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[Reminder] IEEE PacificVis 2017 - Early Bird Registration Due & Program Updates
by GuHyun Han 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

*Summary* - *Early bird registration <http://www.cvent.com/events/2017-ieee-pacific-visualization-symposium-pacif…>* *ends on **March 17!* - *Accommodation <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/venue> information* - *Program <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs> updates* - Keynote talks - David Elbert (Purdue University), *"**Changing the World with Visual Analytics"* - Gerard Jounghyun Kim (Korea University), *"Requirements and Recent Directions in **Augmented Reality Visualization"* - Sessions - Geospatial Visualization and Applications - Graphs and Networks - Immersion, VR, and Interaction - Medical, Biological, and Archaeological Visualization - Multidimensional Data, Multifields, and Uncertainty - Perception, Quality, and Scalability - Text, Annotation, and Coding - Volume Visualization - Visit our *Offical website* <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/> to acess additional Information *Introduction* PacificVis is an IEEE sponsored international visualization symposium held in the Asia-Pacific region, with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to enter this rapidly growing area of research. Previous PacificVis symposia were held in - *Kyoto (2008), Beijing (2009), Taipei (2010), Hong Kong (2011), Songdo (2012), Sydney (2013), Yokohama (2014), Zhejiang (2015), and Taipei (2016)* all sponsored by IEEE VGTC. *Location and Dates* The 10th PacificVis will be held at *Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea* during *April 18 to 21, 2017*. As part of PacificVis, PacificVAST workshop sessions will be held on April 18, with the Symposium starting from April 19. *Early bird Registration <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/registration>* The last day for early bird registration is *March 17, 2017*. You can check the discounted registration fee from the above link. *Keynote talks <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs>* PacificVis 2017 hosts two keynote speakers, Prof. David Elbert and Prof. Gerad Jounghyun Kim. You can access the additional information for each speech through the links below. *Day1 : Changing the World with Visual Analytics <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/keynotes/1> * *David Elbert (Purdue University)* *Bio.* David Ebert is the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a Fellow of the IEEE, and director of the Visual Analytics for Command Control and Interoperability Center (VACCINE), the Visualization Science team of the Department of Homeland Security’s Command Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence. Ebert performs research in visual analytics, volume rendering, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. He is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society vgTC Technical Achievement Award for seminal contributions in visual analytics. He has been very active in the visualization community, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, serving as IEEE Computer Society Vice President and the IEEE Computer Society’s VP of Publications, and successfully managing a large program of external funding to develop more effective methods for visually communicating information. *Day2 : Requirements and Recent Directions in Augmented Reality Visualization <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/keynotes/2>* *Gerard Jounghyun Kim (Korea University) * *Bio:* Currently, Professor, Dept. of CSE, Korea University Research Interests: VR/AR/MR, Human Computer Interaction, Computer music BS ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, 87 MS/PhD, Univ. of Southern California, 94 Computer Scientist, National Inst. of Science and Technoglogy (NIST), 94-96 Professor, Dept. of CSE, POSTECH, 96-06 Visiting Positions at USC, KAIST, Com2us 2 Books: Designing Virtual Reality Systems: Structured Approach, Springer, 2005 Human Computer Interaction: Fundamentals and Practice, CRC Press, 2015 Has published in Presence, IEEE VR, IEEE TVCG, IEEE ISMAR, ACM VRST, ACM CHI, INTERACT, etc. IEEE ISMAR General Co-chair (2010), ACM VRST Program Chair (2006), etc. Convener of ISO JTC 1 SC 24 WG 9 (Mixed and Augmented Reality Working Group) *Session Updates <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs>* We updated session information of full papers and notes. Please visit our website to access the details with the link above. We also provide the list of posters as well as competitors of the visualization contest. - Geospatial Visualization and Applications - Graphs and Networks - Immersion, VR, and Interaction - Medical, Biological, and Archaeological Visualization - Multidimensional Data, Multifields, and Uncertainty - Perception, Quality, and Scalability - Text, Annotation, and Coding - Volume Visualization *Venue+Travel <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/venue>* The venue for IEEE PacificVis 2017 is Hoam Faculty House <http://www.hoam.ac.kr/eng/>. The link above provides the transportation and accessibility of Hoam Faculty House. Hoam Faculty House is our main venue and we recommend it for your stay during PacificVis. We also curated the list of recommended accommodations. *Keep in touch with our Official Website <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/>, Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/pacificvis>, and Twitter Account <https://twitter.com/pacificvis>!* *Hope to See you in IEEE PacificVis 2017, Seoul!*

