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Call for Participation: IEEE VAST Challenge 2018
by Whiting, Mark A 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

The IEEE VAST Challenge 2018 is now available! Visit: http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018 Submission deadline: July 13, 2018 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). The Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge is an annual contest with the goal of advancing the field of visual analytics through competition. The VAST Challenge is designed to help researchers understand how their software would be used in a novel analytic tasks and determine if their data transformations, visualizations, and interactions would be beneficial to answer particular data-driven questions. VAST Challenge problems provide researchers with realistic data sets and questions for evaluating their software, as well as an opportunity to advance the field by solving more complex problems. This year, we return to the Boonsong Lekagul Wildlife Preserve scenario from 2017. New complications have arisen from last year's situation, providing new opportunities to apply visual analytics and other analysis skills. Overview Mistford is a mid-size city located to the southwest of the Boonsong Lekagul Wildlife Preserve. The city has a small industrial area with four light-manufacturing endeavors. Mistford and the wildlife preserve are struggling with the possible endangerment of the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit, a locally loved bird. Is a local company causing the birds' demise? The scenario for this challenge builds on last year's but the challenges are new. Mini-Challenge 1: Analysis of audio data and geospatial temporal information Claims that the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit are healthy and vibrant across the whole preserve are in question. New visualizations are needed to further investigate the birds' situation. Perhaps these bird call recordings could provide more insight into the real situation? Blending machine learning and visual analytics may be a powerful combination for this mini-challenge. Applicable technologies: Pattern recognition, geospatial temporal data visualization, machine learning Please visit VAST Challenge 2018: Mini-Challenge 1 for more information and to download the data. (http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018+MC1) Mini-Challenge 2: Analysis of sensor data and geospatial temporal information Local birds depend on a fragile watershed that spans the Wildlife Preserve. Perhaps some new visualization of river contaminants and analyses within the Preserve may help illustrate that the accused polluter's story doesn't hold water (or does it?). Applicable technologies: Spatial/temporal visualization of sensor readings, anomaly detection, identifying data gaps Please visit VAST Challenge 2018: Mini-Challenge 2 for more information and to download the data. (http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018+MC2) Mini-Challenge 3: Analysis of large-scale transaction graphs The accused polluting factory is connected to a large multi-national corporation. An unexpected source suggests that the parent company may be involved in illicit activities that impact more than just Mistford and the Wildlife Preserve. Visualization and analysis of some challenging large scale graph data may provide further insights on the scope of the company's activities. This challenge may prove to be a stretch task for all VAST Challenge participants! Applicable technologies: Big graph processing, clustering, temporal visualization of big graphs, structure matching in big graphs Please visit VAST Challenge 2018: Mini-Challenge 3 for more information and to download the data. (http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018+MC3) Important Information about the VAST Challenge Participants are welcome to enter one, two, or all three of the Mini-Challenges. Entries may be submitted by teams or individuals. Submission deadline is July 13, 2018 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). Entries will be judged based on the criteria appropriate to the specific Mini-Challenge. Selected award winners will be asked to present their submission at the VAST Challenge Workshop on Oct 21, 2018, during the IEEE VIS 2018 conference. Award winning participants will be contacted by August 14, 2018. All Challenge participants are invited to submit a two-page summary of their entry for inclusion in the IEEE VIS 2018 electronic conference proceedings. All participants will also allowed to present a poster at the conference showcasing their work. Data and detailed challenge descriptions are available at: http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018 For questions, please email vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vast-challenge@ieeevis.org>. VAST Challenge Committee Chairs Kris Cook, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Jordan Crouser, Smith College Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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CFP HICSS Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making minitrack
by Brian Fisher 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Please Consider submitting your paper to: Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making - Making Sense of a Growing Digital World Minitrack ( Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science Track, HICSS 52) by : June 15, 2018 David Ebert (Primary Contact) Purdue University ebertd(a)purdue.edu<mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu> Brian Fisher Simon Fraser University bfisher(a)sfu.ca<mailto:bfisher@sfu.ca> Kelly Gaither University of Texas kelly(a)tacc.utexas.edu ----- 52nd HICSS 2019, Maui, Hawaii January 8-11, 2019 – Maui, Hawaii URL:http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018 | 11:59 pm HST Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 17, 2018 Interactive Visual Analytics and Visualization for Decision Making supports human decision making through interaction with data and statistical and machine learning processes, with applications in a broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. Current applications include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, precision medicine, safety and security and business processes. We encourage submissions that extend the areas of use to new analytic tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, the digital economy, financial analysis, data-driven policy and decision-making, social sciences, and other domains. Particular emphasis will be given to submissions that use visual analytics for social change discovery, analysis and communication. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, Interactive Machine Learning, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Minitrack Co-Chairs: David Ebert (Primary Contact) Purdue University ebertd(a)purdue.edu<mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu> Brian Fisher Simon Fraser University bfisher(a)sfu.ca<mailto:bfisher@sfu.ca> Kelly Gaither University of Texas kelly(a)tacc.utexas.edu

