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Re: [Infovis] National Academies Final Report on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure
by Borner, Katy 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Relevant for computational network science, computational SciSIP, computational social science, and many other computational X. k From: NSF/CISE Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) Announcements [mailto:ACI-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV] On Behalf Of Kurose, James Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:05 AM To: ACI-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.NSF.GOV Subject: National Academies Final Report on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure Dear Computing and Information Science and Engineering Community, It is our great pleasure to inform you that the final report from the National Academies on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020 is now available for download at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21886. This study was commissioned by CISE’s Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) in 2013 to examine priorities and trade-offs for advanced computing in support of NSF-supported science and engineering research. An interim report was published in Fall 2014 identifying key issues and catalyzing input from the community. The final report, which was issued in late April, considered contributions from multiple stakeholders, including more than 60 submitted comments from individuals, research groups, and organizations. The recommendations within the report aim to: (1) position the United States for continued leadership in science and engineering; (2) ensure that computing resources meet community needs; (3) aid the scientific community in keeping up with the revolution in computing, and (4) sustain the infrastructure for advanced computing. We are enthusiastic about the study’s helpful observations and recommendations. The timing of the report is excellent, syncing with planning for NSF’s future research cyberinfrastructure (CI) investments. It also nicely complements the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI)<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/29/executive-order-crea…> that was announced last summer and some of our internal planning with respect to data infrastructure as the NSF-wide Cyberinfrastructure for 21st-Century Science, Engineering, and Education (CIF21) effort transitions. Please join us in thanking the study committee for all their work, especially the study co-chairs, Bill Gropp and Robert Harrison. We also want to thank the community for thoughtful input and review. We invite you to a webcast<https://nsfevents.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&site…> on this new report with Bill and Robert during the next meeting of the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI)<https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138596&org=null> on Monday, May 23rd at 10:45 AM ET. Sincerely, Irene and Jim Irene Qualters, Division Director, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Jim Kurose, Assistant Director of NSF for CISE ########################################################################

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Job Offers: Research Scientist(s) in visual and algorithmic analysis of movement and event data, Bonn, Germany
by Gennady Andrienko 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Preliminary job announcement The Computer Science Department (Informatik III) of the University of Bonn, Germany, in collaboration with the department of Knowledge Discovery of Fraunhofer Institute IAIS invites applications for the following two positions Researcher (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) - visual and algorithmic analysis of movement and event data – (PostDoctoral researcher and PhD student) The positions are co-funded by DFG Priority research programme on “Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualisation and Social Computing” (SPP 1894) and Horizon 2020 projects datAcron (http://ai-group.ds.unipi.gr/datacron/datacron) VaVeL (http://www.vavel-project.eu/) SoBigData (http://www.sobigdata.eu/) INTUIT (http://www.intuit-sesar.eu/) and BigData4ATM (http://www.bigdata4atm-sesar.eu/) The positions are a part of the joint research group of the University of Bonn and Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, which focuses on visual analytics and knowledge discovery in databases. The group has an excellent record of international projects, scientific results, and publications at prestigious conferences and in highly reputed journals. The candidate would elaborate and develop scalable visual and algorithmic methods for the analysis of different types of spatiotemporal data (movement data, events, spatial time series), which will be capable to deal with the high complexity of geographical space, time, and multidimensional attributes. The candidate is expected to have completed a Diploma, Master degree, or (preferably) PhD in Computer Science and proven capabilities in software engineering (Java, SQL) and algorithms. Knowledge of Data Mining and Information Visualization is a prerequisite. Knowledge of GPU programming, Geographical Information Systems and practical handling of spatiotemporal data is an advantage. The candidate should be fluent in English and have good writing skills. For non-German speakers gradual learning of the German language is required. EU citizenship is necessary. The positions are available for an initial period of 24 months, with possible extension till 3 years. Anticipated start date is October-December 2016. Salary is according to EG 13, TV-öD. Applications are due August 31st, 2016. Applicants are expected to submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a list of course marks, publication list, and the names and addresses of two persons who are willing to provide letters of reference upon request. If you are interested in this position, please contact Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel and Prof. Dr. Gennady Andrienko: ____________________________________________________________

