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PhD in Information Visualization at Newcastle University, UK
by Sara J Fernstad 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

We are offering a fully funded PhD studentship (covering tuition fees and a stipend of £14,553 per year) in interactive visualization of complex data, at Newcastle University, UK. The studentship is suitable for candidates with a degree in Computer Science or a similar area, with an interest in data/information visualization. Further details are available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs061.html This project will be carried out at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University ( rated no 1 in research impact in the UK in REF 2014) and will be part of the research in the Scalable Computing group , which also hosts the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Cloud Computing for Big Data. For further information about the project, please contact: sara.fernstad(a)newcastle.ac.uk *To apply*: follow the guidance in the link above – please note that application deadline is *10 July 2017*. *Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD* Lecturer in Data Science Digital Institute Newcastle University The Core, Science Central Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TF UK E-mail:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad

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Last Call for Participation: IEEE VAST Challenge 2017
by Whiting, Mark A 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

VAST Challenge 2017: Last Call for Participation Submission deadline is July 16, 2017 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2017 There is still time to submit to the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge--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 task and determine if their data transformations, visualizations, and interactions would be beneficial for particular analytic tasks. 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 complex problems. This year's Challenge offers three diverse mini-challenges and a grand challenge that concern a sad state of affairs in a nature preserve, threats to flora and fauna, and the quest of a local graduate student to find the explanations. We welcome visualization innovations that address key issues in the problems presented; even if a mini-challenge is not completely solved. Submission deadline is July 16, 2017 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). Questions? Email: vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vast-challenge@ieeevis.org>

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Postdoctoral Fellow - Augmented Reality for Decision Support
by Matt.Adcock＠csiro.au 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Postdoctoral Fellow - Augmented Reality for Decision Support * Are you a highly motivated PhD graduate? * Do you have a passion for developing novel interactive Augmented Reality (AR) applications? * A great opportunity to collaborate across disciplines and create productivity tools that have substantial industrial impacts! Future Science Platforms (FSPs) are a major new CSIRO initiative. FSPs are multi-year investments in frontier science that will reinvent and create new industries for Australia. Digiscape is the FSP that is creating next-generation decision tools to transform the agriculture and land management sector. To achieve this aim, Digiscape is bringing to bear cutting edge climate science; new sources of locally and remotely sensed data; informatics for agro-ecosystems; rigorous analysis of uncertainties; and innovation in both the ICT and social dimensions of systems integration. The successful candidate will join a cohort of early-career researchers and engineers who will combine their individual disciplinary contributions into mission-focussed R&D. Part of the Digiscape vision is that Augmented Reality technologies (such as Microsoft HoloLens) will play a key role in supporting individual and team decision making, both in the field and in the office. In the aquaculture domain these tools will assist operators on the ground and/or in the office to visualise pond conditions and access short-term pond predictions across multiple ponds. They will be a primary method for accessing the data management and modelling frameworks developed in related projects. Your success in this role will be underpinned by your record of science innovation and creativity, plus your ability and willingness to incorporate novel ideas and approaches into scientific investigations. The successful applicant will implement and evaluate prototype systems, while making use of the Advanced Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (VR) facilities in the Data61 Immersive Environments Lab in Canberra. To be considered you will have (or expect to imminently complete) a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a directly related field. You will have experience conducting research in interactive 3D graphics and/or computer vision in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and/or Web3D. You will also have the ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team and carry out tasks autonomously. To view the full position details and selection criteria for this role please go to www.jobs.csiro.au and search for reference number 29563 Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia Salary: $78K - $88K p.a. plus up to 15.4% superannuation Professional Development Budget: Yes Tenure: 3 year term Reference: 29563 How to Apply: Please upload one document containing your CV/resume and cover letter. Please ensure you provide enough information relevant to the selection criteria for this position (as described in the Position Details Document) to enable the assessment panel to determine your suitability. Who we are: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) As Australia's national science agency, we've been pushing the edge of what's possible for almost 90 years. Today we have thousands of talented people working across Australia and internationally. Our people work closely with industry and communities to leave a lasting legacy. Collectively, our innovation and excellence places us in the top ten applied research agencies in the world. Applications will remain open until filled. We are actively considering candidates so please submit new applications immediately.

