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VizSec 2020 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

The 17th 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 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 Salt Lake City, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Wednesday, October 28th 2020. VizSec will take place during the main week of the IEEE VIS conference, giving VizSec authors and attendees enhanced access to IEEE VIS, the premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. Currently, IEEE VIS is scheduled to be held in person in Salt Lake City. However, due to the dynamic and evolving impact of COVID-19, we will monitor and coordinate with VIS, and will move to a virtual online format if the primary conference does so. We will also work with authors in case of coronavirus-related travel restrictions or other concerns to allow for virtual presentations. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Technical Papers ---------------- Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, 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 - Machine learning and explainable AI for cybersecurity - Adversarial machine learning visualization - Adversarial visualization - Visual analytics for cybersecurity - Data protection & privacy - Blockchain performance & security - Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure - 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 - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security - Training & educationn 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 dataset links. Short Papers ------------ Short papers describing initial research results, concise research contributions or incremental work on the above topics, even including 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 : - 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. Position Papers --------------- This year we are introducing a new VizSec paper type of position papers. Position papers focus on topics needing or calling for discussion or reconsideration of forgotten topics relevant for the VizSec community. They should report a clear position on the target topic and should also suggest a proposal or actions regarding the target topic. They should stimulate imaginative and hypothesis-driven research. In particular, we encourage submissions both from researchers inside the visualization community and outside, such as researchers and practitioners from pure cybersecurity domains who currently do not broadly employ visualization in their work. 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, potentially also through live demos, and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Awards ------ There will be an award for the best paper from the accepted program. This award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality as determined by the program committee. Key elements of the selection process include whether papers include evaluation, repeatable results, and open-source data or software. Authors of the best paper will be invited for submission to Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Both full and short papers are eligible. There will also be an award for Best Poster. This award will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly present their work to the audience. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions ----------- The VizSec 2020 Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. VizSec full papers are limited to 9 pages of content plus an additional 2 pages of references. Papers may be shorter than this but must make a similar contribution to a longer paper. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus 1 page of references. Position papers may be up to 4 total pages including references. Posters should be 2 page abstracts. 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. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. VizSec uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle paper and poster submissions and the reviewing processes : https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. July 13 2020 Submissions due for Full, Short, and Position Papers August 13 2020 Author notification for Full and Short Papers August 31 2020 Camera ready submission and copyright forms August 20 2020 Submissions due for Poster Abstracts September 3 2020 Author notification for Posters October 28 2020 VizSec 2020 More information can be found on https://vizsec.org/vizsec2020/

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[Special Issue CFP] Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics, Big Data Research Journal, Elsevier
by Nikos Bikakis 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Call for Papers Special Issue "Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics" Big Data Research Journal, Elsevier (Impact Factor: 2.95) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/big-data-research/call-for-papers/big-dat… 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 overplotting. 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 data as rapidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop. This special issue aims to publish work on multidisciplinary research areas spanning from Data Management and Mining to Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. Topics for the Special Issue ------------------------------- 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 Important Dates ------------------------------- Submission Deadline: October 1, 2020 Author Notification: December 1, 2020 Revised Manuscript Due: January 15, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2020 Tentative Publication Date: May, 2021 Guest Editors ------------------------------- David Auber, University Bordeaux, France Nikos Bikakis, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Mohamed Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers
by Axel Soto 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * March 18-21, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Mar 18, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html. ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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CFP: Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology, for a special issue of Sustainability journal
by Masood Masoodian 26 Jun '20

