April 2014 - Infovis - infovis.org

CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop
by Geoff Ellis 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

------------------------------------------------------------------ CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This one-day workshop will be held as part of i-KNOW 2014 (14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business),in Graz, Austria, 16-19 September 2014. http://i-know.tugraz.at IMPORTANT DATES - Submission by: 16 April, 2014 - Notifications of acceptance :16 May 2014 - Camera Ready Copy: 5 June 2014 - Workshop day: 16 or 17 September 2014 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss how to reduce the impact of cognitive biases in the systems we build. Work to date has generally focussed on developing user training to mitigate the effect of a small number of cognitive biases with little effort on software solutions. The latter not only requires research to identify situations where help would assist in better decision making, but also in developing novel corrective actions ideally tailored to the user. In the visualisation domain, work has centred around improving hypothesis generation to avoid confirmation bias, where the user unconsciously seeks evidence to confirm what they already believe, rather than seeking disconfirming evidence. There is plenty of scope for investigating whether or not the cognition of visualisation or elements therein are subject to cognitive biases. We invite participants from a wide range of disciplines such as decision science, cognitive psychology, information visualisation, visual analytics, software engineering, business and intelligence to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and promote future research potential. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - cognitive biases and information visualisation - new classification schemes for cognitive biases - integrating cognitive bias mitigation into existing software - measuring susceptibility to cognitive bias - cognitive biases in groups/collaborative situations - training/learning tools to overcome particular cognitive biases - business decision making - impact of big data on cognitive biases - evaluation techniques/methodologies The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations and group activities and will provide a forum for participants to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and identify future research potential. We hope to grow this interdisciplinary community to promote future collaboration. SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit original work, as either 2-3 page position papers or 4-6 page research papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the supplementary proceedings of i-KNOW 2014 (either ACM or IEEE). Submissions should be in ACM SIG proceedings format (standard 2-column style) as a PDF file through the workshop website. CONTACT For further details please contact Geoffrey Ellis, ellis(a)dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de Twitter: @ocb_workshop website: http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ORGANISERS Geoffrey Ellis, University of Konstanz Gaëlle Lortal, THALES Research & Technology, Paris Michael Bedek, University of Graz ------------------------------------------------------------------

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PostDoc position in Network Visualization at Monash University Australia
by Tim Dwyer 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

PostDoc position in Network Visualization at Monash University Australia Project Title: Visualisation of Large, Complex Networks Through Small, Beautiful Diagrams Annual Salary: $AUD75-80k (~$US70-74k) Start Date: second half of 2014 We have funding for a three year Research Fellow (post-doctoral) position investigating high-quality layout and visualization techniques supporting the interactive exploration of large graphs. Our group has expertise in optimization as well as human-centred design and we are looking for someone with skill in one or more of the following areas: - novel and natural user-interface design for visualization applications - algorithm design and optimization, particularly with application to network layout - applications of graph/network visualization We will be accepting official applications very soon, but right now we are looking for serious expressions of interest. Please contact: Tim Dwyer tim.dwyer(a)monash.edu -- Dr Tim Dwyer BSc BCS(Hons) PhD Senior Lecturer and Larkins Fellow Caulfield School of Information Technology Monash University, Victoria, Australia Office Address: Building H, 6.36, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Rd Caulfield East Mobile: 0481 240 767 (from overseas: +61 481 240 767) Postal Address: Faculty of Information Technology PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia

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Final CfP: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams DEADLINE EXTENDED
by James Burton 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please note that the deadline for Euler Diagrams 2014 has been extended by two weeks to Monday 12th May. We would appreciate it if you could forward this message to colleagues, students and appropriate mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission: May 12th (Deadline extended) 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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giCentre - Research Associate : Visual Analytics
by Dykes, Jason 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