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IVAPP 2018 CFP
by Andreas Kerren 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017 http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ January 27-29, 2018 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal ======================================== The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference will be structured along several topics related to Information Visualization. We welcome papers describing original work in any of the topics listed below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. CONFERENCE AREAS 1: ABSTRACT DATA VISUALIZATION Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery Visual Representation and Interaction Data Management and Knowledge Representation Mathematical Foundations of Interactive Visual Analysis Display and Interaction Technology Databases and visualization, Visual Data Mining Graph Visualization Interface and Interaction Techniques for Visualization Internet, Web and Security Visualization Software Visualization Information Visualization Visual Analytical Reasoning Hardware-Assisted Visualization High-dimensional Data and Dimensionality Reduction Text and Document Visualization 2: GENERAL DATA VISUALIZATION Interactive Visual Interfaces for Visualization Interpretation and Evaluation Methods Knowledge-assisted Visualization Large Data Visualization Perception and Cognition in Visualization Visualization Applications Visualization Taxonomies and Models Visualization Algorithms and Technologies Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling Time-dependent Visualization Usability Studies and Visualization Glyph-based Visualization Collaborative Visualization Coordinated and Multiple Views 3: SPATIAL DATA VISUALIZATION Biomedical Visualization and Applications Flow Visualization GPU-based Visualization Image/Video Summarization and Visualization Multi-field Visualization Parallel Visualization Uncertainty Visualization Vector/Tensor Field Visualization Virtual Environments and Data Visualization Volume Visualization Scientific Visualization PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). A short list of papers presented at IVAPP will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of the Open Access Information Science Journal. IMPORTANT DATES Regular Papers Paper Submission: July 31, 2017 Authors Notification: October 20, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: November 3, 2017 Position Papers Paper Submission: September 29, 2017 Authors Notification: November 7, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: November 20, 2017 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Jose Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal IVAPP PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden ======================================== Web: http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/ e-mail: ivapp.secretariat(a)insticc.org ========================================

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Fixed-Term Research Jobs @giCentre, London
by Dykes, Jason 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

We have two nice Post Doctoral research jobs starting soon @giCentre in London. If you like data & graphics, can design & code (JS), come and join us. Details here, and get in touch to discuss ... http://j.mp/giCentreSureILikeDataAndGraphicsAndCanDesignAndCode @jsndyks @cagatay_turkay If you know folks who would do a good job and might like to apply, please ping them. Applications required by 6th and 13th July. Prof. Jason Dykes Dr. Cagatay Turkay giCentre, Computer Science City, University of London

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Release of Tulip 5.0
by Bruno Pinaud 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Good afternoon, Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email. *Tulip 5.0 is available* Tulip is an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data (Visual Analytics). Based on more than 16 years of research and development, Tulip is built on a suite of tools and techniques, that can be used to address a large variety of domain-specific problems. With Tulip, we aim to provide Python and/or C++ developers a complete library, supporting the design of interactive information visualization applications for relational data, that can be customized to address a wide range of visualization problems. Tulip enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models, and domain-specific visualizations. The Python programming layer wraps up Tulip as an ideal tool for fast prototyping and treatment automation, allowing to focus on problem solving, and as a great system for teaching purposes at all education levels. Tulip 5 offers new features, mainly: * a *new Python IDE* in a dedicated window allowing the coding/execution of modules, plugins or Python scripts (the older Python script view is not available any more), * numerous *import plugins* dedicated to the graph generation of known social network models, * a *BibTEX* file (.bib) import plugin, * a *CSV* export plugin. * the integration of the "*Material design icons*" (https://materialdesignicons.com[1]) to be used as node glyphs, * the management of the *Message log window and a new feature to log every call to a plugin and get output information from some plugins (e.g., modularity value from the Louvain metric algorithm)*, * Improved management of the *Drawing defaults* preferences, * Addition of a *status bar* and more documentation through tooltips. *Graph API* has been extended; new methods allowing easy multi-threaded iteration over graph nodes or edges and multi-threaded computation of nodes or edges property associated values have been added. Many algorithms have been rewritten to use these extensions giving huge performance improvements. Many bugs have been also fixed especially in the GUI. See http://tulip.labri.fr for more information and download links. On the Python side, Tulip 5 (core library and plugins) will be available as a pip package in a couple of days. -- Bruno PINAUD Maitre de conférences/Associate Professor Université de Bordeaux CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Tel : +33 (0)5 40 00 35 03 -------- [1] https://materialdesignicons.com