26 Jun '20

*CFP: Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology** **A special issue of Sustainability Journal** **Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021** *https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/environmental_challenges Environmental concerns have now become global challenges faced by the entire world. Human-centered technologies, tools, and services are, therefore, urgently needed to assist people in dealing with these challenges. Interactive visual technologies can play an important role in helping users to become better aware of environmental issues and challenges, and understand their causes, as well as their socio-economic impacts. As a consequence, users can then take environmentally-conscious and appropriate actions, such as conserving energy, consuming natural resources more efficiently, dealing with sustainability-related concerns, and so on. Interactive visual technologies can also, in particular, address human behavior and support changes in negative behavior, which can then result in better achieving environmental user goals. Furthermore, such technologies can be used to create a bridge between environmental sciences and other disciplines, including many life sciences, economics, and sociology. This Special Issue focuses on the role of interactive visual technologies in targeting current and future environmental challenges. The emphasis is on the interactive and visual aspects of such technologies, which might be software applications, tools, visualizations, educational games, gamification, and other digital services in the private, public, or industrial sectors. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of interactive visual technologies for: - Monitoring and visualization of different kinds of environmental and user data; - Monitoring and detection of human behavior and activity patterns impacting environmental factors, both on the small-scale, individual level and on the large-scale, population level; - Facilitating exploration, interpretation, comparison, explanation, and simulation modeling using different kinds of environmental and user data; - Creating awareness, influencing choices, and encouraging environmentally conscious human behavior changes; - Utilizing different kinds of environmental data to support related applications in other areas, such as education, policy-making, public health, and well-being. For more information, including submission details, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/environmental_ch… Guest Editors, Masood Masoodian and Thomas Rist -- Prof. Masood Masoodian Visual Communication Design Aalto University avcd.aalto.fi

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CfP: Machine Learning from User Interactions Workshop at IEEE VIS
by John Wenskovitch 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

*Call for Participation:* Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) workshop at IEEE VIS The Machine Learning from User Interactions (MLUI) workshop seeks to bring together researchers to share their knowledge and build collaborations at the intersection of the Machine Learning and Visualization fields, with a focus on learning from user interaction. Rather than focusing on what visualization can do to support machine learning (as in current Explainable AI research), this workshop seeks contributions on how machine learning can support visualization. Such support incorporates human-centric sensemaking processes, user-driven analytical systems, and gaining insight from data. Our intention in this workshop is to generate open discussion about how we currently learn from user interaction, how to build intelligent visualization systems, and how to proceed with future research in this area. We hope to foster discussion regarding systems, interaction models, and interaction techniques. Further, we hope to extend last year’s collaborative creation of a research agenda that explores the future of machine learning with user interaction. We plan for two submission tracks, supporting both (1) papers and (2) late-breaking work. *Papers:* We invite research and position papers between 5 and 10 pages in length (NOT including references). All submissions must be formatted according to the VGTC conference style template (i.e., NOT the journal style template that full papers use). All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published and linked from the workshop website. All papers should contain full author names and affiliations. These papers are considered archival; reuse of the content in a follow-up publication is only permitted in a proper journal, and any extended version must extend the original paper by at least 30%. If applicable, a link to a short video (up to 5 min. in length) may also be submitted. The papers will be juried by the organizers and selected external reviewers and will be chosen according to relevance, quality, and likelihood that they will stimulate and contribute to the discussion. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the conference (even if only for the workshop). Further submission details will follow. Submission deadline: July 24, 2020 Author notification: August 12, 2020 *Late-Breaking Work:* We anticipate that some participants would prefer to discuss either (1) limited aspects of their larger work that fit our call, or (2) late-breaking work. This replaces the posters track that we previously offered at MLUI. Submissions for this track will only require a ~250 word abstract, and selected talks will receive 5 minutes to present their current work. Further submission details will follow. Submission deadline: October 1, 2020 Author notification: October 8, 2020