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Vis4DH Workshop CfP
by Menna El-Assady 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

CfP: 3rd IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (http://vis4dh.org/) We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 3rd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities “VIS4DH ⇔ DH4VIS” <http://vis4dh.org/>, to be held as part of the IEEE VIS conference <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/workshops>. The call is open to all fields of the humanities and all branches of visualization. We are particularly interested in papers that bring different disciplines together. In this year’s workshop we are looking to initiate a critical conversation about the often very different conceptual languages and vocabularies deployed across the humanities and visualization and the ways in which those vocabularies operate in applied visualization techniques in the digital humanities. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and creating argument into dialogue in order to foster and to intensify interdisciplinary collaboration between humanities and visualization researchers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: 04 July, 2018 Notification Deadline: 31 July, 2018 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 17 August, 2018 IEEE VIS Conference: 21 - 26 October, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIS4DH ⇔ DH4VIS We are witnessing an growth in collaborations between the humanities and computing. One only need to look to the media arts, visual communication, information visualization, and digital humanities to see exciting new examples of interdisciplinary research. In this year’s workshop, we hope to feature some of this visual innovation in the realm of applied visualization as well as to explore new avenues for interdisciplinary and collaborative research between visualization and the humanities. We will explore different vocabularies and conceptual frameworks deployed by computing on the one hand and humanities on the other, and use these to think about how to engage differences as potentially rich opportunities rather than seeing them as barriers. Some guiding questions for the 2018 workshop: - How can we translate (and mutually enrich) the conceptual vocabularies of the humanities and visualization? How do projects at the intersection of humanities and visualization research mutually impact the respective fields? - How do collaborating humanities and visualization researchers balance theory, practice and making in their intellectual work? What kinds of products do they value, and how do they define rigor in their work? How does the dissemination of their results represent these tensions and balance? - How do debates from the cultural and visual turns of the humanities find themselves reflected in visualization strategies? How can our visualizations be said to embody values emerging from those debates? - What are the epistemological stakes of visualization? How might we characterize knowledge produced by visualization? How are knowledge and visualization design intertwined? - What kinds of meaning, information or satisfaction are sought by users when interacting with visualization? How does our notion of audience affect how we design? How do we balance innovation and accessibility? - How can visualization create innovative design solutions that communicate the specificities of humanities data? - Does visualization always depend on turning the humanities into a computational problem? Are humanities researchers interested only in platforms for deploying their research, not in research that will push both fields forward? Are there alternative views? This workshop is seeking work from scholars in both visualization and the humanities who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Submissions will take the form of short (2-4 page - excluding references) papers, falling into one of two submission types: Short Papers -- These submissions are meant to summarize more mature work in visualization for the digital humanities, including case studies, system descriptions, and empirical results. Of special consideration are works that highlight the difficulties (and propose solutions) of designing visualizations for the digital humanities. Applied work from the digital humanities that is highly visual in nature would also be considered for acceptance. Position Papers -- These submissions are meant to present viewpoints and opinions on the interplay between visualization and the digital humanities. These positions should be informed by a deep involvement and experience in one (or ideally, both) fields. Position papers should be thought-provoking but also well-supported. Authors of accepted short and position papers will be invited to give 9-minute research presentations (including 2 minutes for audience questions) followed by moderated panel discussions. Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates are available at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html Submissions will be optionally double blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double-blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted documents and take care to avoid identifying information in the submissions themselves (e.g., references “our” work). Submissions should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vis4dh by 5 PM PST, 04 July 2018. Submissions should be in pdf format, clearly indicating paper type: short paper or position paper. Submissions should not exceed four pages of content.