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Deadline extended - CFP: Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Christopher Collins 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Deadline Extended: August 6, 2016 We invite contributions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities: http://www.vis4dh.com This will be a one day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, MD. http://ieeevis.org/ The purpose of this workshop is to propose new research directions in visualization for the digital humanities, to familiarize the visualization research community with the problems faced by digital humanities researchers, and to foster future collaboration between visualization and digital humanities research. Dr. Min Chen, Oxford University, is confirmed to as one of the keynote speakers on the topic of "Discovering Treasure Troves in Digital Humanities". Despite the growing popularity of digital methods for research in the humanities, digital humanists are underserved by academics in visualization, and under-represented in visualization conferences. This is due to a number of factors: 1. The differences in rhetorics of proof and discovery (and so differences in data culture and use) in the humanities as opposed to other, typically scientific or analytic fields where visualization research is commonly focused. 2. The difficulty of performing task analysis and evaluation for many humanities questions, that may have no ground truth. 3. In text visualization specifically, the difference between the needs of digital humanists (who perform close readings and critical engagements with texts) as opposed to more standard text visualization scenarios (e.g. text analytics on datasets for intelligence or social media analysis). Addressing these difficulties requires exposure of these data issues, interdisciplinary collaboration, and steering of future research directions. Submission This workshop is seeking work from scholars in both visualization and the humanities who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. Submissions will take the form of short (2-4 page) papers, falling into one of three submission types: - Extended Abstracts: These submissions are meant to highlight emerging visualization research in the digital humanities. The intention of these shorter submissions is to provide a platform for feedback for work that is still in progress, rather than present completed projects. - Short Papers: These submissions are meant to summarize more mature work in visualization for the digital humanities, including case studies, system descriptions, and empirical results. Of special consideration are works that highlight the difficulties (and propose solutions) of designing visualizations for the digital humanities. Applied work from the digital humanities that is highly visual in nature would also be considered for acceptance. - Position Papers: These submissions are meant to present viewpoints and opinions on the interplay between visualization and the digital humanities. These positions should be informed by deep involvement and experience in one (or ideally, both) fields. Position papers should be thought-provoking but also well-supported. Authors of accepted short and position papers will be invited for a 9-minute research presentation (including 2 minutes for audience questions). Additionally, they will participate in a moderated panel discussion. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will give 5 minute "fast-forward" presentations. Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates available at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html Submissions will be optionally double blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself (e.g., references to "our" work). Submissions should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vis4dh2016 by 30 July, 2016. Submissions should be in pdf format, and the submission email should clearly indicate the paper type: extended abstract, short paper, or position paper. Submissions should not exceed four pages. Topics The focus of this workshop is on applied visualization in the digital humanities, as well as highlighting domains in the digital humanities with unmet visualization challenges. These applications and domains include, but are not limited to: · Literature · Philology and Linguistics · Art and Art Criticism · Political Science · Performance (Music, Dance, Film, and Theatre) · Cultural and Historical Studies We are especially interested in a number of open questions in this space, including: · The impact of visual analytics systems on research in the digital humanities: - How can interactive visualizations support new questions, and new scales of research, in the DH community? - How can we encourage DH scholars to seek out visualizations, or collaboration with visualization researchers? · Characteristics of visualization for the digital humanities: - How does visualization with a DH focus differ from general research in the visualization community? How do their user groups differ? - How can we remove obstacles for humanities scholars wanting to use visual analytics approaches for their research? · How digital humanities research questions and tasks can push the frontier of visualization research: - What challenges are there for developing systems with novelty in both visualization and DH communities? - How do we evaluate visualizations where we lack ground truth data? Dates (Extended) Submission Deadline: 6 August, 2016 Notification Deadline: 12 August, 2016 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 26 August, 2016 IEEE VIS Conference: 23-28 October, 2016 Organizers Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (contact: christopher.collins(a)uoit.ca) Michael Correll, University of Washington (contact: mcorrell(a)cs.wisc.edu) Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz (contact: menna.el-assady(a)uni.kn) Stefan Jänicke, University of Leipzig Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz (contact: daniel.keim(a)uni.kn) David Wrisley, New York University Abu Dhabi / American University of Beirut Program Committee (partial) Markus John, University of Stuttgart Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart Shejuti Silvia, University of Oklahoma Eric Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Madison Florian Windhager, Danube University Krems Catherine DeRose, Yale University Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz Adam Bradley, University of Waterloo

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IEEE VIS Co-located workshops and tutorials, symposiums, student volunteer and much more ...