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CFP: ACM TIST Special Issue on Visual Analytics
by Yingcai Wu 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email. =========================================================================== Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Special Issue on Visual Analytics: Towards Effective Human-Machine Intelligence =========================================================================== Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2017 PDF version: http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/CFP-TIST-VA.pdf =========================================================================== We call for novel and high-quality submissions on visualization and visual analytics for a special issue of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST). Visualization turns data into intuitive visual representations and allows people to quickly see, interact, and analyze the patterns in the data. As an old saying goes "a picture worth a thousand words", visualization can significantly improve the abilities of people to understand and interpret the data and analysis results. Visual analytics is an emerging research area that evolves from visualization, which aims to support "analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces". Visual analytics can enable human-machine intelligence that effectively integrates human knowledge and expertise into powerful data mining algorithms through highly interactive visualizations. Visualization and visual analytics have been used in many applications to tackle various important problems in the big data era, such as tackling urban issues like traffic jam and air pollution, making better diagnostic and treatment decisions, preventing threats and fraud in business, optimizing rescue efforts, forecasting severe weather conditions, and achieving situational awareness during crisis. This special issue will introduce the readership to the latest innovations and provide a spotlight on emerging and promising research topics in visual analytics and visualization for highly effective human-machine intelligence. We invite high quality submissions aiming to enable human and machine to work a team to solve practical problems via intelligent visualization systems and technologies. Topics of interest include but not limited to: Exploring Big Data using Visual Analytics . Visual urban analytics . Visual analytics of social media data . Visual text analytics . Visual analytics of healthcare data . Visual analytics of multimedia data . Visual analytics for bioinformatics . Visual analytics of business data . Visualization and visual analytics for humanities . Visual analytics of user behavior data . Visual analytics of engineering data . Visual representations and interaction techniques for visual analytics . Data management and knowledge representation for visual analytics . Analytical reasoning and collaborative analytics through visualization . Taxonomies and models Understanding Human Factors in Interactive Machine Learning . User studies for identifying the role of humans in interactive machine learning . Evaluating and understanding the difficulties that users have with machine learning . User studies of comparing interactive machine learning tools and systems . Case studies of the use of a machine learning tool for solving important problems Visualizing and Diagnosing Machine Learning . Visual analytics and visualization for explaining machine learning models . Visual analytics and visualization for diagnosing machine learning models . Visual analytics and visualization for better analysis of deep learning Submissions Online Submission (available in July 1, 2017): http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select "Special Issue: Visual Analytics" as the manuscript type) Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website: http://tist.acm.org/ Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Important Dates . Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2017 . Review Notification: November 31, 2017 . Final Manuscript: January 31, 2018 . Publication Date: 2018 Guest Editors . Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University . Nan Cao, Tongji University . David Gotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart ============================================================================ ====

