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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 SCOPES AND TOPICS ==================== We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual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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Call for Participation: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2016
by Sven Linker 04 May '16

04 May '16

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016 Graph-based Modeling of Conceptual Structures ******************************************************************************************** 5th to 7th July, 2016, Annecy, France Conference web site: www.irit.fr/ICCS2016/ Early Registration Deadline: 5th June, 2016 Co-located: 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2016 ******************************************************************************************** The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science. The ICCS conferences evolved from a series of seven annual workshops on conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F. Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) paradigms are getting more and more attention. The aim of the ICCS 2016 conference is to build upon its long standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based systems. ICCS 2016 will be co-located with FOIS 2016, held in Annecy, in the Polytech building at the campus of the University of Savoie. The registration can be found at: https://www.irit.fr/CMS-DRUPAL7/ICCS2016/node/12 ** Program ** ICCS 2016 will be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016). The conferences have been scheduled to minimise overlapping of sessions. The schedule can be found at: https://www.irit.fr/CMS-DRUPAL7/ICCS2016/node/4 * Keynotes * "Automating human-like reasoning with diagrams on machines" Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) "On the many graphs of the Web and the interest of adding their missing links" Fabien Gandon (INRIA) * Papers * Alper Yegenoglu, Pietro Quaglio, Emiliano Torre, Sonja Grün and Dominik Endres: "Exploring the Usefulness of Formal Concept Analysis for Robust Detection of Spatio-Temporal Spike Patterns in Massively Parallel Spike Trains" Cristina Nica, Agnès Braud, Xavier Dolques, Florence Le Ber and Marianne Huchard: "Extracting Hierarchies of Closed Partially-Ordered Patterns using Relational Concept Analysis" David Jakobsen and Peter Øhrstrøm: "The Interpretation of Branching Time Diagrams" (short paper) Juliette Dibie-Barthelemy, Stéphane Dervaux, Estelle Doriot, Liliana Ibanescu and Caroline Penicaud: "MS2O - A Multi-Scale and Multi-Step Ontology for Transformation Processes: Application to Micro-Organisms" Fabien Amarger, Jean-Pierre Chanet, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Hernandez and Catherine Roussey: "Knowledge Engineering Method based on consensual knwoledge and trust computation: the MUSKA System" Alina Petrova and Sebastian Rudolph: "Web-Mining Defeasible Knowledge from Concessional Statements" Arash Saghafi: "Visualizing Ontologies – A Literature Survey" Abdelraouf Hecham, Madalina Croitoru, Pierre Bisquert and Patrice Buche: "Extending GWAPs for Building Profile Aware Associative Networks" Cornelius Croitoru and Madalina Croitoru: "Representing Multi-Scale Datalog +/- Using Hierarchical Graphs" Bingyang Wei and Harry Delugach: "Transforming UML Models to and from Conceptual Graphs to Identify Missing Requirements" (short paper) Shipra Sharma and Balwinder Sodhi: "SDDNet: A Semantic Network for Software Design and Development Domain via Graph Database" (short paper) Danai Symeonidou, Madalina Croitoru, Isabelle Sanchez, Pascal Neveu, Nathalie Pernelle, Fatiha Sais, Aurelie Roland, Patrice Buche, Aunur-Rofiq Muljarto and Rémi Schneider: "Key Discovery for Numerical Data: Application to Oenological Practices" Céline Alec, Chantal Reynaud and Brigitte Safar: "A Model for Linked Open Data Acquisition and SPARQL Query Generation" Fabien Amarger, Jean-Pierre Chanet, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Hernandez and Catherine Roussey: "Dealing with incompatibilities when fusioning knowledge bases" (short paper) Francesco Kriegel: "Parallel Attribute Exploration" Sebastien Ferre and Peggy Cellier: "Graph-FCA in Practice" Uta Priss: "A Semiotic-Conceptual Analysis of Conceptual Learning" Simon Andrews, Ben Brewster and Tony Day: "Organised Crime and Social Media; identifying and corroborating weak signals of Human Trafficking online" Sanda Dragos, Diana Halita and Christian Sacarea: "Distilling Conceptual Structures from Weblog Using Polyadic FCA" (short paper) ** Partners ** ICCS 2016 is sponsored by the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (INRIA) and the French Artificial Intelligence Association (AFIA). ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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Event Analytics - Workshop May 26th, HCIL UMd (EventFlow, Coco and more...)
by Catherine Plaisant 03 May '16

