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Open Registration for BPViz'16
by Byrd, Vetria L 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Open Registration for BPViz'16 August 3 - 4, 2016 Registration for BPViz'16: Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop is now open. Persons interested in attending as a self-funded participant are encouraged to register. There are a few slots still available. Registration fee of $175.00 covers attendance, meals provided during the workshop (August 3-4, 2016), travel to and from NCSA on August 4, 2016, and conference materials. Registrations will be accepted until all slots are filled. For more information visit https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/bpviz/register For questions contact Vetria Byrd at vlbyrd(a)purdue.edu<mailto:vlbyrd@purdue.edu>

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NSF & Popular Science: VIZZIES Visualization Challenge; entries due Sept 15, 2016 (U.S. only)
by Zemankova, Maria 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

The Vizzies competition aims to recognize some of the most illustrative and impactful visualizations from the worlds of science and engineering. See: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=139150&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.m… Vizzies entries are accepted in one or more of five categories: Photography, Video, Illustration, Posters & Graphics and Interactive. The Experts' Choice winner in each category will be awarded $2,500, and the People's Choice winner in each category will be awarded $500. Entries due date: Sept. 15, 2016, 11:59 p.m. PST via https://app.wizehive.com/apps/nsfvizzies2016 Note: Team leads must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents. Monetary prizes will be distributed to team leads. All entrants must be at least 18 years of age. Expert judges appointed by NSF and Popular Science will select a winner (Experts' Choice) in each of the five categories. People's Choice winners will be determined by public votes. Contest winners will be announced in February 2017, and will be featured in the March issue of Popular Science, on popsci.com and nsf.gov/news/Vizzies. To learn more about the competition -- including rules and regulations -- and submit your scientific visualization, visit the Vizzies website: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/ If you have questions, please contact vizzies(a)nsf.gov . For last year's winners, please see: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2016.jsp NOTE: NSF previously cosponsored the competition with AAAS journal Science. The competition was formerly named the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (SciVis).

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VizSec 2016 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

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. VizSec will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS. 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. Technical Papers ---------------- Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. *** New for 2016! *** Case Studies ---------------------------------- Short papers describing practical applications of security visualization are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. Posters ------- Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Submissions ----------- Submissions must be formated using the IEEE VGTC template that can be found at http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2016 Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The VizSec proceedings will be published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Case Studies Case studies should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Case study submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted case study authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. Accepted case studies will be made available on this website. Extended abstract for posters should be at most 2 pages including the bibliography. Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Poster Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mm x 1189mm or 33.1" x 46.8"). Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers and Case Studies August 1, 2016 Submission for Papers and Case Studies September 5, 2016 Author Notification for Papers and Case Studies October 3, 2016 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters September 19, 2016 Abstract Submission for Posters September 30, 2016 Author Notification for Posters

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IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016
by Wong, Pak C 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Call for Participation (CFP) The IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016 http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/viscontest/2016/ Contest Theme: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics Collaborator and Support: ACT, Inc. DEADLINE: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is sponsoring its third International Data Visualization Contest to recognize outstanding design in visualization and visual analytics from around the world. The 2016 contest theme is "Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics." The contest will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and in collaboration with ACT, Inc. (ACT is a non-profit organization in the education readiness assessment sector.) The awards will be announced at the IEEE VPG Reception to be held at the IEEE VIS 2016 conference. You are not required to attend either the VIS 2016 conference or the VPG reception to participate in the contest. Contest Challenge: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics ACT operates nearly 9,000 testing centers annually to deliver The ACT Assessment to over two million high school students on six different Saturdays each year as part of its open, "National" program. Use of the test data by schools and government agencies has grown significantly in recent years. This growth is increasing the demands on the ACT network and test seat availability. Thus, ACT seeks to use data to carefully mange its system and its operating costs. The 2016 challenge is to develop a visual representation of how changes in availability of an ACT product (i.e., an assessment test) in a geographic area or as part of a distribution network can affect nearby or adjacent distribution sites by moving students or assessments, changing dates, or some other strategy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * How does the introduction of a new delivery location affect existing delivery? * How does the addition or subtraction of a distribution site affect demand in neighboring sites? * How do proximity and availability affect participation in the assessment by geographic region? * What is the optimal Test Center Network for each season by geographic region? * What geographic areas are at risk of under or over utilization? * How can derived measures like Market Saturation, Percent Utilization, and Cost per Unit be aggregated and visualized at local, regional and national levels? Eligibility All visualization and visual analytics designers, developers, researchers, and practitioners from business, academia, and government sectors around the world are eligible to participate. Submissions cannot promote a commercial product. Submission Limitation Contestants may be lead author on no more than three submissions to the 2016 contest. They may be a co-author of any number of submissions. Submission Deadline Contest packets must be received by 5 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 to qualify for the 2016 contest. Selection Procedure Five distinguished IEEE VPG members chosen jointly by the VGTC and VPC chairs will review the contest submissions thoroughly and assess the top contest winners. The chair of the selection committee will submit the committee's recommendation to the IEEE VGTC chair by Friday, Oct 14, 2016. Contest Award IEEE VGTC will award a certificate to the best submission in each of the following five categories: 1. Overall Excellence 2. Originality 3. Appropriateness 4. Understandability 5. Communication Impact Submissions will be considered in all categories and may win more than one award. Winners in all categories may have a chance to see their visualization work: 1. Being applied to ACT's data analysis, product development, and/or marketing/promotional efforts 2. Appear on a cover of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) in 2017. IEEE CG&A will make the final determination about publishing. Submission Details The 2016 contest accepts only static visualizations in the form of an image. Contest participants should email the submission package to ieeevpg(a)googlegroups.com. The package must include: 1. A pdf file that contains: a. Title of the data-visualization contest submission b. Name, affiliation, email address, and postal address of the participant c. A maximum of 300 word description of the visualization written in English 2. A static visualization figure in jpg or png format. The size of the total submission package must be less than 10MB. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org.

