September 2017 - Infovis

IEEE VIS: Visualization Pioneers Group Reception
by Alan Keahey 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

The VPG Organizing Committee would like to invite you to attend the IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Reception on the first Monday at VIS. The reception is open for all VPG members who have paid their dues for 2017-2018. To be eligible for VPG Membership, one needs to have made at least 20 years of contributions to the field. Your $50 Annual dues entitles you to a free reception dinner at VIS, as well as supporting other worthwhile VPG activities such as the Best Dissertation and Best Data Visualization Contest. We need to get a more accurate headcount for the reception soon, so please visit the website below to join VPG and pay your membership dues as soon as possible. https://www.payit2.com/collect-page/88271 <https://www.payit2.com/collect-page/88271> Reception Details (to be confirmed): Monday October 2, 6:00PM 1130 The Restaurant 455 North 3rd St. Suite 1130 Phoenix, AZ More information on the Vis Pioneers Group is here: http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/ <http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/> My apologies for the late notification of the event. Please confirm your membership as soon as possible. We look forward to seeing you at the reception! Best Regards, -Alan Keahey (VPG Chair) Bernice Rogowitz, Raghu Machiraju, Klaus Mueller (VPG OC)

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Virginia Tech hiring VIS faculty positions
by Chris North 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Colleagues- Computer Science at Virginia Tech is hiring two new faculty positions in areas related to VIS. We’r also hiring several other positions for HCI, Security, as well as a teaching focused position. If interested, connect with me at VIS to discuss. -Chris North http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/ <http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/> ASSISTANT PROFESSORS IN DATA ANALYTICS AT VIRGINIA TECH The Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech (www.cs.vt.edu <https://web.archive.org/web/20170207020313/http://www.cs.vt.edu/>) seeks applicants for two tenure-track assistant professor positions in data analytics. Exceptional candidates at higher ranks may also be considered. Candidates with research depth and breadth in data analytics, data mining, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, text mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, interactive visual analytics, data visualization, high-performance analysis, social informatics, or data science are encouraged to apply. Candidates working at the intersection of data analytics and application domains such as cyber-security or urban computing are also encouraged to apply. Candidates should present an ability to initiate and sustain collaborations within computing as well as with data domain scientists. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to engage in transdisciplinary research, curriculum, and outreach initiatives with other university faculty working in the Data & Decisions destination area, one of several new university-wide initiatives at Virginia Tech (provost.vt.edu/destination-areas <http://provost.vt.edu/destination-areas>). Data & Decisions is focused on advancing the human condition and society with better decisions through data. Faculty collaborating in this area integrate data analytics and decision sciences across the transdisciplinary research and curriculum efforts at Virginia Tech. The university is hiring numerous faculty in Data & Decisions over the next four years. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated experience in interdisciplinary teaching and/or research in areas that align with Virginia Tech’s university-wide, multi-disciplinary focus on Data & Decisions. Computer Science at Virginia Tech The Department of Computer Science is home to the Discovery Analytics Center (dac.cs.vt.edu <http://dac.cs.vt.edu/>), which leads big-data analytics research on campus. Data analytics faculty collaborate in interdisciplinary research groups, including the Center for Human Computer Interaction <http://www.hci.vt.edu/>, the Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics <https://cbia.pamplin.vt.edu/>, the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory <https://www.bi.vt.edu/sdal>, and the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory <https://www.bi.vt.edu/ndssl>. Faculty also participate in data analytics education initiatives (analytics.cs.vt.edu <http://analytics.cs.vt.edu/>), including the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics <https://www.ais.science.vt.edu/programs/cmda.html> undergraduate program. The department has 47 teaching faculty, including 42 tenured or tenure-track faculty, over 840 undergraduate majors, and more than 250 graduate students. Departmental annual research expenditures over the last four years average $13 million. The department is in the College of Engineering <http://www.eng.vt.edu/>, whose undergraduate program ranks 14th and graduate program ranks 27th among all U.S. engineering schools (USN&WR, 2017). These two new positions are located at the main campus in Blacksburg, VA <http://www.blacksburg.gov/>, in a region that is consistently ranked among the country's best places to live. Requirements and Applications Candidates must have a Ph.D. in computer science or related field at the time of appointment and a rank-appropriate record of scholarship and collaboration in computing research, broadly defined. Successful candidates should give evidence of sensitivity to issues of diversity in the campus community and will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses, mentor graduate students, and develop a high quality research program. Virginia Tech is committed to building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities. The positions require occasional travel to professional meetings. Selected candidates must pass a criminal background check prior to employment. Applications must be submitted online to jobs.vt.edu <https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/> (posting forthcoming). Applicant screening will begin on December 1, 2017 and continue until positions are filled. Inquiries should be directed to Dr. Chris North, Search Committee Chair, north(a)cs.vt.edu <mailto:north@cs.vt.edu>. [Draft] Official announcements will be posted here soon: http://www.cs.vt.edu/FacultySearch <http://www.cs.vt.edu/FacultySearch>

