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Ph.D. position - Visualizations in cybersecurity practice
by Vít Rusňák 19 May '19

19 May '19

Dear all, We are seeking to recruit a Ph.D. student for funded position in the cross-disciplinary topics of cybersecurity and visualizations in cybersecurity practice. The nearest deadline for the application is on the 26th of May with a start in September 2019. The students will be with the Faculty of Informatics, (https://www.fi.muni.cz/) and CSIRT-MU (https://csirt.muni.cz/) at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Description: Interactive visualizations can help in better understanding and handling of security incidents. The goal is to explore different ways to visualize and interact with knowledge extracted automatically from extensive heterogeneous datasets from the network monitoring tools. The student will be working within the team of cybersecurity researchers and practitioners. Since the underlying infrastructure for collecting the data already exists, the student will have immediate access to datasets and users. User evaluation sessions (workshops, interviews, tests) with the incident handlers will be part of the work, to validate the visualization design. For further details about the topics, feel free to contact me via e-mail. -- Vit Rusnak, Ph.D. rusnak(a)ics.muni.cz CSIRT-MU https://csirt.muni.cz Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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PhD position: Visualization for fitness trackers/small devices
by Petra Isenberg 16 May '19

16 May '19

Hello everyone, I am looking for a motivated PhD student to work with me and Jean-Daniel Fekete on the topic of visualization for fitness trackers and smartwatches. Details of the position * Place: Inria, Team Aviz, ~20km (12 miles) south of Paris, France * Funding: Through a French-German research collaboration with the University of Stuttgart * Duration: French PhD studies have a timeframe limited to 3 years (no teaching or supervision obligations) * Supervisors: Petra Isenberg, Jean-Daniel Fekete * Contact: petra.isenberg(a)inria.fr, jean-daniel.fekete(a)inria.fr * Start Date: ideally until June 2019 * URL: https://www.aviz.fr/Research/JobsMicroVis Petra Isenberg

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Early call: ACM SIGIR CHIIR’20
by CHIIR 2020 Program Co-Chairs 15 May '19

15 May '19

Dear Colleagues, Please mark your calendars: the fifth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR <https://www.chiir.org/>) (pronounced “cheer”) will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 14–18 March, 2020. ACM CHIIR 2020 invites submissions focused on user-centered approaches to the design and evaluation of systems for information access, retrieval, and use. Papers may explore improvements to existing systems and interfaces, propose novel theories, models, and systems, or focus on understanding individual and group interactions with information and information systems. As a multi-disciplinary research meeting, we welcome submissions using a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Topics covered include but are not limited to: - Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies - Search interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains - User-centered design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems - Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery - Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing - Modeling and simulation of information interaction - Information use, including measures of use as well as broader sense-making - Field and case studies relevant to understanding prerequisites for information searching, design and access - User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and neuro-physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability - Human interaction and experience with conversational information systems - Context-aware and personalized search, including design, contextual features and analysis of information interaction - Information visualization and visual analytics, including search result presentation - Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction - Conversational search and other types of stateful and multi-turn interactions between users and search applications - Insights and analyses related to human experiences and usage trends with recommendation technologies - Information interaction and seeking with mobile devices and services ACM CHIIR operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct <http://sigir.org/conferences/conference-code-of-conduct/>. Please note the following submission deadlines October 1, 2019 Workshop and Tutorial proposals due October 15, 2019 Full papers and Perspectives papers due October 29, 2019 Short papers, Demos and Doctoral Consortium proposals due October 23, 2019 Notifications of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials December 10, 2019 Notifications of acceptance for all other submission types Submission Requirements can be found on the conference website: https://sigir.org/chiir2020/calls.html The submission system will open in September 2019. Please stay tuned for further announcements and details. Questions? Please send an email to chiir2020conf(a)gmail.com. CHIIR Organizing Committee chiir2020program(a)gmail.com -- ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2020) Program Co-Chairs Orland Hoeber, University of Regina Ioannis Arapakis, Telefonica I+D Irene Lopatovska, Pratt Institute Conference website: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/ Call for papers: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/calls.html Important deadlines: Oct 1, 15, and 29 Oct 1 (workshop and tutorial proposals) Oct 15 (full and perspective papers) Oct 29 (short papers, demos and doctoral consortium proposals)

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CDVE2019 Paper deadline approaching - May 20
by cdve .org 14 May '19