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*Deadline Extension* Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 2016 (July 24)
by Karsten Klein 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Apologies for cross posting ========================================================== Due to the change in location to Sydney, we are extending the deadline for the 2nd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA). THE EXTENDED DEADLINE for BDVA 2016: July 24, 2016 See the call for papers below. ========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 22-25th November 2016, Sydney, Australia (Note that the venue has changed since the 1st CfP, see below) ========================================================== In the last decade Big Data Analytics has become a major decision support factor in industry and government organisations. Visual Analytics is the enabling science for effective exploration of big data through meaningful visualisations and interactive user interfaces. Understanding the multidisciplinary nature, including user querying, powerful analytics, machine learning, visualisation, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, is critical for Visual Analytics to be effectively deployed. ---- BDVA16 ---- The symposium will be held in Sydney, Australia, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) North Ryde site. BDVA16 will host an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and a day of complementary hands-on workshops. BDVA16 aims to: - bring together leading experts from all relevant scientific domains to advance the understanding of visual analytics of complex, big, and dynamic data; - provide an exciting venue for researchers to network and establish national and international collaborations; - and provide early career scientists with an inspiring event allowing them to connect to relevant experts in the field. SCOPE The symposium will accept a range of manuscript types, including methods, systems, applications, evaluation techniques and theoretical work in the area of Visual Analytics. The scientific scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: - Visual Analytics of High-dimensional and Spatio-temporal Data - Scientific and Information Visualisation - Machine Learning and Data Mining for Big Data Visual Analytics - Visual Representation and Interaction - Perception and Cognition of Visual Information - Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data - Context-driven User Querying and Semantics-driven Visual Analytics - Evaluation Methods for Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations - High Performance Graphics for Visualisation - Advanced Technologies and Applications for Visual Analytics - Virtual and Augmented Reality for Visual Analytics - Art and Science for Visual Analytics - Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation - Visual Analysis of Large and Complex Networks - Visual Analytics Processes and Workflows - Simulation for Visual Analytics FURTHER INFORMATION BDVA website: www.bdva.net Email BDVA16 enquiries to: info(a)bdva.net IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: 24th July Notification of acceptance: 31st August Camera ready submission: 15th September Poster submission: 31st October Poster notification: 5th November GENERAL CHAIRS Tomasz Bednarz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Quang Vinh Nguyen (Western Sydney University, Australia) Ulrich Engelke (CSIRO, Australia) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany) TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany)

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VINCI 2016 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 08 Jul '16

08 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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Deadline Extended (July 30): Visual Analytics for Streaming Data (VASD)
by Whiting, Mark A 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

*** Deadline Extended to July 30 *** Call for Contributions Visual Analytics for Streaming Data (VASD) A Special Session in Conjunction with VISUAL 2016, The First International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/VISUAL16.html November 13 - 17, 2016 - Barcelona, Spain Content In this special session we will look at the issues associated with visual analytics for streaming data from several perspectives. When we characterize data streams we see features such as differing volumes, differing velocities (data delivered over unit time periods), multiple data types in a stream, multiple streams that are related but unintegrated, streams with data gaps, and streams with data whose content or context changes over time. Current visualization tools and techniques are often anchored to static repositories. Yet streams are dynamic, which means that the way data is input, manipulated, visualized, analyzed and iterated over must change from our usual approaches. Submissions may present concepts, state of the art research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, or industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished contributions, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following topic areas (and we are not limited to these topics): - Specialized visualizations for streaming data environments - "User on the loop" and "user in the loop" visualizations - Streaming data visual analytics environments - Change detection in data streams - Situation awareness - Multi-type data streams visualization - Visualizing patterns in data streams - Visualization and stream mining - Adaptive visualization techniques Contribution deadlines: Submission deadline: July 30 Acceptance notification: August 30 Registration deadline: September 15 Camera-ready deadline: September 30 Please send submissions to: Mark A. Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA mark.a.whiting(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:mark.a.whiting@pnnl.gov> Contribution types Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] Posters: slides only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org<http://www.iaria.org>] Presentations: slides only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org<http://www.iaria.org>] Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org<http://www.iaria.org>] Paper Format See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CfPVISUAL16.html Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html Publications Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Registration Each accepted contribution needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html Inquiries Chair: Mark A. Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA mark.a.whiting(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:mark.a.whiting@pnnl.gov> Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org<mailto:steve@iaria.org>

