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Vinci 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 10 May '16

10 May '16

CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016) (vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016 ======================================== Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. Visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and mobile devices. The Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) (vinci-conf.org) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '16) will be held on 24-26 September 2016, in Dallas, TX, USA, in the heart of the complex of over 600 major multinational technology corporations, with 47 non-stop flights to international destinations. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to submit revised versions of their works to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier, SCI indexed). In addition, revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press, AHCI indexed). 1. SCOPES AND TOPICS ==================== We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, or other media. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: = Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension = Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors = Visual interaction through multimodality = Visual approaches for knowledge discovery = Computational aesthetics = Visual analytics = Graph drawing and (multivariate) network visualization = Information visualization = Graphical user interface design = Aesthetics in visual communication = Influence of visual arts and design = Visual modeling languages and UML = Visual communication metaphors = Visual programming languages = Visualization on mobile devices = Applications like SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, ... = Sketching = Human-computer interaction 2. PAPER SUBMISSION =================== Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstrations on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. Each submitted symposium paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three International Program Committee members. All accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings of VINCI’2016 published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier; SCI indexed). In addition, it is planned that revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for the subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press; AHCI indexed). Research papers and experience reports of up to ten (10), short papers of up to four (4), and tool demonstrations or posters of up to two (2) ACM double-column pages should be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2016. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page.. 3. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ========================== VINCI '16 is also soliciting proposals for full-day or half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Proposals should not be longer than a maximum of 2 pages. In particular, workshop proposals should include: 1) The title and a brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest in these times, and the main research areas involved. 2) Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s) and previous experience in chairing scientific events. 3) A tentative list of program committee members. 4) Intended length (half or full day) and a draft of the Call for Papers. It is expected that the workshop organizers will setup an own workshop web page as soon as the workshop proposal has been accepted. Tutorials usually attract a broad range of audiences, including professionals, researchers, students, or practitioners, who wish to enhance their knowledge in the specific tutorial topic. Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in visual information communication and interaction. Tutorial proposals should include short biographies of the proposers, a draft of the tutorial content, intended length, and evidence of the possibility of attracting audience to the tutorial. It is possible to extend the symposium by one day in case many workshops or tutorials are proposed and accepted. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page. 4. SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PANELS ============================== We also invite special session and panel proposals for VINCI '16. Proposals for special sessions and panels should include the title, aim and scope, the names and affiliations of the organizers together with a short biography. A list of potential contributors or panel members would be surely helpful too. The proposers are expected to have a good publication track record and excellent standing in the proposed area. Detailed information on the submission of special sessions and panel proposals can be found on the conference web page. Papers submitted to special sessions should be done through the VINCI '16 EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2016) The paper types are identical to those of regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the special session organizers to make sure that papers submitted to their special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers (however chaired by the special session organizers) and will appear in the VINCI '16 conference proceedings as well. The symposium chairs reserve the right to move accepted papers for a special session into a regular session in case the special session has finally less than four papers. In this case, the special session will be cancelled. 5. IMPORTANT DATES ================== Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel proposals due: April 15, 2016 Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel decision and notification: April 25, 2016 Paper submission deadline: May 01, 2016 (23:59 in PST) Notification of decision: June 15, 2016 Camera-ready copy due: July 05, 2016 6. ORGANIZATION =============== General Chair: Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Program Chair: Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Program Committee: Wolfgang, Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre Tomasz Bednarz, Queensland University of Technology Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau Rita Borgo, Swansea University Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen, Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa Daniel Cernea, AGT International Jian Chen, University of Maryland Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Camilla Forsell, Linköpings Universitet Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University Liang Gou, IBM Research - Almaden Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Theresia Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Karsten Klein, Monash University Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Margit Pohl, TUW Francois Poulet, IRISA Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Cagatay Turkay, City University London Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven Gualtiero Volpe, Casa Paganini-InfoMus, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu,Keio University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Kai Xu, Middlesex University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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HCI 1-year postdoc research fellowship INRIA/Paris
by Emmanuel Pietriga 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

