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Paper Submission Deadline Extended to April 28
by Yina Li 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

============================================================ VINCI 2017 The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 August 2017 Paper submission deadline 28 April 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 SCOPES AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual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. KEYNOTE SPEECH Keynote speech 1 Learning through Overcoming Inconsistencies, Prof. Du Zhang, (Macau University of Science and Technology) Du Zhang is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees, both in computer science, from the University of Illinois and Nanjing University, China, respectively. Previously he was a Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at California State University, Sacramento. He has research affiliations with numerous universities in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China, Czech Republic, and Mexico. Professor Zhang's current research interests include machine learning (inconsistency-induced perpetual learning), knowledge-based systems, big data analytics, and software engineering. He has over 200 publications in these and other areas. He has served in various roles on numerous international conferences, and is editor or editorial board member for several journals in the areas of artificial intelligence, software engineering and knowledge engineering, big data, and applied mathematics. Professor Zhang is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM, a board member of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration, and a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Phi Beta Delta. Keynote speech 2 Michael CohenSpatial Media and Visualization, Prof. Michael Cohen (University of Aizu, Japan) Michael Cohen received an Sc.B. in EE from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) in 1980, M.S. in CS from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1988, and Ph.D. in EECS from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in 1991. He has worked at the Air Force Geophysics Lab (Hanscom Field, Massachusetts), Weizmann Institute (Rehovot; Israel), Teradyne (Boston, Massachusetts), BBN (Cambridge, Massachusetts and Stuttgart; Germany), Bellcore (Morristown and Red Bank, New Jersey), the Human Interface Technology Lab (Seattle, Washington), and the Audio Media Research Group at the NTT Human Interface Lab (Musashino and Yokosuka; Japan). He is currently a Professor in the Human Interface Lab at the University of Aizu (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan). He has research interests in user interfaces for telecommunications, groupware and CSCW (computer-supported collaborative work), stereotelephonics, digital typography and electronic publishing, hypermedia, ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) and virtual reality. Besides teaching various undergraduate courses including Information Theory, he co-teaches graduate-level courses in Acoustic Modeling, and Computer Music. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, 3D-Forum, TUG (TeX Users Group), and VRSJ (Virtual Reality Society of Japan). 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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: April 28, 2017 (23:59 PST) Notification of decision: May 19, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: June 01, 2017 7. 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 8. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Benjamin Bach, Harvard University Rita Borgo, King's College London Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Vetria Byrd, Purdue University Daniel Cernea, AGT International Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Liang Gou, Visa Research Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Jiquan Han, Huawei Technologies Jiangen He, Drexel University Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Zhipeng Liu, Huawei Technologies Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Patrick Pang, The University of Melbourne Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, IRISA Martin R?hlig, University of Rostock Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Gualtiero Volpe, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu, Keio University Jie Wu, Tongji University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, CSIRO Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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Reminder: BioVis full paper deadline April 13
by Julian Heinrich 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

This is a reminder of the upcoming paper deadline on April 13 for the 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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VizSec 2017 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

The 14th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Phoenix, AZ, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Monday, October 2nd, 2017. VizSec explores effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Technical Papers Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. Submissions including tests and evaluations of existing tools and techniques are also considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VizSec Data Sets page. Short Papers Short papers describing practical applications of security visualization are solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community, are encouraged to submit case studies. Posters Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on the VizSec website. Submissions The VizSec 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE "Conference Style" template that can be found at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submit papers and poster abstracts: Link coming soon. Papers ------ Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The VizSec proceedings will be published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Short Papers ------------ Short papers should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Short paper submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted short paper authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. Posters Extended abstract should be at most 2 pages including the bibliography. Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Poster Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mm x 1189mm or 33.1" x 46.8"). Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. Papers and Case Studies - August 8, 2017 Submission for Papers and Case Studies - September 5, 2017 Author Notification for Papers and Case Studies - October 3, 2017 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters - September 19, 2017 Abstract Submission for Posters - September 30, 2017 Author Notification for Posters

