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Reminder: Call for Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2018) - Deadline is 1/31/2018
by Katy Borner 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

Happy New Year 2018! Please do consider submitting your best interactive data visualizations to Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2018). Thanks & best regards, k On 12/1/2017 9:50 PM, Borner, Katy wrote: > > Dear all, > > we are seeking engaging, relevant, interactive data visualizations of > science and technology developments that help people make smarter > decisions in their personal and professional lives. The /Call for > Submissions/ has been posted at > scimaps.org/call<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscimaps.org%2Fcall&h=DAQGTzRBrAQ…> and > we welcome your help in spreading the word. This year’s submissions > are due by January 31, 2017. > > More information on maps and macroscopes included in the exhibit can > be found at http://scimaps.org/iteration; interviews with select map > and macroscope makers can be found at > http://scimaps.org/mapmakers.html. The exhibit currently features 100 > framed maps, 12 macroscopes, an award-winning short film, touch screen > interactives, and sculptural elements created by more than 230 leading > experts in the natural, physical, and social sciences, visual arts, > and the humanities. It has been displayed in various formats in 28 > countries on six continents and exhibit materials are available in > five languages. > > Thank you and kind regards, > > Dr. Katy Bӧrner & Lisel Record > > CNS, SICE > > Indiana University > > 1320 E. 10^th St. > > Bloomington, IN 47405 > > 812-856-7034 > > scimaps.org<http://www.scimaps.org/> > > *About the /Places & Spaces/ exhibition:*Drawing from across cultures > and across scholarly disciplines, /Places & Spaces: Mapping Science/ > demonstrates the power of maps to address vital questions about the > contours and content of human knowledge. An interdisciplinary and > international advisory board chose each one of the works in the > /Places & Spaces: Mapping Science/ exhibit as an outstanding example > of how visualization can bring patterns in scientific data into focus. > The exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science > Center at Indiana University. The exhibit has been on display at over > 350 venues in 28 countries on 6 continents. It showcases the work of > 239 mapmakers that hail from 17 different countries. For further > information, please visit our website at scimaps.org<http://scimaps.org>. > > ** > > *About the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS):*CNS > is a research center at Indiana University’s School of Informatics, > Computing, and Engineering in Bloomington, Indiana > (http://cns.iu.edu/) For more than 20 years, CNS has played a leading > role in the field of data visualization, developing open source tools > for the creation of data visualizations, offering the IVMOOC, > co-organizing international workshops and conferences, and promoting > network science and visualization through international initiatives. > CNS’s research, teaching, and software development efforts benefit > from long-term collaborations with colleagues in academia, government, > and industry. > > -- > > Katy Borner > > Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information > Science > > Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu > > Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org > > ISE and ILS, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > > Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA > > Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 > > *From:* Borner, Katy > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:58 PM > *To:* SOCNET(a)LISTS.UFL.EDU; SCISIP(a)LISTSERV.NSF.GOV; ASIS&T Special > Interest Group on Metrics <SIGMETRICS(a)listserv.utk.edu>; > sigmetrics(a)mail.asis.org; 'infovis(a)infovis.org' <infovis(a)infovis.org>; > 'POLNET-L(a)LISTSERV.SIU.EDU' <POLNET-L(a)LISTSERV.SIU.EDU>; > ieee_vis_open_positions(a)listserv.uni-tuebingen.de > *Subject:* New deadline: January 1st. NSF-NRT PhD Fellowship in > Complex Networks and Systems at IU > > Dear all, > > Please share the below Fellowship opportunity with interested students. > > Happy Thanksgiving everyone, > > k > > *From:* Rocha, Luis M. > *Sent:* Monday, November 20, 2017 11:34 AM > *Subject:* [CNS-NRT-Faculty] New deadline: January 1st. NSF-NRT PhD > Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems > > *NEW DEADLINE: Applications Due January 1, 2018* > > Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and Systems > > Understanding complex networked systems is key to solving some of the > most vexing problems confronting humankind, from discovering how > dynamic brain connections give rise to thoughts and behaviors, to > detecting and preventing the spread of misinformation or unhealthy > behaviors across a population. Graduate training, however, typically > occurs in one of two dimensions: experimental and observational > methods in a specific area such as biology and sociology, or in > general methodologies such as machine learning