A one-year postdoc position is available at INRIA Saclay, France (near Paris). The candidate will join the ILDA team [1] and contribute to project MapMuxing, which is about the design, implementation and evaluation of novel, interactive geovisualization techniques that help users combine and make sense of multiple, heterogeneous representations of geographical areas such as, e.g., topographic maps, ortho-images, live geolocation feeds, geophysical phenomenon simulations such as tsunamis. This is a joint project with IGN, the French national mapping institute [2]. Within this general context, the candidate is welcome to develop his/her own research directions, and will have the opportunity to design novel techniques for either workstations, ultra-high-resolution wall displays, or both. Applicants must have a PhD in Computer Science and be interested in interactive cartography and geovisualization. Expertise in Human-Computer Interaction / Information Visualization is required. Knowledge of Geographical Information Systems is a plus, but is not mandatory. The position is for 12 months. Starting date is flexible, before March 2017. Interested applicants should contact Emmanuel Pietriga (emmanuel.pietriga(a)inria.fr) and Caroline Appert (caroline.appert(a)lri.fr) We will both be attending CHI '16 in San Jose. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us there! [1] http://ilda.saclay.inria.fr [2] http://www.ign.fr -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA & INRIA Chile http://pages.saclay.inria.fr/emmanuel.pietriga

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CDVE2016 paper deadline extended to May 20, 2016
by cdve .org 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering October 24-27, 2016 Sydney, Australia www.cdve.org Due to requests from many of our potential authors, CDVE2016 conference paper submission deadline is now extended. Both full paper and short paper deadline has been extended to May 20, 2016. You are welcome to submit full papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 4 pages. See our call for papers <http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html> page for more details. Your paper should dress one of the major topics in the call for paper themes. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You should submit your paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page <http://www.cdve.org/submit.html> for how to submit. If you have not yet submitted a paper, you can definitely take this as a great opportunity! -- The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 24-27, 2016, Sydney Email: cdve2016(a)cdve.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Deadline extended (May 20): CDVE2016 in Sydney
by CDVE16 Sydney 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Dear Colleagues The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering -CDVE2016 will be held on Oct. 24 - 27, 2016, in the beautiful city Sydney, Australia: www.cdve.org The deadline for both full and short papers has been extended to May 20, 2016. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You should submit your full paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page for how to submit on the conference website. All the accepted papers (full - 8 pages and short - 4 pages) will be published in the proceedings by Springer on their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). In addition, our selected papers have been and will be published in SCI indexed journals including some IEEE transaction journal special issues. All the accepted and published papers will be indexed by EI, ISI Web of Science，ACM Digital Library, dblp，Google Scholar, IO-port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH. Please feel free to forward this call for papers. We look forward to meeting you in Sydney! -- The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 24-27, 2016, Sydney Email: cdve2016(a)cdve.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Deadline Extension (May 8th): IEEE TMM Special Issue on Visualization and Visual Analytics for Multimedia
by Nan Cao 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

