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Open PhD position: GeoVisual Analytics (open topic)
by Halldór Janetzko 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

++ PhD post: geovisual analytics (open topic) ++ The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis group at the University of Zurich invites applications for a doctoral research assistant position in Geographic Information Science/Geovisualization to work on a research project related to geovisual analytics. The highly motivated, successful applicant is asked to suggest, develop, and answer a timely and relevant research question related to spatio-temporal knowledge discovery and knowledge construction using geovisual analytics displays (including spatialization). Applicants are required to have successfully completed a Master’s degree (by thesis) in a relevant area, e.g., Geography, Geographic Information Science, or Computer Science. You have an established background in quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies for data collection and data analysis. Applications from women and under-represented groups are especially encouraged. You are familiar with information visualization including (carto-)graphic design and (geo-)data mining. You have solid implementation skills (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C#, or similar) and are confident in, for example, implementing an interactive geovisual analytics system. You have a proven ability to work independently on guided projects, and are interested in presenting your results orally and in scientific publications to a larger scientific audience. You have a very good standard of written and spoken English, and knowledge of German, whilst not required, would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be hired on a 1-year contract (starting February 1st, 2018 or soon thereafter), which will be extended to the nominal 4-year PhD period after positive evaluation. For more background information about this position, please visit us on the Web at http://www.geo.uzh.ch/giva <http://www.geo.uzh.ch/giva>. For informal thematic inquiries about this position please contact Prof. Sara Irina Fabrikant, Email: sara(a)geo.uzh.ch <mailto:sara@geo.uzh.ch> (subject: PhD GeoVA), or by phone: +41-44-635-5150. Applications must include a motivation letter with sample research questions, a CV, transcripts, and the contact information of two referees. Apply digitally to: Human Resources, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland, Email: secretary.giva(a)geo.uzh.ch <mailto:secretary.giva@geo.uzh.ch> (subject: GeoVA PhD), phone: +41-44-635-5151. Review of applications will begin February 1st 2018, and will continue until the position is filled.

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Postdoctoral position in machine learning and exploratory search (can also start as a late-stage doctoral student)
by Peltonen Jaakko 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

The Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Tampere invites applications for a fixed-term full-time postdoctoral researcher’s position for a period from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019. The research takes place in the project ”Machine learning for exploratory search over multiple data domains (EXCEED)”. The postdoctoral researcher will develop new well-performing, computationally efficient and scalable methods based on probabilistic modeling, data mining, and machine learning for exploratory search, and modeling and visualization of text data. The main data sources are large structured data of online conversations in different media. The postdoctoral researcher will participate in all parts of the research process including ideas development, methods development, data gathering, empirical testing, and publication in high-quality international venues. Other tasks of research staff are governed by University of Tampere's regulations on human resources, Section 3. A person appointed as a postdoctoral researcher must hold an appropriate doctoral degree in a field related to the research tasks (such as statistics, computer science, visual analytics, or a related field) and must be able to pursue scientific research independently as well as have the instructional skills needed in the post. It is also possible to start as a researcher if one has made good progress in PhD studies and has a sufficient track record. A strong track record of research and scientific publication in top venues is appreciated. Good programming skills are expected. The most likely languages to be utilized in the project are are Python, R or Matlab. Success in the task requires good oral and written language skills in English or Finnish. The remuneration of the postdoctoral researcher post is based on level 5 of the job-related salary element for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of the Finnish Universities. The basic salary will be supplemented with a performance increase based on the employee's individual performance. The position carries a four-month trial period. Please submit your application documents through the University's online application system (link below: choose the JÄTÄ HAKEMUS or APPLY FOR THIS POSITION button, see instructions) by 15:45 Finnish time on 27 December 2017. https://uta.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jgid=1&jid=1064 The application should be sent with a curriculum vitae, full publication list, a list of no more than 10 of the most representative publications and links to these publications which are openly accessible online, and any other materials considered relevant such as letters of recommendation. Applicants may be invited for an interview in person in Tampere or online. For further information about the position, please contact: Associate Professor Jaakko Peltonen, jaakko.peltonen(at)uta.fi; tel: +358 50 3623628 For more information about the application process, please contact: Head of Administration Sari Saastamoinen, sari.saastamoinen(at)uta.fi, puh. +358 40 190 1479 The University of Tampere has the right not to fill the vacancy and to extend the deadline for applications for a valid reason.

