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Nominations for VIS Unification Committee - DL Friday, January 18th
by Call for Papers - VGTC 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Dear VIS Community - The VEC is currently forming a committee to develop detailed recommendations for moving VIS to a unified area chairs model, along with a new governance structure to facilitate the model. This committee will have a significant impact in shaping the future of VIS. **We are seeking nominations of people to serve on this committee.** Members of the committee will be expected to participate in weekly meetings and to conduct follow-up homework between the meetings for the duration of approximately six months. Additionally, the committee will be tasked with working in an open and transparent way, including releasing progress reports on a regular basis to the community and soliciting feedback on ideas as they evolve. The committee will be kept small to facilitate agility and consensus. The formation of this committee is based on a priority recommendation from the VIS Restructuring Committee Report (see pg. 9 of the http://ieeevis.org/governance/1810-Restructuring-Recommendations.pdf) If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for consideration, please email Lisa Avila <vec_chair(a)ieeevis.org> with the name of the nominee and a brief description of the nominee’s most important qualifications for this committee. **Nominations must be received by Friday, January 18th.** Regards, Lisa Avila VEC Chair

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BioVis - CfP for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB/ECCB, Basel, Switzerland
by Fritz Lekschas 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

========================= Call for Participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a one-day Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB/ECCB 2019 July 22, 2019 Basel, Switzerland http://biovis.net/ <http://biovis.net/> https://twitter.com/biovis_net <https://twitter.com/biovis_net> ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2019/cfp_ismb 1. ISMB/ECCB Proceedings ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the ISMB/ECCB Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/, impact factor 7.3) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019 2. Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit short abstracts highlighting previously published work, or long abstracts concerning unpublished work. Accepted talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: Early April, 2019 3. Posters and demos ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, and visualization challenges, to be presented as a poster or interactive demo. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: Early April, 2019 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2019

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3-year PostDoc position in Visualization and Data Analysis, Newcastle University
by Sara Fernstad 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, We are currently advertising a 3-year position as post-doctoral research associate in visualization and data analysis, in the School of Computing at Newcastle University UK: https://vacancies.ncl.ac.uk/ViewVacancyV2.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmECH… The advertised position is part of a high profile international EU-H2020-JTI-IMI2 funded collaborative project (MOBILISE-D: Connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement), involving 35 institutions in 11 countries (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/bam/theteam/bamresearchgroupvacancies/ ). The research associate will develop visualization and data analysis methods, as part of a data management platform that will be developed within the project, and will be located in the Scalable research group (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/research/groups/scalable ) in the School of Computing, working closely with the Brain and Movement research team in the Clinical Ageing Research Unit. The School of Computing, which was ranked 1st in the UK for research impact in the latest Research Excellence Framework, is a partner in the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s leading institute for research into data science and AI, and hosts the National Innovation Centre for Data. For further information of informal enquiries, please contact: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> Best regards, Sara _____________________________________________ Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD Lecturer in Visualization School of Computing Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building 1 Science Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 5TG Office: 4.042 E-mail: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk> URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad

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CHI Workshop on Interaction Design and Prototyping for Immersive Analytics, May 5, Glasgow
by benjamin bach 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, We now invite submissions to our interactive CHI 2019 (http://chi2019.acm.org) workshop on Interaction Design and Prototyping for Immersive Analytics, held on May 5 in Glasgow, UK: http://immersiveanalytics.net <http://immersiveanalytics.net/> New immersive technologies present many opportunities for enhancing humans' experiences with data interaction, but also present many challenges, a subset of which are specific to the analytics domain. This interactive workshop is centered around a set of group prototyping sessions, aimed at identifying new approaches to existing design challenges. In addition to giving perspective on opportunities and difficulties faced by future designers, these exercises will also explore new prototyping methods and tools for the design of interactive data-centric interfaces. This part-day workshop aims to build new ties between the existing immersive analytics community with researchers across many disciplines of the CHI community. The workshop accepts a variety of submission types (concepts, demos, position papers, etc.) including but not limited to the following topics: Applications or approaches for collaboration for immersive analytics Interaction techniques, devices and modalities for immersive analytics Prototyping tools and techniques for AR/VR In-situ interface design and situated analytics Best practices for spatial interaction and prototyping Evaluation methods for immersive systems Social acceptability of interaction with immersive platforms Human factors including awareness, distraction and cognitive load Theories and frameworks Submissions are between 2-8 pages long and should be formatted in the CHI extended abstracts format <http://chi2019.acm.org/authors/chi-proceedings-format/#TOC-CHI-Extended-Abs…>. Accepted papers will be chosen by single-blind peer review by a program committee based on relevance to the workshop and the potential for contributing to discussions. Accepted papers will be distributed to workshop participants and a summary presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend end the workshop and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. More information on the schedule, submissions, and call for papers visit http://immersiveanalytics.net <http://immersiveanalytics.net/>. Please feel free to forward this call. Best regards, and looking forward to see you at CHI 2019! Workshop organizers ---------------------------- Barrett Ens, Monash University, VIC Maxime Cordeil, Monash University, VIC Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO, Data61 Marcos Serrano, IRIT, University of Toulouse Wesley Willett, University of Calgary Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh