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Tenure Track position in Big Geodata Analytics and Visualization, The Netherlands - Apply before 30 September!
by Yuri Engelhardt 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Last Call - Apply before 30 September (this Saturday)! (Application closes 1 October, before VIS 2017) Tenure Track position in Geodata Science / Big Geodata Analytics and Visualization The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on capacity building and institutional development in developing countries and emerging economies. At the Department of Geo-Information Processing we try to contribute through our expertise in: – Spatio-Temporal Analytics – Geodata Engineering – GeoVisualization We are looking for a candidate with expertise in least two of these three domains. Please see the vacancy and the online application form at: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/ vacancies/!/associate-or-assistant-professor-tenure-track-position-geodata- science/1154736 Additional information regarding the position can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Menno-Jan Kraak – e-mail: m.j.kraak(a)utwente.nl, phone: +31 53 487 4463 <053%20487%204463>. You are also invited to visit our faculty website at: https://www.itc.nl, and our GeoVisual Analytics Lab at: https://twitter.com/GeoVisLab This is a Tenure Track position, starting as Assistant Professor or as Associate Professor. A great opportunity! Yuri Engelhardt https://twitter.com/YuriEngelhardt

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Open PhD Position in Visual Analytics for Engineering Smarter Systems, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
by Andreas Kerren 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