by Jian Chen 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

=================== IEEE VIS 2016 http://ieeevis.org/ October 23 - 28, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/5qABWF There are seven items in the message: 1. Accepted Workshops 2. Accepted Tutorials 3. VisSec (Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security) (Deadline: August 1, 2016) 4. VDS (Visualization in Data Science) (Deadline: August 5, 2016) 5. Student Volunteers (Deadline August 1, 2016) 6. BioVis Posters (Deadline: August 26, 2016) 7. Coming Soon… (VIS MeetUp, VISKids child care grants and VIS program at a glance) ============ 1. Accepted Workshops ============ Consider participating in the following workshops: ** Discovery Jam: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops#discoveryjam ** Innovations in the Pedagogy of Data Visualization http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops#pedagogy ** 2nd Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS) http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/etvis/ ** Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV) http://c4pgv.swansea.ac.uk/ ** LIVVIL: Logging Interactive Visualizations & Visualizing Interaction Logs http://livvil.github.io/workshop/ ** Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities http://vis4dh.com/ ** The Event Event: Workshop on Temporal & Sequential Event Analysis http://eventevent.github.io/ ** Workshop on Visualization in Practice: Open Source Visualization and Visual Analytics Software http://visinpractice.org/ For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops. ============ 2. Accepted VIS Tutorials ============ The following tutorials will be taught at VIS: ** Applying Color Theory to VIS ** Information Theory in Visualization ** Recent Advancements of Feature-based Flow Visualization and Analysis ** Visual Analytics for High-Dimensional Data ** User-Centred Evaluation in Visualization ** Visualization Analysis and Design ** Considering Qualitative Evaluation ** Sketching Designs for Data-Visualization using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology ** Human Vision, Cognition and Visualization ** Tensor Decomposition Methods in Visual Computing For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/tutorials. ============ 3. VisSec (Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security) ============ http://vizsec.org/ The 13th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Submission deadline: August 1, 2016 ============ 4. VDS (Visualization in Data Science) ============ http://www.visualdatascience.org/ Visualization is an integral part of data science, and essential to enable sophisticated analysis of data. VDS will bring together domain scientists and methods researchers (including data visualization, usability, data management, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, programming environments, scalable software). We solicit contributions in the form of short abstracts based on * novel work, * previously published work or, * position statements Selected contributions will be invited to speak at the workshop. Submission deadline: August 5, 2016 Contact: contact(a)visualdatascience.org ============ 5. Student Volunteer ============ http://vissv.org/ The Student Volunteer Program is looking for reliable, hard working and enthusiastic student volunteers to help us create a great experience and a premier conference. Each year student volunteers provide essential support to the IEEE VIS Conference. Their enthusiastic participation enhances the conference experience for all the attendees. Student Volunteers benefit by observing first-hand the latest advances in visualization, hearing and meeting world-class as well as next-generation visualization professionals from around the world, and building a network of research colleagues. Application deadline: August 1, 2016 ============ 6. BioVis Posters ============ http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ The BioVis 2016 Posters track offers a venue to present and discuss new research in biological data visualization. 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. The BioVis workshop as a whole aims to promote interaction between the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities, and the BioVis poster session offers an interactive forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement with BioVis participants as well as all attendees of IEEE VIS. Submission deadline: August 26, 2016 ============ 7. Coming Soon... ============ VIS MeetUp: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/meetups VISKids Child Care Grants: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/committees/viskids-child-care-grants VIS program at a glance: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/week-glance Best regards, -- Jian (on behalf of IEEE VIS publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice: Open Source Visualization and Visual Analytics Software
by Oelke, Daniela 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

************************************************************* 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice Call for Abstracts http://visinpractice.org/ ************************************************************* The 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying the latest visualization and visual analytics research to real world problems. The focus of this year's workshop will be the design, development, distribution, and application of open source visualization and visual analytics software. The workshop will include an invited keynote, a session of talks, and a poster session in which live demonstrations of open source tools will be given. All accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present in the poster/demonstration session. At the discretion of the conference organizers, approximately 12 submissions will also be selected to give an oral presentation during the talk session. The 2016 VIP workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS in Baltimore, Maryland during the week of October 23-28. Topics --------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Design of open source visualization or visual analytic systems and libraries - Demonstrations of new open source tools that address practical visualization problems - Critiques of existing open source visualization systems, informed by real-world usage, with suggestions for improvement - Retrospectives on the process of turning research prototypes into robust, open source software - Discussions of the state of the open source visualization ecosystem---how well do existing tools interoperate? where are there substantial gaps? - Best practices for using open source visualization tools and adopting them within organizations - Proposals for researcher-practitioner collaborations to address real-world visualization challenges We especially encourage submissions from practitioners who apply visualization and visual analytics to real-world problems in journalism, industry, national laboratories, government, non-profits, etc. Submission ---------------- We solicit submissions of extended abstracts of up to 2 pages, IEEE paper format guidelines (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) plus up to 12 additional figures (beyond those in the abstract) which cover the visual content you would include in your final poster or in a talk, if invited to give one. The images should be appended to the 2-page document (thus, your whole document may have more than 2 pages). You are invited to use captions in order to explain your images. To clarify, we count a Latex figure as one item regardless of how many sub-images it contains. Optionally, you may submit a video (MPEG, AVI, or Quicktime format, duration at most 5 minutes) showing your methods or processes in action. This will be most helpful for demonstrating the effectiveness of your approach. If you would like to have your video included in the conference USB stick, it should not exceed 100MB. Abstracts will be reviewed for their potential applicability to the VIP workshop audience and their potential positive impact on the broader open source visualization community. Additionally, they will be reviewed for timeliness, clarity, and overall quality of writing. Where applicable, the described open source software will also be reviewed for robustness, applicability, ease of access (e.g. github repository), licensing, documentation, and ease of running an initial demonstration. Submissions should provide clear directions to where the software can be downloaded. Note that research novelty is explicitly not a criteria for evaluation at the VIP workshop. All submissions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (https://precisionconference.com/~vip16) Submissions must be received on or before July 29, 2016 to be considered. Questions about this workshop or requests for help with submission problems can also be sent to vip(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vip@ieeevis.org>. In order to maintain interactive and exciting presentations and posters, we require that at least one presenter per accepted submission attend the workshop. Important Dates --------------------- Submission Deadline: July 29, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: August 26, 2016 Final Submission (Camera-ready): September 9, 2016 Workshop: October 24, 2016 Publication -------------- All submitted abstracts and the accompanying material will be published on the workshop's website and on the IEEE Vis conference USB stick. Organizers --------------- Bernd Hentschel - RWTH Aachen University Alan Keahey - IBM Daniela Oelke - Siemens AG Justin Talbot - Tableau Research

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VINCI 2016 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION====================== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016)(vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016========================================VINCI ’16 features high profile keynote speeches, state-of-the art technical sessions and entertaining social programs, which will surely be interesting and beneficial to our participants (detailed programs can be found on vinci-conf.org) 1. KEYNOTES =========== Keynote Speech 1: TITLE: Beyond the Two Cultures: A Crisis in Representation Prof. Malina Roger (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Abstract: As an astrophysicist, I have spent my career bathing in astronomical data, the data world is as real to me as the sensory physical world. Yet we are still in the stone age of representing digital data in forms that we can understand and feel. Three years ago I started the UT Dallas ArtSciLab where artists and scientists work side by side making trouble with data. I will present our work with neuroscientists, astronomers and geoscientists and also talk about the new born digital hybrids whose existence gives the lie to the very concept of C P Snow’s Two Cultures. Short Bio: Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, an art-science researcher, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair Professor, and Professor of Physics, at UT Dallas. He obtained his B.S. in physics from MIT in 1972, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. Founded the ArtSciLab which hosts projects which involve collaboration between artists and scientists, resulting in art works, scientific data exploration tools, and public engagement activities involving the integration of the arts, design and humanities in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEAM). Malina is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. "Laser d’or" Prize, from the International Video Art Organization. Keynote Speech 2: TITLE: Visual Analytics and the VAST Challenges: this year’s Challenge and a retrospective look at an influential international competition Prof. Georges Grinstein (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Abstract: The VAST Challenges are a decade old and have had large international participation. The challenge data sets are mostly synthetic with embedded ground truth and participants are asked stop solve a particular problem, which in many cases involves discovering that ground truth, which in turns makes it easier to objectively evaluate submissions. But submissions are also evaluated several other ways. I will discuss several key problems in Visual Analytics, provide examples of how the VAST Challenges were developed as an attack on these problems, and show award winning solutions. I will also discuss the importance of open source tools in solving these problems. Short Bio: Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was head of its Bioinformatics Program, Director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and is now Chief Scientific Officer of Weave Visual Analytics. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978. His work is broad and interdisciplinary, covering the perceptual and cognitive foundations of visualization, very high-dimensional data visualization, visual analytics and applications. The emphasis is on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information data and systems. He has over 40 years in academia with extensive consulting, over 300 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, a book on interactive data visualization, founded several companies, been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. He has given numerous keynotes and mentored over 40 doctoral students and hundreds of graduate students. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies and commercial organizations. For the last ten years he has co-chaired the IEEE VAST Challenges in visual analytics leading to new research areas. He has developed and taught new courses, one of which Radical Design focused on how to develop radical new products instead of evolutionary ones. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence CCICADA (Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis), and directs the development of Weave, an open source web-based interactive collaborative visual analytics system incorporating numerous innovations. 2. PANEL ========Facilitating Visualization Capacity Building Organizers: Vetria L. Byrd (Purdue University) and Joseph A. Cottam (CREST/Indiana University) Panel Members: TBA Visualization plays an important role in discovery and insight. As a tool, visualization is often times utilized as a light in a sea of data providing insight to large, complex datasets. The scientific community and society at large are the beneficiaries of the utility visualization brings. As more and more data is created and consumed persons with knowledge of the visualization process, applications, methods and techniques will continue to be in demand in all fields with data visualization needs. The purposes of this panel are two-fold: (1) to discuss the need for facilitating visualization capacity building: incorporating visualization early and often into computing and other educational programs to equip students with transferrable skillsets that are in demand in the global workforce and (2) to facilitate a discussion on what knowledge base is needed to build and strengthen visualization capacity of users in visualization application domains. 3. ACCEPTED PAPERS AND POSTERS ============================== Full Papers: Visual Analysis of User-Driven Association Rule Mining Hui Lei, Cong Xie, Pingping Shang, Fan Zhang, Wei Chen and Qunsheng Peng Supporting Collaborative Political Decision Making - An Interactive Policy Process Visualization System Tobias Ruppert, Andreas Bannach, Jürgen Bernard, Hendrik Lücke-Tieke, Alex Ulmer and Jörn Kohlhammer Enhancing Infographics Based on Symmetry Saliency Kouhei Yasuda, Shigeo Takahashi and Hsiang-Yun Wu A User Study on Judging the Target Node in Partial Link Drawings Michael Burch, Rudolf Netzel, Marcel Hlawatsch and Daniel Weiskopf The Dynamic Call Graph Matrix Michael Burch Adaptively Tiled Image Mosaics Utilizing Measures of Color and Region Entropy Lina Zhang, Kwan-Liu Ma and Jinhui Yu BranchingSets: Interactively Visualizing Categories on Node-Link Diagrams Francesco Paduano, Ronak Etemadpour and Angus Forbes Visibility Widgets: Managing Occlusion of Quantitative Data in 3D Terrain Visualization Martin Röhlig and Heidrun Schumann Generation of Miro’s Surrealism Lu Xiong and Kang Zhang Eliciting Tacit Expertise in 3D Volume Segmentation Ruth West, Cindy Grimm, Max Parola, Meghan Kajihara, Anahita Sanandaji, Jeremy Deutsch, Luke Hillard, Brandon Lane, Kathryn Hays and Anne Carlew A Comparative Study on Inter-Device Interaction: One-Handed Interaction VS Two-Handed Interaction Zheng Huang, Jed Limke and Jun Kong What Makes You Think This Is a Map? Suggestions for Creating Map-like Visualisations Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai and Muye Yang How People Deploy Dimensional Information to Estimate Relative Values Yina Li and Dong-Jin Li A Guided Tour of Literature Review: Facilitating Academic Paper Reading with Narrative Visualization Yun Wang, Dongyu Liu, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo and Huamin Qu Deep Exploration of Multidimensional Data with Linkable Scatterplots Quang Vinh Nguyen, Simeon Simoff, Yu Qian and Maolin Huang Short Papers: IDSPlanet: A Novel Radial Visualization of Intrusion Detection Alerts Yang Shi, Yaoxue Zhang, Fangfang Zhou, Ying Zhao, Guojun Wang, Ronghua Shi and Xing Liang Spatio-temporal Visual Information for Human Action Recognition Li Yao and Weixin Xu Bus Lines Explorer: Interactive Exploration of Public Transportation Data Rainer Splechtna, Alexandra Diehl, Mai El-Shehaly, Claudio Delrieux, Denis Gracanin and Kresimir Matkovic Do Defaults Matter? Evaluating the Effect of Defaults on User Preference for Multi-Class Scatterplots Casey Haber, Lyndon Ong Yiu, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Spatiotemporal Analytics of Topic Trajectory Jiangen He and Chaomei Chen A Hybrid Approach for Event Social Influence Visualization Wenqian Ji, Yan Tang, Pengju Ma, Shijie