14 May '19

The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, CDVE 2019 will be held on Oct. 6-9 in Mallorca, Spain. Paper deadline is approaching - May 20. If you have not yet submitted a paper, please hurry up. You are welcome to submit full papers up to 10 pages and short papers up to 6 pages. See our call for papers http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html page for more details. Your paper should dress one of the major topics in the call for paper themes. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You should submit your paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page http://www.cdve.org/submit.html for how to submit. Our proceedings book published by the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) enters the following indexing systems: • Science (CPCI-S) included in ISI Web of Science • Google Scholar • IO-Port • EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases) • MathSciNet • ACM Digital Library • Scopus • dblp • Zentralblatt MATH If you don't want to receive further calls from this conference, please reply to this mail with the title: unsubscribe. The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 6 - 9, 2019, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2019(a)easychair.org <cdve2018(a)easychair.org> Web: http://www.cdve.org

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4th Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2019), Co-located with IEEE VIS 2019, Vancouver
by Dominik Moritz 13 May '19

13 May '19

CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2019), Co-located with VIS 2019 https://www.interactive-analysis.org/ October 20 or 21st, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2019. *** Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 *** DSIA seeks to foster innovative research at the intersection of data processing systems and interactive visualization. In this workshop, we will explore ideas at the frontier of databases, machine learning, and other large-scale data-processing systems impact visualization systems design. It is our core tenant that designing these systems together will yield better systems. Examples include: * How can machine learning influence visualization design? * What data pre-processing can or should be done automatically in a database? * How can perceptual principles be applied to query optimization? This workshop is a forum for cross-pollination between these fields. The program will include invited talks from researches in these communities and preliminary research work. It will include time for short presentations outlining needs and new approaches. Finally, we will break into discussion groups and have a report out on research areas for the next year (Please see http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ for links to the program from previous years, including the notes from last year's discussion groups). -- LIST OF TOPICS -- This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to explore and analyze large amounts of data. The focus will be on issues that span front-end and back-end, with low-latency techniques that enable interaction especially interesting. We encourage research in progress, position papers and late-breaking results in interactive analysis in the broadest sense. We are generally interested in questions that arise at as visualization systems interface with other systems. Topics of interest workshop include (but are not limited to): * Application architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities * Techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * Database architectures for interactive analysis (designs or implementations) * Novel use of database facilities for interactive analysis * Novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * Evaluation of data systems for interactive analysis * Identify unique characteristics of databases for supporting visualization * Communication protocols between front and back ends * Techniques for metadata generation We are also interested in position abstracts. In this format, we invite ideas for new research directions, their expected impact and anticipated challenges. We especially encourage junior researchers and students to consider this track as an opportunity to share concepts and get feedback. -- SUBMISSIONS -- We are accepting papers in two formats: * Preliminary research, late-breaking results and work in progress: 4 to 6 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted papers will be given a full slot to present at the workshop and will have the option to publish in IEEE Xplore. * Position abstracts, research ideas and desired future work: 1 to 3 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted position papers will be given a 5-minute "lightning" talk slot at the workshop to share their ideas/concepts/concerns. -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * Submission Deadline: July 13, 2019 * Notification Date: July 28, 2019 * Camera Ready Due: August 17, 2019 * Workshop Date: October 20 or 21, 2019 -- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS -- * Dominik Moritz, University of Washington. * Leilani Battle, University of Washington/University of Maryland. * Joseph Cottam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. -- CONTACT -- Website: https://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org

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Postdoctoral position in visualization, topological analysis, and machine learning
by Joshua Levine 12 May '19

12 May '19

Postdoctoral Research Associate Dept. of Computer Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA Complete job posting here: https://uacareers.com/postings/37598 ----- The University of Arizona seeks a postdoctoral researcher in visualization under the direction of Joshua A. Levine. The primary duties will be conducting research on visualization of scientific data within the scope of projects in Dr. Levine’s research team. Secondary duties will involve projects associated with the HDC research group at the UA ( http://hdc.cs.arizona.edu/) In particular, this position will focus on research projects at the intersection of machine learning and topological analysis. The overall goal of this research is to produce novel analysis techniques for the visualization and analysis of multifaceted data coming from scientific simulations such as climate. We are seeking candidates with background in at least one of these areas. The position is a one-year term which can be extended an additional year by mutual consent. Please contact me directly (at josh(a)email.arizona.edu) for more information. Josh Levine http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~josh