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New(er) deadline for the Journal Frontiers special issue: Use-Inspired Immersive Analytics
by Chen, Jian 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Dear colleagues, The committee decided to further extend the deadline to August 31 2018. Your submission can be made any time between now and then and will be reviewed on a rolling basis and appear online upon acceptance. This new deadline will allow us to pace our submissions towards numerous deadlines of similar hot topics at BDVA and CG&A due in June (this month) and October accordingly. To those who have submitted their papers (thank you!), we are working on reviewer assignment. The papers will appear online upon acceptance. There won’t be any delay on publication, which is important to many of us. Please find the formal invitation below and consider to submit your work. Please help us spread the words and invite your colleagues to submit their work. We will continue to send the official invitations via Frontier. Please also don’t hesitate to ask us questions. ********************************************************************* In collaboration with the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI we are bringing together a selected group of international experts to contribute to an open-access article collection on: "Use-inspired Immersive Analytics” https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/6416 The *newer* Submission deadline: August 31 2018 Special Issue Editors: ———————————————————————— Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh Doug A. Bowman, Virginia Tech Jian Chen, The Ohio State University Steven M. Drucker, Microsoft Research Tim Dwyer, Monash University Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University Karsten Klein, Monash University Liz Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago Kim Marriott, Monash University Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology Falk Schreiber, Monash University Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Simon Fraser University Hui Su, IBM Research Judith Terrill, National Institute of Standards and Technology Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia About this Research Topic: ———————————————————————— Immersive analytics (IA) investigates how new interaction and display technologies can be used to support analytical reasoning and decision making. Here immersion is regarded as an objective measure of the quality of the system’s technology, a measure of the extent to which the system presents a vivid environment, be it high-fidelity rendering or not, tracked or not, and stereoscopic or not. As a result, large high-resolution displays and the entire spectrum of mixed reality (MR) and ubiquitous computing all introduce opportunities to facilitate analytical reasoning and thus fall into the immersive analytics paradigm. This Research Topic is dedicated to "use-inspired basic research in immersive analytics" where a real-world problem shapes the design and studies. We encourage the discussions on intriguing issues of persuasive power of communications utilizing immersive display technologies, understanding the multifarious symbiosis relationships between humans and computing, and how best display and interaction can be used not only as a mechanism to conceive and communicate reality or how a set of visual variables can be encoded, but a means for influence, a way to persuade viewers to share that reality or at least to act in accordance with it. The consequences for design will be more powerful if immersiveanalytics can alter human assessments of and actions on their data. We are also interested in the building blocks of thought and crucial insights to be gained from the underlying structure of mental activities: the brain’s operations, which is perhaps the great remaining mysteries of human-computer integrated analytical reasoning. We like to explore how visual aids can link seemingly unrelated actions and events and how embodiment and new metaphors shape our minds and thinking, inspired by real-world uses. Important Submission Requirements ———————————————————————— - Abstract submission is optional. The maximum allowed word count for the abstract is 350 words. - The maximum allowed word count for the body text is 12000 words. - Resubmissions encouraged - authors are encouraged to include reviews and responses for previously rejected papers in their submission to this Frontiers special issue. Submission System ———————————————————————— To submit, please visit https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/6416 and click on "submit your manuscript”. The general submission guideline is online at https://www.frontiersin.org/about/author-guidelines. Frontiers Journal Format Templates ———————————————————————— Word: http://www.frontiersin.org/Design/zip/Frontiers_Word_Templates.zip LaTeX: http://www.frontiersin.org/design/zip/Frontiers_LaTeX_Templates.zip Best regards, - Jian for Arie, Benjamin, Brian, Bruce, Dieter, Doug, Falk, Hui, Karsten, Kim, Judy, Liz, Steve, Tim, and Wolfgang ————— Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University 2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 Office phone: 614.688.1981 Fax: 614.292.2911 My web home: http://www.cse.osu.edu/~chen.8028 Lab openings: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~chen.8028/OSUHVCL/Hiring.html