*IEEE TMM Special Issue on Visualization and Visual Analytics for Multimedia* *Submission Info: * Deadline: 18:00 EST, May 8th, 2016 Link: *http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-special-issues/ <http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-special-issues/>* *Editor-in-Chief:* Chang Wen Chen, The State University of New York at Buffalo *Guest Editors:* Nan Cao, NYU Tandon School of Engineering & NYU ShangHai Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University David Gotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Daniel A. Keim, University of Konstanz Yap-Peng Tan, Nanyang Technological University *Contact Method*: nan.cao (at) nyu.edu *IEEE Transactions on Multimedia:* *http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/ <http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/> * *————————————————————————————————* We call for novel and high-quality papers on the topic of visualization and visual analytics of multimedia data for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM). This special issue focuses on presenting the state-of-the-art visualization and visual analysis techniques that are developed for solving important problems in the multimedia domain. Visual analytics is an emerging research direction that focuses on data exploration and analysis with a seamless integration of interaction, visualization, and analysis (such as data mining and machine learning). By showing data and analysis results in context, a visualization can display rich evidences that support or against the analysis results, thus helping with data interpretation and results validation. The analysts can annotate on (e.g. label on) or adjust the results via interactive user interfaces and visualizations to supervise the underlying analysis procedure based on, for example, advanced active learning algorithms, producing more and more precise analysis and correct results gradually. The combination enables human-centric computational intelligence by effectively integrating human knowledge and expertise with powerful computational algorithms through the high-bandwidth visual processing channel and user interaction. Recent progress on visualization and visual analytics creates new opportunities for understanding and making sense of large-scale, dynamic, heterogeneous multimedia data through “analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces”. Existing studies of visual analytics have already produced some insightful results and findings, which demonstrates the success and effectiveness of visual analyticsfor dealing with the complex multimedia data. This special issue will introduce the readership to the latest innovations in visual analytics for multimedia and provide a spotlight on an emerging and promising area of research within the larger multimedia community. *Topics* The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visual analytics of multimedia datasets, such as - Texts and audio data / Speech and music data - Images and videos - Spatio-temporal data - Social media data / Mooc data / Social and web multimedia data - Sensor data / Healthcare Data - Visual and interaction assisted multimedia analysis techniques for - Multimedia search and retrieval - Multimedia indexing (e.g., hashing) - Object detection, tracking, categorization, and clustering - Surveillance and semantic analysis - Outlier detection in multimedia - Visualization based multimedia environment, such as - Multimedia interfaces and interactions - Visual environments and workspaces - Multimodal signal representation and visualization - Human-centric multimedia, such as - Multimodal human-human and human-computer Dialog - Multimodal human-machine interfaces and interaction - Multimedia using haptic and physiological information - Multimodal perception, integration, and multisensory Fusion - Multi-screen user experience - Subjective and objective quality assessment, and user experience *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: 05/08/2016 - First Round Review Notification: 7/01/2016 - Revision Due: 8/01/2016 - Final Acceptance Notification: 9/01/2016 - Camera Ready (after minor revision) Due: 9/15/2016 - Publication: November 2016 *Submission guideline:* Prospective authors should submit original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. Prospective authors are required to strictly follow the Author’s Guide formanuscript submission to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) at *http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/ <http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/>*, and manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission portal at *http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee <http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee>*

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BioVis@Vis 2016 Updated Call for Participation
by Jillian Aurisano 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

BioVis 2016 BioVis at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD October 23rd, 2016 http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ #biovis *Important Dates:* Paper submission (one-page IEEE abstract): April 29, 2016 BMC manuscript submission: May 6, 2016 Poster submission: August 26, 2016 Design Contest submission: September 23, 2016 All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT). BioVis 2016 is the 6th Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The meeting 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. It is hosted as a one-day single-track event at VIS (http://ieeevis.org) and a SIG half-day meeting at ISMB (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016) We invite submissions of original research, poster submissions, as well as submissions for data visualization and redesign contests. We invite contributions on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Paper and Contest submissions can only be submitted to the BioVis meeting at VIS. All accepted abstracts for the conference will be linked on the BioVis website (http://www.biovis.net) All abstracts accepted into the conference will be considered for publication, once extended into papers, in the thematic series on Biological Data Visualization of BMC Bioinformatics (impact factor 2.6), as part of a two-round review process. We are currently working with IEEE on confirming the publishing model as described in this Call for Participation, i.e., an open access publication with BMC Bioinformatics. Should this model not be realized, the manuscripts will be indexed under IEEE. All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis website. Data Analysis and Design Contest entries that are accepted, and deemed to make a significant contribution to the field, will be invited to submit full manuscripts for inclusion in the BMC Bioinformatics journal. *Submission Guidelines:* Authors are required to submit a 1-page abstract for the conference due Apr 29th, and an extended, full BMC paper due May 6th. Note that due to copyright regulations, the 1-page abstract text must be completely different from the extended paper text (including the BMC-style paper abstract.) For the BMC manuscript, please use the templates provided on the http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ website. When formatting the IEEE abstract, please use the template provided at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html *Keynote Talk: * Sheelagh Carpendale University of Calgary General chairs - G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Paper chairs - Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Poster chairs - Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA Publication chairs - Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA - Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA Primer & challenges chair - Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland Highlights chair - Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia Data contest chairs - Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA - Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK Design contest chairs - Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium - Francis Rowland, EBI, UK Industry and fundraising chair - Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA Website chairs - Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada Publicity chairs - Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Steering Committee - Kay Nieselt <http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/>, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nils Gehlenborg <http://www.gehlenborg.com/>, Harvard Medical School, USA - Jessie Kennedy <http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/people/peopleid/41>, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Jos Roerdink <http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/>, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Raghu Machiraju <http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~raghu>, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)

