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Final Call for Posters: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2016
by Sven Linker 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. We invite submissions to the poster session. DEADLINE: Poster Submission: March 24th, 2016 Furthermore, we can announce the good news that one of the Keynotes will be given by Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016 Graph-based Modeling of Conceptual Structures ******************************************************************************************** 5th to 7th July, 2016, Annecy, France Conference web site:www.irit.fr/ICCS2016/ Co-located: 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2016 ******************************************************************************************** The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science. The ICCS conferences evolved from a series of seven annual workshops on conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F. Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) paradigms are getting more and more attention. The aim of the ICCS 2016 conference is to build upon its long standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based systems. ICCS 2016 will be co-located with FOIS 2016, held in Annecy, in the Polytech building at the campus of the University of Savoie. The conference welcomes contributions that address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph Databases, Diagrams, etc.) from a modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint: - Modelling results will investigate concrete real world needs for graph-based representation, how certain use cases are of interest to the graph community, how using graphs can bring added (business) value, what kind of graph representation is needed for a given case, etc. - Technical results will include fundamental graph theory based results for novel structures for representation, extensions of existing structures for added expressivity, conciseness, optimisation algorithms for reasoning, reasoning explanation, etc. - Papers reporting on application experience will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the graph-based proposed solutions in the context of the use case studied with respect to other possible solutions. The main research topics are: - Knowledge Management, - Knowledge Architectures, - Reasoning under Inconsistency, - Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty, - Contextual Logic, - Constraint Satisfaction, - Decision Making, - Argumentation, - Ontologies, - Semantic Web, - Web of Data, - Web 2.0, - Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition, - Data Mining, - Text Mining, - Natural Language Processing, - Linguistics, - Metaphoric, Cultural or Semiotic Considerations, - Resource Allocation and Agreement Technologies. Submission Information We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages and posters of up to three pages. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by January 28, 2016, with full papers being due on February 4, 2016. Posters do not require advanced abstract submission and should be submitted by March 24, 2016. Papers and posters must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style guidelines and not exceed the page limit. The submission is to be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs20161 All paper submissions will be refereed and authors will have the opportunity to respond to reviewers’ comments during the rebuttal phase. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Poster submissions will also be refereed but will not be included in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register for the conference and present the paper or poster there. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP. Important Dates For Papers Abstract Submission: February 4th, 2016 (Revised!) Paper Submission: February 11th, 2016 (Revised!) Initial Paper Reviews Sent: March 14th, 2016 Rebuttals Due: March 18th, 2016 Notification of Paper Acceptance: March 24th, 2016 Camera Ready Paper: April 8th, 2016 Important Dates For Posters Poster Submission: March 24th, 2016 Notification of Poster Acceptance: April 15th, 2016 Organisers General Chair Ollivier Haemmerlé, Université Toulouse 2, France Program Chairs Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Catherine Faron-Zucker, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Program Committee Bernd Amann, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France Dan Corbett, Optimodal Technologies, DC, USA Olivier Corby, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerrannée, France Madalina Croitoru, Université Montpellier II, France Cornelius Croitoru, Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Licong Cui, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA Frithjof Dau, SAP, Germany Aldo De More, CommunitySense, The Netherlands Harry Delugach, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Juliette Dibie-Barthélemy, AgroParisTech, France Pavlin Dobrev, ProSyst Labs, Bulgaria Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Ged Ellis, Google, Australia Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble, France Catherine Faron Zucker, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Jerome Fortin, Université Montpellier II, France Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Ollivier Haemmerlé, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France Jan Hladik, DHBW Stuttgart, Germany Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands John Howse, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Dmitry Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Adil Kabbaj, INSEA, Morocco Mary Keeler, VivoMind, Inc., MD, USA Hamamache Kheddouci, Université Claude