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CDVE2017 full paper deadline approaching - April 1, 2017
by cdve .org 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

*Call for papers - The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering* Sept. 17-20, 2017, Mallorca, Spain – www.cdve.org *Full Paper* - 8 pages (you do not have to submit an abstract for submitting a full paper) Submission deadline: April 1, 2017 Notification of acceptance May 20, 2017 *Short paper *- 4 pages Submission deadline: April 20, 2017. Notification of acceptance May 20, 2017 *Where to submit*: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2017 *How to submit*: See http://www.cdve.org/submit.html The conference proceedings of CDVE2017 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. Past journals include Concurrent Engineering, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Symmetry etc. *Paper topics*: See http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for details. Mallorca is the home of the conference, a famous European vacation resort. We look forward to seeing you in Mallorca, Spain! -- The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Sept. 17-20, 2016, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2017(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Call for Posters (EuroVis)
by Tobias Isenberg 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Call for EuroVis 2017 Posters ============================= URL: http://eurovis2017.virvig.es/index.php/for-submitters/posters The posters track of the 2017 European Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) will present late-breaking results, work in progress, and follow-up extensions or evaluations of existing methods. In particular, it provides young researchers, especially postgraduate students, with valuable opportunities to receive feedback from other researchers and engage in stimulating discussions. A EuroVis poster may describe a piece of work in any aspect of visualization. For directly submitted posters, we particularly encourage summary reports of collaborative projects, work in progress, and application case studies. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: April 7, 2017 Notification deadline: April 21, 2017 Camera-ready deadline: April 28, 2017 Conference: June, 12-16 Submission ---------- We solicit poster submissions in the form of a sketch (i.e., an extended abstract of at most 2 pages in the EuroVis poster format, with an additional page allowed for references only; download the LaTeX2e template here). Please make sure that an image embedded in your abstract or poster does not contain transparent pixels (i.e., an alpha channel of a transparent color) because this may lead to problems when the resulting PDF is displayed or printed. The poster draft can be added as additional material but is not mandatory for the submission. Submissions can also include supplementary material such as videos or executable programs, up to a limit of 50MB for the entire submission, including the PDF files. We encourage the use of digital videos to support poster submissions, particularly if part of, or all of the work covers interactive techniques. Please use only the most common video codecs such as MP4 to maximize the chances that the reviewers can view it. You also need to provide a complete list of authors when submitting your poster so that members of the program committee can avoid conflicts of interest during reviewer assignment. All authors must be specified in the submission system at the time of the submission. Posters are to be submitted using the PCS submission system at https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/. The posters will be peer-reviewed in a one-stage single-blind process. We expect that the submissions will clearly discuss novel and significant contributions. The reviewing will be based primarily on the sketch content but will consider other materials if provided. Poster presentation ------------------- Accepted poster will be presented at the poster session of the conference. The final posters should be printed on paper no larger than paper size A0 portrait (84.1 cm x 118.9 cm = 33.1 in x 46.8 in, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size) At least one author of an accepted poster must register for and attend the conference to present the work. Authors will also be required to present a brief half-minute summary of their talk at the opening fast-forward session. Poster/abstract publication --------------------------- Both a PDF version of the poster and the extended abstract will be included on the conference USB stick and also in the EG digital library with a DOI. However, publication in the EG digital library can be omitted on request. Traditionally, the material in a poster/sketch can later be reused by the original authors for a more extensive publication (e.g., a full paper) with more detailed content and mature results. This should not be considered self-plagiarism. However, as posters/sketches are citable, researchers are encouraged to acknowledge novel ideas and results presented in posters/sketches. More Information ---------------- For any questions concerning poster submissions please contact the co-chairs: Anna Puig Puig, University of Barcelona Tobias Isenberg, Inria e-mail: ev2017-poster(a)cs.upc.edu URL: http://eurovis2017.virvig.es/index.php/for-submitters/posters

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Fwd: Research Assistant/Intern - Visualisations of Impact and Differences for Multi-version Dependency Data