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CFP: Visual Analytics in Healthcare Workshop at IEEE VIS 2017 (Upcoming Deadline: May 1, 2017)
by Visual Analytics Healthcare 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2017, Oct 1st or Oct 2nd, Phoenix, Arizona) Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org *** Paper Submissions due May 1st, 2017 *** CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------- The 2017 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2017) is the eighth annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art data visualization techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the annual workshop is to bring together medical experts, leading scientists, and visionaries to discuss visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data and discuss the areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visualization and visual data mining communities. The workshop will allow participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of healthcare-related data through podium, posters, or demo presentations as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software applications, and datasets. In years past, demos of prototype and/or production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters should also consider submitting a companion demo proposal. During the last seven years the Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) has been organized and hosted annually. The VAHC workshop has been hosted four times at the IEEE VIS conference (2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015) and three times at the AMIA Annual Symposium (2013, 2014, and 2016). This year the VAHC 2017 workshop is held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS conference in Phoenix, Arizona. For information about all previous VAHC events and to access the open-access proceedings from each of the previous workshops, please see http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------ We will welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of a variety of users, including clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, pharmaco-vigilance experts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, insurance claim analysts, and patients. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Visualization of Public Health Data * Visualization of patient-generated health data * Design principles of Dashboards for Public Health Surveillance programs * Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical data * Visual data mining of EMRs * Visualization of prescriptions drug-drug interactions * Improving hospital and operating room (OR) workflow with visual analytics * Outcome forecasting or prediction * Visual analytics for patient safety * Pandemic forecasting and tracking * Visual analytics in radiology * Visual analytics in the emergency department (ED) * Improving patient understanding and/or physician-patient communication with visual analytics * Visual Analytics as a means for knowledge discovery * Human Computer Interaction of EHRs PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES: --------------------------------------- We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academic, healthcare organizations, and industry that addresses any of the topics listed above. Submissions can be for (1) paper / podium presentations, (2) poster presentations, or (3) live & interactive demonstrations. - Paper: Papers are limited to eight pages. Accepted papers will be published on the IEEE Xplore digital library and the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. - Poster: Poster abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted posters will be included in the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. - Demo: Demonstration abstract submissions are limited to two pages. Accepted demonstration abstracts will be included in the USB proceedings drive of the IEEE VIS conference. All material should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS). Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Deadline for submission: May 1st, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Jun 19th, 2017 † Camera-ready papers due: July 6th, 2017 VAHC 2017 workshop: October 1st or Oct 2nd, 2017 (to be determined by VIS 2017) JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: ---------------------- Visit www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org to join our mailing list. NEWS: ----- Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2016) are now available at http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org/proceedings.html ORGANIZERS: ---------------- Jurgen Bernard - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (juergen.bernard at gris.tu-darmstadt.de) Jesus J Caban - NICoE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Theresia Gschwandtner - Vienna University of Technology (gschwandtner at cvast.tuwien.ac.at) Jeremy Warner - Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN (USA)

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Fully-funded PhD Studentship opportunity at giCentre, City, University of London
by Aidan Slingsby 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Our school is offering a limited number of fully-funded PhD studentships. These provide an excellent opportunity to study for a PhD at the giCentre, starting in October. We are currently looking for candidates who are interested in topics related data visualisation. We have a list of suggested PhD topics (https://www.gicentre.net/phd-topics) but you may also propose your own if it fits within our areas of expertise. If you are interested, please email us on gicentre(a)city.ac.uk, either indicating which proposal interests you or giving us your own specific ideas. You'll need to contact us well in advance of the deadline of 19th May. More details are here: https://www.gicentre.net/ We look forward to following this up with some of you. Please email gicentre(a)city.ac.uk if you're interested in any of these opportunities.