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Call for papers: Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis - NLP4SMA 2018
by Andreas Kerren 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis - NLP4SMA 2018, within the 10th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence - SETN 2018 Submission Deadline: February 28, 2018 http://setn2018.upatras.gr/nlp4sma-2018/ 9-15 July 2018, Patras, Greece ======================================== The exploitation of natural language from social media data is an intriguing task in the fields of text mining and natural language processing (NLP), with plenty of applications in social sciences and social media analytics. In this special session of SETN 2018, we call for research papers in the broader field of NLP techniques for social media analysis. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): sentiment analysis in social media and beyond (e.g., stance identification, sarcasm detection, opinion mining), computational sociolinguistics (e.g., identification of demographic information such as gender, age), and NLP tools for social media mining (e.g., topic modelling for social media data, text categorization and clustering for social media, social media visual analytics). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Iosif Mporas, University of Hertfordshire, UK Vasiliki Simaki, Lund University, Sweden Carita Paradis, Lund University, Sweden Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Michael Paraskevas, CTI Diophantus, Greece IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: February 28, 2018

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CDVE2018 call for papers Abstract deadline Feb. 1, 2018
by cdve .org 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering - CDVE2018 will be held from October 21 - 24, 2018, Hangzhou, China. You are welcome to submit papers to the conference. The conference proceedings of CDVE2018 will be published by the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. The paper should not be submitted before to other places. At the same time please make sure that your paper topic is within the scope of the conference. See the conference web page http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for detailed information. You should include at least one keyword from our call of papers to prove that your paper theme fits the conference scope. All the papers should follow the LNCS format restrictively. The submission page is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2018 The following forms of paper should be submitted: *Abstract(recommended): *1 page with title, author information, keyword, abstract text Abstract submission deadline: Feb. 1, 2018. We will give you some feedback around 10 days. The complete version of the papers has to pass another peer to peer review to be accepted. *Full Papers* - 8 pages Full Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2018 Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2018 Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors: July 10, 2018 *Short papers* - 4 pages Short Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2018 Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2018 Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors: July 10, 2018 *Poster papers* (not included in proceedings) Abstract submission: June 20, 2018 Notification of acceptance of abstract: July 15, 2018 Final poster file submission and Registration for authors: July 31, 2018 *Early registration for all participants*: August 30, 2018 *Oct. 21-24, 2018: * CDVE2018 conference in Hangzhou, China By submission of full and short papers, you agree that at least one full registration will be made for each accepted paper to be included in the CDVE2018 proceedings. For submission of poster papers, you agree to make at least one full registration for each accepted poster paper. CDVE conferences have participants over 20 countries and rich social programs. The previous conferences have been held in Mallorca, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Osaka, Hong Kong, Seattle, and Sydney. This year, we will have the conference in the famous internet technology base in China – Hangzhou. You will enjoy it for sure! Please feel free to forward this call. -- The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. October 21 - 24,2018, Hangzhou, China Email: cdve2018(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Call for Papers: SetVR 2018 @ Diagrams 2018
by Yuri Sato 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

**************************************************************************** SetVR 2018 International Workshop on Set Visualization and Reasoning 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/setvr2kn/current-workshop Conference dates: 18th--22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK Deadline for submission: 5th February, 2018 **************************************************************************** SetVR 2018 will be the 6th meeting, with the first one held in 2004, previously called the Euler Diagrams Workshop. It aims to promote theoretical, empirical, applied research on visualization and diagrammatic reasoning, especially, about sets (set-theoretical and grouped data). SetVR 2018 welcomes submissions of types: full papers (16 pages) and short papers (8 pages; at least 5 pages). Accepted papers are expected to be published on-line by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) SetVR 2018 will run as part of Diagrams 2018 conference, which will be held from June 18th to 22nd in 2018, and is expected to occupy one day during this period. http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Organizers Yuri Sato (University of Brighton, UK) Zohreh Shams (University of Cambridge, UK) Program Committee Bilal Alsallakh (Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA) Jim Burton (University of Brighton, UK) Peter Chapman (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) Renata De Freitas (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil) Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge, UK) Sven Linker (University of Liverpool, UK) Luana Micallef (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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BioVis - CfP for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB, Chicago, USA
by Fritz Lekschas 03 Dec '17

