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Job opportunity for infovis request mailing list
by Tim Dwyer 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Dear Infovis, Please post the following message to the infovis request mailing list: Professor/Associate Professor of Immersive Visualisation http://www.jobs-monash.jxt.net.au/academic-jobs/professor-associate-profess… The University Monash University seeks to improve the human condition by advancing knowledge and fostering creativity. It does so through research and education and a commitment to social justice, human rights and a sustainable environment. The Opportunity The Faculty of Information Technology has a track record of internationally renowned research into information visualisation. An exciting opportunity exists for a talented individual with outstanding research experience in data visualisation to steer the future direction of Immersive Visualisation research at Monash. Applicants should have an outstanding track record in the use of immersive visualisation technologies in scientific or geographic visualisation, virtual or augmented reality, or computer-mediated collaboration. The appointee will have access to visualisation facilities that are among the best in the world including the Monash $1.8M CAVE2 immersive visualisation facility https://monash.edu/mivp This challenging senior position requires someone capable of: leading innovative and transformative Immersive Analytics research initiatives raising the profile of Immersive Visualisation within the University building a strong and cohesive multi-disciplinary group that fosters collaboration supporting the development and teaching of data visualisation in undergraduate and postgraduate Data Science degrees dynamically engaging with industry, government and community organisations, including academic and professional societies. Duration The appointment will be on a continuing basis at a level appropriate to the successful candidate's qualifications and experience. The Benefits Remuneration package $153,526 - $169,132 pa Level D / $197,762 pa Level E (includes 17% employer superannuation). Relocation travel, removal allowance and salary packaging are available. Monash offers a range of professional development programs, support for research, study and overseas work, generous maternity leave and flexible work arrangements. Confidential enquiries regarding the position may be made to Professor Kim Marriott, Faculty of IT, Monash University, +61 3 9905 5525 Applications are due August 28, -- Dr Tim Dwyer BSc BCS(Hons) PhD http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/~dwyer Senior Lecturer and Larkins Fellow Caulfield School of Information Technology Monash University, Victoria, Australia Office Address: Building H, 6.36, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Rd Caulfield East Mobile: 0481 240 767 (from overseas: +61 481 240 767) Postal Address: Faculty of Information Technology PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia

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CFP 9th Forum Media Technology 2016, DL: Sept 2, 2016
by Aigner Wolfgang 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: September 2nd, 2016) Apologies if you receive this more than once. ========================================================== CFP: 9th Forum Media Technology 2016 St. Pölten, Austria 23-24 November, 2016 http://fmt.fhstp.ac.at Submission address: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2016/ Contact: forummedientechnik(a)fhstp.ac.at ========================================================== Audiovisual, interactive and mobile media interweave with our everyday life. In almost all our areas of life, they change our behavior and affect our perception, thinking and feeling. The Forum Media Technology (FMT) aims for an intensive dialogue of experts working at agencies, studios and production companies with students, lecturers, researchers and developers. Contributions are sought for the 9th Forum Media Technology, presenting current results of applied research and development, new theoretical and scientific findings or case studies, projects, formats, services and prototypes in digital media technologies. In order to foster the exchange between various disciplines in the huge field of digital media, the Forum Media Technology intentionally puts its focus on a wide range of content and on interdisciplinary dialogues at the intersection of new technological possibilities, creative design as well as economic, social and cultural framework requirements. We invite submissions which address one of the topics of the conference (see more details in the attached PDF): - High Dynamic Range Video Production, Postproduction and Technologies - Innovative Audio - New Applications for Music, Sound Design and Sonic Interaction - Mobile Design / Development / Trust / Privacy / Learning - Digital Media Experience (Game Design, Serious Games, Experience Design) - Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis - Multimedia Modelling and Retrieval - Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage - Smart Engineering and Industrial Internet - Ambient Assisted Living and Digital Healthcare - Content Development and Production - Technology-based Business Models - New Forms of Media Use and their Analysis PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the above or closely related topics. Please submit your paper electronically at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FMT2016/. Contributions can be submitted in German or English. FMT welcomes submissions in three different submission