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Conversant is Hiring for Data Visusalization
by Alan Keahey 08 Apr '17

08 Apr '17

Conversant is hiring for data visualization positions ranging from intern to director level. Conversant is a $2.5 billion digital marketing company with headquarters in Chicago and 1,500 employees. We are among the leaders in the digital marketing space for depth and breadth of customer reach, based on our sophisticated analytics platform that is at the core of our offering. As part of our Analytics – Data Visualization team, you will create innovative visualization systems that demonstrate the business value of Conversant’s digital marketing platform directly to our customers and stakeholders. Our visualization challenges span hundreds of millions of detailed profiles across hundreds of millions of web sites and apps tied together by sophisticated real-time analytics that make near instantaneous decisions on messaging to those profiles billions of times a day. This provides an incredibly rich environment of business questions and answers that are hidden within petabytes of data. You will be a key team member creating effective visualization tools that use the data to answer those questions in an engaging, intuitive and informative manner. This is a multi-faceted effort involving an array of visualization tools such as D3.js, WebGL, Three.js, Tableau and more. We are looking for strong candidates with extensive experience in visualization programming and algorithms who can push the boundary beyond conventional charting. Our team works closely with business and analytics units across the company, and provides everything from business-specific dashboards to advanced R&D prototypes. As a member of this team you will have an opportunity to have a broad impact on the company, as well as to dive deep into technical areas. Full position descriptions and application links are below. Please apply directly at the provided links. Director of Data Visualization https://alliancedata.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=0085397&lang… Data Visualization Scientist https://alliancedata.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=0085395&lang… Data Visualization Intern https://alliancedata.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=0085477&lang…

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CDVE2017 short paper deadline approaching
by cdve .org 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

*Short paper deadline approaching - The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering* Sept. 17-20, 2017, Mallorca, Spain – www.cdve.org This is to remind you that the full paper deadline of CDVE2017 is approaching soon - April 20. *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 All the requirement is the same as full papers except that the paper should be limited to 4 pages. If accepted, it will be published in our proceedings and has the chance to be presented in the conference orally. The contents should concentrate on the intermediate results of a project. 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. Please feel free to forward this cfp. 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 Papers - Vis in Practice 2017: Visualization Solutions in the Wild
by Oelke, Daniela 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