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OzCHI'2019 - CfP - @Perth/Fremantle/WA/Australia - Submit your Long Papers/Workshops by 24th May 2019
by Artur Lugmayr 12 May '19

12 May '19

============================================================================================================================= OzCHI 2019 - Call for Participation 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction "Experience Design Across Asia Pacific" @Perth/Fremantle, WA, AUSTRALIA 3-5 December 2019 W. http://www.ozchi.org | F. https://www.facebook.com/ozchi2019/ T. https://twitter.com/OzchiWA | #Quokka_CHI E. ozchi2019(a)gmail.com IMPORTANT DATES 24 May 2019 Long Papers 24 May 2019 Workshop Proposals 24 June 2019 Doctoral Consortium 10 August 2019 Short Papers 24 August 2019 Student Design Challenge Team Applications 6 September 2019 Demos, Posters, Industry Papers, and Work-in-Progress We listen to YOUR voice and want to make OzCHI'19 even better - submit your conference ideas! The best ideas are awarded during the conference closing session. ozCHI ‘Idea Box': https://goo.gl/forms/0XceZlmoP0XSV5RO2 ============================================================================================================================= OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia and Australia's leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds, including interface designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists. After 18 years, OzCHI finally come back to Western Australia. Time has passed and things have changed a lot since OzCHI 2001. More HCI and UX works have been done in Western Australia as well as its neighbouring countries. Having the privilege to convene the 2nd OzCHI conference in Western Australia, one of our objectives is to be inclusive towards attendees across overall Asia-Pacific. The conference theme is Experience Design in Asia Pacific, which highlights the challenges we all face in the endeavour to tame the environment without destroying it to ensure our continuing existence. Our vision is to make OzCHI 2019 as an inclusive event for academic, industry, research, start-ups, maker communities to learn and exchange knowledge in the recent and emerging HCI and UX areas - practical, technical, empirical and theoretical aspects regardless their level of maturity in the fields. We invite contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Social Science, Creative Industries, and other related disciplines. Creating * Designing * Experiencing * Innovating * Intelligence * Community * Reaching out to Asia-Pacific Join us in Perth/Fremantle, Western Australia in December 2019 to explore and understand the design and role of contemporary interactive technologies. ============================================================================================================================= SUBMISSIONS ============================================================================================================================= Submissions will be accepted in various categories as described below. All submissions must be written in English and follow formatting guidelines in the paper template. Both long and short papers will undergo a double-blind review by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. This review will be based on the full text of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series available from the ACM Digital Library. Award will be given to the highest quality papers. We are looking for submissions under the theme of Experience Design across Asia Pacific in the following areas but not limited to: ============================================================================================================================= TOPICS ============================================================================================================================= HCI: Methods, Tools and Techniques • Usability Methods and Practices • Human-centered Design • Participatory Design • User Studies and Ethnographic Approaches • Design Methods • Tools for Design, Modelling and Evaluation • HCI and Software Engineering • Usability Metrics and Measurement • Ethical issues in HCI • HCI Education and Design Education • HCI4D UX Applications and Business Domains • Digital Transformation • Mobile User Experience • Organizational context and technology design • Games and Entertainment • Healthcare, E-health and Telemedicine • Interactive Design for Online Education • Computer-supported cooperative work and collaboration • E-commerce Interface Design and Evaluation • Electronic, Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce • Service Design (Micro-finance, Micro-loan, Instant Courier, Agile Transport) • Social Computing (Social Media, Social Networking) • Online Gaming, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Online Dating • Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology • UX and eLearning • Blockchain • Crowdsourcing User Research and Usability • Lean User Experience • Agile User Experience • Usability Testing • User Research • Internationalization and Localization • Accessibility and inclusion • Design System • Multimedia and Multimodal Interfaces • Natural User Interfaces • Tactile and Haptic Interaction • Novel Interaction Techniques • Mobile User Interfaces • Responsive Design • Graphic User Interface • Information Visualisation Emerging Technologies • Virtual Reality • Augmented Reality • Mobile Computing and User Mobility • Affective Computing • Context-Aware and Ubiquitous Computing • Internet of Things • Big Data • Human Robot Interaction • Artificial Intelligence • Smart Cities • Autonomous Vehicles • Wearable Technology • Brain Computer Interface • Novel Interface Graphics, Art and Media Technology • Engaging users with multimedia • Methods and techniques of creative practices • Visualizing and interacting with data • Quality of Experience (QoE) • Digital storytelling • Interactive art • Media technology and interactivity • Designing for multi-user interaction • Tangible, mixed reality interfaces and multi-modal interfaces ============================================================================================================================= SUBMISSION TYPES ============================================================================================================================= 1. Long papers report on innovative, original, and completed research, which is relevant, significant, and interesting to the HCI community. 2. Short papers present ideas that are emerging and would benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. This type of submission may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches. 3. Workshops are half-day and full-day sessions on topics that contribute to community building around a specific HCI topic. Topics may include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and that support active participation beyond presentation. 4. Doctoral consortium is a full-day intensive session for research students. A panel of experienced HCI researchers provides advice and guidance. 5. Student Design Challenge is an annual international competition in which students work rapidly researching, brainstorming and sketching a solution for a real HCI problem. Finalists will present their work at the OzCHI 2019 conference. 