categories: - Full Paper: Full papers should report substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research. The maximum length is 8 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. Accepted full papers will be presented as a talk of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion. - Short Paper: Short papers are appropriate for reporting smaller experiments, surveys, and work in progress. The maximum length is 4 pages excluding references in the FMT conference paper format. Accepted short papers will be presented as a talk of 10 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion. - Graduate Consortium: The FMT 2016 Graduate Consortium session is intended to provide an opportunity for graduate and doctoral students to explore, discuss and develop their research topic in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers. We invite students to apply for this unique opportunity to share their work with colleagues and researchers in the field. Candidates for the Graduate Consortium should have a clear topic and research approach. Their work should be still in progress and allow for making changes, so that applicants can benefit from the consortium’s feedback. Accepted proposals will be presented in a one-minute elevator statement to the audience and then discussed in detail in smaller individual discussion groups. A template for full and short papers is available here: http://bit.ly/fmt2016template IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Submission of short and full papers September 2, 2016 Submission of graduate consortium papers November 2, 2016 Notification of acceptance (short and full papers) October 7, 2016 Notification of acceptance (graduate consortium) November 11 2016 Camera-ready submission October 21, 2016 9th Forum Media Technology 2016 23-24 November, 2016 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Wolfang Aigner, Kerstin Blumenstein, Michael Iber, Grischa Schmiedl, Matthias Zeppelzauer. LOCATION: St. Pölten, Austria (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, http://www.fhstp.ac.at) Situated 60 km to the west of Vienna in Austria’s oldest baroque town, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1996 and is an expanding institution of higher education. -- WOLFGANG AiGNER Scientific Director Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies (IC\M/T) Department Media & Digital Technologies St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Matthias Corvinus Strasse 15, 3100 St. Poelten, Austria wolfgang.aigner(a)fhstp.ac.at +43 (0) 2742 313 228 - 611 http://mc.fhstp.ac.at/people/wolfgang-aigner @wolfgangaigner FN 146616m, LG St. Pölten, DVR 1028669F

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VL/HCC 2016 Call for Participation – early registration deadline 31st July 2016
by Alessio Malizia 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================ *IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing* September 4–7, 2016 Cambridge, UK * Early registration deadline 31st July 2016 * *www.vlhcc.org* >From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. We will hold the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing September 4-7, 2016 in Cambridge, UK at the St Catharine's College<http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/>. VL/HCC 2016 will present two keynote addresses by prominent speakers and a selection of technical research papers and short papers about emerging topics in visual languages and human-centric computing. See the programme at the conference website (https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2016/keynotes) The event will also feature a graduate consortium and will be co-located with PPIG 2016: The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * David Dernie, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster, UK * Michael Kölling, Professor at the School of Computing, University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK VENUE The city of Cambridge, an hour by train from London, is one of the leading technology innovation centres in Europe. Its vibrant cultural and business environment has developed around the 800 year-old university and medieval city centre. Cambridge is the bicycling capital of the UK, with a wide range of science museums, art galleries and historic churches distributed among the tourist attractions of the scenic parks and river. Cambridge has been a regional market town for 2000 years, and still has a traditional market square at the centre of a charming district that mixes pedestrian precincts with student accommodation, university departments and fashionable shopping. The venue for all conference sessions will be St Catharine’s College, which is located next to King’s College in the historic centre of Cambridge. The college provides on-site accommodation, with the major attractions of the city only a 1-2 minute walk from the front gate. Like most Cambridge Colleges, St Catharine’s provides modern conference facilities in a scenic and historic setting. For further details see http://vlhcc.org/attending REGISTRATION The registration is open now at https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/vlhcc-and-ppig-2016. Early registration with reduced fees ends on July 31st, 2016. ORGANIZATION General Chair Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge, UK Program Chairs Gem Stapleton - University of Brighton, UK Beryl Plimmer - University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) Publicity Chair Alessio Malizia - Brunel University London, UK Finance Chair Peter Rodgers - University of Kent, UK Graduate