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CFP - Interactive Visual Decision Analytics at HICSS-50: January 4-7, 2017 Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii -- Submission Deadline June 15, 2016
by David S. Ebert 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

We are soliciting papers in interactive visualization and analytics for decision support, operational management, and scientific discovery as part of the Interactive Visual Decision Analytics minitrack of the Decision Analytics Track at HICSS 50. Accepted paper will appear in the proceedings as well as the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS is always one of the top conferences for downloads in the IEEE Digital Library! A description of the paper topics is below, the minitrack RFP is below, and the conference RFP is available at http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp. Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions by June 15, David, Brian, Kelly David Ebert Brian Fisher Kelly Gaither - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, www.purvac.org - - ebertd(a)purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Minitrack: Interactive Visual Decision Analytics DECISION ANALYTICS, MOBILE SERVICES AND SERVICE SCIENCE Interactive Visual Decision Analytics supports human decision making through interaction with data and statistical and machine learning processes. IVDA applies in broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. Current applications include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, precision medicine, safety and security and business processes. We also encourage submissions that extend the areas of use to new analytic tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, and other domains. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, Interactive Machine Learning, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. We seek to define analytical methods and technologies that use interactive visualization to meet challenges posed by data, platforms, and applications for decision making and risk-based decision making, such as: . Visualization and Analysis of datasets of varying size and complexity from archives and real-time streams . Collaborative visual analysis and operational coordination within and across organizations. . Interactive and Visual Risk-based decision making . Cross-platform interoperability, from mobiles to data walls . Managing response time of complex analytical tasks . Effective deployment and case studies of success from deployed visualization and analytics experiences We invite computational, cognitive, and organizational perspectives on advanced data processing and interactive visualization across a range of human endeavors. We also invite participation from researchers who are looking at scaling issues and multiscale issues, whether these scales refer to the time of decision making, the form-factor and operational constraints of mobile devices, the number of decision makers or the more traditional notion of multiscale simulation and real world scales of data. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine computational and interactive analytics in "mixed initiative" systems, decision support in the context of an organization (e.g. communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus on the analytics of the data itself and coordination of multiple levels of analysis and operations to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for stakeholders