6. Industry papers provide the opportunity for practitioners and industries for their initiatives or new developments that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. 7. Work-in-Progress papers are a subset of the long papers track (subject to the same format and deadlines). Rather than reporting on mature research, they describe work-in-progress, late-breaking and new ideas, questions, or challenges, and are intended to provoke discussion in the OzCHI community. The accepted submission will be required to present a poster 8. Demo/Posters is a venue for industry, research, startups, maker communities, the arts, and design to present their hands-on demonstration, share novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences. This venue promotes and provokes discussion on novel technologies. ============================================================================================================================= OzCHI 2019 GENERAL CHAIRS ============================================================================================================================= General Chairs Artur Lugmayr, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Eunice Sari, UXINDO & Charles Darwin Univ., AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA Long Paper Chairs Ryan, Kelly, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Mark Reynolds, Univ. of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA Virpi Roto, Aalto Univ. FINLAND Ingrid Richardson, Murdoch University, AUSTRALIA Short Paper Chairs Haifeng Shen, Australian Catholic Univ. AUSTRALIA Callum Parker, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Naseem Ahmadpour, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Jo Li Tay, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Publication Chairs Hollie White, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Jared Donovan, QUT, AUSTRALIA Simon Perrault, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, SINGAPORE Workshop Chairs Greg Wadley, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Sarah Webber, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Jo Jung, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA Demos, Work in Progress, Posters Mark Billinghurst, Univ. of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Soojeong Yoo, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Martin Masek, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA Doctoral Consortium Chairs Dana McKay, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Margot Brereton, QUT, AUSTRALIA Wally Smith, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Panel Chairs Marcus Foth, QUT, AUSTRALIA Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, RMIT, AUSTRALIA Student Design Challenge David Cook, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA Trevor Hunter, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA Peter Worthy, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA Industry Engagement and Sponsorship Chairs Jess Tsimeris, Google, USA Jonathan Steingeisser, Isobar, Perth, AUSTRALIA Greg Stewart, SMS Management and Technology, Perth, AUSTRALIA Christopher Kueh, ECU, Perth, AUSTRALIA Ulrich Engelke, Data61, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA Sean Gardiner, BHP, AUSTRALIA Adi Tedjasaputra, UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA Local Liaisons & Publicity Chairs Susannah Soon, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Website Yanginbo Zhang, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Student Volunteers Chairs Casey Xin Wei Lim, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Jamie Dougall, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA Asian Liaisons and Publicity Ethel Ong, De La Salle University, PHILIPINES Masitah Ghazali, University of Teknologi, MALAYSIA Thippaya Chintakovid, Chulangkorn University, THAILAND Nova Ahmed, North South University, Dhaka, BANGLADESH Adi Tedjasasaputra, UX Indonesia, INDONESIA/AUSTRIA CHISIG Liasons Duncan Stevenson, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA George Buchanan, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Local Conference Steering Board Artur Lugmayr, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Andrew Woods, HIVE, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Andrew Rohl, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Christopher Kueh, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Clive Barstow, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA David Cook, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Eunice Sari, Charles Darwin University and UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA Jo Jung, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Michelle Ellis, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Philip Ely, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Martin Masek, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Mark McMahon, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA Tele Tan, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA Honorary Local Conference Steering Board Members Vasillis Kostakos, Univ. 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TVX 2019 -- Early Bird Registration Extended to 15th May
by Jonathan Hook 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hi everyone, We’re pleased to announce that the early bird registration deadline for TVX 2019 has been extended to the 15th May 2019. This year’s conference takes place across two exciting venues in MediaCityUK, Manchester’s world-leading hub for creative media and technology innovation. Days 1 & 2 are held in The Lowry, a cultural centre that comprises two large theatres, a gallery exhibiting the work of the early 20th century painter L. S. Lowry and other facilities including bars, restaurants and shops. The third day of the conference — a ‘bazaar’ of interactive sessions and exhibits designed to provoke discussion, networking and collaboration amongst researchers and industry — takes place right in the heart of the BBC’s Manchester headquarters, Quay House. As home to major broadcasters and technology companies including the BBC, ITV, Ericsson and dock10, as well as more than 250 smaller media and digital businesses, we believe MediaCityUK is the ideal place for TVX to showcase cutting edge online, interactive and immersive video research and practice. Alongside our high quality programme of research papers, workshops, demos, work in progress, doctoral consortium and industry talks (inc. Samsung, BT, BBC, ESL, TNO), we are excited to have three inspiring keynotes by thought leaders from academia and industry. These will be presented by Andy Conroy who is Controller of Research and Development at the BBC; Geraint Wiggins who is Professor of Computational Creativity at VUB and at Queen Mary University of London; and Simon Lumb who is a Senior Research and Development Producer at the BBC. You can reserve your place now and find out more about the programme on our website: https://tvx.acm.org/2019/registration/ <https://tvx.acm.org/2019/registration/> We hope that you look forward to the conference with as much excitement as we do, and hope to see you in Manchester! Jon Hook, Marian Ursu, Phil Stenton TVX 2019 General Chairs