by Tony Huang 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Research Assistant position: Visualisations of Impact and Differences for Multi-version Dependency Data Oracle Labs, Australia offers a six-month, full-time internship in the Program Analysis group, starting within the June to November 2017 timeframe. Frappe is a code-comprehension tool that helps developers understand and navigate dependencies in their code. It allows the impact of code changes to be determined by executing queries on a graph of code dependencies. The current version of Frappe's UI displays a single version of code as a visual representation of that code. The aim of this project is to explore, design and develop extensions to the Frappe UI to show impact and difference for multi-version dependency data. Oracle Labs Australia is passionate about improving the quality of software and the productivity of developers. We research and develop new techniques in program analysis as it applies to a variety of domains, including bug-checking, security analysis, cyber security, productivity tools, testing, and more. We are best known for our research on static-code analysis that led to scalable and precise bug-checking algorithms embedded in the Oracle Parfait tool. For more information, visit http://labs.oracle.com/locatio ns/australia Oracle internships give students valuable industry experience and the chance to work on cutting-edge research projects with real-world applications. Students also have the chance to explore Brisbane and discover its many treasures. Supervisor: David Meibusch David is a member of the Frappe project at Oracle Labs, Brisbane. He has a Bachelor of Computer Science and a Bachelor of Computing Systems Engineering from the University of Queensland (UQ). About this position Duties You will: * work independently, with guidance form your supervisor, to explore, design and develop extensions to the Frappe web UI to show impact and difference for multi-version dependency data * meet with your supervisor regularly for guidance and discussion about ways to solve the problem * attend team meetings and give updates on your work * present your findings and outcomes to the group. Prerequisites You will be expected to: * be enrolled in a Masters degree or an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering * have experience with a JavaScript UI framework * have a keen interest in data visualisation * demonstrate ability to work independently and collaboratively. Benefits * These positions are paid at current industry rates. * Travel and visa costs for overseas applicants will be reimbursed. * Ongoing learning is fundamental to our daily work to keep us at the cutting edge. * International speakers visit and present their research to us. Apply here, please include all academic transcripts in your application: https://oracle.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=17000674&lang=en For general questions about the position, contact Juliette Hatton ( juliette.hatton(a)oracle.com) *Dr Weidong (Tony) Huang* Senior Lecturer School of Engineering and ICT | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology University of Tasmania Locked Bag 1359 Launceston TAS 7250 T +61 3 6324 3404 <+61%203%206324%203404> | F +61 3 6324 3368 <+61%203%206324%203368> H: http://web.it.usyd.edu.au/~whua5569/

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Reminder: BioVis - CfP for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB, Prague, Czech Republic
by Jillian Aurisano 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

This is a reminder of the call for participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2017 July 24, 2017 Prague, Czech Republic 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/2017/cfp_ismb/ Full Papers ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a full paper to the BioVis Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in BMC Bioinformatics ( https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/, impact factor 2.4) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: April 13, 2017 Highlight Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts highlighting previously published work. Accepted highlight talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 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: May 15, 2017 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2017

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Call for Papers: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2017
by Fabrizio Frati 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email =========================================================================== Call for Papers GD 2017 25th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 25-27, 2017 - Boston, MA, U.S.A. http://graphdrawing.org/gd2017 =========================================================================== PDF version: https://gd2017.ccis.northeastern.edu/files/2017/02/GD2017-CFP.pdf =========================================================================== Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, Web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security and software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2017 will take place September 25-27, 2017 at the Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. PAPERS ------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks. Papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects ---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): • Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms • Geometric graph theory • Geometric computing • Planarity and topological graph theory • Optimization on graphs Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects ----------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such as the development of network visualization systems and interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): • Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications, including big data • Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems • Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms • Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems and user interfaces • Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction • Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs Short papers ------------ In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate category for short papers, describing theoretical or applied contributions of shorter length. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. Demos ----- Authors of applied papers will have the opportunity to show a demo of their software/system during the poster session. Submission format ----------------- All submissions must be formatted using the LaTeX style file for the conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. The default margins and fonts must not be modified; in particular, the use of packages such as times.sty is not allowed. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The length of regular papers is limited to 12 pages (excluding references), while the length of short papers is limited to 6 pages (excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fully substantiated, including full proofs or appropriate experimental data. If this information does not fit within the page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. POSTERS ------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract (up to 2 pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted together with the poster itself. CONTEST ------- Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference will be provided on the conference Web site. PUBLICATION ----------- All accepted papers (including the two-page poster abstracts) will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Twelve pages (excluding references) will be allocated for regular papers and six pages (excluding references) for short papers. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of an identical copy of the LNCS proceedings plus an optional clearly marked appendix, possibly containing a long version of the entire paper or proofs that have been omitted from the main text. Subsequent submissions of different versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv ``replacements’’) are allowed. Upon submission of the camera-ready version of an accepted paper, the authors will be required to specify the arXiv identifier associated with the paper for inclusion in a conference index, which will be also published in the ArXiv repository. Failure to comply with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper. Each paper must be presented at the conference by an author (baring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). The authors of the best paper in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended and enhanced version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). AWARDS ------ For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2017 will give a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2017 attendees. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- • Paper submission deadline: June 11 (23:59 PDT) – Updates possible until June 13 (23:59 PDT) • Notification of paper acceptance: July 28 • Poster submission deadline August 17 (23:59 PDT) • Notification of poster acceptance August 28 • Final versions due September 3 • Contest submission deadline September 13 • Symposium September 25-27 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Timothy M. Chan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA TBA PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Daniel Archambault, Swansea University, GB Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh, GB Fabian Beck, Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE Michael Bekos, Universität Tübingen, DE Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo, CA Giordano Da Lozzo, UC Irvine, US Vida Dujmovic, University of Ottawa, CA Stephane Durocher, University of Manitoba, CA Tim Dwyer, Monash University, AU Fabrizio Frati (co-chair), Università Roma Tre, IT Martin Gronemann, Universität zu Köln, DE John Alexis Guerra Gómez, Universidad de los Andes, CO Michael Hoffmann, ETH Zürich, CH Yifan Hu, Yahoo Research, US Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University, JP Anna Lubiw, University of Waterloo, CA Kwan-Liu Ma (co-chair), UC Davis, US Fabrizio Montecchiani, Università degli Studi di Perugia, IT Martin Nöllenburg, Technische Universität Wien, AT Arnaud Sallaberry, LIRMM, FR Andrew Suk, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Antonios Symvonis, National Technical University of Athens, GR Ioannis Tollis, University of Crete, GR Csaba Tóth, California State University Northridge, US Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, DE Jian Zhao, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, US ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Cody Dunne (co-chair), Northeastern University, US Alan Keahey (co-chair), Conversant, US CONTEST COMMITTEE ----------------- Philipp Kindermann, Universität Würzburg, DE Maarten Löffler (chair), Utrecht University, NL Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE

