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CFP: Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis at SPECOM 2017
by Andreas Kerren 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

******************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS ******************************************************************** The exploitation of natural language from social media data is an intriguing task in the fields of text mining and natural language processing (NLP), with plenty of applications in social sciences and social media analytics. In this special session, we call for research papers in the broader field of NLP techniques for social media analysis. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): sentiment analysis in social media and beyond (e.g., stance identification, sarcasm detection, opinion mining), computational sociolinguistics (e.g., identification of demographic information such as gender, age), and NLP tools for social media mining (e.g., topic modeling for social media data, text categorization and clustering for social media, social media visual analytics). https://sites.google.com/site/specom2017/special-sessions ORGANIZERS The special session is organized by: • Vasiliki Simaki (Lund University, Sweden) • Carita Paradis (Lund University, Sweden) • Fragkiskos D. Malliaros (UC San Diego, USA) • Andreas Kerren (Linnaeus University, Sweden) • Michalis Vazirgiannis (École Polytechnique, France) CONTACT Vasiliki Simaki, vasiliki.simaki(a)englund.lu.se Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, fmalliaros(a)ucsd.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2017 PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2017. IMPORTANT DATES April 06, 2017 ............ Submission of full papers (no extension will be given) May 15, 2017 ............ Notification of acceptance May 26, 2017 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration Sept. 12-16, 2017 ......... Conference dates VENUE The special session will be organized in at the campus of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, alongside with the main conference. ************************************************************* SPECOM-2017 - 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer ************************************************************* Venue: Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, September 12-16, 2017 WWW: http://specom.nw.ru

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VINCI' 2017 Call for Paper - Paper submission deadline extended to
by Yina Li 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

VINCI 2017 The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 August 2017 Paper submission deadline extended to 9 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 9, 2017 (23:59 PST) Notification of decision: May 01, 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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AIMaViG 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics (AIMaViG’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aimavig2017(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMaViG’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The main objective of AIMaViG’17 is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and developers to present and discuss the latest advances of artificial intelligence in the context of machine vision and computer graphics. The workshop covers the whole range of AI-based theories, algorithms, technologies and systems for diversified and heterogeneous areas of vision and graphics. TOPICS ======================================= The topics and areas include but are not limited to: - image processing - scene analysis, modeling, and understanding - machine vision - pattern matching and pattern recognition - image synthesis, including three-dimensional imaging and solid modeling - computer-aided graphic arts and animation - mathematical approaches to image processing, analysis, and synthesis - computational geometry - image models and transforms - visualization and graphical data presentation - diagrammatic knowledge representation and reasoning - monocular and stereo vision - modeling of human visual perception - innovative uses of various graphic and vision devices and systems PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Kwaśnicka, Halina, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Śluzek, Andrzej, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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[Reminder] IEEE PacificVis 2017 - Early Bird Registration by March 17 & Program Schedule Update
by GuHyun Han 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

*Summary* - *Early bird registration <http://www.cvent.com/events/2017-ieee-pacific-visualization-symposium-pacif…>* *ends on **March 17!* - *Program <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs> updates - Time table* - Visit our *Offical website* <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/> to acess additional Information - Keep in touch with our *Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/pacificvis>, and Twitter Account <https://twitter.com/pacificvis>!* *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. *Program Updates <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs>* We've updated the time schedule of each session. Visit program page and plan what to attend! *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!* *P.S. * *In the previous announcement, there was a spelling error on the name of keynote speaker.* *"Prof. David Ebert" is correct. (not Elbert)* *Sorry for the mistake.*

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WSCG2017-REMINDER-March 20, 2017 - Graphics, Vision, Visualization
by Vaclav Skala 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Sent via: infovis(a)infovis.org >> Deadline FINAL REMINDER << Call for Papers WSCG 2017 -------- 25. Anniversary Conference WSCG ----------- ------------ Submission EXTENDED to March 20, 2017 -------------- 25. WSCG Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision May 29 - June 2, 2017 http://www.wscg.cz http://www.wscg.eu - Venue: Primavera hotel & Congress Center, http://www.primaverahotel.cz/ Pilsen [Plzen] (City of Beer) close to Prague [Praha], Czech Republic =================================================== Main topics (but not limited to – see WEB for details) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modeling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modeling, shape analysis & modeling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems, related applications and other related topics. WSCG Conference Co-Chair ------------------------------ Paul Bourke, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Important dates (see WEB for details) -------------------------------------------- - Paper submission (EXTENDED): March 20, 2017 - Acceptance notification (approx.): April 20, 2017 - Final version submission (approx.): April 30, 2017 (including REBUTAL) Willing to help us as a reviewer (PhD is required): ------------------------------------------------------------- Please, send your Last name; First name; @mail address; URL of your research publication page to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz – SUBJ: WSCG-Reviewing - your help is highly appreciated PUBLICATIONS ---------------------- All submitted papers will be anonymously reviewed by external reviewers (“extended abstract” type submissions will be desk-top rejected). Accepted and presented papers will be published in: - Journal of WSCG (the best selected papers only) ISSN 1213-6972 (print), ISSN 1213-6980 (CD-ROM) - Computer Science Research Notes series (conference proceedings) CSRN 27xx, ISSN 2464-4617 (print), ISSN 2464-4625 (CD-ROM) Journal of WSCG and ALL proceedings published will also be available via WEB with ACCESS FREE => FAST research results dissemination! Recent publications are available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm (OPEN access – available ALL papers since 1992) The Journal of WSCG and CSRN proceedings will be sent for indexing to Scopus, ISI/Thomson Reuters, IEE, Elsevier's Engineering Information (EI) and other reputable indexing services. Associated "sub-events" (part of the WSCG) --------------------------------------- - GraVisMa - Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Computational Mathematics 2017, http://www.GraVisMa.eu - HCI-Europe - Human Computer Interfaces 2017, http://www.HCI-Europe.eu Contact ----------- Prof. Vaclav Skala (Conference Organizer & Co-Chair) skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz mail subject WSCG2017 c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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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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