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Chris Oehmen to Keynote at VizSec 2019
by Nicolas Prigent 08 May '19

08 May '19

*** Please visit https://vizsec.org/ for more information. *** We are pleased to announce Chris Oehmen as the Keynote Speacker of VizSec 2019! Chris is at PNNL as a research scientist, previously serving as the lead for the Asymmetric Resilient Cybersecurity Initiative. His research is built on a foundation of high performance computing applications in biology, with special emphasis on how these biological approaches can be used as a new paradigm for other fields such as cybersecurity. His resilience and active defense work rely on a foundational application of biological principles for survivability and regeneration with special emphasis on facilitating human control of complex systems.

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VizSec 2019 Full and Short Papers Deadline Approaching
by Nicolas Prigent 08 May '19

08 May '19

*** This is a reminder that the deadline for full and short papers is on *** *** June 15 2019. Please visit https://vizsec.org/ for more information. *** The 16th 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 Vancouver, Canada in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. This year, VizSec will be more closely integrated with the IEEE VIS program. VizSec will take place during the main week of the 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. 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. - 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 & education. 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 the proposed 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 VAST Challenge data sets. 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. 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 Presentation and an award for Best Poster. Each award comes with a $50 USD Amazon gift card thanks to our sponsor, Two Six Labs. These awards will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly and concisely present their work to the audience. The awards will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference. Submissions ----------- The VizSec 2019 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/Track/vis.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. 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 the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle their paper and poster submissions and reviewing processes. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. June 15 2019: Submissions due for Full and Short Papers. July 19 2019: Author notification for Full and Short Papers. August 10 2019: Fast forward deadline. August 15 2019: Camera ready submission and copyright forms. August 3 2019: Submissions due for Poster Abstracts. August 17 2019: Author notification for Posters. October 23 2019: VizSec 2019. 2019 Organizing Committee ------------------------- Robert Gove, General Co-Chair, Two Six Labs. Dustin Arendt, General Co-Chair, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Celeste Paul, Publication Chair, US Department of Defense. Jörn Kohlhammer, Program Co-Chair, Fraunhofer IGD. Marco Angelini, Program Co-Chair, University of Rome La Sapienza. Chris Bryan, Poster Co-Chair, Arizona State University. Sean McKenna, Poster Co-Chair, Lucid Software Inc. Nicolas Prigent, Publicity Chair, LSTI. Parnian Najafi, Sponsorship Chair, FireEye, Inc. Awalin Sopan, Web Chair, FireEye, Inc. Steering Committee ------------------ Greg Conti, IronNet Cybersecurity. Deborah Frincke, National Security Agency. John Gerth, Stanford University. John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Lane Harrison, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis. Kirsten Whitley, U.S. Department of Defense. Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco. Diane Staheli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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