons: Ella Bingham, research coordinator of HIIT and Samuel Kaski, director of HIIT. HIIT offers postdoc and research fellow positions for outstanding candidates, to be affiliated with any of its research groups. Requirement for these open positions is substantial prior experience outside the particular group. http://www.hiit.fi/groups

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2nd CfP: International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI14) to be held in Sydney Aug 5-8
by tony huang 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross posting. Please consider contributing and help to distribute. ================================================= Call for papers, posters, workshop and tutorial proposals 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 to be given 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. Papers can be submitted as long papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers, including workshop papers, will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI-indexed), as has been the case in previous years. 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<http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijseke> (IJSEKE, SCI indexed) and a special issue of International Journal of Software and Informatics <http://www.ijsi.org/ch/index.aspx> (IJSI). Important Dates: Workshop proposals: March 25, 2014. Tutorial proposals: March 25, 2014 Long papers: April 8, 2014 Short papers: April 8, 2014 Posters: May 20, 2014 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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Fwd: CDVE2014 Call for Papers, Deadline April 1, 2014. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
by Cecilia Aragon 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Apologies for cross-posting... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuhua Luo - <y.luo(a)uib.es> Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:18 PM Subject: CDVE2014 Call for papers, Deadline April 1, 2014. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering To: cdve2014(a)cdve.org *CDVE2014 Call for Papers: Deadline April 1, 2014. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Seattle WA* The international conference CDVE 2014 (http://www.cdve.org<http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html>) will be held in the US for the first time after 10 conferences in Europe and Asia. Taking place in Seattle WA in September 2014, its focus is on cooperative applications and approaches to design, visualization, and engineering. Paper deadline is April 1, 2014. Long papers are 8 pages and short papers are 4 pages. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected expanded papers may be published in special issues of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work or the Journal of Concurrent Engineering. Submissions are welcomed in the following areas: Cooperative Design (CD) * Multiple user, multiple location collaborative design applications * Concurrent design, collaborative editing, real time user interactions * Demonstrating feasibility and applicability in CD * Cooperative User Experience (UX) design * Design for total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing or construction * Cooperative design analysis, verification, integration and interoperability, standards * Scenarios, case studies of cooperative design in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, building architecture, engineering and construction, automobile, microelectronics, software engineering, entertainment and other areas * Special issues in cooperative design Cooperative visualization (CV) * Multiple user, multiple location visualization, concurrent visualization, * System architecture, prototypes, user interfaces for CV: web applications, textual and multimedia 2D, 3D desktop interfaces, 3D virtual world environments, and multiple user embedded systems. * Large scale, massive data storage, access, exploration, and manipulation, for cooperative visualization * Multi-resolution and other efficient computer graphics, visualization algorithms for cooperative visualization * Visualization in multiple user games, networked games, simulation visualization for multiple users Cooperative Engineering (CE) * Total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing and construction * Collaborative process planning, scheduling, control, conformance testing and interoperability checking, cooperative decision making. * Human-machine interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems for CE * Concurrent prototyping, manufacturing and engineering. * Concurrent process modeling, product modeling, reference models, business models, data representations and standards. * Integration and interoperability, intelligent infrastructures and automated methods for integrating systems, multi-level integration, enterprise integration * Long-term large scale project data archiving, access, concurrent data control for CE * Smart grids * Industrial scenarios, case studies of CE: in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), automobile, microelectronics, and others Basic Theories, methods and technologies that support CDVE (BT) * Distributed systems, grid systems, real time systems, groupwares * Cloud computing for cooperative work * Algorithms, architectures, frameworks, platforms for CDVE * Data consistency, concurrent processing, middleware, agent based methods * Collaborative and multimode working environment * Design patterns, reusability and component-based methods * Communication, transport, application protocols for CDVE * Internet computing, web environment for collaborative working * Knowledge management, information systems, large databases, data-mining * Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration * Ontology for information sharing, cooperative applications * Security for CDVE * Human machine interaction for CDVE Cooperative Applications (CA) * Cooperative learning * Multiple user gaming * Cooperative decision making * Social networks * Cooperative Internet of Things (IoT) * Collaborative Information Seeking * Information integration in sensor networks * Collaborations in emergency response and disaster management * Collaborative mobile systems, group interaction in mobile system and mobility communities * Collaborative robots and human robot interaction * Collaboration technologies and systems for healthcare * Web based cooperation tools, cooperative web design such as Wiki's * Other cooperative applications *Deadline*: April 1, 2014 *Conference Dates*: September 14-17, 2014, Seattle WA *Submissions:* http://www.cdve.org/submit.html *Conference Website:* http://www.cdve.org<http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html> Program committee *Conference Chair* Professor Yuhua Luo University of Balearic Islands, Spain *Program Committee Chair * Professor Dieter Roller University of Stuttgart, Germany Members Cecilia R. Aragon University of Washington USA Jose Alfredo Costa Federal University, UFRN Brazil Peter Demian Loughborough University UK Carrie Sturts Dossick University of Washington USA Susan Finger Carnegie Mellon University USA Sebastia Galmes University of Balearic Islands Spain Halin Gilles School of Architecture of Nancy France Matti Hannus Technical Research Centre of Finland Finland Shuangxi Huang Tsinghua University China Jian Huang University of Tennessee USA Tony Huang University of Tasmania Australia Claudia-Lavinia Ignat INRIA France Jessie Kennedy Edinburgh Napier University UK Ursula Kirschner Leuphana University Lüneburg Germany Harald Klein Siemens AG Germany Jean-Christophe Lapayre Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France Francis Lau University of Hong Kong HongKong Pierre Leclercq University of Liege Belgium Jang Ho Lee Hongik University South Korea Jos P. Leeuwen Universidade da Madeira Portugal Ken Lin Google Inc. USA Kwan-Liu Ma University of California, Davis USA Mary Lou Maher University of North Carolina Charlotte USA Toan Nguyen INRIA France Moira C. Norrie ETH Zurich Switzerland Manuel Ortega Castilla - La Mancha University Spain Niko Salonen Rolls-Royce Oy Ab Finland Marc Aurel Schnabel The Chinese University of Hong Kong China Weiming Shen National Research Council of Canada Canada Ram Sriram National Institute of Standards & Technology USA Chengzheng Sun Nanyang Technological University Singapore Thomas Tamisier Public Research Centre - G. Lippmann Luxembourg Carlos Vila Jaume I University Spain Xiangyu Wang Curtin University Australia Nobuyoshi Yabuki Osaka University Japan