VIP Vis in Practice 2017 http://visinpractice.org/ Visualization Solutions in the Wild The 2017 Workshop on Visualization in Practice (VIP) is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying the latest visualization and visual analytics research to real world problems. VIP targets work at the interface between visualization research and specific application domains. It is highly interdisciplinary and focused on delivering actual value to users. This year, we specifically focus on visualization solutions in the wild, i.e. on tools, systems, or frameworks which are actively used. The workshop will cover all aspects from their initial conception and design, the process of getting them into use, and the long-term work of extending and sustaining them. The 2017 VIP workshop will be held on Monday 2nd October in conjunction with IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org> in Phoenix, Arizona (October 1-6). Topics Vis in Practice is a forum for vis practitioners and application-oriented researchers to exchange ideas about the use of state-of-the-art visualization and visual analytics methods on real world problems. This year, we are looking for descriptions of visualization solutions that have proven their benefit in a real-world application setting. Successful submissions will put a strong focus on demonstrating practical impact in a variety of ways, including but not limited to: * User Involvement. The goal of a practical visualization solution should be to address a specific visualization and/or problem posed by a prospective user group, oftentimes experts from other domains. Interaction with users is tricky; they frame their analysis problem in their own terms, which are often nontrivial for visualization experts to understand, and they may find it hard to gauge how their work can benefit from state-of-the-art visualization methods. This leads to interesting questions: * How do we involve users throughout the development? How can we understand their problem domains? * How do we communicate the added value of modern visualization approaches? * Can we identify best practices that transcend specific applications? * Application-driven Design. Generally, no uniquely defined, "correct" approach exists for any given visualization problem. Developing a working solution requires identifying viable options, weighing them, and eventually selecting a small subset. To this end, authors might answer these questions: * What process did you follow to design your solution? Did you use specific visualization methodologies or visualization-theoretic models? * What design decisions did you face? What options did you consider? How did you make a selection? * How did your solution improve the existing situation? * Systems Aspects. Oftentimes, solutions will be a large system rather than a one-method, fire-and-forget approach. Such systems generally require a lot of infrastructure building, a major development effort in its own right. * How can we manage this extra effort? * How can we make solutions sustainable? * Should we consider an open, community-based development approach? * Knowledge Transfer. Practical visualization solutions will by definition live on the interface between visualization research and a specific application domain. Their development will be driven by an exchange of knowledge across this interface. * What does it take to transfer an existing visualization method from a lab setting to a specific application problem? What pitfalls might we encounter? How can we overcome them? * What parts of the problem remain challenging? * Are there open problems that warrant more attention by the visualization research community? Although we do not expect individual submissions to cover all of these aspects, successful papers will feature a strong take-home message for a visualization-centric audience. We ask authors to contribute something beyond a "user manual" for a solution targeting a narrow application use case. Submission We solicit submissions of extended abstracts of up to four pages excluding references. Submissions should be prepared according to the IEEE conference paper format guidelines (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) Optionally, you may submit a video (MPEG, AVI, or Quicktime format, duration at most 5 minutes) showing your application or methods in action. This will be most helpful for demonstrating the effectiveness of your approach. If you would like to have your video included in the conference USB stick, it should not exceed 100MB. Abstracts will be reviewed for their potential applicability to the VIP workshop audience and their potential impact on the visualization community at large. Additionally, they will be reviewed for timeliness, clarity, and overall quality of writing. Note that research novelty is explicitly not the primary criterion for evaluation at the VIP workshop. Based on the outcome of the review process, authors of successful submissions will be invited to either present their work in a talk during the Vis in Practice workshop on October 2 or to prepare a poster for the VIP poster session, which will be held along with the VIS main poster session on October 4. All submissions for the 2017 Workshop on Visualization in Practice should be submitted via the Precision Conference System. Submissions must be received on or before June 16, 2017 to be considered. In order to maintain interactive and exciting presentations and posters, we require that at least one presenter per accepted submission attend the workshop. Important Dates Submission Deadline: Friday June 16, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: Friday July 14, 2017 Final Submission (Camera-ready): Wednesday July 26, 2017 Workshop presentations: Monday October 2, 2017 Workshop poster session: Wednesday October 4, 2017 All deadlines are at 5:00pm Pacific Time (PDT). If you have questions about this workshop or requests for help with submission problems please contact the chairs at vip(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vip@ieeevis.org>.

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CDVE2017 full paper deadline apporaching
by cdve .org 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

*Full paper deadline approaching - The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering* Sept. 17-20, 2017, Mallorca, Spain – www.cdve.org This is to remind you that the full paper deadline of CDVE2017 is approaching soon - April 1. *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. Please feel free to forward this cfp. 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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Biological Visualisation Network AGM
by Kennedy, Jessie 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, The Biological Visualisation Community's 3rd BiVi Annual Meeting takes place in Edinburgh on 20th-21st April 2017. This two day meeting comprises one day with 3 keynote talks, 7 talks on biological data visualisation as well as opportunities for lightning talks, posters and demos, with a second day of hands on training workshops. The talks and training include visualisation across the whole spectrum of biological data types from ‘omic sequence based data through cells and tissues to whole organism physiology. This is a meeting of interest to anybody working in biomedical science as well as developers of visualisation techniques. The keynote speakers are: - Jean-luc Doumont: The Three Laws of Communication - Marc Streit: From Visual Exploration of Biomedical Data to Storytelling and Back Again - Bang Wong: Art and Science: A partnership catalyzing discovery in biomedicine Registration (includes the evening meal) is £50 and student bursaries are available. More details at http://bivi.co/event/3rd-bivi-annual-meeting. Please forward this announcement to your colleagues. Looking forward to seeing you in Edinburgh, BiVi Organising Committee Contact:info@bivi.co<mailto:info@bivi.co> http://bivi.co<http://bivi.co/> ---------- About BiVi The Biological Visualisation Network, BiVi provides a forum for dissemination, training and discussion for life-scientists to discover and promote complex data visualisation ideas and solutions. BiVi, funded by the BBSRC, is a central resource for information on bio-visualisation and is supplemented with annual meetings for networking and educational purposes, focussed around emerging trends in visualisation and challenges facing biology. This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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