==== PHD STUDENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH SPECIALIZATION IN VISUAL ANALYTICS ==== placed at Linnaeus University, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Technology – Växjö Campus, Sweden Application Deadline: November 1, 2017 ****Description**** The focus of this advertised PhD position and the corresponding research project is on visual analytics for engineering smarter system (http://bit.ly/2flR0ao) The research will be performed within the Linnaeus University Center on Data Intensive Sciences and Applications, DISA, funded by Linnaeus University for five years. Overall aim of this DISA subproject is to better understand and engineer complex cyber-physical systems. We will develop foundational visual analytics principles, techniques and tools for analyzing data and models in those systems. Thus, trust into the analysis results will be finally increased by making the analysis methods and resulting empirical models transparent for end users. In consequence, our users will be enabled to better predict the behavior of cyber-physical systems and to reconstruct the underlying models more efficiently when needed. Duties consist mainly of the following: • Graduate studies in the field of Visual Analytics, with a doctoral degree as the goal. The PhD thesis should be completed and defended within the official appointment duration of five years (4 years graduate studies, 1 year departmental tasks). • Research in the field Visual Analytics. The position is part of DISA and its subproject Visual Analytics for Engineering Smarter Systems. • Regularly present intermediate research results at international conferences and workshops, and publish them in conference proceedings and journals. • Close collaboration with the other project members in an interdisciplinary research environment as well as with domain experts. • At most 20% of the working time will be dedicated to teaching and other departmental tasks. Note that a PhD position in Sweden is a salaried employment with the right to social benefits and paid vacations. ****Qualifications**** Qualification requirements A person fulfils the general entry requirements. if he/she has comprised a completed undergraduate program of at least 240 credits, including 60 credits at advanced level, or the equivalent knowledge in Sweden or abroad. Specific requirements are • approved courses of a minimum of 90 credits in the subject Computer and Information Science or the equivalent, and • an individual study project of a minimum of 15 credits in the subject Computer and Information Science, or the equivalent. Others The specific prerequisites for admission to PhD studies within the above-mentioned specialization are • a successfully finished Master’s thesis in a field related to Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, or Data Sciences; and • high proficiency in written and spoken English. ****Assessment criteria**** Excellent knowledge in the focused research areas of information visualization and visual analytics is a strong advantage. Good programming skills (Java, JavaScript / HTML5, WebGL/OpenGL) and a solid training in mathematics, data mining, or machine learning are highly preferred. Documented expertise and working experience within at least one of the following research and educational areas is a great advantage: • Visual analytics of Big Data • Visual analytics of streaming data • Multidimensional visualization techniques in combination with machine learning and/or data mining techniques (such as dimensionality reduction) • Evaluation of visualizations • Experiences in specific application domains and their visualization needs related to the DISA subproject, such as in systems engineering Because of the interdisciplinary character of the project and DISA, the candidate should be an enthusiastic person who is interested in making sense of large and complex data sets of various types as well as capable of working both independently and within a group. Teamwork experiences should be documented in the application. Applicants will be selected through a qualitative overall assessment of the competences and skills, assessed most suitable to conduct research and to contribute to a successful development of the research environment. ****How to apply**** Interested candidates find detailed application information including contact details on the following web page http://bit.ly/2xn9xrb Online applications (reference number: 2017/2251-2.2.1) will be received until Nov 1, 2017. The application must include a cover letter (with a motivation why the candidate wants to pursue this PhD project in visual analytics), a resume and the contact information of two referees. In addition, a link to the candidate’s Master’s thesis should be provided. ****Further information**** The advertised position will be physically placed in the ISOVIS Research Group led by Professor Andreas Kerren who is a member and key researcher of DISA. The ISOVIS group mainly focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces. Our vision is to attack the big data challenge by a combination of human-centered data analysis and interactive visualization for decision making. These research topics are highly relevant for academia and economy as both science and industry make increasing use of data-intensive technologies. Linnaeus University, Sweden, has the ambition to utilize the qualities that an even gender distribution and diversity brings to the organization. -- +------------------------------------------------------- + Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren + + Linnaeus University + Department of Computer Science + Vejdes Plats 7, Room B3019 + SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden + + Phone: +46 470 767502 + Fax: +46 470 84004 + Email: andreas.kerren(a)lnu.se + WWW: http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ + WWW: http://cs.lnu.se/isovis/ +-------------------------------------------------------

