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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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Call for Nominations -- IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award -- Aug 15
by Chris North 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ <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 Aug 15 two years before the award and Aug 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between Aug 15, 2015 and Aug 15, 2017 are eligible for the 2017 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 August 15, 2017. 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: 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) A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission.

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CFP: ACM TIST Special Issue on Visual Analytics
by Yingcai Wu 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email. =========================================================================== Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Special Issue on *Visual Analytics: Towards Effective Human-Machine Intelligence* =========================================================================== *Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2017* PDF version: http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/CFP-TIST-VA.pdf =========================================================================== We call for novel and high-quality submissions on visualization and visual analytics for a special issue of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST). Visualization turns data into intuitive visual representations and allows people to quickly see, interact, and analyze the patterns in the data. As an old saying goes “a picture worth a thousand words”, visualization can significantly improve the abilities of people to understand and interpret the data and analysis results. Visual analytics is an emerging research area that evolves from visualization, which aims to support “analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces”. Visual analytics can enable human-machine intelligence that effectively integrates human knowledge and expertise into powerful data mining algorithms through highly interactive visualizations. Visualization and visual analytics have been used in many applications to tackle various important problems in the big data era, such as tackling urban issues like traffic jam and air pollution, making better diagnostic and treatment decisions, preventing threats and fraud in business, optimizing rescue efforts, forecasting severe weather conditions, and achieving situational awareness during crisis. This special issue will introduce the readership to the latest innovations and provide a spotlight on emerging and promising research topics in visual analytics and visualization for highly effective human-machine intelligence. We invite high quality submissions aiming to enable human and machine to work a team to solve practical problems via intelligent visualization systems and technologies. Topics of interest include but not limited to: Exploring Big Data using Visual Analytics • Visual urban analytics • Visual analytics of social media data • Visual text analytics • Visual analytics of healthcare data • Visual analytics of multimedia data • Visual analytics for bioinformatics • Visual analytics of business data • Visualization and visual analytics for humanities • Visual analytics of user behavior data • Visual analytics of engineering data • Visual representations and interaction techniques for visual analytics • Data management and knowledge representation for visual analytics • Analytical reasoning and collaborative analytics through visualization • Taxonomies and models Understanding Human Factors in Interactive Machine Learning • User studies for identifying the role of humans in interactive machine learning • Evaluating and understanding the difficulties that users have with machine learning • User studies of comparing interactive machine learning tools and systems • Case studies of the use of a machine learning tool for solving important problems Visualizing and Diagnosing Machine Learning • Visual analytics and visualization for explaining machine learning models • Visual analytics and visualization for diagnosing machine learning models • Visual analytics and visualization for better analysis of deep learning Submissions Online Submission (available in July 1, 2017): http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select “Special Issue: Visual Analytics” as the manuscript type) Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website: http://tist.acm.org/ Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Important Dates • Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2017 • Review Notification: November 31, 2017 • Final Manuscript: January 31, 2018 • Publication Date: 2018 Guest Editors • Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University • Nan Cao, Tongji University • David Gotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart ================================================================================ Regards, -- Yingcai Wu Prof. Ph.D. ************************************************** State Key Lab of CAD&CG Mengminwei Building Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China Web: www.ycwu.org **************************************************

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2nd CFP: VADL'17 Deadline Extended to July 31
by Jaegul Choo 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

The paper submission deadline has been extended to July 31. CFP: VADL: 2017 IEEE VIS Workshop on Visual Analytics for Deep Learning Arizona, Phoenix, 1 or 2 October 2017 https://vadl2017.github.io/ Recently, deep neural networks have been achieving breakthroughs in various major artificial intelligence tasks such as machine translation, image understanding, speech recognition, and so on. In these tasks, deep neural networks reached the level of an accuracy comparable to or even better than humans’ performance. However, understanding the deep neural networks is challenging due to their complicated inner workings. VADL, the workshop on visual analytics for deep learning, is a half-day workshop held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2017 in Phoenix, AZ. The primary goal of the workshop is to bridge the gap by bringing together researchers from both machine learning and visual analytics fields, which allows us to push the boundary of deep learning. The workshop should provide an opportunity to discuss and explore ways to harmonize the power of automated techniques and exploratory nature of interactive visualization. Topics of Interest: In this call, we look for papers related to visual analytics for deep learning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - User-adaptive approaches to deep neural networks - Coupling of deep learning-based systems with interactive visualization - Visualization to improve deep learning algorithms and models - Coordinated visualizations for deep learning - Systems, languages, and architectures for interactive deep learning - Collaborative analysis of deep network networks - Real-time visualization of streaming data handling in deep learning - Visualization of uncertainty in deep neural networks - Domain-specific applications of visual analysis of deep neural networks (e.g. retail, healthcare, government, etc.) - Studies and evaluation of deep learning visualization techniques, systems, metrics, and benchmarks Submission Information: All papers will be peer reviewed, single-blinded. We welcome many kinds of papers, including (but not limited to): - Novel research papers - Demo papers - Work-in-progress papers - Visionary papers (white papers) - Position papers - Relevant work that has been previously published - Work that will be presented at the main conference of IEEE VIS’17 Authors should clearly indicate in their abstracts the kinds of submissions, to help reviewers better understand their contributions. Submissions must be in PDF, written in English, no more than 10 pages long — shorter papers such as 2 to 4 pages are welcome — and formatted using the IEEE “Conference Style” template. The accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website and will be included in the IEEE VIS’17 electronic proceedings USB stick. For accepted papers, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the work. Important Dates: - Submission (Extended): July 31, 2017 - Author notification: August 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: August 25, 2017 - Workshop date: October 1 or 2