Consortium Chair Anita Sarma - Oregon State University, USA Showpieces Chair Advait Sarkar - University of Cambridge, UK Publications Chair Peter Chapman - University of Brighton, UK Social Media Chair Scott Fleming - University of Memphis, US Program Committee Robin Abraham - Microsoft Corporation Paolo Bottoni - Sapienza University of Rome Peter Chapman - Edinburgh Napier University Gennaro Costagliola - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno Jacome Cunha - Universidade Nova de Lisboa & HASLab/INESC TEC Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa - PUC-Rio Gregor Engels - University of Paderborn Claudia Ermel - Technische Universität Berlin Martin Erwig - Oregon State University Joao Paulo Fernandes - University of Beira Interior Andrew Fish - University of Brighton Scott Fleming - University of Memphis Judith Good - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology Felienne Hermans - Delft University of Technology John Hosking - University of Auckland John Howse - University of Brighton Caitlin Kelleher - Washington University in St. Louis Sandeep Kuttal - University of Tulsa Edward Lank - University of Waterloo Thomas D. Latoza - George Mason University Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University Chris Parnin - NCSU Alexander Repenning - University of Colorado Peter Rodgers - University of Kent Joao Saraiva - Universidade do Minho Anita Sarma - Oregon State University Stefan Sauer - University of Paderborn, s-lab - Software Quality Lab Christopher Scaffidi - Oregon State University T. Metin Sezgin - Koc University Simone Stumpf - City University London Steven Tanimoto - University of Washington Franklyn Turbak - Wellesley College Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain Eric Walkingshaw - Oregon State University Steering Committee Paolo Bottoni - Universita de Roma - Sapienza, Italy Gennaro Costagliola - Università di Salerno, Italy Martin Erwig - Oregon State University, USA Andrew Fish - University of Brighton, UK John Grundy - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Howse - University of Brighton, UK Eileen Kraemer - Clemson University, USA Mark Minas - Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Brad Myers - Carnegie Mellon University, USA For further information, please visit the conference website at http://vlhcc.org/ We all look forward to welcoming you at VL/HCC 2016 in Cambridge, UK! Alessio Malizia Dr. Senior Lecturer T +44 (0) 1895 266282 Connect with me on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook Human Centred Design Institute (HCDI) and College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences Department of Computer Science Brunel University London St John’s Building, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH www.brunel.ac.uk<http://www.brunel.ac.uk> Connect with the University on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook

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Open Registration for BPViz'16
by Byrd, Vetria L 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Open Registration for BPViz'16 August 3 - 4, 2016 Registration for BPViz'16: Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop is now open. Persons interested in attending as a self-funded participant are encouraged to register. There are a few slots still available. Registration fee of $175.00 covers attendance, meals provided during the workshop (August 3-4, 2016), travel to and from NCSA on August 4, 2016, and conference materials. Registrations will be accepted until all slots are filled. For more information visit https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/bpviz/register For questions contact Vetria Byrd at vlbyrd(a)purdue.edu<mailto:vlbyrd@purdue.edu>

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NSF & Popular Science: VIZZIES Visualization Challenge; entries due Sept 15, 2016 (U.S. only)
by Zemankova, Maria 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

The Vizzies competition aims to recognize some of the most illustrative and impactful visualizations from the worlds of science and engineering. See: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=139150&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.m… Vizzies entries are accepted in one or more of five categories: Photography, Video, Illustration, Posters & Graphics and Interactive. The Experts' Choice winner in each category will be awarded $2,500, and the People's Choice winner in each category will be awarded $500. Entries due date: Sept. 15, 2016, 11:59 p.m. PST via https://app.wizehive.com/apps/nsfvizzies2016 Note: Team leads must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents. Monetary prizes will be distributed to team leads. All entrants must be at least 18 years of age. Expert judges appointed by NSF and Popular Science will select a winner (Experts' Choice) in each of the five categories. People's Choice winners will be determined by public votes. Contest winners will be announced in February 2017, and will be featured in the March issue of Popular Science, on popsci.com and nsf.gov/news/Vizzies. To learn more about the competition -- including rules and regulations -- and submit your scientific visualization, visit the Vizzies website: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/ If you have questions, please contact vizzies(a)nsf.gov . For last year's winners, please see: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2016.jsp NOTE: NSF previously cosponsored the competition with AAAS journal Science. The competition was formerly named the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (SciVis).