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EuroVis 2018: CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS - STAR sketch submission deadline 13 October 2017
by Michael Sedlmair 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS All accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum Important Upcoming Dates Submission of STAR sketch (two pages +references+bibliography): 13 October 2017 Invitation for full STAR submission: 3 November 2017 Submission of full STAR: 2 February 2018 EuroVis 2018 is the 20th annual scientific gathering on visualization jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. EuroVis 2018 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, from 4-8 June 2018. Like last year, all accepted EuroVis 2018 STAR reports will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent previous STAR or other survey. We welcome submissions that introduce emerging technologies, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, politology, etc. As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage process. First, authors are asked to submit an initial sketch by 13 October 2017. A STAR sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance to the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of a STAR sketch main text is limited to two pages. References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted within the two page limit. Bibliographies are be limited to 200 words per author. The format of the sketch can be found at http://www.eurovis2018.org/ <http://www.eurovis2018.org/> STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and comments on suitability and relevance will be provided by 3 Nov 2016. Authors will then be required to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where three external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted STARs. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages in CGF latex style including all images but excluding references. To summarize, survey papers are up to 20 pages (excluding references). There is no page limit for references and author biographies are not included in the final version of the paper. To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, authors are required to submit the brief biographies of all authors as supplementary materials. Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and will be conducted using https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ <https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/> according to the guidelines defined at: http://www.eurovis2018.org/ <http://www.eurovis2018.org/> We plan to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 minute presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2018 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a longer time slot than that for a full paper. For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs co-chairs: star(a)eurovis2018.org <mailto:star@eurovis2018.org> Important Dates Submission of STAR sketch (two pages +references+bibliography): 13 October 2017 Invitation for full STAR submission: 3 Nov 2017 Submission of full STAR: 2 Feb 2018 Review notification: 16 March 2018 Second round submission: 20 April 2018 Second review notification: 4 May 2018 Camera ready deadline: 18 May 2018 General Chair Barbora Kozlikova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic STAR CHAIRS (star(a)eurovis2018.org <mailto:star@eurovis2018.org>) Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University, UK Michael Sedlmair, University of Vienna, Austria G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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Call for Tutorial Proposals: Diagrams 2018
by Atsushi Shimojima 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Tutorial Proposals Diagrams 2018 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Conference dates: 18th - 22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK Co-located event: International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2018 http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/iccs/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Diagrams is an international interdisciplinary conference series, covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams. We invite proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials. These tutorials will be held both before and after the main conference, on June 18th (Monday) and June 22th (Friday). They will take place at the main conference venue, Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. Tutorials are expected to address topics that are of interest to the Diagrams 2018 conference attendees. These include, but are not limited to, the following: * applications of diagrams, * computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams, * design of diagrammatic notations, * diagram understanding by humans or machines, * diagram aesthetics and layout, * educational uses of diagrams, * evaluation of diagrammatic notations, * graphical communication and literacy, * heterogeneous notations involving diagrams, * history of diagrammatic notations, * information visualization using diagrams, * nature of diagrams and diagramming, * novel technologies for diagram use, * philosophy of diagrams (see the Philosophy of Diagrams special call), * psychological issues pertaining to diagrams (see the Psychology of Diagrams special call), * reasoning with diagrams, * semiotics of diagrams, * software to support the use of diagrams, and * usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams. Tutorials differ from workshops in that they do not solicit contributions from attendees. However, attendees have previously particularly enjoyed tutorials that are interactive and spark debate. Examples of previous tutorials may provide some inspiration and guidance and can be found at: * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016/workshops.html * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/tutorials * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012/content/tutorial.html * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials.html * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2008/tutorials.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of Tutorial Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A tutorial proposal must contain: 1. A single page listing a. the title of the tutorial b. the names and contact information for all organizers c. a brief biography of the main organizer 2. A description of the topic and rationale for the tutorial, including a brief description of why the tutorial will be relevant to Diagrams 2018 conference attendees. 3. An abstract describing the tutorial of up to 500 words that can be used to advertise the tutorial on the Diagrams 2018 conference website. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Submit a Proposal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions should be made by December 15th via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial proposal submissions 15 December 2017 Tutorial notification 22 December 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please contact the Diagrams 2018 Conference Organisers: Workshop and Tutorials Chair Renata de Freitas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil freitas at vm.uff.br General Chair Peter Chapman, Edinburgh Napier University Program Chairs Amirouche Moktefi, Tallinn University of Technology Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton Abstracts Chair Sarah Perez-Kriz, The MITRE Corporation and George Mason University Graduate Symposium Chair Andrew Blake, University of Brighton Publicity Chair Atsushi Shimojima, Doshisha University