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WSOM+2019, Barcelona, Spain. CFP: 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization
by Alfredo Vellido 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

Apologies for cross posting. Please forward to colleagues and students who might be interested. DEADLINE APPROACHING for paper submission: January 20, 2019 ************ WSOM+ 2019 ************ 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 June 2019 https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsom2019 Confirmed invited speakers: Paulo Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.) Tobias Schreck (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Aïda Valls (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) Alessandro Sperduti (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) Confirmed sponsors (sponsored student registration fees and awards): LumenAI (www.lumenai.fr) Amalfi Analytics (www.amalfianalytics.com) Connecthink (connecthink.pro) === CFP === WSOM+ invites contributions related to the theoretical and methodological aspects of Unsupervised Learning, Self-Organizing Maps, Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering, Data Visualization and closely related topics. We also call for and encourage scientific and application-oriented papers that demonstrate the use of the aforementioned methods and models in fields of knowledge. For the full CFP and further details on dates, submission, registration, venue, committees, and the city at large, please visit https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu The WSOM+ 2019 proceedings will be published as a book in Springer’s Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) series. Barcelona awaits your participation in the 13th WSOM+ conference! This is a welcoming and inclusive city, home to thriving Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence communities. Hosted by the Intelligent Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI) Research Center at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), WSOM+ 2019 aims to build on a successful string of editions that started more than two decades ago with WSOM’97 in Helsinki. The conference is meant to be an international reference for research in unsupervised learning, self-organizing systems, Learning Vector Quantization and data visualization. Submit your contributions to WSOM+2019 and meet us in the Barcelona summer! ************ WSOM+ 2019 ************ Organizing Committee Alfredo Vellido, Chair (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) Karina Gibert (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) Cecilio Angulo (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech) José David Martín (Universitat de València) Steering Committee: Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chairman, Finland) Marie Cottrell (France) Pablo Estevez (Chile) Timo Honkela (Finland) Jean Charles Lamirel (France) Thomas Martinetz (Germany) Erzsebet Merenyi (USA) Madalina Olteanu (France) Michel Verleysen (Belgium) Thomas Villmann (Germany) Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan) Hujun Yin (UK)

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CFP: ACM TVX 2019 International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video
by Jonathan Hook 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