and data science. > > With more and more students seeking to gain sufficient expertise in > mathematical and computational methods on top of domain-specific > laboratory and social analysis methodologies, a greater demand for > more efficient interdisciplinary training is emerging. The Indiana > University National Science Foundation Research Traineeship > <https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu/> (NRT) addresses this growing need with > an integrated dual PhD program that trains students to be > “bidisciplinary” in Complex Networks and Systems (CNS) and another > discipline of their choosing from the natural and social sciences. It > will seamlessly integrate traditional education with interdisciplinary > hands-on research in a culture of academic and human diversity. > > The training program capitalizes on the new Indiana University Network > Science Institute (IUNI) <https://iuni.iu.edu/>. The Institute's 165+ > faculty members will serve in interdisciplinary PhD program committees > to be co-chaired by research mentors from both CNS and the target > empirical domain. Project-driven, team-based research at IUNI will > seamlessly integrate academic education with interdisciplinary > hands-on scientific and industrial research. Trainees will learn to > connect the general-purpose, computational expertise of CNS to the > deep, domain-specific research methodologies of the natural, > behavioral, and social sciences thus bridging the gap between distinct > training cultures. They will be a new breed of STEM scientists that > escapes the silos of disciplinary training to address the complex > problems of the 21st century. > > *NEW DEADLINE: Applications Due January 1, 2018* > > ** > > For more information on how to apply please contact: > infograd(a)indiana.edu <mailto:infograd@indiana.edu>. For information > about research and academic components, please see our website > *https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu <https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu/>*, contact > the program director Prof. Luis M Rocha > <mailto:rocha@indiana.edu?subject=NSF-CNS-NRT%20Inquiry>, or other > members of the executive committee:** > > CNS-NRT Animated LogoExecutive Committee > > ·Luis M. Rocha <https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/>, Director > > ·Katy Börner <http://info.ils.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/>, Evaluation > Committee Chair > > ·Bernice Pescosolido > <https://iuni.iu.edu/people/person/bernice-pescosolido>, Colloquia and > Outreach Committee Chair > > ·Armando Razo > <http://polisci.indiana.edu/faculty/profiles/arazo.shtml>, Education > and Training Committee Chair > > ·Olaf Sporns <http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/osporns.php>, > Recruiting and Admissions Committee Chair > > ·Tara Holbrook > <https://www.soic.indiana.edu/all-people/profile.html?profile_id=230>, > Project Coordinator > > Research Themes > > Complex networks and systems > > Network neuroscience > > Social network science > > Health & health care > > Science of science > > Finance and economy networks > > Biological and chemical networks > > Many others > > Program Benefits > > $34,000 stipend on prestigious NSF Fellowship > > Tuition and health insurance > > Develop dual proficiency > > Interdisciplinary training > > Early integration in research via Indiana University Network Science > Institute (IUNI) > > National and international internships > > Academic and industrial professional development including travel support > > Diverse, collaborative cohorts > > Interaction with world-renowned external board members and speakers > > NSF fellow must be US citizens residents. IU fellowships and NRT > affiliates available for international students. > > ** > > *Academics* > > Dual PhD program in CNS and another domain such as Biology, Chemistry, > Cognitive Science, Economics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, > Sociology, Political Science, Physics, etc. Hands-on training in > general-purpose methodologies of CNS, computational and data science, > as well domain-specific methodologies of a chosen natural, behavioral, > or social science. > > ______________________________________________________ > > Luis Mateus Rocha, Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science > > Director, NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and > Systems > > Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research > > School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering > > Indiana University, 919 E. 10th St > > Bloomington IN, 47408, USA > > http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha > > and > > Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal > > http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt/research/unit/76 > > ______________________________________________________ > > Any analytical approach to understanding simplicity always turns out > to be very complex. (Howard Pattee) > > ______________________________________________________ > -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org ISE and ILS, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166