Tang, Zhipeng Fang, Xuan Li and Tianjian Chen Posters: EduVis: Visualization for Education Knowledge Graph Based on Web Data Kai Sun, Yuhua Liu, Zongchao Guo and Changbo Wang Visualizing Time-Variant Sets on a Handheld Device Iliesa S. K. Delai, Meilan Jin and Geoffrey M. Draper Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional YouTube Data Using the GPLOM Technique Seimei Matsusaki, Xi Han, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Visual Communication Power Construction and Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tobacco Control Advertising Qian Wang and Bing Xiao The Effect of Color on Short-term Memory in Information Visualization Kang Xin Design for the future: Incorporating Cradle to Cradle Design into our street Yinan Li and Jian Wang Understanding Contagion Dynamics in Networked Populations Through Data Exploration and Visualization Sherif Abdelhamid, Chris Kuhlman, Madhav Marathe and S. S. Ravi SeaCove: accessing SEmAntic COVErage of queries for improved user experience when searching the web Haolin Ren, Guy Melançon, Benjamin Renoust and Marie-Luce Viaud VolSelectAware: Visual-Cognition Coupled Non-Visual Data-Driven Volume Selection for Immersive Scientific Visualizations Daniel Wilches and Amy Banic Performance Histogram Curve: Abstractive Visualization and Analysis of NBA Games Biao Zhu and Wei Chen 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 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 Jie Wu, Tongji University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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IEEE VIS: Visualization and Data Analysis 2017 CFP
by Jian Chen 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Visualization and Data Analysis 2017 Call for Papers Burlingame, CA - 29 January–2 February 2017 Share your expertise and submit your work by 25 July, 2016, to be part of Visualization and Data Analysis 2017 at Electronic Imaging 2017, the world’s leading global electronic imaging industry and academia event. To begin your submission, view the VDA author instructions. At Visualization and Data Analysis 2017, you’ll: Explore research and development and applications across all aspects of data visualization and visual analytics, exchange ideas with researchers, technologists and artists, from all over the world, delve into case studies and empirical studies, image processing techniques and applications, information visualization, and visualization and data analysis in social media. Conference topics include: Biomedical visualization Cyber-security Data mining Exploratory data visualization and analysis Geographic visualization Graph visualization High-performance computing and visualization Multivariate time series visualization Scientific visualization Sentiment analysis Virtual and augmented reality Human factors Volume and flow visualization Submission Info All Submissions are due 25 July 2016. Paper Submission Options: Presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. This is the most common option, and may be either an oral or interactive (poster) presentation. Presentation only at the conference with no publication in the conference proceedings. Presentation-only submissions are typically by invitation or permission of the conference and are suitable for industry contributors who are restricted from submitting proceedings papers. JIST-first. Expedited review and publication in the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) before the conference, oral presentation at the conference, and inclusion in the conference proceedings. To help you get management support to attend, we've created a template you can use to help justify your attendance at EI 2017. Simply copy and paste the document into an email or word document and fill in the highlighted portions. This will outline the value that attending EI 2017 provides—not just to you as an imaging science professional, but to your entire organization. View the VDA conference call for papers for specific submission requirements: http://ist.informz.net/InformzDataService/OnlineVersion/ind/bWFpbGluZ0luc3R… Your conference chairs Thomas Wischgoll, David Kao, and Song Zhang. Best regards, -- Jian (on behalf of vis publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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Job opportunity for infovis request mailing list
by Tim Dwyer 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Dear Infovis, Please post the following message to the infovis request mailing list: Professor/Associate Professor of Immersive Visualisation http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/professor-associate-profess… The University Monash University seeks to improve the human condition by advancing knowledge and fostering creativity. It does so through research and education and a commitment to social justice, human rights and a sustainable environment. The Opportunity The Faculty of Information Technology has a track record of internationally renowned research into information visualisation. An exciting opportunity exists for a talented individual with outstanding research experience in data visualisation to steer the future direction of Immersive Visualisation research at Monash. Applicants should have an outstanding track record in the use of immersive visualisation technologies in scientific or geographic visualisation, virtual or augmented reality, or computer-mediated collaboration. The appointee will have access to visualisation facilities that are among the best in the world including the Monash $1.8M CAVE2 immersive visualisation facility https://monash.edu/mivp This challenging senior position requires someone capable of: leading innovative and transformative Immersive Analytics research initiatives raising the profile of Immersive Visualisation within the University building a strong and cohesive multi-disciplinary group that fosters collaboration supporting the development and teaching of data visualisation in undergraduate and postgraduate Data Science degrees