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Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics (AVML2016)
by Daniel Angus 12 May '16

12 May '16

Dear InfoVis scholars, The UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language will be hosting the AVML2016 conference this coming September. The conference is a great way for scholars from diverse fields to meet and discuss the visualisation of many forms of language and communication data including medical imaging, word clouds, concept maps, language trees, spectrograms, amongst others. If your research involves visual modelling, analysis and/or exploration of any aspect of language or communication data the AVML2016 conference is a great way to showcase and discuss this work with a diverse range of experts. The deadline for submissions is May 15th, however if you are unable to submit a 500 word abstract to easychair by this date please instead email conference organiser Dr Daniel Angus d.angus(a)uq.edu.au<mailto:d.angus@uq.edu.au> to register an expression of interest in submission. Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics 2016 (AVML2016) Call for papers Linguistics, like other scientific disciplines, is centrally reliant upon visual images for the elicitation, analysis and presentation of data. It is difficult to imagine how linguistics could have developed, and how it could be done today, without visual representations such as syntactic trees, psychophysical models, vocal tract diagrams, dialect maps, or spectrograms. With the emergence of new visualisation methods and technologies there is a renewed interest in the application of these techniques to the study of language. In 2012, the University of York hosted the first AVML meeting, addressing a need within the academic community for a forum dedicated to sharing work in this emergent interdisciplinary space. After the success of this first meeting, The University of Tübingen then hosted AVML2014. The UQ Node of theARCCentre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language<http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/> at the University of Queensland is hosting 'Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics' on September 26th - 28th 2016. The AVML2016 meeting consists of two events: The workshop with hands-on workshops/sessions (September 26th) and the conference with oral and poster presentations (September 27th & 28th). Suggestions for workshops and abstracts for oral or poster presentations (maximum length 500 words; please state your preference for oral or poster format) should be submitted as PDF files to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avml2016 by May 15th 2016. Submitters are encouraged to include relevant graphics in or accompanying their abstracts. The venue for the conference is The University of Queensland St Lucia Campus. Find more information here<https://avml2012.wordpress.com/venue/>. Registration fees will be $200 (faculty/industry) or $100 (student) for the 3 days which includes catering and a digital proceedings, and $50 for the conference banquet for interested attendees. More information is available at http://avml-meeting.com/ Conference organisers Daniel Angus<http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2079>, Janet Wiles<http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/13>, Lydia Byrne<http://www.visualizationwhiteboard.com/> (The University of Queensland)

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Vinci 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 10 May '16

10 May '16

CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016) (vinci-conf.org) Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016 ======================================== Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. Visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and mobile devices. The Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) (vinci-conf.org) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '16) will be held on 24-26 September 2016, in Dallas, TX, USA, in the heart of the complex of over 600 major multinational technology corporations, with 47 non-stop flights to international destinations. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to submit revised versions of their works to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier, SCI indexed). In addition, revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press, AHCI indexed). 1. SCOPES AND TOPICS ==================== We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, or other media. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: = Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension = Empirical studies of novel visual metaphors = Visual interaction through multimodality = Visual approaches for knowledge discovery = Computational aesthetics = Visual analytics = Graph drawing and (multivariate) network visualization = Information visualization = Graphical user interface design = Aesthetics in visual communication = Influence of visual arts and design = Visual modeling languages and UML = Visual communication metaphors = Visual programming languages = Visualization on mobile devices = Applications like SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, ... = Sketching = Human-computer interaction 2. PAPER SUBMISSION =================== Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstrations on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. Each submitted symposium paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three International Program Committee members. All accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings of VINCI’2016 published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier; SCI indexed). In addition, it is planned that revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for the subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press; AHCI indexed). Research papers and experience reports of up to ten (10), short papers of up to four (4), and tool demonstrations or posters of up to two (2) ACM double-column pages should be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2016. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page.. 3. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ========================== VINCI '16 is also soliciting proposals for full-day or half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Proposals should not be longer than a maximum of 2 pages. In particular, workshop proposals should include: 1) The title and a brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest in these times, and the main research areas involved. 2) Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s) and previous experience in chairing scientific events. 3) A tentative list of program committee members. 4) Intended length (half or full day) and a draft of the Call for Papers. It is expected that the workshop organizers will setup an own workshop web page as soon as the workshop proposal has been accepted. Tutorials usually attract a broad range of audiences, including professionals, researchers, students, or practitioners, who wish to enhance their knowledge in the specific tutorial topic. Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in visual information communication and interaction. Tutorial proposals should include short biographies of the proposers, a draft of the tutorial content, intended length, and evidence of the possibility of attracting audience to the tutorial. It is possible to extend the symposium by one day in case many workshops or tutorials are proposed and accepted. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page. 4. SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PANELS ============================== We also invite special session and panel proposals for VINCI '16. Proposals for special sessions and panels should include the title, aim and scope, the names and affiliations of the organizers together with a short biography. A list of potential contributors or panel members would be surely helpful too. The proposers are expected to have a good publication track record and excellent standing in the proposed area. Detailed information on the submission of special sessions and panel proposals can be found on the conference web page. Papers submitted to special sessions should be done through the VINCI '16 EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2016) The paper types are identical to those of regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the special session organizers to make sure that papers submitted to their special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers (however chaired by the special session organizers) and will appear in the VINCI '16 conference proceedings as well. The symposium chairs reserve the right to move accepted papers for a special session into a regular session in case the special session has finally less than four papers. In this case, the special session will be cancelled. 5. IMPORTANT DATES ================== Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel proposals due: April 15, 2016 Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel decision and notification: April 25, 2016 Paper submission deadline: May 01, 2016 (23:59 in PST) Notification of decision: June 15, 2016 Camera-ready copy due: July 05, 2016 6. ORGANIZATION =============== General Chair: Kang Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Program Chair: Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Program Committee: Wolfgang, Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre Tomasz Bednarz, Queensland University of Technology 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 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 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 Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Margit Pohl, TUW Francois Poulet, IRISA Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Cagatay Turkay, City University London Andrew Vande Moere, K.U.Leuven Gualtiero Volpe, Casa Paganini-InfoMus, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu,Keio University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Kai Xu, Middlesex University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, National ICT Australia Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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Call for Participation: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2016
by Sven Linker 04 May '16