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Final Call for Submissions: Graduate Symposium at Diagrams 2018
by Atsushi Shimojima 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

**************************************************************************** Final Call for Submissions: Graduate Symposium Diagrams 2018 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Conference dates: 18th - 22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK Co-located event: International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2018 http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/iccs/ **************************************************************************** Diagrams 2018 is the tenth conference in the biennial series that started in 2000, which provides a united forum for all areas concerned with the study of diagrams. The goal of the Diagrams 2018 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field. Participants will be selected for the Graduate Symposium based on the submission of a 3-page report describing their research (see the Submission section). Submissions will be peer reviewed. Summaries of accepted submissions will be available online on the conference website (as an example, see Diagrams 2016 Graduate Symposium proceedings: http://www. diagrams-conference.org/2016/gradsymp.html) **************************************************************************** Submission Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/. Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing - the thesis topic, - the approach being taken, - the work that has been completed, - the expected contributions of the research, and - aspects of the work on which advice is desired. The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format via the EasyChair system by 31st January 2018 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2018 The submission should be prepared following the LNCS style guidelines, http://www.springer.com/lncs, and each student can only submit one report. **************************************************************************** Participation Expectations Graduate students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted are expected to participate in the Graduate Symposium as follows. Students who are not giving a presentation of a long or short paper, or an abstract, in the main conference will be expected to give a presentation at the Symposium and present a poster in the main conference. Students who are presenting a long or short paper, or an abstract, in the main conference, including either of the special tracks, will be expected to attend the Symposium and present a poster in the main conference. Students who are presenting a poster at the main conference, including either of the special tracks, will be expected to give a presentation at the Symposium. They do not need to prepare an additional poster for the main conference. All students who receive student funding from Diagrams 2018 will be required to attend the Graduate Symposium. **************************************************************************** Supervisor Support Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement, by email to Andrew Blake, a.l.blake(a)brighton.ac.uk. The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement. **************************************************************************** Financial Support The organisers may be able to provide financial support for students attending the conference. If support is available then those eligible to apply for are expected to include: - students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted, - students presenting a paper, abstract or poster at the main conference who submit a Graduate Symposium report by the symposium submission deadline. Support is expected to range from free registration to additional travel support. All students who obtain funding from the Diagrams conference must participate in the Graduate Symposium as explained in the Participation Expectations. **************************************************************************** Important Dates For all submissions to the Graduate Symposium the following dates apply Submission deadline: 31st January 2018 Supervisor supporting statement: 7th February 2018 Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2018 Camera ready deadline: 21st March 2018

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Internship positions at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge
by Daniele Quercia 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

Dear all, The Social Dynamics team at Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is looking for summer interns to work on the following internship projects (also available on http://researchswinger.org/hiring.html) 1. You are what You Eat - Study food consumption data and their relationship with people well-being. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, machine learning, network analysis. 2. The Social Life of Cities - Investigate how the urban space shapes our social relationships. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, GIS tools, network analysis. 3. The Health of the City - Analyse fine-grained health data at city scale over time. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science. Experience with Python, machine learning, time-series analysis, large-scale data analysis. 4. Your New Quantified Self - Study multiple signals from quantified-self devices. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python and machine learning 5. "This is not gonna help you" - Build web apps to collect psychological perceptions of people. BSc or above in Computer Science. Experience with frontend (HTML5, Javascript, D3) and backend (Django, SQL) development, design of simple Facebook apps. Interest in Computational Social Science. 6. Visual AI - Creating new beautiful and elegant techniques to display and visualize the results of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. Experience with web design and frontend development (HTML5, Javascript, D3) To learn more about our research, please check our sites - researchswinger.org, lajello.com, and goodcitylife.org If you would like to apply, please send me your CV by *January 20th*. I would be happy to answer any question. Please feel free to forward this call to anybody who might be interested. cheers, - daniele

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26.WSCG conference - Call for Papers - EXTENDED - (includes GraVisMa & HCI-Europe confs.)
by Vaclav Skala 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

