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UMAP 2014 - call for late-breaking results papers & registration information
by Ben Steichen 05 May '14

05 May '14

===================================================================== UMAP 2014 - 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Aalborg, Denmark, 7-11 July, 2014 http://www.um.org/umap2014/ ===================================================================== ================== Call for late-breaking results papers ================== Similarly to poster and demonstration papers, late-breaking results contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User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. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. Submissions will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Differently to posters and demonstration papers, late-breaking results papers should have a length of 4 to 6 Springer’s LNCS pages. Accepted papers will be published in the UMAP 2014 Extended Proceedings as a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. They will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format: valid poster formats are a single slide of about 24″x36″ (ISO A1) or alternatively up to 9 ISO A4 slides. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. ***Important dates*** Paper submission: 19th May 2014 Notification to authors: 30th May 2014 Camera ready submission: 13th June 2014 ***Chairs*** Min Chi, North Carolina State University, USA - mchi(a)ncsu.edu Ivan Cantador, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain - ivan.cantador(a)uam.es For more information, please visit: http://um.org/umap2014/?q=callforpostersdemos ================== UMAP 2014 registration now open ================== Early registration: until June 1st Late registration: June 1st - July 6th On-site registration: after July 6th To register, please visit: http://um.org/umap2014/?q=registration -- 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 2nd CFP: Workshops
by G.Elisabeta Marai 02 May '14

02 May '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS: New Due Date May 9th http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/workshops Due to multiple requests, the workshop submission deadline has been extended to May 9. We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should: • emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; or • bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and ‘invitation only’ workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for archival electronic publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: • a title, • the contact details of the organizers, • a brief description of organizers' background, related publications, and research, • the goals, the technical scope, the mission, and the proposed focus, • the planned activities, • the length (full or half day), • a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), • the requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format), and • the intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines and submit via PCS http:// precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, • the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, • the appropriateness with respect to IEEE VIS topics, • the qualification of the organizers, • the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and • the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and the impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition, the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission: May 9, 2014 CHAIRS Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Zoė J. Wood, California Polytechnic For further information, please email workshops(a)ieeevis.org. -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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BioVis @ ISMB in Boston: Call for Posters
by Alexander Lex 02 May '14

02 May '14

Working in visualization for biology? Want to come to Boston, to ISMB this summer? Submit a BioVis poster! Submission deadline is May 24, 2014. http://www.biovis.net/year/2014/info/posters The 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis 2014, July 11-12) invites poster contributions addressing all aspects of visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism, and population biology. For the first time, BioVis will be held as a special interest group (SIG) meeting associated with the leading Bioinformatics conference, ISMB. The BioVis symposium as a whole aims to promote interaction between the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities. The BioVis poster session offers an interactive forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement with BioVis participants as well as all ISMB attendees. The BioVis 2014 Posters track offers a venue to present and discuss: * new research in biological data visualization * previously published work from other venues * visualization challenges relevant to the BioVis community Submissions take the form of a short (250-word) abstract with a supporting figure and are presented at the conference site as large format posters during a dedicated poster session. -- Alexander Lex Harvard SEAS | http://www.alexander-lex.com The Caleydo project: http://www.caleydo.org

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IEEE VIS 2014 3rd CFP: VAST Challenge
by G.Elisabeta Marai 01 May '14

01 May '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org VAST Challenge CFP *Data for Mini-Challenge 3 now available!* Announcing the VAST Challenge 2014! See http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 for details. 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? *Data Available Now! **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 what is happening in the city of Abila and find clues into the disappearance of the GASTech employees? *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 -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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