=== TVX 2019: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video 5-7 June 2019 Manchester, UK http://tvx2019.com The ACM TVX 2019 Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video will be held on 5-7 June 2019 at Manchester’s MediaCityUK hub for technology innovation and creativity. TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. We invite authors to submit Long & Short Papers, Workshop Proposals, Demos, Work-in-Progress, TVX in Industry and Doctoral Consortium submissions. These can address various facets of TV, online video and other forms of video-centric media including (but not limited to): understanding what audiences want and how they engage with content; developing new content forms and formats, and video centric experiences; analysing and developing underlying technologies and systems; critiquing and developing production tools and workflows; developing new business models and marketing techniques; understanding wider social and cultural contexts; and showcasing avant-garde ideas and media art. === SUBMISSION DEADLINES === All deadlines are specified as 12:00 PT. -- 16th November 2018 (passed): Workshop Proposals -- 18th January 2019: Long & Short Papers (abstract, title & metadata) -- 25th January 2019: Long & Short Papers (submission of manuscript) -- 22nd March 2019: TVX-in-Industry, Demos, Work-in-Progress, Doctoral Consortium -- 1st November 2018: SIGCHI Student Travel Grant -- 15th November 2018: SIGCHI Gary Marsden Student Development Fund == SUBMISSION TYPES == Further details on each of the conference tracks, including formatting requirements and how to submit can be found on the conference website: http://tvx2019.com. -- Long & Short Papers: high quality academic papers that make a significant contribution to the field of interactive, immersive and online video. -- Workshop Proposals: proposals for half-day workshops that convene communities of researchers and provoke focussed debate around specific TVX topics. -- TVX-in-Industry: presentations that share significant advances in research and development, technologies and real-world experiences that have industrial applicability. -- Demos: demonstrations of novel experiences and technologies, which will be exhibited at our “Conference Bazaar”; a hands-on day of interactivity at held in the BBC. -- Work-in-Progress: submissions that highlight innovative and promising ongoing work. Work in Progress submissions will be presented as posters with an optional demo at the above-mentioned “Conference Bazaar”. -- Doctoral Consortium: an interactive forum for PhD students to share their ideas and plans, and gain feedback from leading figures in the TVX community. == ACM EUROPE COUNCIL BEST PAPER AWARD @ TVX 2019 == This year, we are proud to announce that TVX Long & Short Paper submissions will be considered for an ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award. The ACM Europe Council Best Paper Awards recognize authors of outstanding technical contributions to ACM conferences taking place in Europe. Awards at TVX will be given to acknowledge ground-breaking research, likely to shape the future of computing both in Europe and worldwide. Winners will be decided by the Program Committee and will receive a plaque and a 1000 Euro honorarium. == STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS == SIGCHI provides two opportunities for students to receive funding to attend TVX: the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant and the Gary Marsden Student Development Fund. Details about these programs, how to apply and deadlines can be found here: https://tvx.acm.org/2019/attending/student-travel-grant-programme/ == MENTORING == During the TVX submission process, we can provide the opportunity to receive feedback and guidance from established researchers. The mentoring program is geared towards Long and Short Papers, and Work in Progress Papers, so that those who need additional support in their submission can be assisted. In the mentorship program, we get you in contact with a specific member of the community who will provide feedback and support for your submission. Further information can be found here: https://tvx.acm.org/2019/mentoring/ == ORGANIZERS == -- General chairs: Jonathan Hook, Marian Ursu and Phil Stenton (chairs(a)tvx2019.com) -- Programme chairs: Guy Schofield and Vatavu (papers(a)tvx2019.com) -- Workshop chairs: Tom Bartindale and Davy Smith (workshops(a)tvx2019.com) -- Demo chairs: Shauna Concannon and Timothy Neate (demos(a)tvx2019.com) -- Work-in-Progress chairs: Werner Bailer and Rhianne Jones (wip(a)tvx2019.com) -- Doctoral Consortium chairs: Mike Evans and Hartmut Koenitz (dc(a)tvx2019.com) -- TVX in Industry chairs: Ian Kegel and Ian Forrester (industry(a)tvx2019.com) -- Inclusion chairs: Mariana Lopez and Si Jung "SJ" Kim (inclusion(a)tvx2019.com) -- Publicity chairs: David Green and Rene Kaiser (publicity(a)tvx2019.com) -- Sponsorship chair: Florian Block (sponsorship(a)tvx2019.com) -- Student volunteer chairs: Gerald Wilkinson and Neelima Sailaja (sv(a)tvx2019.com) -- Web chairs: Sha Li and David Zendle (web(a)tvx2019.com) == FURTHER INFORMATION == For up-to-date information and further details visit: http://tvx2019.com. To keep updated about conference developments, you may also wish to join our mailing list (tvx-announce(a)listserv.acm.org) using the subscription form on this page (https://tvx.acm.org/sc/) or by sending a mail to listserv(a)acm.org with the following text in the body of the mail: “subscribe tvx-announce Firstname Lastname”. For any other questions, please contact the conference chairs on: chairs(a)tvx2019.com. Jonathan Hook Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Department of Theatre, Film and Television University of York, Baird Lane, YO10 5GB +44 (0)1904 325238 www.jonhook.co.uk <http://www.jonhook.co.uk/>