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Call for Workshop Proposals: Diagrams 2018
by Atsushi Shimojima 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Proposals Diagrams 2018 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Conference dates: 18th - 22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK Co-located event: International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2018 http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/iccs/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Diagrams is an international interdisciplinary conference series, covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams. We invite proposals for half-day or full-day workshops. These workshops will be held both before and after the main conference, on June 18th (Monday) and June 22th (Friday). They will take place at the main conference venue, Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. Workshops are expected to address topics that are of interest to the Diagrams 2018 conference attendees. These include, but are not limited to, the following: * applications of diagrams, * computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams, * design of diagrammatic notations, * diagram understanding by humans or machines, * diagram aesthetics and layout, * educational uses of diagrams, * evaluation of diagrammatic notations, * graphical communication and literacy, * heterogeneous notations involving diagrams, * history of diagrammatic notations, * information visualization using diagrams, * nature of diagrams and diagramming, * novel technologies for diagram use, * philosophy of diagrams (see the Philosophy of Diagrams special call), * psychological issues pertaining to diagrams (see the Psychology of Diagrams special call), * reasoning with diagrams, * semiotics of diagrams, * software to support the use of diagrams, and * usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams. Examples of previous Workshops may provide some inspiration and guidance and can be found at: * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016/workshops.html * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/workshops * http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012/content/workshops.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of Workshop Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A workshop proposal must contain: 1. A single page listing a. the title of the workshop b. the names and contact information for all organizers c. a brief biography of the main organizer 2. A description of the topic and rationale for the workshop, including a brief description of why the workshop will be relevant to Diagrams 2018 conference attendees. 3. A Call for Participation document of up to 500 words that can be used to advertise the workshop on the Diagrams 2018 conference website. Workshop organizers are expected to distribute their call for papers and solicite papers for submission. Workshop organisers must ensure that paper submission deadlines are at least two weeks after those for the main conference. In addition, they are encouraged to set submission deadlines after the notification date for Diagram 2018 papers (i.e. January 26, 2018). They must also notify authors of acceptance before the early registration deadline (late March, 2018). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Submit a Proposal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions should be made by October 4th via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop proposal submissions 04 October 2017 Workshop notification 13 October 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please contact the Diagrams 2018 Conference Organisers: Workshop and Tutorials Chair Renata de Freitas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil freitas at vm.uff.br General Chair Peter Chapman, Edinburgh Napier University Program Chairs Amirouche Moktefi, Tallinn University of Technology Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton Abstracts Chair Sarah Perez-Kriz, The MITRE Corporation and George Mason University Graduate Symposium Chair Andrew Blake, University of Brighton Publicity Chair Atsushi Shimojima, Doshisha University

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Full VizSec 2017 program is available
by Nicolas Prigent 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

We are delighted to announce that the full program for VizSec 2017 is available on our web site : http://vizsec.org/vizsec2017/ The keynote address will be given by Alexander Anthony Gates, Director, Cyber Directorate, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy and will deal with the most difficult challenge to using visualization tools to obtain and maintain cyber situational awareness, which is maintaining context.

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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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Final CFP: IVAPP 2018 deadline extended to Sept 12, 2017
by Andreas Kerren 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) Submission Deadline: September 12, 2017 (extended) http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ January 27-29, 2018 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal ======================================== The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference will be structured along several topics related to Information Visualization. We welcome papers describing original work in any of the topics listed below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. CONFERENCE AREAS 1: ABSTRACT DATA VISUALIZATION Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery Visual Representation and Interaction Data Management and Knowledge Representation Mathematical Foundations of Interactive Visual Analysis Display and Interaction Technology Databases and visualization, Visual Data Mining Graph Visualization Interface and Interaction Techniques for Visualization Internet, Web and Security Visualization Software Visualization Information Visualization Visual Analytical Reasoning Hardware-Assisted Visualization High-dimensional Data and Dimensionality Reduction Text and Document Visualization 2: GENERAL DATA VISUALIZATION Interactive Visual Interfaces for Visualization Interpretation and Evaluation Methods Knowledge-assisted Visualization Large Data Visualization Perception and Cognition in Visualization Visualization Applications Visualization Taxonomies and Models Visualization Algorithms and Technologies Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling Time-dependent Visualization Usability Studies and Visualization Glyph-based Visualization Collaborative Visualization Coordinated and Multiple Views 3: SPATIAL DATA VISUALIZATION Biomedical Visualization and Applications Flow Visualization GPU-based Visualization Image/Video Summarization and Visualization Multi-field Visualization Parallel Visualization Uncertainty Visualization Vector/Tensor Field Visualization Virtual Environments and Data Visualization Volume Visualization Scientific Visualization PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). A short list of papers presented at IVAPP will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of the Open Access Information Science Journal. IMPORTANT DATES Regular Papers Paper Submission: September 12, 2017 Authors Notification: October 20, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: November 3, 2017 Position Papers Paper Submission: September 29, 2017 Authors Notification: November 7, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: November 20, 2017 Tutorials/Demos/Panels Proposal Deadline: November 24, 2017 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Jose Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal IVAPP PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden ======================================== Web: http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ e-mail: ivapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org ========================================

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