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VizSec 2016 Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

The 13th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity 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 Baltimore, MD, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS. The purpose of VizSec is to explore 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, practical experience, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to 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. *** New for 2016! *** Case Studies ---------------------------------- 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. Submissions ----------- Submissions must be formated using the IEEE VGTC 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 using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2016 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. Case Studies Case studies should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Case study submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s) and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community. Accepted case study authors will have time to present their work at VizSec during the program. Accepted case studies will be made available on this website. Extended abstract for posters 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. When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are 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 VAST Challenge data sets. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers and Case Studies August 1, 2016 Submission for Papers and Case Studies September 5, 2016 Author Notification for Papers and Case Studies October 3, 2016 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters September 19, 2016 Abstract Submission for Posters September 30, 2016 Author Notification for Posters

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IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016
by Wong, Pak C 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Call for Participation (CFP) The IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016 http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/viscontest/2016/ Contest Theme: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics Collaborator and Support: ACT, Inc. DEADLINE: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is sponsoring its third International Data Visualization Contest to recognize outstanding design in visualization and visual analytics from around the world. The 2016 contest theme is "Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics." The contest will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and in collaboration with ACT, Inc. (ACT is a non-profit organization in the education readiness assessment sector.) The awards will be announced at the IEEE VPG Reception to be held at the IEEE VIS 2016 conference. You are not required to attend either the VIS 2016 conference or the VPG reception to participate in the contest. Contest Challenge: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics ACT operates nearly 9,000 testing centers annually to deliver The ACT Assessment to over two million high school students on six different Saturdays each year as part of its open, "National" program. Use of the test data by schools and government agencies has grown significantly in recent years. This growth is increasing the demands on the ACT network and test seat availability. Thus, ACT seeks to use data to carefully mange its system and its operating costs. The 2016 challenge is to develop a visual representation of how changes in availability of an ACT product (i.e., an assessment test) in a geographic area or as part of a distribution network can affect nearby or adjacent distribution sites by moving students or assessments, changing dates, or some other strategy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * How does the introduction of a new delivery location affect existing delivery? * How does the addition or subtraction of a distribution site affect demand in neighboring sites? * How do proximity and availability affect participation in the assessment by geographic region? * What is the optimal Test Center Network for each season by geographic region? * What geographic areas are at risk of under or over utilization? * How can derived measures like Market Saturation, Percent Utilization, and Cost per Unit be aggregated and visualized at local, regional and national levels? Eligibility All visualization and visual analytics designers, developers, researchers, and practitioners from business, academia, and government sectors around the world are eligible to participate. Submissions cannot promote a commercial product. Submission Limitation Contestants may be lead author on no more than three submissions to the 2016 contest. They may be a co-author of any number of submissions. Submission Deadline Contest packets must be received by 5 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 to qualify for the 2016 contest. Selection Procedure Five distinguished IEEE VPG members chosen jointly by the VGTC and VPC chairs will review the contest submissions thoroughly and assess the top contest winners. The chair of the selection committee will submit the committee's recommendation to the IEEE VGTC chair by Friday, Oct 14, 2016. Contest Award IEEE VGTC will award a certificate to the best submission in each of the following five categories: 1. Overall Excellence 2. Originality 3. Appropriateness 4. Understandability 5. Communication Impact Submissions will be considered in all categories and may win more than one award. Winners in all categories may have a chance to see their visualization work: 1. Being applied to ACT's data analysis, product development, and/or marketing/promotional efforts 2. Appear on a cover of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) in 2017. IEEE CG&A will make the final determination about publishing. Submission Details The 2016 contest accepts only static visualizations in the form of an image. Contest participants should email the submission package to ieeevpg(a)googlegroups.com. The package must include: 1. A pdf file that contains: a. Title of the data-visualization contest submission b. Name, affiliation, email address, and postal address of the participant c. A maximum of 300 word description of the visualization written in English 2. A static visualization figure in jpg or png format. The size of the total submission package must be less than 10MB. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org.