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VISxAI workshop CfP
by Hendrik Strobelt 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Dear colleagues and friends, It's a pleasure to invite for submissions to our VISxAI workshop which will be held during IEEE VIS 2018 in Berlin. Please don't hesitate to visit the webpage http://visxai.io <http://visxai.io/> or tweet about it #visxai We are looking forward to see your creative work, Menna, Fernanda, Adam, Polo, Hen(drik) == Important Dates === July 12, 2018, 5:00pm PDT: Blog/Notebooks + Position Paper Submission August 2, 2018: Author Notification August 16, 2018: Camera-ready Copy for Accepted Submissions September 7, 2018: VIS Early Bird Registration Ends === Call for Participation === To make our work more accessible to the general audience, we are soliciting submissions in a novel format: blog-style posts and jupyter-like notebooks. In addition we also accept position papers in a more traditional form. Please contact us, if you want to submit a original work in another format. Email: orga.visxai at gmail.com --- Explainables (Blogs, Markup, and Notebooks) --- Explainable submissions are the core element of the workshop, as this workshop aims to be a platform for explanatory visualizations focusing on AI techniques. Authors have the freedom to use whatever templates and formats they like. However, the narrative should be visual and interactive, and walk readers through a keen understanding on the ML technique or application. Authors may wish to write a Distill-style blog post (format), interactive Idyll markup, or a Jupyter or Observable notebook that integrates codes, visualizations to tell the story. Here are a few examples of visual explanations of AI methods in these types of formats: • [blog-style] http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ <http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/> • [blog-style] http://formafluens.io/client/mix10.html <http://formafluens.io/client/mix10.html> • [markup] https://idyll-lang.org/gallery/the-barnes-hut-approximation <https://idyll-lang.org/gallery/the-barnes-hut-approximation> • [notebook] https://beta.observablehq.com/@nstrayer/t-sne-explained-in-plain-javascript <https://beta.observablehq.com/@nstrayer/t-sne-explained-in-plain-javascript> • [markup] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/agconti/kaggle-titanic/blob/master/Titan… <http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/agconti/kaggle-titanic/blob/master/Titan…> • [blog-style] https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/ <https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/> While these examples are informative and excellent, we hope the visualization community will think about ways to creatively expand on such foundational work to explain AI methods using novel interactions and visualizations often present at IEEE VIS. Please contact us, if you want to submit a original work in another format. Email: orga.visxai at gmail.com The best works will be invited to submit their extended work to the online publishing platform distill.pub to generate a cite-able publication for authors. --- Position Papers --- We will also accept position papers about impact and role of explainables for VIS in AI. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages long and formatted according to the VGTC formatting guidelines. Some good example of a position papers (not all for AI) can be found here: • Considerations for Visualizing Comparison • Risk the Drift! Stretching Disciplinary Boundaries through Critical Collaborations between the Humanities and Visualization • Towards better analysis of machine learning models: A visual analytics perspective • Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization [soon] To create a submission, please use the Precision Conference System. After logging in, go to “new submissions” and select “VISxAI 2018”. === Organizers (alphabetic) === Mennatallah El-Assady - University of Konstanz Duen Horng (Polo) Chau - Georgia Tech Adam Perer - IBM Research, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Hendrik Strobelt - IBM Research, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Fernanda Viégas - Google Brain

