December 2019 - Infovis

[2nd CFP] Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics workshop (BigVis 2020) @ EDBT 2020 Copenhagen
by Nikos Bikakis 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

Call for Papers BigVis 2020: 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2020 March 30, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark Held in conjunction with the 23rd Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 23rd Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2020) Information Visualization is nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a data-curious user into someone who can access and analyze that data is even more burdensome now for a great number of users with little or no support and expertise on the data processing part. Thus, the area of data visualization, visual exploration and analysis has gained great attention recently, calling for joint action from different research areas from the HCI, Computer graphics and Data management and mining communities. In this respect, several traditional problems from these communities such as efficient data storage, querying & indexing for enabling visual analytics, new ways for visual presentation of massive data, efficient interaction and personalization techniques that can fit to different user needs are revisited. The modern exploration and visualization systems should nowadays offer scalable techniques to efficiently handle billion objects datasets, limiting the visual response in a few milliseconds along with mechanisms for information abstraction, sampling and summarization for addressing problems related to visual information over-plotting. Further, they must encourage user comprehension offering customization capabilities to different user-defined exploration scenarios and preferences according to the analysis needs. Overall, the challenge is to offer self-service visual analytics, i.e. enable data scientists and business analysts to visually gain value and insights out of the d! ata as repidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop. The BigVis workshop aims at addressing the above challenges and issues by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, exchange, and disseminate their work. BigVis attempts to attract attention from the research areas of Data Management & Mining, Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction and highlight novel works that bridge together these communities. Workshop Topics ------------------------------------ In the context of visual exploration and analytics, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, high-dimensional, graph - Human-in-the-loop processing - Human-centered databases - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications - Interactive machine learning - Interactive data mining - User-oriented visualization; e.g., recommendation, assistance, personalization - Visualization & knowledge; e.g., storytelling - Progressive analytics - In-situ visual exploration & analytics - Novel interface & interaction paradigms - Visual representation techniques; e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi-level, filtering - Scalable visual operations; e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing - Scientific visualization; e.g., volume visualization - Analytics in the fields of scholarly data, digital libraries, multimedia, scientific data, social data, etc. - Immersive visualization - Interactive computer graphics - Setting-oriented visualization; e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, visualization over networks - High performance, distributed & parallel techniques - Visualization hardware & acceleration techniques - Linked Data & ontologies visualization - Benchmarks for data visualization & analytics - Case & user studies - Systems & tools Submissions ------------------------------------ Regular/Short Research papers [up to 8/4 pages] Work-in-progress papers [up to 4 pages] Vision papers [up to 4 pages] System papers and Demos [up to 4 pages] Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 5, 2020 Notification: January 24, 2020 Camera-ready: January 29, 2020 Workshop: March 30, 2020 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ David Auber, University Bordeaux, France Nikos Bikakis, University of Ioannina, Greece Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Mohamed Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Special Issue ------------------------------------ Extended versions of the best papers of BigVis 2020 will be invited for submission in the Special Issue "Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics" of the "Big Data Research Journal", Elsevier (IF: 2.95) Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers Univ, USA Demosthenes Akoumianakis, Hellenic Mediterranean Univ, Greece Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Rick Cole, Tableau Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & Univ of Calabria, Italy Danyel Fisher, Honeycomb.io Steffen Frey, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany Giorgos Giannopoulos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Parke Godfrey, Univ of York, Canada Michael Gubanov, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, USA Silu Huang, Microsoft Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France Vana Kalogeraki, Athens Univ of Economics & Business, Greece Eser Kandogan, IBM James Klosowski, AT&T Research Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece Zhicheng Liu, Adobe Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer, Germany Ioana Manolescu, INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France Marios Meimaris, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Silvia Miksch, Vienna Univ of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Martin Nöllenburg, Vienna Univ of Technology, Austria Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis Univ, USA Paul Parsons, Purdue Univ, USA Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, Univ of Salerno, Italy Alexander Rind, St. Pölten Univ of Applied Sciences, Austria Gerik Scheuermann, Univ of Leipzig, Germany Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus Univ, Denmark Heidrun Schumann, Univ of Rostock, Germany Michael Sedlmair, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany Thibault Sellam, Columbia Univ, USA Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven Univ of Technology, Netherlands Kostas Stefanidis, Univ of Tampere, Finland Cagatay Turkay, Univ of Warwick, UK Panos Vassiliadis, Univ of Ioannina, Greece Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Chaoli Wang, Univ of Notre Dame, USA Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Kai Xu, Middlesex Univ, UK Hongfeng Yu, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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2nd CfP: DIAGRAMS 2020
by Jens Lemanski 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