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*Deadline Extension* Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 2016 (July 24)
by Karsten Klein 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Apologies for cross posting ========================================================== Due to the change in location to Sydney, we are extending the deadline for the 2nd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA). THE EXTENDED DEADLINE for BDVA 2016: July 24, 2016 See the call for papers below. ========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) 22-25th November 2016, Sydney, Australia (Note that the venue has changed since the 1st CfP, see below) ========================================================== In the last decade Big Data Analytics has become a major decision support factor in industry and government organisations. Visual Analytics is the enabling science for effective exploration of big data through meaningful visualisations and interactive user interfaces. Understanding the multidisciplinary nature, including user querying, powerful analytics, machine learning, visualisation, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, is critical for Visual Analytics to be effectively deployed. ---- BDVA16 ---- The symposium will be held in Sydney, Australia, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) North Ryde site. BDVA16 will host an exciting programme with internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and a day of complementary hands-on workshops. BDVA16 aims to: - bring together leading experts from all relevant scientific domains to advance the understanding of visual analytics of complex, big, and dynamic data; - provide an exciting venue for researchers to network and establish national and international collaborations; - and provide early career scientists with an inspiring event allowing them to connect to relevant experts in the field. SCOPE The symposium will accept a range of manuscript types, including methods, systems, applications, evaluation techniques and theoretical work in the area of Visual Analytics. The scientific scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: - Visual Analytics of High-dimensional and Spatio-temporal Data - Scientific and Information Visualisation - Machine Learning and Data Mining for Big Data Visual Analytics - Visual Representation and Interaction - Perception and Cognition of Visual Information - Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data - Context-driven User Querying and Semantics-driven Visual Analytics - Evaluation Methods for Visual Analytics - Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations - High Performance Graphics for Visualisation - Advanced Technologies and Applications for Visual Analytics - Virtual and Augmented Reality for Visual Analytics - Art and Science for Visual Analytics - Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation - Visual Analysis of Large and Complex Networks - Visual Analytics Processes and Workflows - Simulation for Visual Analytics FURTHER INFORMATION BDVA website: www.bdva.net Email BDVA16 enquiries to: info(a)bdva.net IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: 24th July Notification of acceptance: 31st August Camera ready submission: 15th September Poster submission: 31st October Poster notification: 5th November GENERAL CHAIRS Tomasz Bednarz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Quang Vinh Nguyen (Western Sydney University, Australia) Ulrich Engelke (CSIRO, Australia) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany) TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany) Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany)

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VINCI 2016 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION====================== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016)(vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016========================================VINCI ’16 features high profile keynote speeches, state-of-the art technical sessions and entertaining social programs, which will surely be interesting and beneficial to our participants (detailed programs can be found on vinci-conf.org) 1. KEYNOTES =========== Keynote Speech 1: TITLE: Beyond the Two Cultures: A Crisis in Representation Prof. Malina Roger (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Abstract: As an astrophysicist, I have spent my career bathing in astronomical data, the data world is as real to me as the sensory physical world. Yet we are still in the stone age of representing digital data in forms that we can understand and feel. Three years ago I started the UT Dallas ArtSciLab where artists and scientists work side by side making trouble with data. I will present our work with neuroscientists, astronomers and geoscientists and also talk about the new born digital hybrids whose existence gives the lie to the very concept of C P Snow’s Two Cultures. Short Bio: Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, an art-science researcher, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair Professor, and Professor of Physics, at UT Dallas. He obtained his B.S. in physics from MIT in 1972, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. Founded the ArtSciLab which hosts projects which involve collaboration between artists and scientists, resulting in art works, scientific data exploration tools, and public engagement activities involving the integration of the arts, design and humanities in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEAM). Malina is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. "Laser d’or" Prize, from the International Video Art Organization. Keynote Speech 2: TITLE: Visual Analytics and the VAST Challenges: this year’s Challenge and a retrospective look at an influential international competition Prof. Georges Grinstein (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Abstract: The VAST Challenges are a decade old and have had large international participation. The challenge data sets are mostly synthetic with embedded ground truth and participants are asked stop solve a particular problem, which in many cases involves discovering that ground truth, which in turns makes it easier to objectively evaluate submissions. But submissions are also evaluated several other ways. I will discuss several key problems in Visual Analytics, provide examples of how the VAST Challenges were developed as an attack on these problems, and show award winning solutions. I will also discuss the importance of open source tools in solving these problems. Short Bio: Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was head of its Bioinformatics Program, Director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and is now Chief Scientific Officer of Weave Visual Analytics. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978. His work is broad and interdisciplinary, covering the perceptual and cognitive foundations of visualization, very high-dimensional data visualization, visual analytics and applications. The emphasis is on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information data and systems. He has over 40 years in academia with extensive consulting, over 300 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, a book on interactive data visualization, founded several companies, been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. He has given numerous keynotes and mentored over 40 doctoral students and hundreds of graduate students. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies and commercial organizations. For the last ten years he has co-chaired the IEEE VAST Challenges in visual analytics leading to new research areas. He has developed and taught new courses, one of which Radical Design focused on how to develop radical new products instead of evolutionary ones. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence CCICADA (Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis), and directs the development of Weave, an open source web-based interactive collaborative visual analytics system incorporating numerous innovations. 2. PANEL ========Facilitating Visualization Capacity Building Organizers: Vetria L. Byrd (Purdue University) and Joseph A. Cottam (CREST/Indiana University) Panel Members: TBA Visualization plays an important role in discovery and insight. As a tool, visualization is often times utilized as a light in a sea of data providing insight to large, complex datasets. The scientific community and society at large are the beneficiaries of the utility visualization brings. As more and more data is created and consumed persons with knowledge of the visualization process, applications, methods and techniques will continue to be in demand in all fields with data visualization needs. The purposes of this panel are two-fold: (1) to discuss the need for facilitating visualization capacity building: incorporating visualization early and often into computing and other educational programs to equip students with transferrable skillsets that are in demand in the global workforce and (2) to facilitate a discussion on what knowledge base is needed to build and strengthen visualization capacity of users in visualization application domains. 3. ACCEPTED PAPERS AND POSTERS ============================== Full Papers: Visual Analysis of User-Driven Association Rule Mining Hui Lei, Cong Xie, Pingping Shang, Fan Zhang, Wei Chen and Qunsheng Peng Supporting Collaborative Political Decision Making - An Interactive Policy Process Visualization System Tobias Ruppert, Andreas Bannach, Jürgen Bernard, Hendrik Lücke-Tieke, Alex Ulmer and Jörn Kohlhammer Enhancing Infographics Based on Symmetry Saliency Kouhei Yasuda, Shigeo Takahashi and Hsiang-Yun Wu A User Study on Judging the Target Node in Partial Link Drawings Michael Burch, Rudolf Netzel, Marcel Hlawatsch and Daniel Weiskopf The Dynamic Call Graph Matrix Michael Burch Adaptively Tiled Image Mosaics Utilizing Measures of Color and Region Entropy Lina Zhang, Kwan-Liu Ma and Jinhui Yu BranchingSets: Interactively Visualizing Categories on Node-Link Diagrams Francesco Paduano, Ronak Etemadpour and Angus Forbes Visibility Widgets: Managing Occlusion of Quantitative Data in 3D Terrain Visualization Martin Röhlig and Heidrun Schumann Generation of Miro’s Surrealism Lu Xiong and Kang Zhang Eliciting Tacit Expertise in 3D Volume Segmentation Ruth West, Cindy Grimm, Max Parola, Meghan Kajihara, Anahita Sanandaji, Jeremy Deutsch, Luke Hillard, Brandon Lane, Kathryn Hays and Anne Carlew A Comparative Study on Inter-Device Interaction: One-Handed Interaction VS Two-Handed Interaction Zheng Huang, Jed Limke and Jun Kong What Makes You Think This Is a Map? Suggestions for Creating Map-like Visualisations Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai and Muye Yang How People Deploy Dimensional Information to Estimate Relative Values Yina Li and Dong-Jin Li A Guided Tour of Literature Review: Facilitating Academic Paper Reading with Narrative Visualization Yun Wang, Dongyu Liu, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo and Huamin Qu Deep Exploration of Multidimensional Data with Linkable Scatterplots Quang Vinh Nguyen, Simeon Simoff, Yu Qian and Maolin Huang Short Papers: IDSPlanet: A Novel Radial Visualization of Intrusion Detection Alerts Yang Shi, Yaoxue Zhang, Fangfang Zhou, Ying Zhao, Guojun Wang, Ronghua Shi and Xing Liang Spatio-temporal Visual Information for Human Action Recognition Li Yao and Weixin Xu Bus Lines Explorer: Interactive Exploration of Public Transportation Data Rainer Splechtna, Alexandra Diehl, Mai El-Shehaly, Claudio Delrieux, Denis Gracanin and Kresimir Matkovic Do Defaults Matter? Evaluating the Effect of Defaults on User Preference for Multi-Class Scatterplots Casey Haber, Lyndon Ong Yiu, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Spatiotemporal Analytics of Topic Trajectory Jiangen He and Chaomei Chen A