03 Dec '17

========================= Call for Participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a one-day Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2018 July 6-10, 2018 Chicago, USA http://biovis.net https://twitter.com/biovis_net ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2018/cfp_ismb 1. ISMB Proceedings ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the ISMB Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org, impact factor 7.3) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: January 29, 2018 2. Highlight Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts highlighting previously published work. Accepted highlight talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: April 5, 2018 3. Posters ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, or visualization challenges to be presented as a poster. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: April 5, 2018 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2018

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26.WSCG conference - Call for Papers (includes GraVisMa & HCI-Europe confs.)
by Vaclav Skala 03 Dec '17

03 Dec '17

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): Radial Basis Function: Theory and Application in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Computational (ODE, PDE, interpolation, approximation, graphics, vision, visualization etc.) > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcomed. --------------------------- Satellite conferences: ------------------------ > GraVisMa 2018 > 5. Conference on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Mathematics Computational > http://www.GraVisMa.eu > HCI-Europe 2018 > 3. Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2018 > https://www.hci-europe.eu Important dates (for all events) --------------------- Submission: January 30, 2018 Acceptance decision: March 30, 2018 Final version due: May 10, 2018 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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CFP: Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)
by Fernando Vieira Paulovich 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 2018 Hosted by IUI 2018, March 7-11, 2018 https://sites.google.com/view/esida2018 Important dates: Submission deadline: December 17, 2017 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 23, 2018 Final manuscript due: February 6, 2018 Workshop Topic and Description In recent years, retrieval techniques operating on text or semantic annotations, have become the industry standard for retrieval from large data collections, such as documents, images, videos, music, medical data. This approach works well with sufficient high-quality meta-data or tagging. However, with the explosive growth of big data collections, it has become apparent that tagging new data quickly and efficiently is not always possible. Secondly, even if instantaneous high-quality data tagging were possible, there would still be many instances, where search by keyword query is problematic. For example, in the case of image retrieval it might be easier for a user to define their query if they are looking for an image of a cat, but how would they specify that the cat should be of a particular shade of ginger with sad looking eyes? A solution to these problems is active engagement of the user in the information retrieval loop, thus enabling the user to not only explore a given dataset more easily but also gradually direct their search to a more specific area of the search space. The aim of this workshop is to explore new methods and interface/system design for interactive data analytics and management in various domains, including specialised text collections (e.g. legal, medical, scientific), multimedia, and bioinformatics, as well as for various tasks, such as semantic information retrieval, conceptual organization and clustering of data collections for sense-making, semantic expert profiling, and document/multimedia recommender systems. The primary audience of the workshop is researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive and personalized system design as well as interactive machine learning both from academia and industry. IUI, with its focus on the intersection of HCI and AI, is a perfect venue where researchers from system/interface design community and the machine learning community can meet. Workshop Target Areas The workshop aims to solicit submissions in all areas of interactive data analytics and exploratory search including: - design, testing and assessment of interactive systems for data analytics - interactive data visualization for exploratory and investigative analysis - interactive classification and clustering of data - user-assisted curation and validation of the analysis process, and generation of data visualizations - user engagement in the semantic analysis process via suitable annotation and correction tools - study of the trade-off between accuracy of the results and user effort - personalization and user modeling related to interactive system design Submissions aimed at solving practical problems in specific application domains are especially welcome, including: - digital libraries - legal document management - personalized online learning systems - news media - biomedical data - multimedia collections - specialized image and video collections, e.g. medical images. We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: - full papers (up to 8 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented either as contributed talks or posters - extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Submission information Submissions to the workshop will be through EasyChair, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2018 The accepted workshop papers will be published in a joint workshop proceedings volume published by CEUR-WS. Workshop date: March 11, 2018 Workshop location: Hitotsubashi Hall (National Center of Sciences Building) located in central Tokyo - http://iui.acm.org/2018/attending.html Keynotes: - Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland - Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Organizers: Dorota Glowacka, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, dorota.glowacka(a)ed.ac.uk Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, eem(a)cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, axel.soto(a)manchester.ac.uk Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, paulovich(a)dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, dparra(a)ing.puc.cl Program Committee (to be updated/confirmed): Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Koji Koyamada (University of Tokyo, Japan) Abang Xu (IBM Almaden, USA) Remco Chang (Tufts University, USA) Tobias Schreck (TU Graz, Austria) Jaegul Choo (Korea University) John O’Donovan (UCSB, USA) Nava Tintarev (TU Delft, the Netherlands) Isabel Meirelles (OCADU, Toronto, Canada) Patrik Floreen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Giulio Jacucci (University of Helsinki, Finland) Alan Medlar (University of Helsinki, Finland) Torsten Moller (University of Vienna, Austria) Eduardo Veas (University of Cuyo, Argentina; Know-Center, Austria)