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CFP: 3rd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA'17) - Deadline extended to June 30
by Michael Wybrow 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Paper deadline extended to Friday June 30th. ----------------- 3rd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) Call for Papers Technical Sponsor: IEEE South Australia Branch 7-10th November 2017, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia http://bdva.net/ <http://bdva.net/> In the last decade, Big Data Analytics has become a major decision support factor in industry and government organisations. Visual Analytics is the enabling science for effective exploration of big data through meaningful visualisations and interactive user interfaces. Understanding the multidisciplinary nature, including user querying, powerful analytics, machine learning, visualisation, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, is critical for Visual Analytics to be effectively deployed. The BDVA'17 Symposium will be held at the University of South Australia (UniSA) on 7-10th November 2017. BDVA'17 will host an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and a day of complimentary hands-on workshops. BDVA'17 aims to * bring together leading experts from all relevant scientific domains to advance the understanding of visual analytics of complex, big, and dynamic data; * provide an exciting venue for researchers to network and establish national and international collaborations; and * provide early career scientists with an inspiring event allowing them to connect to relevant experts in the field. SCOPE The symposium will accept a range of manuscript types, including methods, systems, applications, evaluation techniques and theoretical work in Visual Analytics. The scientific scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: * Visual Analytics of High-dimensional and Spatio-temporal Data * Scientific and Information Visualisation * Machine Learning and Data Mining for Big Data Visual Analytics * Visual Representation and Interaction * Perception and Cognition of Visual Information * Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data * Context-driven User Querying * Semantics-driven Visual Analytics * Evaluation Methods for Visual Analytics * Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations * High Performance Graphics for Visualisation * Advanced Technologies and Applications for Visual Analytics * Virtual and Augmented Reality for Visual Analytics * Art and Science for Visual Analytics * Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation * Visual Analytics Processes and Workflows * Simulation for Visual Analytics SUBMISSION INFORMATION Regular papers Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished regular papers of 5-8 pages that report novel and mature work. Paper quality versus length will be assessed based on a contribution-per-page judgment. Guidelines for paper formatting and submission instructions are available on the BDVA website http://bdva.net <http://bdva.net/> The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. It is a condition of publication that accepted papers are presented by one of the authors. Presenters of accepted papers must register before the camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the conference proceedings and programme. Poster and Demonstration Papers Authors are invited to submit poster papers that report work in progress and demonstration papers of up to 6 pages. Poster and demonstration papers are not archival publications and will be distributed to the conference attendees on an USB flash drive. Guidelines for paper formatting and submission instructions are available on the BDVA website http://bdva.net <http://bdva.net/> Presenters of accepted poster- and demonstration papers must register before the camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the conference programme. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of regular papers closes: ** 30th June 2017 ** Notification of regular paper acceptance: 11th August 2017 Submission of poster/demo papers closes: 18th August 2017 Submission of camera ready regular papers closes: 1st September 2017 Notification of poster/demo paper acceptance: 15th September 2017 Early bird registration closes: 23rd September 2017 Submission of camera ready poster/demo papers: 29th September 2017 BDVA'17 Symposium: 7-10th November 2017 COMMITTEE General Chair Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, Australia) Technical Programme Chairs Michael Wybrow (Monash University, Australia) Wolfgang Mayer (University of South Australia, Australia) Local Arrangements Chair Stewart von Itzstein (University of South Australia, Australia) Publicity Chair Hongbo Xie (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Finance Chair Thomasz Bednarz (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Publication Chair Ulrich Engelke (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Poster & Demonstrations Chair Tobias Czauderna (Monash University, Australia) Workshops Chair Huyen Nguyen (Data61, Australia) Web Chair James Baumeister (University of South Australia, Australia) Steering Committee Tomasz Bednarz (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Ulrich Engelke (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany) Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Quang Vinh Nguyen (Western Sydney University, Australia) CONTACT BDVA 2017 Program Co-Chairs: info(a)bdva.net <mailto:info@bdva.net> * Michael Wybrow (Monash University, Australia) * Wolfgang Mayer (University of South Australia, Australia)

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CFP: VISSOFT 2017 - The 5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
by Cong Chen 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

** NIER and Tool track deadline is June 23, 2017 ** VISSOFT 2017: 5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization -== Call for Papers ==- Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. VISSOFT topics of interest include: * Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. * Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. * Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization * Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education * Integration of software visualization tools with development environments * Empirical evaluation of software visualizations * Industrial experience with using software visualization * Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. -== Technical papers ==- A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10-page limit does not include the bibliography, which is not limited in length. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video should provide a URL to the video. Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a response to reviewer requests for clarifications before a final decision is made. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: May 2, 2017 Paper Submission: May 9, 2017 Author Response Period: May 29 - June 2, 2017 Author Notification: June 9, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 Awards: A Mate 9 smartphone will be awarded to a distinguished technical paper, sponsored by Huawei. Special issue: We plan to invite a selection of the technical papers accepted at VISSOFT 2017 to submit an extended version to a journal. -== Artifacts ==- Traditionally, technical research papers are published without including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.), even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers. Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE’11, authors of accepted technical papers at VISSOFT 2017 can have their artifacts evaluated by the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be reflected in the paper publication, presentation, and be formally announced during the conference. More information about the artifact evaluation process may be found on http://www.artifact-eval.org. Important Dates: Artifact submission: June 25, 2017 Artifact notification: July 15, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 -== NIER and Tool papers==- We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool contributions. The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Important Dates: Paper submission date: June 23, 2017 Notification: July 24, 2017 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2017 -== Organizing Committee ==- General Chair: Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA http://www.utdallas.edu/~kzhang/ Program Co-Chairs: Ivan Beschastnikh, University of British Columbia, Canada https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bestchai/ Andrea Mocci, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland http://www.inf.usi.ch/postdoc/mocci/ Publicity Co-Chairs: Cong Chen, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA http://www.fujitsu.com/us/about/businesspolicy/tech/rd/research-staff/cong-… Bin Lin, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/lin/ NIER/Tool Co-Chairs: Bonita Sharif, Youngstown State University, USA http://www.csis.ysu.edu/~bsharif/ Olga Baysal, Carleton University, Canada http://olgabaysal.com Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Anne Etien, École Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, France http://www.lifl.fr/~etien/ Omar Benomar, Yellow Pages / Pages Jaunes and Université de Montréal, Canada http://www-ens.iro.umontreal.ca/~benomaro/ Most Influential Paper Award Chairs: Stephan Diehl, University of Trier, Germany https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=52170 Malcolm Munro, Durham University, UK http://community.dur.ac.uk/malcolm.munro/ For updates, visit http://vissoft.info follow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevissoft/ Twitter: @IEEEVISSOFT -- Best wishes, Carl (Cong) Chen CongChenUTD(a)Gmail.com