**************************************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers: Diagrams 2020 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/ Conference dates: 24-28 August 2020 Location: Tallinn, Estonia Deadline for pre-submission: 24th January 2020 **************************************************************************** Diagrams 2020 is the eleventh conference in the biennial series that started in 2000. The multidisciplinary nature of Diagrams means it encompasses: architecture, art, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from these interrelated fields, positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area. Diagrams 2020 will be hosted by Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia and a beautiful seaside city. It has a well preserved medieval old town which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city is ideally located and designated for those who wish to explore Estonia’s vibrant cultural life, digital society and natural sites. Tallinn is easily accessible by flight from international cities, either directly or by transiting through Helsinki (Finland) and Riga (Latvia). **************************************************************************** Calls Diagrams 2020 has various calls, providing a range of opportunities for taking part in the conference. Diagrams solicits research contributions falling within the scope of the conference, to be submitted to one of three tracks: Main track http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/calls/main-track/ Psychology of Diagrams track http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/calls/psychology-of-diagr… Philosophy of Diagrams track http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/calls/philosophy/ In addition, Diagrams seeks to host Workshops and Tutorials: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/calls/workshops/ http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/calls/tutorials/ ************************************ For more information, please visit the website of the conference: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/ PD Dr. Jens Lemanski (Publicity Chair) FernUniversität in Hagen Institut für Philosophie LG 1 58084 Hagen, Germany Tel.: 02331/ 987-2364 Homepage <https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/philosophie/lg1/team/jens.lemanski.shtml>

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Call for Submissions: Graduate Symposium Diagrams 2020
by Jens Lemanski 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

**************************************************************************** Call for Submissions: Graduate Symposium Diagrams 2020 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/ Conference dates: 24th - 28th August 2020 Location: Tallinn, Estonia **************************************************************************** Diagrams 2020 is the eleventh conference in the biennial series that started in 2000, which provides a united forum for all areas concerned with the study of diagrams. The goal of the Diagrams 2020 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field. Participants will be selected for the Graduate Symposium based on the submission of a 3-page report describing their research (see the Submission section). Submissions will be peer reviewed. Summaries of accepted submissions will be available online on the conference website (as an example, see Diagrams 2018 Graduate Symposium proceedings: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Diagrams… ). **************************************************************************** Submission Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/index.php/calls/. Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing - the thesis topic, - the approach being taken, - the work that has been completed, - the expected contributions of the research, and - aspects of the work on which advice is desired. The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format via the EasyChair system by 1st May 2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2020 The submission should be prepared following the LNCS style guidelines, http://www.springer.com/lncs, and each student can only submit one report. **************************************************************************** Participation Expectations Graduate students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted are expected to participate in the Graduate Symposium as follows. Students who are not giving a presentation of a long or short paper, or an abstract, in the main conference will be expected to give a presentation at the Symposium and present a poster in the main conference. Students who are presenting a long or short paper, or an abstract, in the main conference, including either of the special tracks, will be expected to attend the Symposium and present a poster in the main conference. Students who are presenting a poster at the main conference, including either of the special tracks, will be expected to give a presentation at the Symposium. They do not need to prepare an additional poster for the main conference. All students who receive student funding from Diagrams 2020 will be required to attend the Graduate Symposium. **************************************************************************** Supervisor Support Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement, by email to Yacin Hamami, grad.symp.diagrams [at] gmail.com. The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement. **************************************************************************** Financial Support The organisers may be able to provide financial support for students attending the conference. If support is available then those eligible to apply for are expected to include: - students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted, - students presenting a paper, abstract or poster at the main conference who submit a Graduate Symposium report by the symposium submission deadline. Support is expected to range from free registration to additional travel support. All students who obtain funding from the Diagrams conference must participate in the Graduate Symposium as explained in the Participation Expectations. **************************************************************************** Important Dates For all submissions to the Graduate Symposium the following dates apply Submission deadline: 1st May 2020 Supervisor supporting statement: 8th May 2020 Notification of acceptance: 29th May 2020 Camera ready deadline: 19th June 2020 PD Dr. Jens Lemanski (Publicity Chair) FernUniversität in Hagen Institut für Philosophie LG 1 58084 Hagen, Germany Tel.: 02331/ 987-2364 Homepage <https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/philosophie/lg1/team/jens.lemanski.shtml>

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