>> Call for Papers and Conferences Announcement >> WSCG 2018, GraVisMa 2018, HCI-Europe 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2018 (held annually since 1992) 26. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2018 page When: May 28 – June 1, 2018 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (the City of Beer), close to Prague Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport Includes special workshop (common for WSCG and GraVisMa) on: Radial Basis Function: Theory and Application in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Computational (including scientific computing, ODE, PDE, interpolation, approximation, graphics, vision, visualization etc.) > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- WSCG 2018 26. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: February 27, 2018 (EXTENDED) GraVisMa 2018 5. Conference on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Mathematics Computational and Applied http://www.GraVisMa.eu Submission: March 20, 2018 (Extended) HCI-Europe 2018 3. Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2018 https://www.hci-europe.eu Submission: March 20, 2018 (Extended) 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). Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Organizer & Chair --------------------- 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 Announcement sent via: infovis(a)infovis.org --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Faculty Positions at NYU in Data Science (VIS included) (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Level)
by Enrico Bertini 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi all, NYU is hiring in Data Science at all professorship levels (assistant, associate and full). Candidates working in visualization (especially those with a strong background in data science) are very welcome. One call is for a positions across the Center of Data Science ( https://cds.nyu.edu) and Tandon School of Engineering ( http://engineering.nyu.edu) and one for Tandon only. New faculty can join the "Visualization Imaging and Data Analysis (VIDA)" lab, which already hosts three vis-oriented faculty members (Claudio Silva, Juliana Freire and Enrico Bertini). New York and NYU have a very vibrant data science and visualization community with endless opportunities for impactful research and collaboration across NYU schools (medicine, biology, media/journalism, art, urban science, finance, neuroscience, education, etc.), public organizations and businesses. To apply you can follow these links: - Associate/Full Professor, Data Science: https://apply. interfolio.com/47433 - Data Science Assistant/Associate Faculty (CSE/CDS): https://apply. interfolio.com/47451 For more information feel free to contact me (enrico.bertini(a)nyu.edu) and/or Claudio Silva (csilva(a)nyu.edu) We'd be happy to provide more information to interested candidates from the visualization community. All the best! -- Enrico Bertini, Assistant Professor Dep. of Computer Science and Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering 2 Metrotech Center, 11201 Brooklyn, NY (10th floor) Phone: +1 646 997 3731 <(646)%20997-3731>

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Open Positions in Visual Analytics: PhD and PostDoc at TU Wien [DL: January 26, 2018]
by Miksch Silvia 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

Dear colleagues, The Visual Analytics Group (CVAST) at TU Wien is looking for - a *PhD student* and - a *PostDoc* in *Model Building and Visual Analytics*, with a focus on (dynamic) network analyses and visualization, visual process mining, temporal uncertainty, data quality, and time-oriented data. More details are here: http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/node/808 The research is embedded in the research cluster on "Smart Communities and Technologies" at TU Wien and offers a great opportunity for high-quality Visual Analytics research with the perspective on interdisciplinary research. Applications are due January 26, 2018. Would you be so kind to distribute this job offer amongst your scientific colleagues and potential candidates? Thanks, Silvia Miksch ================================================================ Silvia Miksch, Univ.-Prof. Ph.D. MSc. Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Faculty of Informatics Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188-1 A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe email: miksch(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia phone: +43-1-58801-18824 phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801 fax: +43-1-58801-18899 =================================================================

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[EuroVA2018] CFP: EuroVA 2018 - EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics in Brno, Czech Republic
by Organizers EuroVA 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

EuroVA 2018 Workshop http://www.eurova.org EuroVA 2018 is the ninth international EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics. It will take place on Monday, June 4, 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic. Visual Analytics is a problem-solving and sense-making technology that integrates analytical computations, visual representations, and interaction. It includes the analysis of complex (massive, dynamic, ambiguous, conflicting, …) data and information for gaining understanding, building knowledge, and inferring insight. Visual Analytics aims at a synergistic collaboration of humans and computers mediated through interactive visual interfaces. As such, Visual Analytics is an interdisciplinary field of research, including aspects of visualization, human-computer interaction, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more. EuroVA 2018 is the best place to present and discuss ideas of new methods and theories, interesting applications, designs, and studies of the use of Visual Analytics methods and systems. The workshop will accept a range of paper types, including technique, system, application, evaluation and theory papers in the area of Visual Analytics. Call for Submissions The workshop seeks to attract innovative, fresh and creative ideas with a high potential of becoming significant contributions to the Visual Analytics community. We welcome research papers that introduce new Visual Analytics concepts, methods, or techniques, application papers that describe success stories of Visual Analytics in practice, and position papers expressing novel and potentially controversial viewpoints on Visual Analytics. Topics The workshop covers a broad range of topics in the area of Visual Analytics: - Visual representations of complex data - Interaction techniques for data analysis - Computational methods to support analysis tasks - Theoretical foundations of Visual Analytics - Cognitive and perceptual aspects - Infrastructures and architectures for Visual Analytics - Data management, data provenance, and data uncertainty - Evaluation of Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics applications Hot Topics We especially encourage submissions reporting late-breaking results in the upstream topics: - Sports Visual Analytics - Progressive Visual Analytics - Immersive Visual Analytics - Big Data Analytics - Visual Analytics and deep learning - Decision making and analytical workflows using Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics of streaming data Important Dates - Submission: February 23, 2018 - Notification: March 23, 2018 - Camera-ready: April 20, 2018 - Workshop: June 4, 2018 (New this year: EuroVA will be only on Monday!) Submission Guidelines Papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum) must be prepared using the EuroVA LaTeX template, which can be downloaded here: egPublStyle-EuroVA2018 <http://www.eurova.org/wp-content/uploads/egPublStyle-EuroVA2018.zip> Papers are to be submitted via the new PCS at: https://new.precisionconference.com/eurova18a/ At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop to present the accepted work. The EuroVA 2018 Workshop Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association <https://www.eg.org/>, and be stored on the Eurographics Digital Library <https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/982>. OrganizersProgram chairs Christian Tominski, University of Rostock Tatiana von Landesberger, Technische Universität Darmstadt Publicity chair Michael Behrisch, Harvard University Links News: http://www.eurova.org/ EuroVA 2018: http://www.eurova.org/eurova-2018