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[CFP] IWISC 2019: 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing
by Haghpanah, Mohammadreza 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Dear all, This is a gentle reminder. I would like to inform you that the proceedings of IWISC 2019 will be published by ACM as part of the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. IWISC 2019: 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing Guanajuato City, Mexico, May 9-10, 2019 Announcement The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC<http://cs.utdallas.edu/ut-diisc/>) and the University of Guanajuato are pleased to announce the 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2019<http://cs.utdallas.edu/ut-diisc/iwisc-2019/>). Interactive and Spatial Computing focuses on the real-time interactions among humans and computers, and the spatial information, qualities, technologies, and relationships that influence those interactions. Considering this broad scope, Interactive and Spatial Computing involves a wide range of research activities from many disciplines like augmented reality, computational geometry, computer graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, information visualization, mixed reality, multimedia, and virtual reality. These research activities enhance human knowledge and performance through numerous applications and domains, such as bioinformatics, education, entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, rehabilitation, smart cities, therapy, and training. IWISC is a venue for researchers from this broad spectrum of applications and domains to convene and discuss the next generation of interdisciplinary ideas related to Interactive and Spatial Computing. Call for Papers The 4th International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2019) will address the challenges and opportunities faced in this broad and yet important discipline. We solicit high quality, original research submissions in all areas related to Interactive and Spatial computing, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Augmented reality * Computational geometry * Computer graphics * Computer vision * Geographic information systems * Human-computer interaction * Human-robot interaction * Information visualization * Mixed reality * Multimedia * Virtual reality A Best Paper Award will be given for the most outstanding paper in terms of groundbreaking research, ingenuity, and importance. Submission Deadlines All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (GMT/UTC‐12:00). * January 11, 2019: Paper submissions due * February 15, 2019: Notification of results * March 1, 2019: Camera-ready material due Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions should contain substantial scientific contributions to the field of Interactive and Spatial Computing. Each paper should be classifiable as one of the following: * Research papers should contribute state-of-the-art advances and provide results as evidence. * Application papers should explain how pre-existing ideas were applied to solve a novel problem. * System papers should indicate how developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce a novel system and provide evidence of the system’s effectiveness. All papers should be prepared in the ACM SigConf format. LATEX and Word templates are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template If you have any problems with the templates, please contact ACM’s TeX support team at Aptara (acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com>). If accepted, you will need to provide the source files and PDFs for ACM to process. Papers should be 5-10 pages in length, excluding an optional appendix. The optional appendix must be clearly marked and can include supplementary materials, such as proofs, additional images, and links to videos. These supplementary materials will be considered at the discretion of the reviewers and will not be published in the proceedings. IWISC 2019 will use a double-blind review process, in which both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions must not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. Papers must be submitted electronically, by the deadline above, through the EasyChair Conference System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwisc2019 Note, if you have not used the EasyChair system before, you will need to register for an account by clicking “Signup” in the upper right corner of the website. Publication The proceedings of IWISC 2019 will be published by ACM as part of the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS)<https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-series> and will be available in the ACM Digital Library<http://dl.acm.org>. The ISBN number assigned by ACM ICPS to IWISC 2019 is 978-1-4503-6114-9. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register, attend, and present at IWISC 2019. [ACM_ICPS_v.2B]<https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-series> General Chairs * Victor Ayala-Ramirez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Ovidiu Daescu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Chairs * Raúl Enrique Sánchez Yañez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Benjamin Raichel, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Publicity Chair * Mohammadreza Haghpanah, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Website Chair * Alec G. Moore, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Committee * Prabhakaran Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Sergey Bereg, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Francesco Bianconi, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy * Steven P. Bitner, University of West Florida, USA * Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico * K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA * Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico * Jonathan Cepeda-Negrete, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Antonio Fernandez, Universidad de Vigo, Spain * Kyle Fox, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Carlos H. García-Capulín, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Juan Carlos Gómez-Carranza, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Juan Manuel González-Calleros, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico * Xiaohu Guo, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Geovanni Hernández-Gomez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Mario A. Ibarra-Manzano, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico * Ryan P. McMahan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * José Raymundo Marcial-Romero, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico * Antonio Marín-Hernández, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico * José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico * Sergio A. Mota-Gutiérrez, Continental Automotive Occidente, Mexico * Isnardo Reducindo-Ruiz, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico * Mariano Rivera, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Mexico * Joaquín Salas-Rodríguez, Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada IPN, Mexico * Maria Luisa Sapino, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy * Haim Schweitzer, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Humberto Sossa-Azuela, Centro de Investigación en Computación IPN, Mexico * Yin Yang, University of New Mexico, USA * Zichun Zhong, Wayne State University, USA Contact For questions regarding this Call for Papers, please contact the Program Chairs. Best regards, Mohammadreza Haghpanah