04 May '16

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. 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/ Early Registration Deadline: 5th June, 2016 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 registration can be found at: https://www.irit.fr/CMS-DRUPAL7/ICCS2016/node/12 ** Program ** ICCS 2016 will be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016). The conferences have been scheduled to minimise overlapping of sessions. The schedule can be found at: https://www.irit.fr/CMS-DRUPAL7/ICCS2016/node/4 * Keynotes * "Automating human-like reasoning with diagrams on machines" Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) "On the many graphs of the Web and the interest of adding their missing links" Fabien Gandon (INRIA) * Papers * Alper Yegenoglu, Pietro Quaglio, Emiliano Torre, Sonja Grün and Dominik Endres: "Exploring the Usefulness of Formal Concept Analysis for Robust Detection of Spatio-Temporal Spike Patterns in Massively Parallel Spike Trains" Cristina Nica, Agnès Braud, Xavier Dolques, Florence Le Ber and Marianne Huchard: "Extracting Hierarchies of Closed Partially-Ordered Patterns using Relational Concept Analysis" David Jakobsen and Peter Øhrstrøm: "The Interpretation of Branching Time Diagrams" (short paper) Juliette Dibie-Barthelemy, Stéphane Dervaux, Estelle Doriot, Liliana Ibanescu and Caroline Penicaud: "MS2O - A Multi-Scale and Multi-Step Ontology for Transformation Processes: Application to Micro-Organisms" Fabien Amarger, Jean-Pierre Chanet, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Hernandez and Catherine Roussey: "Knowledge Engineering Method based on consensual knwoledge and trust computation: the MUSKA System" Alina Petrova and Sebastian Rudolph: "Web-Mining Defeasible Knowledge from Concessional Statements" Arash Saghafi: "Visualizing Ontologies – A Literature Survey" Abdelraouf Hecham, Madalina Croitoru, Pierre Bisquert and Patrice Buche: "Extending GWAPs for Building Profile Aware Associative Networks" Cornelius Croitoru and Madalina Croitoru: "Representing Multi-Scale Datalog +/- Using Hierarchical Graphs" Bingyang Wei and Harry Delugach: "Transforming UML Models to and from Conceptual Graphs to Identify Missing Requirements" (short paper) Shipra Sharma and Balwinder Sodhi: "SDDNet: A Semantic Network for Software Design and Development Domain via Graph Database" (short paper) Danai Symeonidou, Madalina Croitoru, Isabelle Sanchez, Pascal Neveu, Nathalie Pernelle, Fatiha Sais, Aurelie Roland, Patrice Buche, Aunur-Rofiq Muljarto and Rémi Schneider: "Key Discovery for Numerical Data: Application to Oenological Practices" Céline Alec, Chantal Reynaud and Brigitte Safar: "A Model for Linked Open Data Acquisition and SPARQL Query Generation" Fabien Amarger, Jean-Pierre Chanet, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Hernandez and Catherine Roussey: "Dealing with incompatibilities when fusioning knowledge bases" (short paper) Francesco Kriegel: "Parallel Attribute Exploration" Sebastien Ferre and Peggy Cellier: "Graph-FCA in Practice" Uta Priss: "A Semiotic-Conceptual Analysis of Conceptual Learning" Simon Andrews, Ben Brewster and Tony Day: "Organised Crime and Social Media; identifying and corroborating weak signals of Human Trafficking online" Sanda Dragos, Diana Halita and Christian Sacarea: "Distilling Conceptual Structures from Weblog Using Polyadic FCA" (short paper) ** Partners ** ICCS 2016 is sponsored by the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (INRIA) and the French Artificial Intelligence Association (AFIA). ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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Event Analytics - Workshop May 26th, HCIL UMd (EventFlow, Coco and more...)
by Catherine Plaisant 03 May '16