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CFP: Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation and Visualization (deadline EXTENDED: 22 January 2018)
by Nadia Boukhelifa 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Extended Deadline: 22 January 2018 ** CFP: Special Issue on Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation and Visualization ** Recent advances in Genetic Programming / Evolutionary Computation (GP/EC) and visualization have shown a growing synergy between these fields. On the one hand, visualization can make GP/EC algorithms more transparent, through interactive parameter tuning and the graphical representation of experimental analyses [3,5]. On the other hand, GP/EC techniques can be deployed to efficiently guide user search in exploratory visualization systems [1,2,4]. This special issue aims to bring together latest work and new advances in Genetic Programming / Evolutionary Computation (GP/EC) and Visualization (including its three subfields: information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics), to produce new insights on: - how to develop better visualization tools to support GP/EC, and - how to develop robust GP/EC algorithms to support visualization applications. Scope -------- We invite submissions on any aspect of Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computation (GP/EC) linked to visualization (information visualization, scientific visualization or visual analytics), or visualization applied to GP/EC, including, but not limited to: theoretical results, algorithmic design, evaluations and user studies, surveys, and interesting new applications (e.g. in life sciences, art, and engineering). Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Interactive evolution systems * GP/EC applied to visual design * Use of GP/EC in visual analytics or progressive visualization * Review of visualization techniques in GP/EC * Review of GP/EC techniques in visualization * Visualization techniques to explain GP/EC to end users * Visual analysis of GP/EC algorithms * Evaluation of (interactive) evolutionary systems * Visualization of results of experimental analysis of GP/EC algorithms * Interactive parameter tuning of GP/EC * Visualization of the search space and the fitness landscape * Techniques to avoid user fatigue in interactive GP/EC * Human factors in GP/EC Important Dates ----------------------- GPEM Special Issue Submission Deadline: 15 December 2017 22 January 2018 First Reviews: March 2018 Post Review Submission Deadline: April 2018 Acceptance Notification: June 2018 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: July 2018 Paper Submission -------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://GENP.edmgr.com <http://genp.edmgr.com/>. Choose “Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation and Visualization” as the article type when submitting. Manuscripts should conform to the standard format stipulated in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines’ Information for Authors. All submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal. All inquiries should be sent to: nadia.boukhelifa(a)inra.fr <mailto:nadia.boukhelifa@inra.fr> Guest Editors -------------------- Nadia Boukhelifa, INRA, Versailles-Grignon, France [nadia.boukhelifa(a)inra.fr <mailto:nadia.boukhelifa@inra.fr>] Evelyne Lutton, INRA, Versailles-Grignon, France [evelyne.lutton(a)inra.fr <mailto:evelyne.lutton@inra.fr>] References ----------------- [1] N. Boukhelifa, A. Bezerianos, W. Cancino, and E. Lutton. 2017. Evolutionary visual exploration: evaluation of an IEC framework for guided visual search. Evol. Comput. 25, 1 (March 2017), 55-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00161 <https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00161> [2] N. Boukhelifa, A. Bezerianos, and E. Lutton. A mixed approach for the evaluation of a guided exploratory visualization system. 2015. EuroVis workshop on reproducibility, verification, and validation in visualization, EuroRV3. [3] E. Lutton, and J-D Fekete. Visual analytics of EA data. 2011. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO. [4] W. Cancino, N. Boukhelifa, and E. Lutton. EvoGraphDice: Interactive evolution for visual analytics. 2012. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1-8. [5] T. Collins. Visualizing evolutionary computation. Advances in evolutionary computing, Ashish Ghosh and Shigeyoshi Tsutsui (Eds.). 2003. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc, 95-116.