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Seeking a new PhD student
by John Stasko 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

We are seeking a new PhD student for the Fall of 2018 working on the Natural Visualization project, supported by the U.S. NSF. The project will explore multimodal interaction (speech, touch, etc.) with data visualizations. Qualified candidates should have course and project experience in Human-Computer Interaction and be competent developers in web systems programming and D3. An ideal candidate also will have interest and experience in designing and developing multimodal interaction applications. To learn more, please see https://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/seekphd.html for further details about the position and links to the application process pages. The application deadline for full consideration is December 15. John Stasko School of Interactive Computing Georgia Tech http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~john.stasko/">http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~john.stasko/

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PhD, MS, and MFA positions in data visualization / large scale data management at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA
by Dunne, Cody 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

PhD, MS, and MFA positions in data visualization / large scale data management: Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA =========================================================== Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) has a growing research focus in data science, in particular **data visualization** and **large scale data management**. The **DATA Lab** focuses on research problems in data management, data mining and machine learning with particular emphasis on scalability of algorithms to large data. The **Visualization Lab** focuses on understanding human perception and cognition, as well as designing visualization and interaction techniques for exploring complex data. Our growing labs have **eight open and funded PhD positions** focused on data storytelling; analytic provenance; tree and graph/network visualization; scalable approaches for managing uncertain, inconsistent, distributed and network data; cybersecurity and defense geospatial network visualization; visualization for healthcare; multidimensional data visualization; and visualization perception and cognition. We have a rich tradition of working on meaningful problems in collaboration with civic, business, and global partners. Our warm, supportive community of researchers eagerly seeks women and minority students to promote diversity. We are part of a strong team of 63 CCIS faculty with several related groups in areas such as network science, personal health informatics, cybersecurity, information retrieval, probabilistic AI, applied data science, distributed machine learning, NLP, and theory. The college is expanding rapidly and is now highly ranked among top computer science schools in terms of publications at selective venues. Students interested in graduate studies at Northeastern on data science and visualization have several degree programs to choose from: PhD: https://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/academics/phd/ - PhD in Computer Science (due Dec. 15) - PhD in Network Science (due Jan. 1) - PhD in Personal Health Informatics (due Jan. 20) - PhD in Information Assurance (due Feb. 15) MS: https://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/academics/masters/ - MS in Computer Science (due May 1) - MS in Data Science (due May 1) MFA: https://camd.northeastern.edu/artdesign/academic-programs/mfa-in-informatio… - MFA in Information Design and Visualization (due Feb. 1) PhD students who are making acceptable progress are guaranteed at least five years of full funding. Spring PhD admission is available for exceptional students. If you are interested in working at the DATA or Visualization Lab, please visit our websites to learn more: - https://visualization.ccis.northeastern.edu/research-opportunities/ - https://db.ccis.northeastern.edu/research-opportunities/ Please post or share our recruiting fliers with interested students: Visualization Lab flyer (PDF): https://bit.ly/CCIS-vis-flyer Data Lab Flyer (PDF): https://bit.ly/CCIS-data-flyer Thank you, Cody Dunne Wolfgang Gatterbauer Michelle Borkin Mirek Riedewald

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