The giCentre is recruiting a Research Associate to work on the EU funded Project VALCRI. The project will use novel modes of interaction to develop visual analytics tools that support criminal intelligence analysts in making sense of the masses of data that they use to generate evidence. We will be designing and building visualization tools to provide access to these data, detect patterns in them and support analysts in using them to develop arguments, threads of evidence and stories. VALCRI is a collaboration between 18 partners across Europe, with coordination at Middlesex University. We will be working closely with Middlesex and the University of Konstanz in particular in developing the ‘Data Space’ and ‘Analysis Space’ representations through which analysts interact with data. One key theme here is that of ‘scenario reconstruction’ – means through which data are organised to recreate events. This is a full-time post with a fixed-term until December 2017. Further details about the position and the giCentre are online: http://j.mp/citySH60017891 http://gicentre.org Please get in touch if you are interested and would like to discuss the position further - gicentre(a)soi.city.ac.uk

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Post-doctoral position in Visual Analytics at the University of Montpellier 2, France
by Arnaud Sallaberry 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Title: Visual Analytics for heterogeneous text streams. Location: LIRMM Lab (http://www.lirmm.fr/lirmm_eng/contact-‐us) Montpellier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpellier) France Contact: Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry at LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/) and Dr. Mathieu Roche at CIRAD (http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche) Abstract: The heterogeneity of data is an important issue in Big Data area. Data is not only large in volume and produced at a high speed (velocity), but also holds many kinds of input (technical heterogeneity), structures (data model heterogeneity) and meanings (semantic heterogeneity). We would like to recruit a postdoctoral researcher for one year to address this specific issue from a visual analytics approach. Context: A lot of documents (web pages, scientific publications, reports, and so forth) contain much useful information. Mining heterogeneous data, according to their structure and to their content becomes a major issue in data mining area. A key problem consists of sharing these various data and/or information and integrating them in order to discover new knowledge. In addition, microbloggings contain crucial information to take into account in a global system that mines heterogeneous data. For instance, people participating in on-line forums, microblogging or discussing on social networks leave behind them digital traces of information on a variety of topics. The analysis of individual messages and their aggregation represent a considerable challenge for currently existing methods, as user-written texts present a special type of stream setting. In this project we plan to investigate the epidemiology issue of farmed animals in collaboration with UMR Cirad-INRA CMAEE. The aim is to detect weak signals concerning the beginning of epidemics (e.g., African swine fever, foot and mouth disease, bluetongue, avian influenza). Description: Visual exploration of textual data is an active area of research. Most of the methods proposed deal with static texts like discourses, books or, more generally, string data. Most of these methods require well-formatted data and are not adapted to streams and/or heterogeneous data. The candidate will be in charge of discovering efficient text mining techniques for extracting structured data, and designing visual interfaces to interact with these structures and explore the data. He/She will process following the steps of the Munzner’s nested model for visualization design. Qualifications: - A PhD degree in Computer Science on the domain of Information Visualization or Visual Analytics with interest in Text Mining. - An excellent publication record, including papers in high‐impact journals and conference proceedings. - Strong experience in programming languages. - Knowledge of visualization libraries (e.g. D3, GraphViz, ...) is an asset. ‐ Must be proficient in English. Supervision: The project will be formally jointly supervised by Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry at LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/) and Dr. Mathieu Roche at CIRAD (http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche) Starting date: September/October 2014 (some flexibility is possible) Conditions of employment: Net salary: ~ 2200 euros / month Interested candidates are requested to send an application by e-‐mail to Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry, arnaud.sallaberry(a)lirmm.fr and Dr. Mathieu Roche, mathieu.roche(a)cirad.fr with the subject field: 'LABEX: Post-‐Doc visualization position'. The application should consist of a motivation letter and a curriculum vitae with a list of publications and description of any previous research you have held. Furthermore, names and contact information for three references are required. Applications will be reviewed immediately and the review process will continue until the position is filled. Sincerely, Arnaud. -- Arnaud Sallaberry Associate Professor - Maitre de Conferences LIRMM, Universite Paul Valery Montpellier 3 LIRMM - UMR 5506 - CC 477 161, rue Ada 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 France Tel. : +33 (0)4 67 41 86 53 E-mail : arnaud.sallaberry(a)lirmm.fr Home Page : http://www2.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Doctoral Colloquium