Bernard, France Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Jérôme Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, France Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Natalia Loukachevitch, Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Russia Pierre Marquis, Université d'Artois, France Philippe Martin, Université de la Réunion, France Franck Michel, CNRS I3S, France Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Sergei Obiedkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Peter Øhrstrøm, Aalborg University, Denmark Yoshiaki Okubo, Hokkaido University, Japan Nathalie Pernelle, Université Paris Sud, France Heather D. Pfeiffer, Akamai Physics, Inc., NM, USA Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Uta Priss, Ostfalia University, Germany Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Fatiha Saïs, Université Paris Sud, France Eric Salvat, IMERIR, France Atsushi Shimojima, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Iain Stalker, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany Nouredine Tamani, INRIA, France Michaël Thomazo, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Serena Villata, CNRS I3S, France Martin Watmough, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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Lectures of “Challenges of Digital Art for Our Societies”: Keynotes - LEV MANOVICH
by Image Science 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Department for Image Science presents Conference Lectures "Challenges of Digital Art for Our Societies" MUMOK, Vienna Lev MANOVICH (New York): Archiving and Analyzing Digital Art the scale of Big Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYSd0hoBFZA Lev MANOVICH explores how digital art and technology has fundamentally changed how we perceive and interact with images, outlining a framework for cultural analysis using big data analysis and its visualisation as a 'medium.' Also discussed are the characteristics of visual social media relevant for the study of cultural and social patterns, including questions of connectivity and engagement; how exceptional events are represented in social media platforms and how social media can be used to predict socio-economic indicators; the visual signatures of cities, their sampling and aggregating images from social media platforms; and large-sample mapping of cultural fields such as those of news media such as "Time" Magazine, the MoMA photograph collection, and artistic movements such as that of the French impressionists. Lev MANOVICH is professor at CUNY Graduate Center, USA, Director of the Software Studies Initiative at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (http://manovich.net/) He is author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (MIT Press, 2005) and Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury, 2013). The Language of New Media (2001) was reviewed over 50 times and can be regarded as one of the most far-reaching media histories since Marshall McLuhan (Telepolis). In 2004 MANOVICH was included in the list of 50 "most interesting people building the future" (The Verge), and in 2013 he appeared on the List of 25 People Shaping the Future of Design. At present, MANOVICH investigates strategies of visualization of Big Data in the sciences and humanities. Department for Image Science, Danube University, Austria http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw ADA – Archive of Digital Art http://www.digitalartarchive.at

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CDVE2016 Oct 24-27 Sydney: 2nd Call for Papers
by CDVE16 Sydney 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this notice, it is being cross-posted to multiple lists. The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 24-27, 2016, Sydney You are invited to submit original contribution to the CDVE2016 conference in all the aspects of cooperative design, visualization, engineering and other cooperative applications. Detailed topics, submission method and formats can be found in our website http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html. The CDVE2016 – the 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering will be held in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 24-27, 2016. The proceedings will be published by Springer on their LNCS which is indexed by more than 8 index systems such as ISI Web of Science, EI, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar etc. In addition, this year, we will have strong IEEE society support including the SMC Visual Analytics and Communication Technical Committee and the opportunity to publish special issues on IEEE journals and other SCI indexed journals. The important dates are following, please mark your agenda: Full Papers - 8 pages Full Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2016 Notification of acceptance May 15, 2016 Short papers - 4 pages Short Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2016. Notification of acceptance May 20, 2016 Final camera ready paper for both full and short papers and registration deadline for accepted paper publication: July 10, 2016 Early registration for all participants: Sept. 20, 2016 Sydney is a wonderful city to visit. Please plan your submission and your travel in advance. We look forward to seeing you in Sydney. Please feel free to forward this call for papers. -- The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 24-27, 2016, Sydney Email: cdve2016(a)cdve.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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IEEE VIS 2016 Call for papers: Abstract deadline (Mandatory): 3/21 and full paper deadline: 3/31
by Jian Chen 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