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COMPUTER GRAPHICS & VISUAL COMPUTING 2018 (CGVC2018)
by Nguyen, Phong 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & VISUAL COMPUTING 2018 (CGVC2018) The 36th Annual Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association, 13-14 September 2018, Swansea University, UK http://www.eguk.org.uk/CGVC2018/ Submission Deadline is this Friday ====================================================== The annual EGUK conference is a meeting place for all those in the UK working in computer graphics and visual computing (including, Computer Graphics and Vision, Information and Scientific Visualization, and Visual Analytics). It attracts researchers from across the country and from further afield. The 2018 conference Computer Graphics & Visual Computing will be an overnight meeting (lunchtime to lunchtime). The conference wants to focus on increasing the dialogue between academic research groups, researchers in academic and in industrial developments. In order to facilitate such dialogue, we are seeking contributions in the form of full papers, short papers, viewpoint papers, and extended abstracts (poster papers). • Full papers - a paper of 4 to 8 pages describing completed research, plus an additional page of references. Papers are refereed by members of an international program committee (IPC). 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 double-blind process by an international program committee (IPC). 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) 15 minute presentations. • Viewpoint Papers (aka. Position paper, ***new in CGVC2018***) - Viewpoint paper track 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, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. 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, for example, the areas of physical, life or social sciences, engineering, or commerce, or areas 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 (at most 4-pages). Accepted viewpoint papers will be electronically archived, are fully citable publications and will be presented orally at the conference in (approximately) 15 minute presentations. Submissions to the full, short and viewpoint paper tracks that are not accepted for publication but are deemed suitable for poster presentation by the IPC will be offered an opportunity to present in the poster track. • Extended Abstracts (Poster Papers) - CGVC 2018 is re-introducing a poster track. 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) for the papers track. We solicit poster submissions in the form of a poster and an accompanying sketch (i.e., 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 double-blind process. Accepted posters will be presented at the poster viewing session of the conference. Accepted extended abstracts (poster papers) do not appear in the Eurographics digital library, and will not be considered as a paper publication, instead being similar to a SIGGRAPH one-page sketch or to a conference poster without an associated full paper. As such, presenting an extended abstract or a poster at the conference has no effect on your ability to publish a fuller version of the same work in another venue. Topics include, but are not limited to: ====================================================== Computer Graphics Visualization Computer Vision Virtual Reality Visual Analytics Visual Data Science Computer Animation Computer-based Arts and Entertainment Image processing Acquisition and Reconstruction Techniques Graphics Architectures and Acceleration Hardware Medical Imaging Multimedia Visualisation Computer Games Rendering Techniques Scientific Visualisation and Big Data Information Visualization and Visual Analytics Geospatial Visualisation Augmented Reality and Collaborative Environments Mobile Apps and Interactive Devices Human Computer Interaction, Robotics, and Haptics Modelling Methods ====================================================== Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 8 June 2018 (Fri) Notification of Acceptance: 13 July 2018 (Fri) Camera Ready: 03 August 2018 (Fri) Conference: 13-14 September 2018 (Thu-Fri) ====================================================== Publication type | Page limit | Accepted publication Full Paper | 4-8 pages, + 1-page refs only | fully citable publication Short Paper | 2-4 pages, + 1-page refs only | fully citable publication Viewpoint Paper (i.e. Position Paper) | 2-4 pages, + 1-page refs only | fully citable publication Extended Abstract (i.e. Poster Paper) | 1-2 pages | not considered as a paper publication ====================================================== Conference Chair Robert S. Laramee (Swansea University) Programme Chairs Gary KL Tam (Swansea University) Franck Vidal (Bangor University) Contact: chairs-cgvc2018(a)eg.org<mailto:chairs-cgvc2018@eg.org> Local organisers Richard Roberts (Swansea University) Dylan Rees (Swansea University) Liam McNabb (Swansea University) ======================================================