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VINCI 2016 call for paper
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016) (vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016 ======================================== Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. Visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and mobile devices. The Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) (vinci-conf.org) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '16) will be held on 24-26 September 2016, in Dallas, TX, USA, in the heart of the complex of over 600 major multinational technology corporations, with 47 non-stop flights to international destinations. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to submit revised versions of their works to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier, SCI indexed). In addition, revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press, AHCI indexed). 1. SCOPES AND TOPICS ==================== We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, or other media. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: = Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension = Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors = Visual interaction through multimodality = Visual approaches for knowledge discovery = Computational aesthetics = Visual analytics = Graph drawing and (multivariate) network visualization = Information visualization = Graphical user interface design = Aesthetics in visual communication = Influence of visual arts and design = Visual modeling languages and UML = Visual communication metaphors = Visual programming languages = Visualization on mobile devices = Applications like SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, ... = Sketching = Human-computer interaction 2. PAPER SUBMISSION =================== Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstrations on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. Each submitted symposium paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three International Program Committee members. All accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings of VINCI’2016 published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier; SCI indexed). In addition, it is planned that revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for the subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press; AHCI indexed). Research papers and experience reports of up to eight (8), short papers of up to four (4), and tool demonstrations or posters of up to two (2) ACM double-column pages should be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2016. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page. 3. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ========================== VINCI '16 is also soliciting proposals for full-day or half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Proposals should not be longer than a maximum of 2 pages. In particular, workshop proposals should include: 1) The title and a brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest in these times, and the main research areas involved. 2) Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s) and previous experience in chairing scientific events. 3) A tentative list of program committee members. 4) Intended length (half or full day) and a draft of the Call for Papers. It is expected that the workshop organizers will setup an own workshop web page as soon as the workshop proposal has been accepted. Tutorials usually attract a broad range of audiences, including professionals, researchers, students, or practitioners, who wish to enhance their knowledge in the specific tutorial topic. Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in visual information communication and interaction. Tutorial proposals should include short biographies of the proposers, a draft of the tutorial content, intended length, and evidence of the possibility of attracting audience to the tutorial. It is possible to extend the symposium by one day in case many workshops or tutorials are proposed and accepted. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page. 4. SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PANELS ============================== We also invite special session and panel proposals for VINCI '16. Proposals for special sessions and panels should include the title, aim and scope, the names and affiliations of the organizers together with a short biography. A list of potential contributors or panel members would be surely helpful too. The proposers are expected to have a good publication track record and excellent standing in the proposed area. Detailed information on the submission of special sessions and panel proposals can be found on the conference web page. Papers submitted to special sessions should be done through the VINCI '16 EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2016) The paper types are identical to those of regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the special session organizers to make sure that papers submitted to their special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers (however chaired by the special session organizers) and will appear in the VINCI '16 conference proceedings as well. The symposium chairs reserve the right to move accepted papers for a special session into a regular session in case the special session has finally less than four papers. In this case, the special session will be cancelled. 5. IMPORTANT DATES ================== Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel proposals due: April 15, 2016 Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel decision and notification: April 25, 2016 Paper submission deadline: May 01, 2016 (23:59 in PST) Notification of decision: June 15, 2016 Camera-ready copy due: July 05, 2016 6. ORGANIZATION =============== GENERAL CHAIR: Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CHAIR: Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden PUBLICITY CHAIR: Jie Li, Tianjin University, China PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kostiantyn Kucher, Linnaeus University, Sweden LOCAL ORGANZATION CHAIR: Pushpa Kumar, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA FINANCE CHAIR: Jey Veerasamy, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wolfgang, Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre Tomasz Bednarz, Queensland University of Technology Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau Rita Borgo, Swansea University Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa Daniel Cernea, AGT International Jian Chen, University of Maryland Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Camilla Forsell, Linköpings Universitet Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University Liang Gou, IBM Research - Almaden Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University Theresia Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Karsten Klein, Monash University Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, University of Rennes 1 - IRISA Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Maximilian Schich, The University of Texas at Dallas Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven Gualtiero Volpe, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu,Keio University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Kai Xu, Middlesex University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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FedCSIS 2016 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'16 - 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'16 - 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'16 - 1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'16 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DSTUI'16 - 6th International Workshop on Dealing with Spatial and Temporal Uncertainty and Imprecision --- LTA'16 - 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'16 - 9th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'16 - 1st International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BCPC'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'16 - 9th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- CPORA'16 - 1st Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- IWCPS'16 - 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'16 - 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'16 - 8th Workshop on Scalable Computing * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- IEES'16 - 1st International E-education Symposium - Education of the Future --- DS-RAIT'16 - 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology * iNetSApp'16 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'16 - 3rd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'16 - 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'16 - 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'16 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'16 - 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- APICSS'16 - 1st Workshop on Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems --- ASEG'16 - 1st Workshop on Advanced Systems for e-Governance and e- Democratization --- ISM'16 - 11th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'16 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'16 - 22nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- MIQH'16 - 1st Workshop on M-Health Innovations for Quality in Healthcare --- UHH'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'16 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'16 - 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'16 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- BTMSPA'16 - 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches --- MDASD'16 - 4th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'16 - 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-36 - The 36th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop --- WASE'16 - 1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Keynote title : How enterprise architecture management improves IS capabilities - Results from a multiple case study - Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Keynote title : Big Water Meets Big Data: Analytics of the AIS Ship Tracking Data - Michael Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Keynote title : Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks? - Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US, Keynote title: Service focus and focused service composition PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CFP: GD2016, Athen, Greece. Sept 19-21, 2016
by Yifan Hu 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