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CFP 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics @ IEEE ICDE'18, Paris, France (Deadline 1/12/2018)=========================================================== Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics (CiA) IEEE ICDE'18 - International Conference on Data Engineering Paris, France, April 16-20th 2018 =========================================================== ** Note new dates for submissions ** As the role of computers in decision-making expands in business, education, health care, law, and gov
by Eser Kandogan 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

=========================================================== Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics (CiA) IEEE ICDE'18 - International Conference on Data Engineering Paris, France, April 16-20th 2018 =========================================================== As the role of computers in decision-making expands in business, education, health care, law, and government, big data and analytics community needs to pay specific attention to context. Studying, representing, incorporating, exploiting and explaining context in analytics has the potential to provide significant value and address major challenges. The 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics (CiA) encourages participation from a broad spectrum of communities to explore the role of context in big data and analytics, as we collectively try to address questions such as: What is the right model of context? What should context capture? What is the architecture of context services? How to address data integration when bringing in context from various systems? Can context provide value without violating privacy? What are the right user experience and interaction models for interaction with context? How should context be governed? Topics ------ Original unpublished contributions are sought in areas including but not limited to: -Contextual user experience design -Context in machine learning -Contextual Personalized Search -Collaborative contextual analytics -Privacy and context -Context in visual analytics -Context models and querying -Context services and architectures -Context in provenance•Recommender systems and context -Data governance with Context Important Dates: --------------- Jan 12th, 2018: Paper Submission Feb 9th, 2018: Papers Notification Mary Roth, IBM Research Amol Deshpande, U of Maryland Eser Kandogan, IBM Research For more information please visit https://umddb.github.io/contextanalytics2018/ ==============================================================

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CFP: Creative Residency at NCSU Libraries
by Mike Nutt 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