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Postdoc position on visual analytics
by john.guerra＠gmail.com 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

*Visual** Computing **Post Doc**toral Position* *(starting Q3 2017. One to two years long)* *Profs. John Alexis Guerra-Gómez <ja.guerrag(a)uniandes.edu.co <ja.guerrag(a)uniandes.edu.co>>* *& José Tiberio HERNANDEZ <jhernand(a)uniandes.edu.co <jhernand(a)uniandes.edu.co>>* We are seeking for a highly motivated Post-doctoral scientist in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Interaction Design in IMAGINE (R&D+i in visual computing), which is established at the Systems & Computing Engineering department in the Engineering School of the University of Los Andes, Bogotá Colombia. Interested people should contact us by email with their CV and a short statement of purpose *RESPONSIBILITIES* The postdoc researcher will - perform interdisciplinary research and develop concepts in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Interaction Design together with leading experts from the Imagine group, and our scientific partners in Brain Imaging and City Planning. *The * *postdoc** will conduct research on image and Video **Analytics** applied to Brain and City planning data, and will produce interactive **visual* *analytics** prototypes to help field experts derive insights.* - write scientific publications - review scientific publications - participate in applied scientific and consulting projects - participate in writing research proposals - work within a creative, highly motivated, and international team - (to a smaller extent) participate in teaching and supervision of student projects and theses *REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS* - PhD in relevant field - Strong analytical skills and good skills in programming (preferably JavaScript, Python, R) - Knowledge or interest in one or more of the following: Visual Analytics, Human Centered computing,Cloud Computing, Image processing. - Abilities to work as an independent and flexible researcher in interdisciplinary teams. - Fluency in English (both speaking and writing). *DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS* *Knowledge or in*terest in one or more of the following: - Visual Analytics applied to relational, geospatial, temporal, and nominal textual data, (dynamic) network analysis and visualization, graph and clusters visualization, data quality, advanced interactive visualization techniques. - Spanish language John Alexis Guerra Gómez Assistant Professor, Los Andes University, Colombia Remote Lecturer, UC Berkeley, USA *ja.guerrag(a)uniandes.edu.co <ja.guerrag(a)uniandes.edu.co>* http://johnguerra.co José Tiberio Hernández Profesor Asociado, Los Andes University, Colombia Director IMAGINE (I+D+i en computación visual) *jhernand(a)uniandes.edu.co <jhernand(a)uniandes.edu.co>* -- --- John Alexis Guerra Gómez http <http://johnguerra.co/>:// <http://johnguerra.co/>johnguerra.co