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CFP: 2nd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS
by Christopher Collins 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Second CFP - reminder and updated dates We are soliciting contributions for the 2nd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities. This will be a half-day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2017 in Phoenix, AZ. http://vis4dh.org. The purpose of this workshop is to propose new research directions in visualization for the digital humanities, to familiarize the visualization research community with the problems faced by digital humanities researchers, and to foster future collaboration between visualization and digital humanities research. Despite the growing popularity of digital methods for research in the humanities, digital humanists are underserved by academics in visualization, and under-represented in visualization conferences. This is due to a number of factors: 1. The differences in rhetorics of proof and discovery (and so differences in data culture and use) in the humanities as opposed to other, typically scientific or analytic fields where visualization research is commonly focused. 2. The difficulty of performing task analysis and evaluation for many humanities questions, that may have no ground truth. 3. In text visualization specifically, the difference between the needs of digital humanists (who perform close readings and critical engagements with texts) as opposed to more standard text visualization scenarios (e.g. text analytics on datasets for intelligence or social media analysis). Addressing these difficulties requires exposure of these data issues, interdisciplinary collaboration, and steering of future research directions. Submission 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 will take the form of short (2-4 page) papers, falling into one of two submission types: * Short Papers: These submissions are meant to highlight emerging visualization research reporting work in progress or 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 for a 9-minute research presentation (including 2 minutes for audience questions). Additionally, they will participate in a moderated panel discussion. Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates 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 document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself (e.g., references to "our" work). Submissions should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vis4dh2017 by 5 PM PST, July 21, 2017. Submissions should be in PDF format, and they should not exceed four pages of content. Topics The focus of this workshop is on applied visualization in the digital humanities, as well as highlighting domains in the digital humanities with unmet visualization challenges. These applications and domains include, but are not limited to: * Literature * Philology and Linguistics * Art and Art Criticism * Political Science * Performance (Music, Dance, Film, and Theatre) * Cultural and Historical Studies We are especially interested in a number of open questions in this space, including: * The impact of visual analytics systems on research in the digital humanities: * How can interactive visualizations support new questions, and new scales of research, in the DH community? * How can we encourage DH scholars to seek out visualizations, or collaboration with visualization researchers? * Characteristics of visualization for the digital humanities: * How does visualization with a DH focus differ from general research in the visualization community? * How do their user groups differ? How can debates in public humanities scholarship inform DH visualization practices? * How can we remove obstacles for humanities scholars wanting to use visual analytics approaches for their research? * How digital humanities research questions and tasks can push the frontier of visualization research: * What challenges are there for developing systems with novelty in both visualization and DH communities? * How do we evaluate visualizations where we lack ground truth data? * How can we build bridges between salient issues in the humanities (uncertainty, interpretative complexity, critical theoretical approaches) and the conceptual languages of visualization? Dates July 21, 2017: Submission Deadline (extended) August 11, 2017: Notification Deadline August 20, 2017: Camera Ready Submission Deadline 1-6 October, 2017: IEEE VIS Conference Organizers Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Michael Correll, University of Washington Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz Stefan Jänicke, Leipzig University Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz David Wrisley, New York University Abu Dhabi Program Committee (confirmed) Eric Alexander, Carleton College Adam Bradley, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz Catherine Derose, Yale University Valentin Gold, University of Goettingen Florian Windhager, Danube University Krems

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