IEEE VIS 2016 http://ieeevis.org/ 23 - 28 October, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/5qABWF CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION IEEE VIS 2016 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis) by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm. FULL PAPERS We solicit high quality papers in all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics in three tracks. For more information, visit 27th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/scivis-papers <http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/scivis-papers> 22nd IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/infovis-papers 11th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/vast-papers IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2016 Paper submission: March 31, 2016 LOCATION The conference will be returning to Baltimore, Maryland. Located on the mid-Atlantic coast, the city is easy to reach and has wonderful attractions as part of the Inner Harbor district near the conference hotel. VIS 2016 GENERAL CHAIR Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health VIS 2016 VICE CHAIR Jesus J Caban, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center VIS 2016 PROGRAM CHAIRS Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon LenSx Inc. James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory VIS 2016 PAPER CHAIRS Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London (VAST) Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University (VAST) John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology (VAST) Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research (InfoVis) Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis (InfoVis) Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland, College Park (InfoVis) James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory (SciVis) Mike Kirby, University of Utah (SciVis) Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen (SciVis) Please kindly note that the abstract submission is mandatory. Best regards, - Jian, Wenwen, and Alex (VIS publicity chairs) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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Faculty position in visualization, University of Edinburgh, UK
by Charles Sutton 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is hiring faculty in the areas of Design Informatics and Information Visualization. We will consider applications at either the Lecturer or the Senior Lecturer / Reader level. A Lecturer in the UK is roughly equivalent to a Assistant Professor in the US, and a Senior Lecturer / Reader to Associate Professor. Please see this link for more information: http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/recentnews/recruiting-lecturers… Best wishes Charles -- Charles Sutton * csutton(a)inf.ed.ac.uk * http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/csutton Reader * School of Informatics * University of Edinburgh Deputy Director, EPSRC CDT in Data Science * http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Please excuse brevity: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_monster The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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2nd Call for Posters: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2016
by Sven Linker 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. We invite submissions to the poster session. DEADLINE: Poster Submission: March 24th, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016 Graph-based Modeling of Conceptual Structures ******************************************************************************************** 5th to 7th July, 2016, Annecy, France Conference web site:www.irit.fr/ICCS2016/ Co-located: 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2016 ******************************************************************************************** The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science. The ICCS conferences evolved from a series of seven annual workshops on conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F. Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) paradigms are getting more and more attention. The aim of the ICCS 2016 conference is to build upon its long standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based systems. ICCS 2016 will be co-located with FOIS 2016, held in Annecy, in the Polytech building at the campus of the University of Savoie. The conference welcomes contributions that address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph Databases, Diagrams, etc.) from a modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint: - Modelling results will investigate concrete real world needs for graph-based representation, how certain use cases are of interest to the graph community, how using graphs can bring added (business) value, what kind of graph representation is needed for a given case, etc. - Technical results will include fundamental graph theory based results for novel structures for representation, extensions of existing structures for added expressivity, conciseness, optimisation algorithms for reasoning, reasoning explanation, etc. - Papers reporting on application experience will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the graph-based proposed solutions in the context of the use case studied with respect to other possible solutions. The main research topics are: - Knowledge Management, - Knowledge Architectures, - Reasoning under Inconsistency, - Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty, - Contextual Logic, - Constraint Satisfaction, - Decision Making, - Argumentation, - Ontologies, - Semantic Web, - Web of Data, - Web 2.0, - Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition, - Data Mining, - Text Mining, - Natural Language Processing, - Linguistics, - Metaphoric, Cultural or Semiotic Considerations, - Resource Allocation and Agreement Technologies. Submission Information We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages and posters of up to three pages. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by January 28, 2016, with full papers being due on February 4, 2016. Posters do not require advanced abstract submission and should be submitted by March 24, 2016. Papers and posters must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style guidelines and not exceed the page limit. The submission is to be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs20161 All paper submissions will be refereed and authors will have the opportunity to respond to reviewers’ comments during the rebuttal phase. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Poster submissions will also be refereed but will not be included in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register for the conference and present the paper or poster there. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP. Important Dates For Papers Abstract Submission: February 4th, 2016 (Revised!) Paper Submission: February 11th, 2016 (Revised!) Initial Paper Reviews Sent: March 14th, 2016 Rebuttals Due: March 18th, 2016 Notification of Paper Acceptance: March 24th, 2016 Camera Ready Paper: April 8th, 2016 Important Dates For Posters Poster Submission: March 24th, 2016 Notification of Poster Acceptance: April 15th, 2016 Organisers General Chair Ollivier Haemmerlé, Université Toulouse 2, France Program Chairs Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Catherine Faron-Zucker, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Program Committee Bernd Amann, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France Dan Corbett, Optimodal Technologies, DC, USA Olivier Corby, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerrannée, France Madalina Croitoru, Université Montpellier II, France Cornelius Croitoru, Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Licong Cui, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA Frithjof Dau, SAP, Germany Aldo De More, CommunitySense, The Netherlands Harry Delugach, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Juliette Dibie-Barthélemy, AgroParisTech, France Pavlin Dobrev, ProSyst Labs, Bulgaria Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Ged Ellis, Google, Australia Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble, France Catherine Faron Zucker, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Jerome Fortin, Université Montpellier II, France Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Ollivier Haemmerlé, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France Jan Hladik, DHBW Stuttgart, Germany Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands John Howse, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Dmitry Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Adil Kabbaj, INSEA, Morocco Mary Keeler, VivoMind, Inc., MD, USA Hamamache Kheddouci, Université Claude Bernard, France Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Jérôme Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, France Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Natalia Loukachevitch, Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Russia Pierre Marquis, Université d'Artois, France Philippe Martin, Université de la Réunion, France Franck Michel, CNRS I3S, France Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Sergei Obiedkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Peter Øhrstrøm, Aalborg University, Denmark Yoshiaki Okubo, Hokkaido University, Japan Nathalie Pernelle, Université Paris Sud, France Heather D. Pfeiffer, Akamai Physics, Inc., NM, USA Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Uta Priss, Ostfalia University, Germany Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Fatiha Saïs, Université Paris Sud, France Eric Salvat, IMERIR, France Atsushi Shimojima, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Iain Stalker, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany Nouredine Tamani, INRIA, France Michaël Thomazo, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Serena Villata, CNRS I3S, France Martin Watmough, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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CfP :: VVH 2016 - Workshop on Valuable Visualization of Healthcare Information @ AVI 2016
by Daniela Fogli 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

(Apologies for multiple posting) CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************** VVH 2016 - 1st International Workshop on "Valuable visualization of healthcare information": from the quantified self data to conversations. In conjunction with the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI 2016, Bari, Italy, 7 - 10 June 2016. http://tinyurl.com/vvh2016 <http://tinyurl.com/vvh2016> *************************************************** AIM The workshop focuses on the role of interactive data visualization tools (including configurable dashboards and Web-based interfaces) by which people can gain insight from healthcare data. These data encompass the output of sensors, the structured and unstructured content of hospital records, patient records, diaries, as well as messages exchanged within vertical social media, email correspondences between patients and their doctors, and clinical discussions among different specialists. On the other hand, the intended users of these tools encompass clinicians, nurses, managers of healthcare facilities and agencies, policy makers and common citizens. The variety of the health content at hand, the heterogeneity of the users involved and, above all, their lay nature with respect to data-oriented and e-literacy skills call for tools that are easy-to-use, easy-to-learn, and tailorable to multiple contexts and situations of unintended goals and needs. The study and design of these tools should be covered by a multidisciplinary field that is still in