by G.Elisabeta Marai 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Doctoral Colloquium http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium We solicit submissions to the doctoral colloquium (DC) for IEEE VIS 2014. The DC is a single-day invitation-only event taking place the day before IEEE VIS where Ph.D. students in any visualization field---preferably those at the proposal defense stage or equivalent---present their proposed dissertation work and receive feedback from leading senior visualization researchers. We invite contributions from the scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics student communities. The colloquium will allow students to discuss their research directions in a supportive atmosphere with a panel of distinguished leaders and with their peers. Students can expect helpful feedback and fresh perspectives on their research topics and possible career paths, and will have the opportunity to interact closely with expert researchers in their field. The colloquium will support community-building by connecting beginning and advanced researchers. The DC is open to Ph.D. students in all stages of their studies, regardless of whether they are presenting research work at the main conference or not. Only selected applicants will be allowed to participate in the colloquium, and will be expected to attend the full day of events. Preference will be given to students who have formulated a dissertation topic but are still a year or more away from graduating. In North American terms, this corresponds to students that will or have recently defended their thesis proposal. Students who are in the process of formulating their research topic are particularly encouraged to apply, as this is the time where external feedback can have most impact. It is our experience that students who participate in the DC too early in their studies will not be able to get focused and useful feedback, whereas participating too late means that any significant feedback received will not be possible to incorporate in the student's dissertation due to time constraints. All research topics suitable for the IEEE SciVis, IEEE InfoVis, and IEEE VAST main programs as well as associated workshops and symposia are appropriate for the Doctoral Colloquium. FORMAT The colloquium will likely consist of both parallel sessions of student presentations as well as common discussions with the expert panelists. A lunch is also planned that will give student participants the opportunity to interact more informally with panelists. FUNDING Contingent upon pending requests for external sponsorship of the VIS DC, we might be able to partially fund the travel, conference registration, and lodging for some accepted DC student participants. DEADLINE The deadline for DC submissions is May 10, 2014. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Applicants to the Doctoral Colloquium should submit: - A four-page summary of their thesis research, including the problem being addressed, methodology and plan of research, a description of the progress to date, and the type of input expected from DC panelists. Please distinguish between work that has been accomplished and that which remains to be completed. The writing should be in a proposal format to facilitate feedback from the panelists as to validity of your problem and the efficacy of your approach. - An email from the student's advisor supporting the student's attendance at the colloquium and confirming that the student is in a good position to benefit from participating. Note that this should NOT be a letter of recommendation; a brief statement of support is sufficient. The e-mail should be sent directly todoctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org. - (Optional) A draft poster in PDF format (see below.) Student submissions should be emailed to doctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org. Formatting guidelines and LaTeX/Word templates can be found at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html. Student submissions will be peer-reviewed and selections will be made on the basis of their contribution to the colloquium's goals, strength of research direction, and the advisor's assessment. Accepted submissions will be printed for colloquium participants. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Accepted participants of the Doctoral Colloquium will also be allowed to present their work as a poster that will be displayed together with the regular poster program. Please consider including a draft poster with your DC submission. Participants may be asked to refine their posters and summaries based upon reviewer feedback. The poster session chairs will have a final say in accepting all poster submissions, even for DC participants. Also note that DC posters will NOT appear in the official IEEE VIS poster proceedings. The posters themselves have no predefined formatting, but dimensions may not exceed A0 paper size (841mm x 1189mm / 33.1" x 46.8"). Participants are responsible for bringing a hardcopy poster for display during VisWeek. They should be available at the poster to discuss their work during the scheduled evening poster session(s). CHAIRS Jian Chen, *University of Maryland Baltimore County*Christopher Collins, *University of Ontario Institute of Technology*Margit Pohl, *TU / Wien* -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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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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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: VAST Contest (2nd call)
by G.Elisabeta Marai 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

IEEE VIS 2014 VAST Challenge 2014 2nd Call for Participation http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 Data for Mini-Challenge 1 and Mini-Challenge 2 now available! 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 *Note: This scenario and all the people, places, groups, technologies, contained therein are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, places, groups, or technologies is purely coincidental. * 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. *Data Available Now! **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? *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

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Final CfP: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams
by James Burton 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please note that the deadline for submission to ED2014 is in just under two weeks' time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Personalised Multilingual Information Access Workshop 2014 - Final extended deadline: Apr 15
by Ben Steichen 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

The final submission deadline for the PMIA 2014 workshop has been extended to Apr. 15. --------------- 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 15, 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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