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Final CFP: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2018
by Andreas Kerren 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Final call---submission deadline is June 10, 23:59 PDT. =========================================================================== Call for Papers GD 2018 26th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 26-28, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain http://dccg.upc.edu/gd2018/ =========================================================================== PDF version: bit.ly/gd18-cfp =========================================================================== Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security, or software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2018 will take place September 26-28, 2018 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. PAPERS ------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks. Papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. All papers in all tracks will undergo single-blind reviewing. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects ---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): * Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms * Geometric graph theory * Geometric computing * Planarity and topological graph theory * Optimization on graphs Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects ----------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such as the development of network visualization systems and interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): * Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications, including big data * Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems * Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms * Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems and user interfaces * Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction * Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs Authors of applied papers will have the opportunity to show a demo of their software/system during the poster session. Short papers ------------ In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate category for short papers, describing theoretical or applied contributions of shorter length. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. Submission format ----------------- All submissions must be formatted using the LaTeX style file for the conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. The default margins and fonts must not be modified; in particular, the use of packages such as times.sty is not allowed. Springer provides the style file in Overleaf with the option to directly submit the final paper from Overleaf; see the conference web site for details. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The length of regular papers is limited to 12 pages (excluding references), while the length of short papers is limited to 6 pages (excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fully substantiated. If this information does not fit within the page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. Author must submit the complete paper (including the appendix) by the deadline. Minor typographical corrections will be allowed for 2 days following the deadline. All submissions will be handled through easyChair at the web site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd18 POSTERS ------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract (up to 2 pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted together with the poster itself. CONTEST ------- Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference are provided on the conference web site at http://graphdrawing.de/contest2018/contest.html PUBLICATION ----------- All accepted papers (including the two-page poster abstracts) will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Twelve pages (excluding references) will be allocated for regular papers and six pages (excluding references) for short papers. The copyright to these proceedings will be held by Springer. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS proceedings (identical, except for possibly changed references to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked appendix. This appendix could contain a long version of the entire paper or proofs that have been omitted from the main text. Subsequent submissions of different versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv ``replacements'') are allowed. Upon submission of the camera-ready version of an accepted paper, the authors will be required to specify the arXiv identifier associated with the paper for inclusion in a conference index, which will be also published in the arXiv repository. Failure to comply with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper. Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author (baring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper/poster will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). The authors of the best paper in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended and enhanced version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). AWARDS ------ For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2018 will give a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2018 attendees. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Paper submission deadline: June 10 (23:59 PDT) Minor typographical updates possible until June 12 (23:59 PDT) * Notification of paper acceptance: July 20 * Poster submission deadline August 12 (23:59 PDT) * Notification of poster acceptance August 24 * Final versions due September 3 * Contest submission deadline September 15 (23:59 CEST) * Symposium September 26-28 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Patrizio Angelini, University of Tübingen Daniel Archambault, Swansea University David Auber, University of Bordeaux Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo (co-chair) Carla Binucci, University of Perugia Erin Chambers, Saint Louis University Steven Chaplick, University of Würzburg Giuseppe Di Battista, Roma Tre University Tim Dwyer, Monash University Radoslav Fulek, IST Austria Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University (co-chair) Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Debajyoti Mondal, University of Saskatchewan Petra Mutzel, University of Dortmund Yoshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications Sergey Pupyrev, University of Arizona Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig Darren Strash, Colgate University Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Tatiana Von Landesberger, TU Darmstadt Sue Whitesides, University of Victoria David R. Wood, Monash University Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Rodrigro I. Silveira, UPC Barcelona (co-chair) Vera Sacristan, UPC Barcelona (co-chair) CONTEST COMMITTEE ----------------- Philipp Kindermann, FernUniversität in Hagen Maarten Löffler (chair), Utrecht University Ignaz Rutter, TU Eindhoven Will Devanny, UC Irvine

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[IEEE_VPG] DEADLINE APPROACHING: Call for Nomination - VGTC/VPG Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 03 Jun '18

03 Jun '18

*** Please distribute widely throughout your institutions as appropriate DEADLINE: *June 15th 2018* The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC <http://vgtc.org/>) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program 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 administrated 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. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15 two years before the award and August 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between August 15, 2016 and August 15, 2018 are eligible for the 2018 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) <http://www.computer.org/cga>. Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. Thesis Advisor(s) of the winning entrant will chair the following year’s Dissertation Review Committee, with full support from the VPG OC to handle details such as publicity and administration. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student’s advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)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. On behalf of the VPG Operating Committee Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"* -- LME(a)computer.org <lme(a)computer.org> @mencarna http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmiguel

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2nd CfP: 4th Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA): 17.-19.10.2018 Konstanz
by Abdul Rahman, Alfie 28 May '18