its infancy and has been recently dubbed Human-Data Interaction [1], being at the intersection of Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. This workshop solicits contributions on how to either visualize health data in innovative ways, or visualize innovative health data in traditional (yet effective) manners; as well as on how to define and assess the usability of advanced interactive tools of data visualization, their role in appropriate decision making and coordination, and the quality of the information these tools make available for its interpretation, including the underlying motivations and arguments that foster continuity of care and decision-making on-the-go. The workshop also solicits contributions reporting cases of successful appropriation by lay people and end users as well as failures in empowering them in making sense of complex and multidimensional healthcare datasets. Finally we are interested in methodological and design-oriented contributions that could share user-centered and activity-centered methods, techniques, and heuristics for the design of interactive data visualization tools and applications supporting data work, data telling and data interpretation. TOPICS OF INTEREST Data and Information Visualization Human-Data Interaction End-User Development Interactive infographics in healthcare Data mapping Human-computer interaction Argument Visualization Collective and Community Intelligence Clinical Decision Support Systems Gamification in Healthcare Tools for supporting argumentation in healthcare Storytelling and Datatelling Social Value of Health Data *************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 8th, 2016 Author Notification: April 17th, 2016 Workshop Date: June 7th, 2016 *************************************************** AUTHOR GUIDELINES Contributions should be in the form of a short position or research-in-progress paper (2-4 pages, LNCS format) presenting a brief overview of the work, how this can contribute to the proposed topics, and reporting empirical cases and lesson learnt from their research. Each contribution must include an abstract (max 150 words) that will be reported in the main conference proceedings. Please note that authors will retain the copyright of their work and we will ask permission to make the PDF available in the workshop Web site to foster dissemination of ideas and discussion. Papers should be submitted via easychair to the following address:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vvh2016 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vvh2016> WORKSHOP OUTCOMES According to the success of the workshop, we will evaluate the opportunity to submit the revised and extended contributions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings, or to organize a special issue in the health informatics area, as for example in the Health Informatics Journal. Registration and other organizational infos are available on the main Conference Website: http://avi2016.di.uniba.it/ <http://avi2016.di.uniba.it/> *************************************************** SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Peter Bednar (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK) Claus Bossen (Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark) Franco Del Zotti, MD (GP,Verona, Italy) Gunnar Ellingsen (Arctic University, Tromso, Norway) John Fox (Oxford University, UK) Oscar Frykholm (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) Tom Gordon (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Retha De La Harpe (CPUT, Cape Town, South Africa) Bridget Kane (Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden) Michele Melchiori (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Fabrizio Nunnari (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy) Enrico Maria Piras (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) Aurelio Ravarini (Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza, Italy) Chris Reed (University of Dundee, Dundee, UK) Dario Rodighiero (EPFL, Lausanne, CH) Carla Simone (University of Siegen, Germany) WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Federico Cabitza (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy) Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy) Massimiliano Giacomin (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy) Angela Locoro (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy) For further inquiries, please contact the workshop chairs at vvh2016(a)gmail.com <mailto:vvh2016@gmail.com> RELATED READINGS Cabitza, F., Locoro, A. 2016. Human-Data Interaction in Healthcare: Acknowledging Use-related Chasms to Design for Better Health Information. arXiv:1211.1485049v1 cs.HC) Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05751 <http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05751> Cabitza, F., Locoro, A., Batini, C. 2015. A User Study to Assess the Situated Social Value of Open Data in Healthcare. Procedia Computer Science 64, 306-313. Cabitza, F., Simone, C., & Colombo, G. 2013. Worth a thousand fields. Arguing for a visual turn in computer-supported general practice. In eHealth 2013: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on eHealth, 24-26 July, 2013 Prague, Czech Republic (pp. 95-102). Cairo, A.. 2013. The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization. Pearson. Del Zotti, F. 2005. Electronic Patient Record and the family: a pilot European questionnaire. The European journal of general practice, 11(3-4), 133-133. Fox, J. 2011. Arguing about the evidence: a logical approach. In Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, P. Dawid, W. Twining, M. Vasilaki (Eds). The British Academy. Gordon, T.F. 2007. Visualizing Carneades Argument Graphs. Law, Probability and Risk, 6(1-4), 109-117. Kane, B., Toussaint, P., Luz, S. 2013. Shared Decision Making Needs a Communication Record. Proc. of CSCW'13,79-90. ACM Press. Kirschner, P.A., Buckingham Shum, S.J., and Carr, C.S. 2003. Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense-Making. Springer. Locoro, A.. 2015. A Map is worth a Thousand Data: Requirements in Tertiary Human-Data Interaction to Foster Participation. Procs of CoPDA 2015, to appear. Meirelles, I.. 2013. Meirelles, Isabel. 2013. Design for Information. Rockport Publishers Piras, E. M., Purin, B., Stenico, M., & Forti, S. 2009. Prototyping a personal health record taking social and usability perspectives into account. In Electronic Healthcare (pp. 35-42). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Plaisant, C., Mushlin, R., Snyder, A., Li, J., Heller, D., Shneiderman, B. 1998. LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records. In Procs of American Medical Informatic Association Annual Fall Symposium, 76-80. Quinlan, P., Thompson, A., & Reed, C. 2012. An analysis and hypothesis generation platform for heterogeneous cancer databases. In Procs of COMMA 2012, IOS Press. Al Qassas, M., Fogli, D., Giacomin, M., Guida, G. 2014. Supporting Medical Decision Making through the Analysis of Clinical Discussions. In G. Philips-Wren et al. (eds.), DSS 2.0 Supporting Decision Making with New Technologies, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 261, 42-53. IOS Press Al Qassas, M., Fogli, D., Giacomin, M., Guida, G. 2015. Analysis of Clinical Discussions Based on Argumentation Schemes. In Procs of HCist 2015, Procedia Computer Science, 64, 282-289. Ravarini, A., Cremona, L. 2012. Collective intelligence and social computing: a literature review. In Information systems: crossroads for organization, management, accounting and engineering p. 35-41, Physica-Verlag. Reed, C. & Rowe, G.W.A. 2007. A Pluralist Approach to Argument Diagramming. Law, Probability & Risk, 6(1-4), pp.59-85. Rodighiero, D. 2015. Representing the Digital Humanities Community: Unveiling The Social Network Visualization of an International Conference. Parsons Journal of Information Mapping. Tolchinsky, P., Cort.e, U., Modgil, S., Caballero, F., L.opez-Navidad, A. 2006. Increasing Human-Organ Transplant Availability: Argumentation-Based Agent Deliberation. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21 (6), 30-37. Ward, M. O., Grinstein, G., and Keim, D. 2010. Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications. 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2nd Call for Papers: International Workshop on Set Visualisation and Reasoning
by Sven Linker 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ====================================================================== SetVR 2016 International Workshop on Set Visualisation and Reasoning 7 August 2016, Philadelphia, United States of America (co-located with DIAGRAMS 2016) https://sites.google.com/site/setvr2kn/current-workshop ====================================================================== ---- Important Dates ---- Submission of papers: 11 April 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 16 May 2016 Final version due: 11 July 2016 Workshop: 7 August 2016 ---- Aims and Scope ---- The International Workshop on Set Visualisation and Reasoning (previously called the Euler Diagrams Workshop) aims to bring together researchers in the field. The community publishes in a diverse range of outlets, hence a single workshop provides a unique opportunity to share ideas and practice. The topic of the workshop includes established set representations like Euler/Venn diagrams and matrices as well as new formalisms, such as linear diagrams and line-sets. The workshop scope covers methods for laying out, reasoning with and evaluating set visualisations. As new notations come online, this workshop will provide a focal point for early-stage research alongside more advanced contributions, enabling a better understanding of how we visualize and reason about sets. Application areas for this research are broad and encompass many other disciplines, such as biosciences, business, and criminology. Submissions detailing novel applications of visual set representations are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Theoretical Advances: - diagrammatic drawability - layout constraints - logic - reasoning - novel forms of set visualisation Software Support: - visualisation generation - mechanisms for interaction - tools for dynamic set data - automated reasoning - layout algorithms - data exploration Real-World Applications: - big data - system modelling - education - social networks - biosciences - security Cognition and Perceptual Principles: - readability - aesthetics - evaluation and comparisons ---- Paper Submission and Publication ---- We solicit submissions on the topics mentioned above and other related areas, in the following forms: full papers (15 pages), consisting of: - original research - surveys short papers (7 pages), consisting of: - systems descriptions - software demonstrations - position statements - early original research contributions All submissions should be in LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Please submit via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setvr2016) We plan to publish the proceedings of the workshop in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org) Workshop on the web https://sites.google.com/site/setvr2kn/current-workshop ---- Organisation ---- Program Chairs Sven Linker, University of Brighton, UK Peter Rodgers, University of Kent, UK Program Committee Bilal Alsallakh, Bosch Research and Technology Center Jim Burton, University of Brighton, UK Peter Chapman, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Rosario De Chiara, Poste Italiane Renata De Freitas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil Jean Flower, Autodesk Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Luana Micallef, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University, USA ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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From Skala - REMINDER - CfP - WSCG EXTENDED Submission March 19, 2016