dynamically engaging with industry, government and community organisations, including academic and professional societies. Duration The appointment will be on a continuing basis at a level appropriate to the successful candidate's qualifications and experience. The Benefits Remuneration package $153,526 - $169,132 pa Level D / $197,762 pa Level E (includes 17% employer superannuation). Relocation travel, removal allowance and salary packaging are available. Monash offers a range of professional development programs, support for research, study and overseas work, generous maternity leave and flexible work arrangements. Confidential enquiries regarding the position may be made to Professor Kim Marriott, Faculty of IT, Monash University, +61 3 9905 5525 Applications are due August 28, -- Dr Tim Dwyer BSc BCS(Hons) PhD http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/~dwyer 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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CFP 9th Forum Media Technology 2016, DL: Sept 2, 2016
by Aigner Wolfgang 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: September 2nd, 2016) Apologies if you receive this more than once. ========================================================== CFP: 9th Forum Media Technology 2016 St. Pölten, Austria 23-24 November, 2016 http://fmt.fhstp.ac.at Submission address: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2016/ Contact: forummedientechnik(a)fhstp.ac.at ========================================================== Audiovisual, interactive and mobile media interweave with our everyday life. In almost all our areas of life, they change our behavior and affect our perception, thinking and feeling. The Forum Media Technology (FMT) aims for an intensive dialogue of experts working at agencies, studios and production companies with students, lecturers, researchers and developers. Contributions are sought for the 9th Forum Media Technology, presenting current results of applied research and development, new theoretical and scientific findings or case studies, projects, formats, services and prototypes in digital media technologies. In order to foster the exchange between various disciplines in the huge field of digital media, the Forum Media Technology intentionally puts its focus on a wide range of content and on interdisciplinary dialogues at the intersection of new technological possibilities, creative design as well as economic, social and cultural framework requirements. We invite submissions which address one of the topics of the conference (see more details in the attached PDF): - High Dynamic Range Video Production, Postproduction and Technologies - Innovative Audio - New Applications for Music, Sound Design and Sonic Interaction - Mobile Design / Development / Trust / Privacy / Learning - Digital Media Experience (Game Design, Serious Games, Experience Design) - Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis - Multimedia Modelling and Retrieval - Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage - Smart Engineering and Industrial Internet - Ambient Assisted Living and Digital Healthcare - Content Development and Production - Technology-based Business Models - New Forms of Media Use and their Analysis PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the above or closely related topics. Please submit your paper electronically at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2016/. Contributions can be submitted in German or English. FMT welcomes submissions in three different submission categories: - Full Paper: Full papers should report substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research. The maximum length is 8 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. Accepted full papers will be presented as a talk of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion. - Short Paper: Short papers are appropriate for reporting smaller experiments, surveys, and work in progress. The maximum length is 4 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. Accepted short papers will be presented as a talk of 10 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion. - Graduate Consortium: The FMT 2016 Graduate Consortium session is intended to provide an opportunity for graduate and doctoral students to explore, discuss and develop their research topic in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers. We invite students to apply for this unique opportunity to share their work with colleagues and researchers in the field. Candidates for the Graduate Consortium should have a clear topic and research approach. Their work should be still in progress and allow for making changes, so that applicants can benefit from the consortium’s feedback. Accepted proposals will be presented in a one-minute elevator statement to the audience and then discussed in detail in smaller individual discussion groups. A template for full and short papers is available here: http://bit.ly/fmt2016template IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Submission of short and full papers September 2, 2016 Submission of graduate consortium papers November 2, 2016 Notification of acceptance (short and full papers) October 7, 2016 Notification of acceptance (graduate consortium) November 11 2016 Camera-ready submission October 21, 2016 9th Forum Media Technology 2016 23-24 November, 2016 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Wolfang Aigner, Kerstin Blumenstein, Michael Iber, Grischa Schmiedl, Matthias Zeppelzauer. LOCATION: St. Pölten, Austria (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, http://www.fhstp.ac.at) Situated 60 km to the west of Vienna in Austria’s oldest baroque town, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1996 and is an expanding institution of higher education. -- WOLFGANG AiGNER Scientific Director Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies (IC\M/T) Department Media & Digital Technologies St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Matthias Corvinus Strasse 15, 3100 St. Poelten, Austria wolfgang.aigner(a)fhstp.ac.at +43 (0) 2742 313 228 - 611 http://mc.fhstp.ac.at/people/wolfgang-aigner @wolfgangaigner FN 146616m, LG St. Pölten, DVR 1028669F