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CFP 10th Forum Media Technology 2017, DL: Sept 6, 2017
by Aigner Wolfgang 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: September 6th, 2017) Apologies if you receive this more than once. ========================================================== CFP: 10th Forum Media Technology 2017 St. Pölten, Austria November 29-30, 2017 http://fmt.fhstp.ac.at Submission address: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2017/ 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 10th 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. 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 - Content Development and Production - Mobile Design (Development, Trust, Privacy, Learning) - Digital Media Experience (Game Design, Serious Games, Experience Design) - New Forms of Media Use and their Analysis - Innovative Audio – New Applications for Music, Sound Design and Sonic Interaction - Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis - Multimedia Modelling, Retrieval, and Machine Learning - Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage (Acquisition, Analysis, Applications) - Ambient Assisted Living and Digital Healthcare - Smart Engineering and Industrial Internet - Technology-based Business Models 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/FMT2017/. Contributions can be submitted in German or English. The mandatory oral presentation must be held in English. Forum Media Technology allows submissions in three categories: - Full paper: Full papers should report substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research. The length limitation is 5 to 8 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. - Short paper & Project showcase: Short papers are appropriate for reporting smaller experiments, surveys, on-going work, and late-breaking results. Project showcases cover demonstrations of prototypes, innovative tools, and services. The maximum length is 4 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. - Graduate Consortium: The FMT 2017 Graduate Consortium is intended to provide an opportunity for graduate and doctoral students to explore, discuss and develop their research topics 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. A template for full and short papers is available here: http://bit.ly/fmt2017template IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Full paper submission: September 6, 2017 Short paper & Project Showcase submission: September 20, 2017 Notification of acceptance: October 13, 2017 Camera-ready version submission: October 29, 2017 Graduate Consortium Submission: November 5, 2017 Graduate Consortium Notification: November 10, 2017 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Wolfgang Aigner, Kerstin Blumenstein, Michael Iber, Thomas Moser, 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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CFP: Special Issue on Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation and Visualization
by Nadia Boukhelifa 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

** CFP: Special Issue on Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation and Visualization ** Recent advances in Genetic Programming / Evolutionary Computation (GP/EC) and visualization have shown a growing synergy between these fields. On the one hand, visualization can make GP/EC algorithms more transparent, through interactive parameter tuning and the graphical representation of experimental analyses [3,5]. On the other hand, GP/EC techniques can be deployed to efficiently guide user search in exploratory visualization systems [1,2,4]. This special issue aims to bring together latest work and new advances in Genetic Programming / Evolutionary Computation (GP/EC) and Visualization (including its three subfields: information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics), to produce new insights on: - how to develop better visualization tools to support GP/EC, and - how to develop robust GP/EC algorithms to support visualization applications. Scope -------- We invite submissions on any aspect of Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computation (GP/EC) linked to visualization (information visualization, scientific visualization or visual analytics), or visualization applied to GP/EC, including, but not limited to: theoretical results, algorithmic design, evaluations and user studies, surveys, and interesting new applications (e.g. in life sciences, art, and engineering). Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Interactive evolution systems * GP/EC applied to visual design * Use of GP/EC in visual analytics or progressive visualization * Review of visualization techniques in GP/EC * Review of GP/EC techniques in visualization * Visualization techniques to explain GP/EC to end users * Visual analysis of GP/EC algorithms * Evaluation of (interactive) evolutionary systems * Visualization of results of experimental analysis of GP/EC algorithms * Interactive parameter tuning of GP/EC * Visualization of the search space and the fitness landscape * Techniques to avoid user fatigue in interactive GP/EC * Human factors in GP/EC Important Dates --------------------- GPEM Special Issue Submission Deadline: 15 December 2017 First Reviews: March 2018 Post Review Submission Deadline: April 2018 Acceptance Notification: June 2018 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: July 2018 Paper Submission: ---------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://GENP.edmgr.com. Choose “ Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation and Visualization” as the article type when submitting. Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. This online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript with straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and it supports a wide range of submission file formats. All inquiries should be sent to Nadia Boukhelifa at: nadia.boukhelifa(a)inra.fr. Manuscripts should conform to the standard format stipulated in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines’ Information for Authors. All submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal. Guest Editors ------------------ Nadia Boukhelifa, INRA, Versailles-Grignon, France Evelyne Lutton, INRA, Versailles-Grignon, France http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1606440/application/pdf/GENP_CfP_E… References --------------- [1] N. Boukhelifa, A. Bezerianos, W. Cancino, and E. Lutton. 2017. Evolutionary visual exploration: evaluation of an IEC framework for guided visual search. Evol. Comput. 25, 1 (March 2017), 55-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00161 [2] N. Boukhelifa, A. Bezerianos, and E. Lutton. A mixed approach for the evaluation of a guided exploratory visualization system. 2015. EuroVis workshop on reproducibility, verification, and validation in visualization, EuroRV3. [3] E. Lutton, and J-D Fekete. Visual analytics of EA data. 2011. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO. [4] W. Cancino, N. Boukhelifa, and E. Lutton. EvoGraphDice: Interactive evolution for visual analytics. 2012. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1-8. [5] T. Collins. Visualizing evolutionary computation. Advances in evolutionary computing, Ashish Ghosh and Shigeyoshi Tsutsui (Eds.). 2003. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc, 95-116.