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Open Positions: Research Scientists -- Visualization
by Jim Klosowski 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

In AT&T Labs' Big Data Research organization, we develop new analytic methods for massive data sets to learn about our network and our customers, understand products, and improve services and operations. We are seeking outstanding PhD-level researchers at all levels of experience with expertise in: Visualization Data Mining / Statistics / Machine Learning Database Systems Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external collaborators, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs Research is an exciting place to work. Positions are based in New York, NY and Bedminster, NJ. For more information, visit www.research.att.com and click on "Working with us". AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications will be reviewed on a continuous basis until positions are filled. Questions may be directed to: Jim Klosowski jklosow(a)research.att.com http://www.research.att.com/groups/infovis

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Personalized Search: From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems (PESE2014)
by Giulio Jacucci 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Apologies for cross-posting. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Personalized Search: From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems (PESE2014) In conjunction with UMAP2014 7-11 July 2014- Aalborg, Denmark http://www.pese2014.com Submission Deadline: April 15, 2014 ========================================================================== It is widely accepted that personalized search is extremely powerful when facing realities such as the increasing amount of information available, the potential ambiguity of searched queries, or the between-users and between-tasks differences in search behaviors. Available information retrieval systems are particularly optimized for retrieving facts or answering specific questions. However, when the aim of the search is to learn or investigate, the systems are far from being optimized. In opposition to search for facts, exploratory search involves a continuous change of the state of the users, while they explore, learn or investigate. Consequently, relevance of items is no longer a static concept, as the perception of relevance varies according to the learning or investigation phase. Therefore, user modeling in exploratory search systems need to find mechanisms to track, recognize, or even predict perception of relevance, which is continuously evolving while in the search task. The workshop will focus on challenges, trends and solutions of personalizing search tasks. We aim to particularly discuss personalization in exploratory search scenarios, yet we enthusiastically welcome the discussion of any kind of personalized search. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from multiple fields such as information retrieval, user modeling, exploratory search, information visualization, recommender systems, and psychophysiology, among others. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to personalized search, especially in the areas related with exploratory search. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • Visualization approaches • Implicit interaction and relevance approaches • Harvesting of profile of users from history of interaction approaches • Context-awareness approaches • Combining recommender and retrieval systems approaches • Physiological interfaces for implicit relevance feedback approaches PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION Papers should not exceed 6 pages including references and must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style guidelines. Papers should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair Conference System. All the submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two of the Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published online in a CEUR-WS UMAP Workshop and poster proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES *April 15, 2014 – Paper submission deadline *May 10, 2014 – Notification to authors *May 20, 2014 – Camera-ready paper *July 7 or July 11, 2014 – PESE Workshop day (confirmation pending) The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Giulio Jacucci – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki (Finland) Peter Brusilovsky – University of Pittsburgh (USA) Samuel Kaski – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University (Finland) Tuukka Ruotsalo – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University (Finland) Oswald Barral – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki (Finland)

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CFP - Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA) at UMAP 2014
by Ben Steichen 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

--------------- Call for Papers --------------- The 1st 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: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams (ED2014)
by James Burton 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. We have two pieces of news since the call for papers was last sent. Firstly, the keynote talk will be given by Prof. Atsushi Shimojima. Secondly, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI). Full details below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ED 2014 Call For Papers: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams, July 28, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Co-Located with Diagrams 2014 and VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia ** ED 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/ED2014 Diagrams 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014 VL/HCC 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2014/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Euler diagrams represent relationships between sets, including intersection, containment, and disjointness. These diagrams have become the foundations of various visual languages and have notably facilitated the modelling of, and logical reasoning about, complex systems. Over the years, they have been extensively used in areas such as biosciences, business, criminology and national security to intuitively visualize relationships and relative cardinalities of sets. This widespread adoption has allowed analysis of complex collections of data. The workshop will cover all aspects of Euler diagram research, including, but not limited to: Theoretical Advances: drawability, layouts, logic, reasoning, Software Support: diagram generation, automated reasoning, data exploration, Real-World Applications: system modelling, information visualization, education, Cognition and Perceptual Principles: readability, aesthetics and evaluation, including comparison to other representations. Recently, there have been significant advances in all of the above areas. This workshop of peer-reviewed submissions will afford the growing Euler diagrams community the opportunity to present and discuss new research, and share multi-interdisciplinary expertise. We envisage that this will stimulate collaborations on current and future research needs. This will be the second time the workshop has run as part of the Diagrams conference series and the fourth Euler diagrams workshop (after successful workshops in 2012, 2004 and 2005). The workshop will bring together researchers with diverse backgrounds, from both academia and industry including those with expertise in mathematic, computer science, artificial intelligence, information design, visualization, human-computer interaction, as well as end-users from various application area. We solicit submissions on the topics mentioned above, in the following forms: full papers (15 pages), consisting of: - original research - surveys short papers (7 pages), consisting of: - systems descriptions - software demonstrations - position statements - original research contributions All submissions should be in Springer’s LNCS format. The proceedings will be published by CEUR. We will invite authors of the best papers to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information. We are pleased to announce that Atsushi Shimojima will give the keynote talk, entitled "Euler systems as feature indicator systems". Atsushi Shimojima is Professor of Culture and Information Science at Doshisha University in Japan. His research so far has been focused on applying semantical analysis of diagrammatic systems to make predictions on their cognitive potentials and verifying these predictions on the basis of psychological experimentation. A good example of this coupling of semantic analysis and cognitive science is found in his recent publication with Yasuhiro Katagiri in the journal, Cognitive Science, entitled "An Eye-Tracking Study of Exploitations of Spatial Constraints in Diagrammatic Reasoning". See our webpage for more details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission (optional): April 21st Paper submission: April 28th Notification: May 27th Although abstract submission is optional, authors are strongly encouraged to upload their abstract. Program Committee members will be asked to bid on papers for review, between the abstract and paper submission dates. Making your abstract available will help to ensure that the most appropriate experts review your paper. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Jim Burton, University of Brighton Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton Program Committee Francesco Bellucci (Tallinn University of Technology) Peter Chapman (University of Brighton) Rosario de Chiara (Poste Italiane) Renata de Freitas (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Tim Dwyer (Monash University) Jean Flower (Autodesk) Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) Luana Micallef (University of Kent) Mitsuhiro Okada (Keio University) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers ed2014(a)easychair.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr Jim Burton Senior 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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BioVis 2014 CFP
by G.Elisabeta Marai 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