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ACM ISS 2020 CfP
by Ruolin Wang 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2020 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces and novel interface technologies. Beyond the traditional scope of the conference – i.e., interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we also encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems. ========== Situation with Coronavirus/Covid-19: ISS 2020 will be virtual this year! Because of the evolving situation with covid-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, ACM ISS will be a virtual conference event this year. The submission and reviewing process will remain as planned, and papers will be published at PACMHCI ISS. Please stay tuned for more information on the presentation format during the virtual event! ========== Dates Submissions: July 1st, 2020, 5PM PDT Notifications sent to Authors: August 21, 2020 Revisions: August 21, 2020 - September 14, 2020 Final Decisions: October 5th, 2020 Camera-ready due: October 9th, 2020 ========== New Publication Model: Journal PACMHCI ISS Starting this year, ISS will switch to a journal model. We will invite for presentation papers published by the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. PACMHCI ISS has 1 volume per year with 1 issue per conference per volume. At least one author of accepted papers needs to register and present at the ACM ISS conference. The conference will retain its workshop, poster, and demo tracks, which will have their own publication outlet. Upcoming deadlines for papers to be presented at the ISS 2020 are: 2020 Summer round: July 1st, 2020, 5PM PDT (Notifications: August 21, 2020, Final decision: October 5, 2020) Submissions will be done through http://new.precisionconference.com. ========== Submissions Submission to PACMHCI ISS should present original and mature research work. High-quality, elaborated case studies and practice reports with generalizable findings will also be considered. Papers should be written in the Official ACM Journal Template (direct links to Word Template, LaTeX Template using ‘manuscript’, and Overleaf Template). Please review the Workflow and Template section of the ACM Journal Submission page. Submissions should be anonymized. Primarily, this means that submissions must remove all author and institutional information from the title and header area of the first page of the paper. Author information should also be removed from submitted supplementary materials, in particular, videos. Submissions that do not do so may be rejected without review. Furthermore, all references must remain intact. If you previously published a paper and your current submission builds on that work, the complete reference with the author's name must appear in the references. Authors must refer to their previous work in the third person (e.g., “We build on prior work by Smith et al. [X] but generalize their algorithm to new settings.”) and avoid blank references (e.g., “12. REMOVED FOR REVIEWING”). Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper (for example, in an Acknowledgements section), while encouraged, is left to the authors’ discretion. Submit your papers at http://new.precisionconference.com/. ========== Paper Length We recommend a page length in the new format of between 5-15 pages + any additional pages for references. There are no length restrictions on papers, so papers of any length can be submitted. However, reviewers will put the length of any submitted paper in context of the provided contribution when making decisions about acceptance and revisions. ========== Revisions The editorial board members will make decisions for any submitted papers as either accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, or rejected. These notifications are sent to authors on August 21st. If the initial decision is "minor revisions", the authors will have a revision cycle within the current to address these changes, from August 21st to September 14th. After the revised paper is submitted on September 14th, the final decisions will be sent to authors on October 5th. If the initial decision is "major revisions", the paper must be submitted in the following round to guarantee treatment as a revision, meaning that the same primary and secondary Board Members are assigned to continuously handle the submission. Submissions requiring "major revisions" will not submit on the revision deadline on September 14th, but in the next full review cycle for the following ISS 2021. This is to allow extra time in case the authors need to perform significant new work, such as conducting a new evaluation, before acceptance is possible. ========== Topic Areas The conference welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces as well as novel interface technologies, including (but not limited to): 1. Real-world applications of interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) 2. Large display interfaces and multi-display environments 3. Gesture-based interfaces (hands, finger, body) 4. Multi-modal interfaces 5. Tangible user interfaces 6. Novel interaction techniques and paradigms 7. Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices 8. Different materials and form factors: curved, sand, water, ... 9. Interactive 3D spaces (Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, ...) 10. Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, ...) 11. Interactive architecture 12. Beyond traditional surfaces: shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related, ... 13. Interactive information visualization/data presentation 14. Software engineering methods and frameworks 15. Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces 16. Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction 17. Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities 18. Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces 19. Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs 20. Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, etc.) Best Regards, Violynne(Ruolin) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/

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Call for Nominations: VGTC Dissertation Award
by Cook, Kristin A 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: VGTC Dissertation Award DEADLINE: July 15, 2020 IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC<http://vgtc.org/>) seeks nominations for the 2020 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 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 administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG<http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group>) 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<http://ieeevis.org/> conference. All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15, 2018 and August 15, 2020 are eligible for the 2020 competition. There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. To nominate a dissertation, 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. The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC. For more information, see http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ Contact vpg(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg@vgtc.org>.