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VL/HCC 2016 Call for Participation – early registration deadline 31st July 2016
by Alessio Malizia 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================ *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing* September 4–7, 2016 Cambridge, UK * Early registration deadline 31st July 2016 * *www.vlhcc.org* >From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. We will hold the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing September 4-7, 2016 in Cambridge, UK at the St Catharine's College<http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/>. VL/HCC 2016 will present two keynote addresses by prominent speakers and a selection of technical research papers and short papers about emerging topics in visual languages and human-centric computing. See the programme at the conference website (https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2016/keynotes) The event will also feature a graduate consortium and will be co-located with PPIG 2016: The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * David Dernie, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster, UK * Michael Kölling, Professor at the School of Computing, University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK VENUE The city of Cambridge, an hour by train from London, is one of the leading technology innovation centres in Europe. Its vibrant cultural and business environment has developed around the 800 year-old university and medieval city centre. Cambridge is the bicycling capital of the UK, with a wide range of science museums, art galleries and historic churches distributed among the tourist attractions of the scenic parks and river. Cambridge has been a regional market town for 2000 years, and still has a traditional market square at the centre of a charming district that mixes pedestrian precincts with student accommodation, university departments and fashionable shopping. The venue for all conference sessions will be St Catharine’s College, which is located next to King’s College in the historic centre of Cambridge. The college provides on-site accommodation, with the major attractions of the city only a 1-2 minute walk from the front gate. Like most Cambridge Colleges, St Catharine’s provides modern conference facilities in a scenic and historic setting. For further details see http://vlhcc.org/attending REGISTRATION The registration is open now at https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/vlhcc-and-ppig-2016. Early registration with reduced fees ends on July 31st, 2016. ORGANIZATION General Chair Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge, UK Program Chairs Gem Stapleton - University of Brighton, UK Beryl Plimmer - University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) Publicity Chair Alessio Malizia - Brunel University London, UK Finance Chair Peter Rodgers - University of Kent, UK Graduate Consortium Chair Anita Sarma - Oregon State University, USA Showpieces Chair Advait Sarkar - University of Cambridge, UK Publications Chair Peter Chapman - University of Brighton, UK Social Media Chair Scott Fleming - University of Memphis, US Program Committee Robin Abraham - Microsoft Corporation Paolo Bottoni - Sapienza University of Rome Peter Chapman - Edinburgh Napier University Gennaro Costagliola - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno Jacome Cunha - Universidade Nova de Lisboa & HASLab/INESC TEC Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa - PUC-Rio Gregor Engels - University of Paderborn Claudia Ermel - Technische Universität Berlin Martin Erwig - Oregon State University Joao Paulo Fernandes - University of Beira Interior Andrew Fish - University of Brighton Scott Fleming - University of Memphis Judith Good - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology Felienne Hermans - Delft University of Technology John Hosking - University of Auckland John Howse - University of Brighton Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis Sandeep Kuttal - University of Tulsa Edward Lank - University of Waterloo Thomas D. Latoza - George Mason University Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University Chris Parnin - NCSU Alexander Repenning - University of Colorado Peter Rodgers - University of Kent Joao Saraiva - Universidade do Minho Anita Sarma - Oregon State University Stefan Sauer - University of Paderborn, s-lab - Software Quality Lab Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University T. Metin Sezgin - Koc University Simone Stumpf - City University London Steven Tanimoto - University of Washington Franklyn Turbak - Wellesley College Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain Eric Walkingshaw - Oregon State University Steering Committee Paolo Bottoni - Universita de Roma - Sapienza, Italy Gennaro Costagliola - Università di Salerno, Italy Martin Erwig - Oregon State University, USA Andrew Fish - University of Brighton, UK John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Howse - University of Brighton, UK Eileen Kraemer - Clemson University, USA Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA For further information, please visit the conference website at http://vlhcc.org/ We all look forward to welcoming you at VL/HCC 2016 in Cambridge, UK! Alessio Malizia Dr. Senior Lecturer T +44 (0) 1895 266282 Connect with me on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook Human Centred Design Institute (HCDI) and College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences Department of Computer Science Brunel University London St John’s Building, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH www.brunel.ac.uk<http://www.brunel.ac.uk> Connect with the University on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook

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