August 2016 - Infovis

BioVis@VIs 2016 Call for Posters
by Jillian Aurisano 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

BioVis 2016 Posters track at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD October 23rd, 2016 http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ #biovis BioVis 2016 is the 6th Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. It is hosted as a one-day single-track event at VIS (http://ieeevis.org) and a SIG half-day meeting at ISMB (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016) The *BioVis@Vis 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. *Important Dates* *August 26, 2016* - Poster submission to the BioVis workshop at IEEE VIS *September 9, 2016* - Author notification of posters for the workshop Submission for BioVis@VIS: https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ *Example poster topics include, but are not limited to:* Work-in-progress and preliminary results Previously published work from other venues Visualization challenges relevant to the BioVis community Extensions of Papers submissions and content that doesn’t fit Podium presentations Details about, or generalizations of contest submissions *Review Process:* Each poster submission will be read and evaluated by the Poster Chairs for quality and relevance to the BioVis venue with the goal of being as inclusive as possible and encouraging cross-domain interactions. All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis website http://biovis.net/2016/ For more information see: http://biovis.net/2016/posters_ieee/ <http://biovis.net/2016/posters_ieee/> *Keynote Talk:* Sheelagh Carpendale University of Calgary *General chairs* G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium *Paper chairs* Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria *Poster chairs* Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA *Publication chairs* Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA *Primer & challenges chair* Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland *Highlights chair* Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia *Data contest chairs* Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK *Design contest chairs* Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium Francis Rowland, EBI, UK *Industry and fundraising chair* Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA *Website chairs* Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada *Publicity chair* Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Steering Committee* Kay Nieselt, University of Tuebingen, Germany Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)

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LDAV 2016 CFP: 6th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization
by Jian Chen 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

The 6th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization will be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 23, 2016. Abstract submission deadline: August 24th, 2016 Call for Posters: We invite you to submit unpublished work to the IEEE LDAV 2016 Poster Program. The poster program is a venue designed to highlight ongoing research and late breaking topics that have produced promising preliminary results. In addition to the topics listed under Call for Papers, we also welcome submissions that showcase successful stories of applying visualization to large-scale data intensive applications. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the symposium attendees and solicit feedback. Interested authors should submit a two-page abstract that describes the underlying problem, the proposed method, and preliminary results. Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the symposium proceedings. The format of the abstract will be the same as the format used for the regular paper submission. Poster authors are encouraged, but not required, to include a draft or sketch of the poster layout and content in their submission. This would help reviewers and show that the poster format is used effectively. The draft poster should be in PDF format. The authors should indicate if the poster would be accompanied by an on-site demonstration and/or videos. More information can be found on the IEEE LDAV Website: http://www.ldav.org/index.php/call-for-posters Sincerely, IEEE LDAV Poster Co-Chairs Best regards, --Jian, Alex and Wenwen (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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VizSec 2016 Deadline Extended
by Nicolas Prigent 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

VizSec 2016 Call for Papers - Deadline Extended =============================================== 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 on October 24th 2016 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. *** THE DEADLINE FOR VIZSEC 2016 AS BEEN EXTENDED TO THE 8th of August 2016 *** 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 8, 2016 *** Deadline Extended *** 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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2-year postdoc research fellowship in HCI/Infovis, Copenhagen
by Mikkel Rønne Jakobsen 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Deadline is this Friday (August 5th) for applications to a two-year position as postdoctoral research fellow at University of Copenhagen in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Department of Computer Science (http://www.diku.dk) The candidate will join the BIOPRO team to design and evaluate novel interactive visualizations that help domain experts develop and combine mathematical models and statistical models with online sensor-data with the ultimate goal of optimizing bio-based production processes. We work with domain experts from leading bio-based manufacturing companies in Denmark and with leading university researchers in chemical engineering, chemometrics, and applied statistics. Applicants are welcome to develop their own directions of research within the above context, and will have the opportunity to design both for workstations and high-resolution wall displays. Applicants must have a PhD in computer science and must have research experience in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction or Information Visualization. Knowledge of bio-based processes is not required; knowledge of predictive modeling is a plus, but is not mandatory. The deadline for applications is August 5, 2016. The position is for two years with a starting date in October 2016. For more information and directions on submitting an application, go to: http://diku.dk/english/about/vacancies/postdoc-biopro-hcc/ For questions or if you are interested in applying, please contact Mikkel R. Jakobsen (mikkelrj(a)di.ku.dk, http://www.mikkelrj.dk)

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Nomination Deadline Extension - IEEE VGTC Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Wong, Pak C 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Extended DEADLINE: Monday, Aug 15, 2016 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between July 31 two years before the award and July 31 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between July 31, 2014 and July 31, 2016 are eligible for the 2016 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SUBMISSION DEADLINE Nomination packets must be received by 5pm PDT on Monday, August 15, 2016. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARDS The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A). Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission.

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