BioVis 2014 http://biovis.net/year/2014/info/cfp BioVis: The 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization @ ISMB (July 11-12, 2014) ========================================================== BioVis 2014: Call for Participation We invite you to contribute to the 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization. For the first time, the symposium will be held as a special interest group meeting at ISMB in Boston, MA, USA. The Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is an international and interdisciplinary event for presenting peer-reviewed scientific work on all aspects of visualization in biology. The symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. We are looking for contributions on all aspects of visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Possibilities of contribution are full scientific papers, scientific posters, a data contest, and a redesign contest. All papers accepted to the conference will be considered for publication in BMC Bioinformatics, as part of a thematic issue on Biological Data Visualization, associated with the conference. In addition, all accepted papers to the conference will be indexed through the IEEE Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: March 15th 2014 Data Analysis Contest submissions: May 1st 2014 Redesign Contest submissions: May 1st 2014 Poster submissions: May 24th 2014. All deadlines are 5pm (PDT). CONTACT papers(a)biovis.net Paper Chairs Seán O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburgh, USA On behalf of the BioVis organizers, -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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UMAP 2014: Doctoral Consortium Deadline Reminder, List of Workshops, Call for posters and demonstrations
by Ben Steichen 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

===================================================================== UMAP 2014 - 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Aalborg, Denmark, 7-11 July, 2014 http://www.um.org/umap2014/ ===================================================================== *** Doctoral Consortium Deadline reminder *** Paper submission: 7th March 2014 For more information, please visit http://um.org/umap2014/?q=submissionsDCpapers *** List of Workshops *** Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA) User-Adaptive Visualization Interfaces (WUAVI) News Recommendation and Analytics (NRA) Linking User Data (LiUD) Personalizing Search - From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems (PESE) LifeLong User Modelling (LLUM) Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE) Personalization in e-Government Services, Data and Applications (PEGOV) Trust, Reputation and User Modeling (TRUM) Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE) Workshop on UMAP Projects Synergy (ProS) *** Call for posters and demonstrations *** We are soliciting peer reviewed poster and demo papers presenting original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Important dates for poster submissions: Paper submission: 7th April 2014 Notification to authors: 2nd May 2014 Camera ready submission: 16th May 2014 For more information, please visit: http://um.org/umap2014/?q=callforpostersdemos -- 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: Call for Reviewers
by G.Elisabeta Marai 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Dear colleagues in visualization --- Please volunteer as a reviewer for the upcoming IEEE VIS 2014 conferences: VAST 2014, InfoVis 2014, and SciVis 2014. The expected success of these important conferences, to be held this year between Nov. 9 and 14 in Paris, strongly depends on the high-quality reviewing of a large number of experts from the field of visualization. Many thanks in advance for your important support! To register as a potential reviewer for IEEE VIS 2014, use https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ We would appreciate it very much if you could also motivate to volunteer other visualization experts from your research environment. With best regards, the VIS 2014 Co-Chairs

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