28 May '18

====================================================================================== 4th International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA 2018) 2nd Call for Papers Konstanz, Germany - October 17th to October 19th 2018 ====================================================================================== The BDVA 2018 Symposium is calling for contributions in the area of Visual Analytics and Immersive Analytics of Big Data. Submit your work and be part of a vibrant venue that will bring together an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and workshops: http://bdva.net Visual Analytics plays a major role in the analysis and decision-making processes for science, industry, and government organisations. It is one of the best ways we have for making sense of large and complex data sets. Reflecting its history of encouraging research into less-traditional approaches to visual analytics, this year BDVA has broadened scope to include the emerging field of Immersive Analytics. Immersive Analytics aims to support data understanding and decision making everywhere and by everyone, working individually or collaboratively. It aims to make embodied tools that are intuitive, engaging, and make the best possible use of all sensory channels. This may be achieved through the use of immersive virtual environment technologies, natural interfaces or responsive analytics, but is not tied to the use of any particular technology. Immersive Analytics brings promising opportunities to interact with Big Data coming from geo-science, biomedical applications, collective behaviour, text mining, crime analysis, among other application domains. Symposium topics include but are not limited to: - Theoretical Foundations of Immersive Analytics - Immersive Storytelling - Collaborative Visual and Immersive Analytics - Personalized Visual and Immersive Analytics - Use of Mixed Reality for Analytics including Situated Analytics - Visual, Audio, Haptic, and Multisensory Data Presentation including Data Physicalization - Human-Computer Interaction including Use of Natural Interfaces for Analytics - Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making of Big or Complex Data - Scalable Visual and Immersive Analytics including HPC for Visualisation - Responsive Analytic Algorithms for Interactive Data Exploration - Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation - Context-Semantics-driven Visual and Immersive Analytics - Processes & Tools for Building Visual and Immersive Analytics Applications - Applications and Case Studies Submission Info Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished regular papers of 4 to 9 pages (+ 2 pages for references) that report novel and mature work. Paper quality versus length will be assessed based on a contribution-per-page judgment. The symposium proceedings will be will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. It is a condition of publication that accepted papers are presented by one of the authors. All accepted papers will be presented during the symposium. Presenters must register before the camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the symposium proceedings and programme. Abstracts are due on 17 June 2018 and full papers deadline is on 24 June 2018. General Chair Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz, Germany Program Chairs M. Eduard Gröller, TU Wien, Austria Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Program Committee (Partial) Benjamin Bach, The University of Edinburgh Fabian Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen Tomasz Bednarz, UNSW Art & Design, CSIRO Data61 Silvia Castro, Universidad Nacional del Sur Jian Chen, The Ohio State University Maxime Cordeil, Monash University Tim Dwyer, Monash University Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland Ulrich Engelke, CSIRO Martin Falk, Linköping University Carla Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Issei Fujishiro, Keio University Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin Nathalie Henry-Riche, Microsoft Marcel Hlawatsch, University of Stuttgart Tony Huang Swinburne, University of Technology Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart Nils Kriege, TU Dortmund Michael Krone, University of Tübingen Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center Frank Maurer, University of Calgary Quang Vinh Nguyen, Western Sydney University Aruquia Peixoto, CEFET/RJ Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University Bahador Saket, Georgia Institute of Technology Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock Wolfgang Stürzlinger, Simon Fraser University Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Bruce H. Thomas, University of South Australia Manuela Waldner, Vienna University of Technology Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas Organising Chairs Alexandra Diehl, University of Konstanz, Germany Björn Sommer, University of Konstanz, Germany Publicity Chair Alfie Abdul-Rahman, King’s College London, UK

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Postdoc and PhD position at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) in human-centered visualization algorithms
by Martin Nöllenburg 25 May '18

25 May '18

The Algorithms and Complexity Group at TU Wien (http://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at) invites applications for two open positions (one postdoc, one PhD student) in the FWF project "Human-Centered Algorithm Engineering: Graph and Map Visualization". The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and deals with algorithmic problems in graph visualization and cartography that tightly integrate human expertise into the algorithmic optimization process. It combines aspects of algorithm engineering, information visualization, and human-computer interaction. The intended starting date of both positions is September 1, 2018 (with some flexibility). Applicants for the _postdoc position_ should have a doctoral degree in computer science (or a related field) with a focus on visualization algorithms, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, or some other project-related area, as proven by the publication track record. A strong research interest in combining algorithmic techniques and human interaction in theory and practice is necessary. Applicants for the _PhD student position_ should have an excellent Master degree (or equivalent) in computer science or a related subject with a focus on algorithmics or algorithm engineering, good programming skills and a strong research interest in human-in-the-loop visualization algorithms, computational cartography, or graph drawing. We offer a stimulating and collaborative working environment in a successful international research group on algorithms and complexity at TU Wien, one of the top-ranking universities in computer science in Europe. In 2018, Vienna has been awarded as the world's city with the highest quality of living for the ninth year in a row. We start screening the applications on June 1, 2018. To express your interest, please send at least a short email with your CV by that date. See the full job advertisement for more detail: PhD position: http://bit.ly/2rho5ka Postdoc position: http://bit.ly/2FBGeUb For further information about the project and the positions, contact the PI of the project, Prof. Martin Nöllenburg <noellenburg(a)ac.tuwien.ac.at>.

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