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VizSec 2017 Deadline Extended to the 21st of July
by Nicolas Prigent 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

The 14th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security 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 Phoenix, AZ, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Monday, October 2nd, 2017. *** The deadline for submitting papers and short papers has been extended to the 21st of July 2017 *** To submit your paper or short paper, login or create an account at: https://precisionconference.com/~vizsec17 After logging in, click the "new submissions" link on the top navigation bar and look for the link for "Submit to Papers and Posters" in the list under the "VizSec 2017" heading.

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VizSec 2017 Last Call for Papers and **NEW** Diversity Scholarship **NEW**
by Nicolas Prigent 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

The 14th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security 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 Phoenix, AZ, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Monday, October 2nd, 2017. VizSec explores 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, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that 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 - 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. Submissions including tests and evaluations of existing tools and techniques are also 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 VizSec Data Sets page. ** Short Papers ** 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 short papers. ** 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. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on the VizSec website. ** Submissions ** The VizSec 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE "Conference Style" template that can be found at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html All submissions must be in PDF format. To submit your paper or poster abstract, login or create an account at: https://precisionconference.com/~vizsec17 After logging in, click the "new submissions" link on the top navigation bar and look for the link for "Submit to VizSec 2017" in the list under the "VIS 2017" heading. * Papers * 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. * Short Papers * Short papers should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Short paper submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted short paper authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. * Posters * Extended abstract 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 (841mmx1189mm or 33.1"x46.8"). 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 VizSec website. ** Important Dates ** All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. * Papers and Short Papers * July 18, 2017: Submission for Papers and Short Papers August 15, 2017: Author Notification for Papers and Short Papers September 12, 2017: Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers * Posters * August 29, 2017: Abstract Submission for Posters September 9, 2017: Author Notification for Posters ** Diversity Scholarships ** Thanks to the generous donations of our sponsors, we are delighted to announce that we will be offering several VizSec 2017 Diversity Scholarship awards to help cover the costs of attending VizSec. This scholarship award covers full week registration plus a small stipend to help offset travel costs. All VizSec attendees may apply for the diversity scholarships except for those from a country on the OFAC sanctions list at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/organizers/sanctions.html Applicants must submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae in PDF format. The cover letter should discuss your eligibility for this scholarship and how you would benefit from attending VizSec 2017. It should be no more than 2 pages (letter size) with at least 1 inch margins and 11pt or larger font. Applications will also be asked to answer the following questions: - Are you from an underrepresented group in computer science? If so, please specify. - Please let us know your country or countries of citizenship, and the country and city you will be traveling from. - Are you currently a student? If so, please specify the degree and subject area you are working on, and where. - Have you ever attended VizSec or VIS before? If so, when? To apply for this scholarship, login or create an account at: https://precisionconference.com/~vizsec17b After logging in, click the "new submissions" link on the top navigation bar and look for the link for "Submit to Diversity Scholarship" in the list under the "VizSec 2017" heading. The application deadline is August 1, 2017 at 5:00pm PDT. Awardees will be notified by August 15, 2017, and must register for the conference by the early registration deadline on August 25, 2017. Please visit http://vizsec.org/ for more information

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Two PhD studentships in Information Visualisation at Newcastle University, UK (please, note application deadlines)
by Sara J Fernstad 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

We are offering two fully funded PhD studentships (covering tuition fees and a stipend of £14,553 per year) in Data Visualization, at Newcastle University, UK. The studentships are suitable for candidates with a degree in Computer Science or a similar area, with an interest in data/information visualization. *Interactive Visualization of Complex Data* This is an open project focusing on some of the main challenges in data visualization, guided by the interests of the candidate. Further details available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs061.html *Application deadline: **10 July 2017* *Mining the biological data deluge: highly interactive exploration of ‘omics type data through novel visualisation methods* This project is funded by Unilever R&D and BBSRC (as part of the National Productivity Investment Funding), and will through placements provide a unique opportunity to carry out visualization research in collaboration with scientists at one of the world’s largest consumer product companies. The main focus of the project lies on developing visualization for exploration of extremely high-dimensional biological data. Further details available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs060.html *Application deadline: **21 July 2017* The projects will be carried out at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University (rated no 1 in research impact in the UK in REF 2014) and will be part of the research in the Scalable Computing group, which also hosts the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Cloud Computing for Big Data. For further information about the projects, please contact: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk *To apply:* follow the guidance in the links above *Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD* Lecturer in Data Science Digital Institute Newcastle University The Core, Science Central Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TF UK E-mail:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad

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