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From Skala - Please, resend - CfP WSCG 2019 - 27. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Vizaulzation & Computer Vision 2019
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

> From Skala - Call for Papers & PhD study - 27. WSCG 2019 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision Call for Papers --------------- WSCG 2019 - 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 Pilsen [Plzen] close to Prague, Czech Republic http://www.wscg.eu WSCG 2019 (held annually at Pilsen [Plzen] since 1992) 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2019 page When: May 27 – 31, 2019 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen [Plzen] (the City of Beer), close to Prague, Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- >> WSCG 2019 27. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: Workshops/Special sessions proposals - January 10, 2019 (via e-mail) January 31, 2019 - Abstract (recommended) (via submission server only) February 11, 2019 - Full, Short, Poster papers (via submission server only) Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). >> "Pay to publish" strategy submission is NOT acceptable. << >> At least one author has to present the paper at the conference. << >> Proceedings will be made after the conference << Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Organizer & Chair Contact: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2019 --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu ------------- Prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic, http://www.VaclavSkala.eu ---------------- To be REMOVED from the list: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE or RETURN this mail with the email address in the text to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to WSCG REMOVE (DO NOT REMOVE the @mail address in the mail we sent to you). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic

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CFP: BigVis : Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics Intl. Workshop @ EDBT/ICDT
by Nikos Bikakis 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