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CFP: Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2020 - 10-11 September, London, UK
by Kai Xu 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Call for Papers: Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2020 https://cgvc.org.uk/CGVC2020/ CGVC 2020, hosted by King's College London in London UK, is the 38th annual computer graphics, visualization, and visual computing gathering organized by the Eurographics UK Chapter. The objective of Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) is to foster greater exchange between visual computing researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers and industry partners in the UK, Europe, and abroad to enter this rapidly growing area of research. CGVC has an expanded scope to include all areas of visual computing, and a steadily more wide-spread visibility that achieves a more wide-spread impact. Given the corona virus situation we currently live in, to allow maximum interaction, we are planning for various levels of virtual and interactive attendance. # Important Dates Submission deadline: Friday, 5th June 202 Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday, 21 July 2020 Camera Ready: Friday, 7 August 2020 Conference: 10-11 September 2020 (Thursday - Friday) # Topics include, but are not limited to: • Computer Graphics • Visualization • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality • Computer Animation • Computer Vision • Acquisition and Reconstruction Techniques • Graphics Architectures and Acceleration Hardware • Image processing • Rendering Techniques • Medical Imaging • Multimedia Visualisation • Information Visualization and Visual Analytics • Visual Data Science • Visual computing-related machine learning • Visualisation and Big Data • Geospatial Visualisation • Mobile Apps and Interactive Devices • Human Computer Interaction, Robotics, and Haptics • Computer-based Arts and Entertainment • Computer Games # Paper Types We seek contributions in the form of full papers, short papers, viewpoint papers and extended abstracts (posters). Optional single-blind or double-blind - reviewers’ identities are not revealed. Authors may choose whether to anonymize their submission or not. Full papers - a paper of up to 8 pages describing completed research, plus 1 page of references only. Papers are refereed, by members of the EGUK programme committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a 20 minute presentation at the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the Eurographics digital library and will serve as full paper publications. Short papers -The purpose of short papers is to present late-breaking results, work-in -progress, and follow-up extensions or evaluations of existing methods. Short papers will be peer-reviewed in a one-stage process by an international program committee. They will be electronically archived and are fully citable publications. Submissions for the short paper track should be at most 4 pages, with an additional page allowed for references. Accepted short papers will be presented orally at the conference in (approximately) 12-15 minute presentations. Viewpoint Papers - CGVC also features a viewpoint paper track (also known as position paper) which enables researchers a new possibility to publish their ideas. Viewpoints articles offer detailed technical opinions on trends in visual computing or reports on how visual computing has contributed to the comprehension of data or phenomena. We encourage discussions of challenges or limitations in today's methods and areas of potential new topics of research. We are also interested in application discussions that focus on the physical, life or social sciences, engineering, or commerce, for example, or related to the process of visual computing in general. We encourage an emphasis on lessons learned from practical experience for application discussions, particularly where visual computing has been employed in a real, working environment. Viewpoint papers are submitted with author names and affiliations. Accepted viewpoint papers will be electronically archived, are fully citable publications and will be presented orally at the conference in (approximately) 12-15 minute presentations. Extended Abstracts / Posters - The purpose of this track is to present late-breaking results, work in progress, and follow-up extensions or evaluations of existing methods. In particular, it provides young researchers, especially postgraduate students, with valuable opportunities to receive feedback from other researchers, and engage in stimulating discussions. The poster track will be managed by the co-chair team and the International Program Committee (IPC). We solicit poster submissions in the form of an extended abstract of at most 2 pages (with an additional page allowed for references only). Posters will be peer-reviewed in a one-stage process. Accepted posters, size A1 recommended, will be presented at the poster viewing session of the conference. In addition to directly submitted posters, some submissions to the full, short and viewpoint paper tracks, that are not accepted for publication but are deemed suitable, will be offered an opportunity to be presented as posters. Such submissions will not require an additional review process. Traditionally, the materials in a poster/sketch can be reused later by the original authors for a more extensive publication (e.g., a full paper) with more detailed content and mature results. This should not be considered as self-plagiarism. However, as posters/sketches are citable, researchers are encouraged to acknowledge novel ideas and results presented in posters/sketches. A poster may describe a piece of work in any aspect of visual computing. For posters, we particularly encourage a summary report of collaborative projects, work-in-progress, and application case studies. Accepted abstracts do not appear in the Eurographics digital library. An extended abstract and industrial project abstract are not considered as a paper publication, instead being similar to a SIGGRAPH one‐page sketch or to a conference poster without an associated paper. As such, presenting an extended abstract at this conference has no effect on your ability to publish a fuller version of the same work in another venue. Rita Borgo, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, and Kai Xu