We have a creative residency call for proposals open (below) to develop visual content (a) for large video wall(s) the James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, NC. You might consider applying or be able to distribute it to anyone who might be interested. We're particularly trying to court local applicants, but that is not a deal breaker. The goal of the residency includes making open source scholarly content that can be distributed to other libraries, museums, and learning spaces. VR/AR content would be within scope for this, but we'd be looking for approaches that could generate content for that could work on our video walls as well as in HMDs. Thanks for your help. Mike -- Mike Nutt Director of Visualization Services Digital Library Initiatives, NCSU Libraries 919.513.0651 <(919)%20513-0651> https://immersivescholar.org @ImmersivScholar <https://twitter.com/ImmersivScholar> ### Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning SpacesCreative Residency Call for ProposalsOverview *Application Deadline*: 8:00am EST, January 3rd, 2018 *Duration*: 4-6 weeks *Start date*: Flexible, February through August, 2018 *Stipend*: $20,000 *URL*: https://immersivescholar.org/creative-residency-call The NCSU Libraries invites proposals from artists, scholars, and creative technologists for a four-to-six-week residency to create immersive scholarly visual content for one or more of the large-scale digital walls <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/videowalls> in the award-winning James B. Hunt Jr. Library at NC State University in Raleigh. The residency is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces grant (“Immersive Scholar”), and is part of the NCSU Code+Art program. Residents are encouraged to interrogate the intersections of data, knowledge, and culture through visual expression. This residency offers an opportunity for the selected project to influence the way that people look at the university’s role in supporting data visualization and digital art, similar to the manner that the Hunt Library has started to change the way that people think about academic libraries in the 21st century. Libraries have long been places where people have explored new ways of interacting with information and data. The NCSU Libraries’ Code+Art program <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/projects/codeart> continues this tradition by bringing an aesthetic eye to the increasing role of data in our lives by combining creative and computational thinking in a library’s physical spaces. Code+Art provides the lens that focuses this residency program. Program Details The resident will produce a large-scale work of digital art or visualization. Creations could include generative art or dynamic, data-driven visualizations of high aesthetic quality. The data underlying the piece may or may not be literally interpretable, depending on the resident’s scholarly approach. To generate broader impact and a larger audience, the work will: - Be open source - Follow principles of responsive design - Follow principles of universal design - Be documented using principles of literate computing - Be broadly distributed to other libraries and learning spaces with similar visualization facilities Additionally, the work should be scholarly output that is citable and impactful. NCSU Libraries staff and collaborators will explore with the resident innovative approaches to peer review, sharing, and credit for the work created during the residency. The work will be displayed on one or more of the Hunt Library’s large video walls: - Art Wall <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/artwall> - the screen that welcomes visitors to the Library - iPearl Immersion Theater <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/ipearl-immersion-theater> - the Library’s premier storytelling venue - Commons Wall <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/commons-wall> - in the heart of the Library’s learning spaces - Visualization Wall <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/visualization-wall> - a unique shape that symbolizes the Library’s blend of physical and digital space Please see our Video Wall Guide <https://github.com/NCSU-Libraries/visualization_templates/blob/master/Displ…> for technical specifications of the walls. Additionally, the resident will have access to the Libraries’ full suite of spaces for creation and making <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces?s=1#/Make%20&%20Create/all/all/>. The resident must have sufficient knowledge required to produce the work described in their application for this residency. Experience in open web technologies is strongly preferred, but other technologies could be considered if the requirements for open source and broad distribution can be met. To further support the resident, the library will hire a student worker to assist the resident with content production. The resident can specify the student’s title and skill set. If additional technology skills are needed beyond what the student employee can provide, the residency stipend may be used to hire technical help. The residency includes a stipend of $20,000 that can be used to cover housing, travel, and other expenses incurred by the project. Women and historically underrepresented communities are especially encouraged to apply. Support and Community Engagement The resident will work closely with NCSU Libraries staff, who will facilitate engagement with the NC State community and the broader scholarly community. Libraries staff have expertise in visualization <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/visualization>, making <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/services/makerspace>, data management <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/data-management>, and other areas of research support <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/services/researcher-support>, and will be available to the resident for consultation. The resident will be expected to engage with the NC State community through a talk and/or workshop, to be determined and facilitated with Libraries staff. NC State University <https://www.ncsu.edu/about/> is a pre-eminent research enterprise that excels in science, technology, engineering, math, design, the humanities and social sciences, textiles, and veterinary medicine. Collaborations with NC State researchers and students will grow from the vision and needs of the resident, and can be facilitated by Libraries staff, who maintain deep relationships with the campus community. This residency is funded as part of a larger, “Immersive Scholar” grant. Immersive Scholar is a three-year effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop extensible models and programs for the creation and sharing of digital scholarship in large-scale and immersive visualization environments. The resident, therefore, will be part of a larger, national network of participating institutions <https://immersivescholar.org/news/announcing-our-partners> and advisors <https://immersivescholar.org/advisory-panel>. Work completed under this residency must be designed to be open source and will be shared to the grant’s participating cohort <https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/ncsu-libraries-chooses-cohort-for-large-scale…> for display at their respective institutions. Eligibility Requirements - Participants within commuting distance will be preferred for this first of three residencies - Must be eligible to work in the U.S. - Must not be a currently enrolled student Application - Statement of interest (500 words or less) - Narrative of proposed work (500 words or less) - Description of spaces, technologies, and support needed for project (500 words or less) - Resume/CV - Online portfolio of past relevant works - 1 letter of reference Selection and Notification Process Proposals will be selected by the Immersive Scholar personnel <https://immersivescholar.org/contact> based on the following criteria: - Creativity of proposal - Whether the proposal is extensible, desirable, and feasible for distribution to multiple visualization installations - Proficiency in web or creative coding technologies - Good collaboration skills - Value of proposed outcomes to digital scholarship Applicants may be contacted for an interview or a presentation of previous work. Questions Please see http://immersivescholar.org for more information about the grant and send inquiries to immersivescholar(a)ncsu.edu. *Submit applications through this Google Form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVxSIRUT4L6L6FPu4gDxaKx1uritxAE6X…>. All applications must be submitted by 8:00am EST, January 3rd.* -- Mike Nutt Director of Visualization Services Digital Library Initiatives, NCSU Libraries 919.513.0651 https://immersivescholar.org @ImmersivScholar <https://twitter.com/ImmersivScholar>

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