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[Call for Papers] FGCS Special Issue on Advanced Technologies and Systems for collaboration
by Keqin Wu - NOAA Affiliate 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

*Call for Papers* *Future Generation Computer Systems* *The International Journal of eScience* *Special Issue on “Advanced Technologies and Systems for collaboration**”* *Abstract Submission Deadline: **March 15, 2017* *Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: **April 24, 2017* *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* The high development of Web technologies, pervasive and ubiquitous systems and networks, highly distributed computing systems, and the availability of massive amounts of data have been changing the field of computer supported collaboration, particularly with the emergence of new capabilities and forms of collaboration, as well as new challenges and issues. The organizers of the International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS) are pleased to announce a special journal issue that will be published in *Future Generation Computer Systems (**https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/>**)*. This special issue seeks contributions from academia, industry and governmental research labs on a broad spectrum of methodologies and technologies, including ethnographically-based or field-based experiences, that relate to cooperation, coordination, communication, and collaboration at both the client and backend (cloud) levels. It invites contributions aimed at a wide range of topics such as sensors, people, clouds, robots and social networks, e-learning, e-business, e-health, emergency response, knowledge management, decision making and support, global grids, multi-agent systems, trust and cyber security, mobile clients, Web 2.0, virtual environments, visualization, ubiquitous collaboration, user interfaces and related human and socio-technical collaboration issues that will provide a big picture of present and future trends in collaboration in the “internet era.” *Topics of interest include but are not limited to:* • Frameworks and Methodologies for Collaboration • Collaboration Enabling Technologies • Architectures & Design of Collaboration Systems • Platforms, Artifacts and Tools for Collaboration • Coordination and Cooperation Mechanisms • Interfaces for Collaborative Work • Intelligent, Autonomous and Multi Agents in Collaboration • Collaborative Enterprise Security & Access Control • Role-based Models and Solutions • Simulation of Collaboration Systems • Cognitive and Psychological Issues in Collaboration • Virtual Communities and Communities of Practice • Group Characteristics and Social Factors • Distributed Team Management and Issues • Distributed Shared Design and Development • Ontologies and Ethnographic Approaches • Human-machine Collaboration and Interaction • Awareness in Collaboration Systems • Contextual and Situation-based Collaboration • Visualization of Collaborative Processes & Applications • Privacy-preserving Collaboration • Grid and Cloud-based Collaboration Environments • Web Infrastructure for Collaborative Applications • Service Oriented Architectures for Collaboration • Social Multimedia and Social Networks • Mobile and Wireless Collaboration Systems • Collaborative & Trustworthy Sensor Systems • Socio-Technical Information Spaces • Information Sharing, Exchange and Fusion in Collaborative Environments • Collaborative Knowledge Management • Collaborative Decision Making and Support • Security in Untrusted & Adversarial Collaborative Environments and Systems • Business Networking • Workflows in Collaborative Operations & Systems • Shared Virtual Reality and Applications • Collaborative Machines and Robots • Collaborative Learning and e-Science, Crowd Science • Collaborative Open Innovation • Collaboration and Shared Planning and Logistics • Tele- and Collaborative Medicine and Healthcare • Collaboration in Emergency Management and Response *PAPER SUBMISSIONS* Interested authors should send a *one- to two-page abstract* with title, authors, affiliations, emails and contact information, and a statement of their intent to submit a new manuscript or an extended version of their CTS paper to this special issue by the due date. In case of an extended version, please indicate clearly where the original work was published or presented. The abstract should be sent as an email attachment to the Special Issue Guest Editors using the email *cts16si(a)gmail.com <cts16si(a)gmail.com>*, by *March 15, 2017*. Guest Editors replies to authors will be sent by *March 23, 2017**. *Only manuscripts of approved abstracts will be considered. The submitted papers must be original and must not be under consideration in any other venue. This Special Issue is open to all potential contributors on the topics listed above. We additionally invite contributors of the 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems to submit an extended version of their work. In this case, there must be sufficient difference between work previously reported in conference paper and the version submitted to the Journal for the two works to be seen as separate works. As a rule of thumb, the journal version must be updated by 30% or more (e.g., extended methodology, more research results, new figures and or tables, etc.) and, hence, have a new title. Papers must be submitted via *https://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/ <https://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/>*. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages in length (12 point single space, single-column, inclusive of figures and tables) and must be prepared for publication according to the journal’s instructions *https://www.elsevier.com/journals/future-generation-computer-systems/0167-739X/guide-for-authors <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/future-generation-computer-systems/0167-7…>* . Authors are recommended to use the Elsevier LaTeX class ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle) to prepare the manuscript. The number of pages of the submitted paper should be related to the content of the paper: superfluous material is to be avoided. Submitted papers will receive thorough reviews and evaluation. Papers will be selected based on their originality, contributions, technical clarity and presentation, language, significance to the readership of the Journal, relevance to the special issue, and quality and significance of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusions. *Important Dates:* Abstract Submission deadline: ------------------------------- March 15, 2017 Guest Editors Reply: ------------------------------------------ March 23, 2017 Paper submission due ------------------------------------------April 24, 2017 Completion of first round of reviews: ----------------------- July 23, 2017 Revised first round manuscript due: ------------------------ August 23, 2017 Completion of second round of reviews: ------------------- October 22, 2017 Revised second round manuscript: -------------------------- November 21, 2017 Final decision notification: ----------------------------------- December 15, 2017 Final version of the manuscript due: ------------------------ December 30, 2017 Expected publication date ----------------------------------- Spring 2018 (tentative) *Guest Editors:* Domenico Potena, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, d.potena(a)univpm.it Konstantinos Papangelis, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, PRC, k.papangelis(a)xjtlu.edu.cn and k.papangelis(a)liverpool.ac.uk Waleed W. Smari, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Ohio, USA, smari(a)arys.org Emanuele Storti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, e.storti(a)univpm.it Keqin Wu, IMSG group at NOAA, Maryland, USA, Keqin.Wu(a)noaa.gov If you have any questions about abstract and paper submission or the special issue, please contact the Guest Editors to *cts16si(a)gmail.c <cts16si(a)gmail.com>**om*

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Reminder Job: (+) Junior Research Position (PhD candidate) and (+) Post-Doctoral Researcher in Visual Analytics/Information Visualization, TU Wien [DL: March 3, 2017]
by Miksch Silvia 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Reminder: Application deadline: March 3, 2017 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien): Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) ======================================================= We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD candidate and Post-doctoral scientist in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction Design in Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST)[3], which is established at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems [2], Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) [1], Vienna, Austria. RESPONSIBILITIES The successful applicant will - perform interdisciplinary research and develop concepts in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction Design together with leading experts from the Music and Arts University of The City of Vienna (MUK) within the research project “Interactive Music Mapping Vienna: Exploring a City, 1945 up to the present day“ [1] - design new techniques and implement interactive prototypes - write scientific publications - review scientific publications - participate in applied scientific and consulting projects - participate in writing research proposals - work within a creative, highly motivated, and international team - (to a smaller extent) participate in teaching and supervision of student projects and theses REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS - University degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics/Information Systems, or an equivalent university-level degree that qualifies to enroll as a Ph.D. student - Strong analytical skills and good skills in programming (preferably R, Phython, C++, Java, JavaScript, or similar) - Knowledge or interest in one or more of the following: Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Mining, Data Quality and Uncertainty - Abilities to work as an independent and flexible researcher in interdisciplinary teams - Good knowledge of German and English in speaking and writing DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS Knowledge or interest in one or more of the following: - Visual Analytics applied to relational, geospatial, temporal, and nominal textual data, (dynamic) network analysis and visualization, visualization of relationship graphs and clusters of actors, events, and other observations, temporal uncertainty, data quality, interaction and navigation techniques as well as multiple coordinated views - (for international applicants) Basic proficiency in German DATES & DETAILS - Application deadline: as soon as possible, but not later than March 3, 2017 - Start date: as early as possible (negotiable) - Duration: 3 years (extendable) - Working Hours: (+) Junior Research Position (30 hours/week extendable) and (+) Post-Doctoral Researcher (20 hours/week extendable) - Salary: following the guidelines of the collective agreement (KV) of the TU Wien. Currently, starting with a gross salary of 2.731,00 per month (38.234,00 per year). for more information (in German): http://www.