Call for Papers BigVis 2019 :: 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2019 EDBT/ICDT 2019, March 26, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal Held in conjunction with the 22nd Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 22nd Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2019) In the Big Data era, the growing availability of a variety of massive datasets presents challenges and opportunities to not only corporate data analysts but also others, such as research scientists, data journalists, policy makers, SMEs, and individual data enthusiasts datasets are typically: accessible in a raw format that are not being loaded or indexed in a database (e.g., plain text, json, rdf), dynamic, dirty and heterogeneous in nature. The level of difficulty in 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. The purpose of visual data exploration is to facilitate information perception and manipulation, knowledge extraction and inference by non-expert users. Interactive visualization, used in a variety of modern systems, provides users with intuitive means to interpret and explore the content of the data, identify interesting patterns, infer correlations and causalities, and supports sense-making activities that are not always possible with traditional data analysis techniques. In the Big Data era, several challenges arise in the field of data visualization and analytics. First, the modern exploration and visualization systems should offer scalable data management techniques in order to efficiently handle billion objects datasets, limiting the system response in a few milliseconds. Besides, nowadays systems must address the challenge of on-the-fly scalable visualizations over large and dynamic sets of volatile raw data, offering efficient interactive exploration techniques, as well as 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 enable users to gain value and insights out of the data as rapidly 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 and exploration techniques for various Big Data types (e.g., stream, spatial, high-dimensional, graph) - Human-centered database techniques - Indexes and data structures for data visualization - In situ visual exploration and analytics - Progressive visual analytics - Interactive caching and prefetching - Scalable visual operations (e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing) - Big Data visual representation techniques (e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi-level, filtering) - Setting-oriented visualization (e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, pixel-oriented, visualization over networks) - User-oriented visualization (e.g., assistance, personalization, recommendation) - Visual analytics (e.g., pattern matching, timeseries analytics, prediction analysis, outlier detection, OLAP) - Immersive visualization and visual analytics - Visual and interactive data mining - Models of human-in-the-loop data analysis - High performance/Parallel techniques - Visualization hardware and acceleration techniques - Linked Data and ontologies visualization - Case and user studies - Systems and tools Submissions ------------------------------- - regular research papers (up to 8 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 11 2019 **extended** Notification: January 22, 2019 Camera-ready: January 29, 2019 Deadlines expire at 5pm PT Workshop: March 26, 2019 Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Nikos Bikakis, University of Ioannina, Greece Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California-Davis, USA Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis University, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Special Issue ------------------------------- Extended versions of the best papers of BigVis 2019 will be invited for submission in a special issue of an international journal. (TBA) Program Committee ------------------------------- James Abello, Rutgers University, USA Demosthenes Akoumianakis, Techn Instit of Crete, Greece Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Manos Athanassoulis, Harvard, USA Leilani Battle, University of Maryland, USA Carsten Binnig, Brown University, UK Nan Cao, Tongji University, China Maria Beatriz Carmo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Giorgio Caviglia, Trifacta Inc Wei Chen, Zhejiang University, China Rick Cole, Tableau Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Aba-Sah Dadzie, The Open University, UK Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Giorgos Giannopoulos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Parke Godfrey, University of York, Canada Daniel Goncalves, University of Montpellier, France Michael Gubanov, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Marcel Hlawatsch, University of Stuttgart, Germany Yifan Hu, Yahoo! Christophe Hurter, ENAC, France Eser Kandogan, IBM Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Google James Klosowski, AT&T Research Stephen G. Kobourov, University of Arizona, USA Georgia Koutrika, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, China Zhicheng Liu, Adobe Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer, Germany Marios Meimaris, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Davide Mottin, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Martin Nollenburg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Chris North, Virginia Tech, USA Paul Parsons, Purdue University, USA Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Neoklis Polyzotis, Google Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig, Germany Tobias Schreck, Graz University of Technology, Austria Thibault Sellam, Columbia University, USA Mike Sips, GFZ, Germany Dimitrios Skoutas, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Kostas Stefanidis, University of Tampere, Finland Cagatay Turkay, City University London, UK Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete, Greece Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Chaoli Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA Kai Xu, Middlesex University, UK Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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4 Research Associate Posts on 2-year Esports R&D Project @ University of York, UK
by Jonathan Hook 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

== 4 Research Associate Posts on 2-year Esports R&D Project @ University of York, UK == Role: 4 PDRA roles (see details and specific adverts below) Institution: University of York Closing date: 18/01/2019 Contract status: 2 years (fixed term) Salary: £32,236 - £39,609 Digital Creativity Labs at the University of York are hiring four Research Associates for a major 2 year R&D project aiming to demonstrate how immersive and data-driven technologies can radically transform audience experiences surrounding esports. The project seeks to re-imagine the way audiences engage with the genre through hyper-personalised stories, interactive content, data-driven narratives and cross-reality experiences that seamlessly stretch across devices, technologies, and spaces. The project consortium includes key industry stakeholders and leading innovators across esports, VR, XR, virtual studio technology, 360 degree video and big data analytics, including ESL, the world's leading esports company. The project will be carried out by a dedicated team of over 50 people, including software developers, 2D & 3D artists, content producers, designers, market analysts, business developers, as well as four key researchers located at the University of York, which will be leading on the key innovation areas of the project (UX / Data Visualisation, Data-Driven Storytelling, Game Analytics and User Analytics). The York-based project team will be situated at Digital Creativity Labs (DC Labs), a world centre of excellence for impact-driven research in digital creativity, focusing on digital games, interactive media and the rich space in which they converge. This will be a unique opportunity for researchers who are passionate to create working research products and want to see their ideas have immediate impact - millions of people will interact with their research outputs over the project's duration. The jobs advertisements are available here: 1) Research Associate in Data-Driven Storytelling: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_we… 2) Research Associate in Game Analytics: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_we… 3) Research Associate in UX / Data Visualisation: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_we… 4) Research Associate in User Analytics: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_we… If there are any questions please don't hesitate to contact florian.block(a)york.ac.uk

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