Hybrid Approach for Event Social Influence Visualization Wenqian Ji, Yan Tang, Pengju Ma, Shijie Tang, Zhipeng Fang, Xuan Li and Tianjian Chen Posters: EduVis: Visualization for Education Knowledge Graph Based on Web Data Kai Sun, Yuhua Liu, Zongchao Guo and Changbo Wang Visualizing Time-Variant Sets on a Handheld Device Iliesa S. K. Delai, Meilan Jin and Geoffrey M. Draper Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional YouTube Data Using the GPLOM Technique Seimei Matsusaki, Xi Han, Alark Joshi and Sophie Engle Visual Communication Power Construction and Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tobacco Control Advertising Qian Wang and Bing Xiao The Effect of Color on Short-term Memory in Information Visualization Kang Xin Design for the future: Incorporating Cradle to Cradle Design into our street Yinan Li and Jian Wang Understanding Contagion Dynamics in Networked Populations Through Data Exploration and Visualization Sherif Abdelhamid, Chris Kuhlman, Madhav Marathe and S. S. Ravi SeaCove: accessing SEmAntic COVErage of queries for improved user experience when searching the web Haolin Ren, Guy Melançon, Benjamin Renoust and Marie-Luce Viaud VolSelectAware: Visual-Cognition Coupled Non-Visual Data-Driven Volume Selection for Immersive Scientific Visualizations Daniel Wilches and Amy Banic Performance Histogram Curve: Abstractive Visualization and Analysis of NBA Games Biao Zhu and Wei Chen 6. ORGANIZATION=============== GENERAL CHAIR:Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM CHAIR:Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden PUBLICITY CHAIR: Jie Li, Tianjin University, China PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kostiantyn Kucher, Linnaeus University, Sweden LOCAL ORGANZATION CHAIR: Pushpa Kumar, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA FINANCE CHAIR: Jey Veerasamy, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wolfgang, Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau Rita Borgo, Swansea University Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa Daniel Cernea, AGT International Jian Chen, University of Maryland Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Camilla Forsell, Linköpings Universitet Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University Liang Gou, IBM Research - Almaden Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University Theresia Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Karsten Klein, Monash University Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, University of Rennes 1 - IRISA Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Maximilian Schich, The University of Texas at Dallas Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven 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 Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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Deadline Extended (July 30): Visual Analytics for Streaming Data (VASD)
by Whiting, Mark A 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

*** Deadline Extended to July 30 *** Call for Contributions Visual Analytics for Streaming Data (VASD) A Special Session in Conjunction with VISUAL 2016, The First International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/VISUAL16.html November 13 - 17, 2016 - Barcelona, Spain Content In this special session we will look at the issues associated with visual analytics for streaming data from several perspectives. When we characterize data streams we see features such as differing volumes, differing velocities (data delivered over unit time periods), multiple data types in a stream, multiple streams that are related but unintegrated, streams with data gaps, and streams with data whose content or context changes over time. Current visualization tools and techniques are often anchored to static repositories. Yet streams are dynamic, which means that the way data is input, manipulated, visualized, analyzed and iterated over must change from our usual approaches. Submissions may present concepts, state of the art research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, or industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished contributions, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following topic areas (and we are not limited to these topics): - Specialized visualizations for streaming data environments - "User on the loop" and "user in the loop" visualizations - Streaming data visual analytics environments - Change detection in data streams - Situation awareness - Multi-type data streams visualization - Visualizing patterns in data streams - Visualization and stream mining - Adaptive visualization techniques Contribution deadlines: Submission deadline: July 30 Acceptance notification: August 30 Registration deadline: September 15 Camera-ready deadline: September 30 Please send submissions to: Mark A. Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA mark.a.whiting(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:mark.a.whiting@pnnl.gov> Contribution types Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] Posters: slides only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org<http://www.iaria.org>] Presentations: slides only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org<http://www.iaria.org>] Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org<http://www.iaria.org>] Paper Format See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CfPVISUAL16.html Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html Publications Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Registration Each accepted contribution needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html Inquiries Chair: Mark A. Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA mark.a.whiting(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:mark.a.whiting@pnnl.gov> Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org<mailto:steve@iaria.org>

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