03 May '16

At the occasion of the 33rd HCIL Annual Symposium: hcil.umd.edu/soh<http://hcil.umd.edu/soh> May 26 Workshop - University of Maryland Temporal Event Sequence Analysis + EventFlow and CoCo user group meeting http://hcil.umd.edu/eventflow-workshop-2016/ * Learn from others who have used HCIL event analytics tools (e.g. Karyln Beer reporting on giardia study at CDC) * See how High-Volume Hypothesis Testing has being used for systematic exploration of event sequence comparisons * Hear about our brand new work: EventAction: prescriptive analytics for event sequences. * Come mingle with leaders in event analytics There are still a few spots if you want to present! Catherine (and the HCIL event analytics team: Sana Malik, Fan Du and Ben Shneiderman) -- Catherine Plaisant, PhD Senior Research Scientist Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park MD (301) 405-2768 http://hcil.umd.edu/catherine-plaisant/

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2nd Biennial BPViz: Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop, August 3 - 4, 2016
by Byrd, Vetria L 03 May '16

03 May '16

The 2016 CRA-W/CDC CADENS Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz'16) Workshop will be held August 3-4, 2016. The workshop will be co-located at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The goal of the workshop is to cross boundaries between STEM and non-STEM domains of scientists with data visualization needs, to facilitate collaborations and broaden participation in visualization on all levels in academia, research and industry. Sponsored by Computing Research Association -Women (CRA-W), The Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), BPViz is designed to bring together persons with an interest in visualization to: (1) present work-in-progress, (2) engage with others in the field, (3) obtain feedback from visualization experts, (4) discuss research and career interests, and (4) build a community of persons interested in broadening participation and inclusion across all domains where data visualization drives analysis and discovery. The workshop will include presentations on a variety of visualization topics, plenary speakers from academia, industry and research in the visualization field and much more. We have taken into account feedback from the 1st CRA-W/CDC BPViz Workshop participants in 2014, and we are changing the format a bit to include hands-on visualization workshops with various visualization tools and a trip to The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. BPViz'16 Workshop is an ideal opportunity to engage with others with interests in visualization, get hands-on experience with commonly used visualization tools, and network with visualization domain scientists. It is designed to inform, inspire and encourage participants to engage in the multidisciplinary dynamics of visualization. Who should apply: All persons with an interest in visualization are encouraged to apply (this includes, but is not limited to): undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, faculty, research faculty and staff. All academic majors and research interests with an interest in visualization are encouraged to apply. Women and members of underrepresented groups and underrepresented academic domains are also encouraged to apply. Travel expenses (flight or mileage), meals and lodging costs will be provided for a limited number of workshop participants. Persons who would like to be considered for travel support should indicate so when applying. We are regrettably restricted to reimbursing/providing travel support to only U.S. Citizens. We recognize this is a serious constraint, but it is a federal regulation on the funding. Persons with their own travel funds wishing to participate in the workshop are also encouraged to apply. For consideration for travel support application materials must be received by 11:59 PM (EST) Sunday, June 19, 2016. Workshop details and program highlights can be found at https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/bpviz Any questions about BPViz'16 should be addressed to workshop organizers at BPVizWorkshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:BPVizWorkshop@gmail.com> Follow BPViz on Twitter @BPViz ____________________________________ Vetria L.Byrd Assistant Professor Computer Graphics and Technology Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue University KNOY Hall Room 307 Phone: (765) 494-6335 Email: vlbyrd(a)purdue.edu<mailto:vlbyrd@purdue.edu> Twitter: @VByrdPhD, @BPViz @VisREU LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/VetriaByrd<http://www.linkedin.com/in/VetriaByrd> https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/vbyrd We are Purdue. What we make moves the world forward.

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