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ACM ISS 2020 Calls for Submissions!
by Ruolin Wang 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Hi, We welcome submissions to the 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2020), which will take place from November 8th to 11th virtually! ACM ISS is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies and interactive spaces. ACM ISS 2020 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces, interactive spaces and novel interface technologies. Beyond the traditional scope of the conference – i.e., interactive tabletops, large displays, multi-display systems, mobile and mini devices – we also encourage contributions focused on the use of space and technology around us to bridge the gap between our digital and everyday lives, such as interactive 3D spaces, on-body sensors, interactive art or interactive architecture. We also encourage contributions focused on understanding individual and group needs related to interactive surfaces and interactive spaces, and the impact on individuals and groups of these technologies. We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of such interactive systems. Important Dates: Submissions: July 1st, 2020, 5PM PDT Notifications sent to Authors: August 21, 2020 Revisions: August 21 - September 14, 2020 Final Decisions: October 5th, 2020 Camera-ready due: October 9th, 2020 More on our website: http://iss.acm.org/2020/authors/ Thanks, Violynne(Ruolin) Wang | Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 1538 Boelter Hall 580 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 https://www.violynnewang.com/

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2nd CFP - VISSOFT 2020: 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
by David Baum 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

====================================== 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020) September 28-29, 2020, Adelaide, Australia http://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/ ====================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to the visualization of software. VISSOFT 2020, co-held with ICSME 2020, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. ====================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST - Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks such as StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. - Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. - Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization. - Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education. - Integration of software visualization tools with development environments. - Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye tracking. - Industrial experience with using software visualization. - Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented/mixed reality, gamification, and artificial intelligence. - Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based on data science concepts. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool Demonstrations (TD) track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. ====================================== SUBMISSION TYPES **Technical papers**: A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2020 **NIER/TD Track**: The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including bibliography). NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas. A sound evaluation is not required for NIER contributions. One of the goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different research groups. Tool Demonstrations describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will organize an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD papers are requested to demonstrate their tools. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show the interaction possibilities offered by the tool. ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 22, 2020 Technical paper submission: June 26, 2020 NIER/TD paper submission: June 26, 2020 Artifact submission: August 1, 2020 Author notification: July 24, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 7, 2020 Conference date: September 28-29, 2020 ====================================== **Statement on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)** The VISSOFT Organizing Committee is aware of the current COVID-19 situation. At this time, the conference is planned to take place as scheduled. The committee will continue monitoring conditions and will provide updates if plans change. Stay safe & we hope to see you at VISSOFT 2020! Best, Craig Anslow (General Chair) Andreas Schreiber and Takashi Ishio (Program Co-Chairs) https://twitter.com/IEEEVISSOFT

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