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Deadline Extended (July 29): International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration - VisualCol 2016 @ CTS201
by Haeyong Chung 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

*** Submission Deadline Extended to July 29, 2016 *** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration (VisualCol2016) In Conjunction with the 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) http://cts2016.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---cts-2016/workshop17-vis… October 31 - November 04, 2016 The Florida Hotel and Conference Center Orlando, Florida, USA In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters VisualCol Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative Visualization Architectures, Technologies, or Algorithms - Visualization for Managing Collaborative Environments - Unique Challenges in Collaborative Visualization - Collaborative Visualization Solutions and Applications - Web-based Collaborative Visualization - Visualization in Collaborative Decision Making and Support - Collaborative Data Analysis and Visualization - Data Analytics Visualization - Visualization in/of Social Networks and Media - Visualization of Collaborative Structures, Processes and Outcomes of Collaborative Environments and Social Networks - Interface and Interaction Design Supporting Collaborative Visualization and Sensemaking - Collaborative Visual Analysis Spaces Using Large Displays and Mobile Devices INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to visualization & collaboration technologies and systems and related topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://cts2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=visualcol2016. If the submission is for a poster paper or short paper, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the submission form's Notes field. If your submission is supported by supplementary materials, please upload all supplementary files to either Dropbox or Google Drive and send an email with the link to one of the organizers. Please make sure your materials are shared with the organizers before the paper submission deadline. The organizers' contact information can be found under WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: -------------------------------- July 29, 2016 Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------------ August 19, 2016 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ------- September 02 2016 Conference Dates: ----------------------------------- October 31 - November 04, 2016 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Keqin Wu (Keqin.Wu(a)noaa.gov) NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction Mai Elshehaly (mai(a)umbc.edu) University of Maryland-Baltimore County Wenwen Dou (wdou1(a)uncc.edu) University of North Carolina-Charlotte Haeyong Chung (hc0021(a)uah.edu) University of Alabama-Huntsville

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VizSec 2016 CFP
by Nicolas Prigent 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

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. VizSec will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS. 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. Technical Papers ---------------- Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. *** New for 2016! *** Case Studies ---------------------------------- Short papers describing practical applications of security visualization are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. Posters ------- Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Submissions ----------- Submissions must be formated using the IEEE VGTC template that can be found at http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2016 Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The VizSec proceedings will be published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Case Studies Case studies should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Case study submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted case study authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. Accepted case studies will be made available on this website. Extended abstract for posters should be at most 2 pages including the bibliography. Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Poster Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mm x 1189mm or 33.1" x 46.8"). Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers and Case Studies August 1, 2016 Submission for Papers and Case Studies September 5, 2016 Author Notification for Papers and Case Studies October 3, 2016 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters September 19, 2016 Abstract Submission for Posters September 30, 2016 Author Notification for Posters

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Reminder -- CfP Big Data Visual Analytics conference - BDVA 2016
by Karsten Klein 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Apologies for cross posting CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 22-25th November 2016, Sydney, Australia (Note that the venue has changed since the 1st CfP, see below) ========================================================== In the last decade Big Data Analytics has become a major decision support factor in industry and government organisations. Visual Analytics is the enabling science for effective exploration of big data through meaningful visualisations and interactive user interfaces. Understanding the multidisciplinary nature, including user querying, powerful analytics, machine learning, visualisation, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, is critical for Visual Analytics to be effectively deployed. ---- BDVA16 ---- The symposium will be held in Sydney, Australia, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) North Ryde site. BDVA16 will host an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and a day of complementary hands-on workshops. BDVA16 aims to: - bring together leading experts from all relevant scientific domains to advance the understanding of visual analytics of complex, big, and dynamic data; - provide an exciting venue for researchers to network and establish national and international collaborations; - and provide early career scientists with an inspiring event allowing them to connect to relevant experts in the field. SCOPE The symposium will accept a range of manuscript types, including methods, systems, applications, evaluation techniques and theoretical work in the area of Visual Analytics. The scientific scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: - Visual Analytics of High-dimensional and Spatio-temporal Data - Scientific and Information Visualisation - Machine Learning and Data Mining for Big Data Visual Analytics - Visual Representation and Interaction - Perception and Cognition of Visual Information - Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data - Context-driven User Querying and Semantics-driven Visual Analytics - Evaluation Methods for Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations - High Performance Graphics for Visualisation - Advanced Technologies and Applications for Visual Analytics - Virtual and Augmented Reality for Visual Analytics - Art and Science for Visual Analytics - Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation - Visual Analysis of Large and Complex Networks - Visual Analytics Processes and Workflows - Simulation for Visual Analytics FURTHER INFORMATION BDVA website: www.bdva.net Email BDVA16 enquiries to: info(a)bdva.net IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: 10th July Notification of acceptance: 31st August Camera ready submission: 15th September Poster submission: 31st October Poster notification: 5th November GENERAL CHAIRS Tomasz Bednarz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Quang Vinh Nguyen (Western Sydney University, Australia) Ulrich Engelke (CSIRO, Australia) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany) TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany)

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