by Vaclav Skala 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Apologies for duplicate, if any To: infovis(a)infovis.org WSCG 2016 Deadline Extended to >>March 19, 2016 << due to technical problems Pilsen (close to Prague), Czech Republic ============================================================== Computer Graphics, Scientific and Medical visualization, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Virtual Reality and Haptic Systems, Rendering Techniques, Physically Based Modeling, Human Computer Interfaces and related Mathematics but not limited to ------------ Call for Papers WSCG 2016 REMINDER -------------- 24. WSCG Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision May 30 - June 3, 2016 Pilsen City (close to the Golden City - Prague) >> Submission by March 19, 2016 - EXTENDED <<< http://www.wscg.eu http://www.wscg.cz in cooperation with the Eurographics Association supported by IFIP TC5 WG5.10, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed WSCG Conference Co-Chairs ------------------------------ Zhigeng Pan, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Important dates (regular papers) -------------------------------------------- - Paper submission: March 19, 2016 EXTENDED - Acceptance notification: April 20, 2016 - Final version: April 30, 2016 - Venue: May 30 - June 3, 2016, Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen [Plzen] (City of Beer) close to Prague, Czech Republic PUBLICATIONS ------------------------- All submitted papers will be peer anonymously reviewed. 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 26xx, ISSN 2464-4617 (print), ISSN 2464-4625 (CD-ROM) Please, see recent publications available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm Indexing ----------- Journal of WSCG and CSRN proceedings will be sent for indexing to Scopus, IEE, ISI/Thomson Reuters, Elsevier's Engineering Information (EI) and other reputable indexing services. Journal of WSCG and proceedings published within the Computer Science Research Notes series - both will be also available via WEB with access free => FAST research results dissemination! Recent publication (digital repository since 1992): http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm Feel free to contact me if you would have any question at: Prof.Vaclav Skala 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 To be REMOVED from the list --------------------------------- mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE%20infovis@infovis.org or Use REPLY to this mail with your email address in the text to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to REMOVE WSCG (DO NOT REMOVE your @mail address in the mail we sent to you).

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Job: PhD position in DataVis/GeoVis at University of Twente, The Netherlands - only four days left to apply!
by Yuri Engelhardt 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

*Job opening* at the *University of Twente*, The Netherlands - only *four days* left to apply! See web page: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/609693 DataVis/GeoVis PHD CANDIDATE, FULL-TIME: BIG SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA, DASHBOARDS AND SUMMARY MAPS JOB DESCRIPTION Sensors are everywhere, providing such huge amounts of data one can speak of a new disease: data obesity. This project focuses on how to get insight in the essence of these large spatio-temporal data collections and their changes over time. A dashboard with streaming visual summaries of the data’s vital statistics might be part of the solution. It should offer a selective (analytical) overview, including the data’s spatial extent, the range and variability of the attributes, and time interval, as well as information about the (geographic) context. YOUR PROFILE We seek a* MSc-level graduate in geo-information science, data visualization or information visualization*. Candidates with other relevant backgrounds will also be considered. You should be fluent in English, preferably experienced in (technical) writing and possess good communication skills. OUR OFFER We offer you an inspiring and challenging international and academic environment. You will be employed for a period of 4 years. Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement (CAO-NU) of the Dutch Universities. Gross monthly salary ranges from € 2,174.- in the first year to € 2,779.- in the last year, exclusive of allowances, in accordance with the job profile Promovendus, under the University System for Job Classification (UJC). Costs for moving to Enschede may be reimbursed. The *Department of Geo-Information Processing* (GIP) is a vibrant multi-disciplinary scientific team, specializing in methods and techniques for processing (acquiring, organizing, analysing) spatio-temporal data and information and in building tools (models, algorithms, visualizations) that improve our understanding of complex spatial dynamic systems and help in decision-making at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. *Information and application*For more information you can contact Prof. Dr. *Menno-Jan Kraak* (e-mail: m.j.kraak(a)utwente.nl <https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=m.j.kraak@utwente.nl>). You are also invited to visit our homepage <https://www.itc.nl/>. Please submit your application *before 26 February 2016*. For more information, and for submitting your application, please go to: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/609693 Job interviews will be scheduled on 7 & 8 March 2016.

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