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/t/pers1/downloads/Personalkostensaetze_20… APPLICATION AND CONTACT If you have any questions, please contact Univ.-Prof. Silvia Miksch: miksch(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Univ.-Prof. SILVIA MIKSCH, Ph.D Vienna University of Technology Faculty of Informatics Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS) Head of Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe email: miksch(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at url: www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia phone: +43-1-58801-18824 phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801 fax: +43-1-58801-18899 Please send your application (with the usual documents including a statement of interest (motivation letter), full CV, list of subjects taken at university plus grades, publications, etc.) by email with the subject “CVAST Junior Research Position” or “CVAST Post-Doctoral Researcher” to Theresia Gschwandtner (gschwandtner(a)cvast.tuwien.ac.at) The Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) aims for enhancing the number of women in scientific positions and, therefore, particularly invites women to apply. We encourage sending your application in electronic form. Applicants are not entitled to claim reimbursement of traveling expenses and/or other costs caused by the application procedures. MORE INFO [1] Vienna University of Technology: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/ [2] Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS): http://www.isis.tuwien.ac.at/ [3] CVAST (Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology): http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/ [4] Information Visualization: http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php?title=Information_Visualization [5] “Interactive Music Mapping Vienna: Exploring a City, 1945 up to the present day“ http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/IMMV The project’s focus is the valorisation and the mediation of the capabilities of music as an urban identification tool. The interaction between music and urban texture (identity, political symbolism, mental determination, imagination) should be made accessible to academic and to a wide audience through interactive Visual Analytic Technologies.

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VINCI' 2017 Call for Paper
by Yina Li 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

VINCI 2017 The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 August 2017 vinci-conf.org Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. Visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and mobile devices. The Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) (vinci-conf.org) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI'17) will be held during 14-16 August 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to submit revised versions of their works to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier, SCI indexed). In addition, revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press, AHCI indexed). ——————————— 1. SCOPES AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, or other media. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Empirical studies of novel visual metaphor Visual interaction through multimodality Visual approaches for knowledge discovery Computational aesthetics Visual analytics Graph drawing and (multivariate) network visualization Information visualization Graphical user interface design Aesthetics in visual communication Influence of visual arts and design Visual modeling languages and UML Visual communication metaphors Visual programming languages Visualization on mobile devices Applications like SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, ... Sketching Human-computer interaction 2. PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstrations on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. Each submitted symposium paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three International Program Committee members. All accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings of VINCI 2017 published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier; SCI indexed). In addition, it is planned that revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for the subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press; AHCI indexed). Research papers and experience reports of up to eight (8), short papers of up tofour (4), and tool demonstrations or posters of up to two (2) ACM double-column pages should be submitted through easychair.org. The review process will be single-blind. We appreciate the submission of videos or other supplemental material. Please provide a URL at the end of the submitted paper to enable the reviewers the download of your additional material. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found at the end of this page. 3. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS VINCI'17 is also soliciting proposals for full-day or half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Proposals should not be longer than a maximum of 2 pages. In particular, workshop proposals should include: The title and a brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest in these times, and the main research areas involved. Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s) and previous experience in chairing scientific events. A tentative list of program committee members. Intended length (half or full day) and a draft of the Call for Papers. It is expected that the workshop organizers will setup an own workshop web page as soon as the workshop proposal has been accepted. Tutorials usually attract a broad range of audiences, including professionals, researchers, students, or practitioners, who wish to enhance their knowledge in the specific tutorial topic. Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in visual information communication and interaction. Tutorial proposals should include short biographies of the proposers, a draft of the tutorial content, intended length, and evidence of the possibility of attracting audience to the tutorial. It is possible to extend the symposium by one day in case many workshops or tutorials are proposed and accepted. Detailed information on the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals can be found at the end of this page. 4. SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PANELS We also invite special session and panel proposals for VINCI'17. Proposals for special sessions and panels should include the title, aim and scope, the names and affiliations of the organizers together with a short biography. A list of potential contributors or panel members would be surely helpful too. The proposers are expected to have a good publication track record and excellent standing in the proposed area. Papers submitted to special sessions should be done through the VINCI'17 EasyChair submission system. The paper types are identical to those of regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the special session organizers to make sure that papers submitted to their special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers (however chaired by the special session organizers) and will appear in the VINCI'17 conference proceedings as well. The symposium chairs reserve the right to move accepted papers for a special session into a regular session in case the special session has finally less than four papers. In this case, the special session will be cancelled. 5. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel proposals due: still open Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel decision and notification: within one week after submission Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2017 (23:59 PST) Notification of decision: May 01, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: June 01, 2017 6. ORGANIZATION General Chair Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau, Macau Program Chairs Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu, Japan Jie Li, Tianjin University, China Local Chair Vithida Chongsuphajaisiddhi, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Finance Chair Vajirasak Vanijja, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Publicity Chair Yi-Na Li Texas A&M University, USA 7. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Tentative) Wolfgang Aigner Benjamin Bach Tomasz Bednarz Rita Borgo Paolo Bottoni Paul Bourke Stephen Brooks Michael Burch Antonio Camurri Daniel Cernea Jian Chen Wei Chen Gennaro Costagliola Achim Ebert Mai Elshehaly Camilla Forsell Vittorio Fuccella Philip Galanter Liang Gou Denis Gracanin Ira Greenberg Theresia Gschwandtner Masahito Hirakawa Seok-Hee Hong Weidong Huang Xiaodi Huang Takayuki Itoh Andreas Kerren Karsten Klein Jun Kong Robert S. Laramee Zhanping Liu Aidong Lu Kresimir Matkovic John McGhee Kazuo Misue Q. Vinh Nguyen Margit Pohl Francois Poulet Raimondo Schettini Maximilian Schich Kamran Sedig Guanglei Song Arcot Sowmya Changming Sun Shigeo Takahashi Ioannis G. Tollis Cagatay Turkay Chris Muelder Andrew Vande Moere Gualtiero Volpe Sai-Keung Wong Hsiang-Yun Wu Yingcai Wu Kai Xu Yu-Bin Yang Ye Zhao Jianlong Zhou Hong Zhou

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internship opportunities at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge
by Daniele Quercia 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Dear all, The Social Dynamics team at Cambridge (UK) is looking for summer interns to work on the following internship projects (also available on http://researchswinger.org/hiring.html) 1. Urban Emotions and Touchy Maps - Enrolled in Phd in Computer Vision/Multimedia, Experience with deep learning for image analysis and with large-scale multimedia retrieval and processing 2. Visual Psychology - BSc or above in Computer Science, Interaction Design, or related fields; experience in designing Facebook apps, client (HTML5, Javascript) and server side development 3. Familiar Strangers - Enrolled in MSc/PhD in computer vision. Experience with face recognition and deep learning 4. Social Vitality of Cities - BSc or above in Computer Science or related fields. Experience with web data collection from API and scraping, GIS tools, and python development. Basic network analysis knowledge. 4. The Nature of Social Ties - Enrolled in MSc/PhD in Computational Social Science or Social Psychology; experience in designing Facebook apps and in running crowdsourcing experiments. To learn more about our research, please check our sites - researchswinger.org, lajello.com, visionresearchwitch.com, and goodcitylife.org If you would like to apply, please send me your CV by *March 6th*. 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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