==================================================================== Call for Papers GD 2016 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 19-21, 2016 – Athens, Greece http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/ ==================================================================== Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs andconstitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing andNetwork Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial tovisually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of suchapplication areas include data science, social sciences, Web computing,information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, informationsecurity and software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Itsfocus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well asthe design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2016 will behosted by the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, an affiliate ofthe National Technical University of Athens from September 19 to 21, 2016 inAthens, Greece. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspect of graphdrawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and postersand to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. PAPERS------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoreticalor practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. Regularpapers must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks. Paperssubmitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the othertrack. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such ascombinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this trackincludes (but is not limited to): • Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms • Geometric graph theory• Geometric computing• Planarity and topological graph theory• Optimization on graphs Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects----------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such asthe development of network visualization systems and interfaces in differentapplication areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is notlimited to): • Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications, including big data• Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems• Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms• Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems and user interfaces• Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction• Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs Short papers------------ Besides regular papers in the two tracks above there will be a separatecategory for short papers. In this category it will be possible to submittheoretical contributions and applied papers of shorter length. Papers in thiscategory will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. Demos----- Authors of applied regular and short papers will have the opportunity to show ademo of their software/system during the poster session. Submission format----------------- All submissions must be formatted using the LaTeX style file for the conferenceseries Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. Thedefault margins and fonts must not be modified. Submissions that do not complywith this format risk being rejected. The length of regular papers is limitedto 12 pages (excluding references), while the length of short papers is limitedto 6 pages (excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fullysubstantiated, including full proofs or appropriate experimental data. If thisinformation does not fit within the page limits, the authors should include itin a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which thereviewers may read at their own discretion. POSTERS------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and relatedareas are also solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for thecommunication of late-breaking research results (which may also appearelsewhere) to the graph drawing community. Authors of posters should prepare anabstract (up to two pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted togetherwith the poster itself. CONTEST------- Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference willbe provided on the conference Web site. PUBLICATION----------- All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published bySpringer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and, followinga green open access policy, as a conference index on the arXiv repository. TheLNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community uponpublication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. The self-archivedarXiv proceedings will provide immediate and unrestricted open access. Twelvepages (excluding references) will be allocated for regular papers and six pages(excluding references) for short papers. Upon submission of the camera-readyversion of accepted papers, the identical paper (optionally including a clearlymarked appendix) must be submitted to the arXiv repository and its arXividentifier must be specified for inclusion in the conference index. For each paper, an author must register and present the paper at the conference (baring unforeseen circumstances) otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings.Abstracts of accepted posters will also appear in the conference proceedings (two pages), but will not be made available for indexing. Selected papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. AWARDS------ For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2016 will give a BestPaper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to presenttheir work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there willbe a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2016attendees. IMPORTANT DATES--------------- Paper submission deadline June 12 (23:59 PDT)Notification of paper acceptance July 24Poster submission deadline August 17 (23:59 PDT)Notification of poster acceptance August 28Final versions due September 1Contest submission deadline September 11Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 19-21 INVITED SPEAKERS---------------- Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, DERoger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, CH PROGRAM COMMITTEE----------------- Patrizio Angelini, University of Tübingen, DETherese Biedl, University of Waterloo, CAWalter Didimo, University of Perugia, ITCody Dunne, IBM Watson Health, USADavid Eppstein, UC Irvine, USAJean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, FRStefan Felsner, TU Berlin, DERadoslav Fulek, IST Austria, ATEmden Gansner, Google, USAYifan Hu (co-chair), Yahoo Labs, USAKarsten Klein, Monash University, AUStephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USAMarc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, NLJan Kynčl, Charles University Prague, CZKwan-Liu Ma, UC Davis, USATamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DEMartin Nöllenburg (co-chair), TU Vienna, ATStephen North, Infovisible, Oldwick, USAMaurizio Patrignani, Roma Tre University, ITHelen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UKHuamin Qu, HKUST, Hong KongGünter Rote, FU Berlin, DEAndré Schulz, University of Hagen, DELei Shi, Chinese Academy of Science, CNAlexandru Telea, University of Groningen, NL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE-------------------- Kostas Karpouzis, National Tech. Univ. of Athens, GRChrysanthi Raftopoulou, National Tech. Univ. of Athens, GRAntonios Symvonis (chair), National Tech. Univ. of Athens, GR CONTEST COMMITTEE----------------- Philipp Kindermann, University of Hagen, DEMaarten Löffler (chair), Utrecht University, NLLev Nachmanson, Microsoft Research, USAIgnaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE

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