03 May '16

At the occasion of the 33rd HCIL Annual Symposium: hcil.umd.edu/soh<http://hcil.umd.edu/soh> May 26 Workshop - University of Maryland Temporal Event Sequence Analysis + EventFlow and CoCo user group meeting http://hcil.umd.edu/eventflow-workshop-2016/ * Learn from others who have used HCIL event analytics tools (e.g. Karyln Beer reporting on giardia study at CDC) * See how High-Volume Hypothesis Testing has being used for systematic exploration of event sequence comparisons * Hear about our brand new work: EventAction: prescriptive analytics for event sequences. * Come mingle with leaders in event analytics There are still a few spots if you want to present! Catherine (and the HCIL event analytics team: Sana Malik, Fan Du and Ben Shneiderman) -- Catherine Plaisant, PhD Senior Research Scientist Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park MD (301) 405-2768 http://hcil.umd.edu/catherine-plaisant/

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2nd Biennial BPViz: Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop, August 3 - 4, 2016
by Byrd, Vetria L 02 May '16

02 May '16

The 2016 CRA-W/CDC CADENS Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz'16) Workshop will be held August 3-4, 2016. The workshop will be co-located at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The goal of the workshop is to cross boundaries between STEM and non-STEM domains of scientists with data visualization needs, to facilitate collaborations and broaden participation in visualization on all levels in academia, research and industry. Sponsored by Computing Research Association -Women (CRA-W), The Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), BPViz is designed to bring together persons with an interest in visualization to: (1) present work-in-progress, (2) engage with others in the field, (3) obtain feedback from visualization experts, (4) discuss research and career interests, and (4) build a community of persons interested in broadening participation and inclusion across all domains where data visualization drives analysis and discovery. The workshop will include presentations on a variety of visualization topics, plenary speakers from academia, industry and research in the visualization field and much more. We have taken into account feedback from the 1st CRA-W/CDC BPViz Workshop participants in 2014, and we are changing the format a bit to include hands-on visualization workshops with various visualization tools and a trip to The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. BPViz'16 Workshop is an ideal opportunity to engage with others with interests in visualization, get hands-on experience with commonly used visualization tools, and network with visualization domain scientists. It is designed to inform, inspire and encourage participants to engage in the multidisciplinary dynamics of visualization. Who should apply: All persons with an interest in visualization are encouraged to apply (this includes, but is not limited to): undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, faculty, research faculty and staff. All academic majors and research interests with an interest in visualization are encouraged to apply. Women and members of underrepresented groups and underrepresented academic domains are also encouraged to apply. Travel expenses (flight or mileage), meals and lodging costs will be provided for a limited number of workshop participants. Persons who would like to be considered for travel support should indicate so when applying. We are regrettably restricted to reimbursing/providing travel support to only U.S. Citizens. We recognize this is a serious constraint, but it is a federal regulation on the funding. Persons with their own travel funds wishing to participate in the workshop are also encouraged to apply. For consideration for travel support application materials must be received by 11:59 PM (EST) Sunday, June 19, 2016. Workshop details and program highlights can be found at https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/bpviz Any questions about BPViz'16 should be addressed to workshop organizers at BPVizWorkshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:BPVizWorkshop@gmail.com> Follow BPViz on Twitter @BPViz ____________________________________ Vetria L.Byrd Assistant Professor Computer Graphics and Technology Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue University KNOY Hall Room 307 Phone: (765) 494-6335 Email: vlbyrd(a)purdue.edu<mailto:vlbyrd@purdue.edu> Twitter: @VByrdPhD, @BPViz @VisREU LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/VetriaByrd<http://www.linkedin.com/in/VetriaByrd> https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/vbyrd We are Purdue. What we make moves the world forward.

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HCI 1-year postdoc research fellowship INRIA/Paris
by Emmanuel Pietriga 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

A one-year postdoc position is available at INRIA Saclay, France (near Paris). The candidate will join the ILDA team [1] and contribute to project MapMuxing, which is about the design, implementation and evaluation of novel, interactive geovisualization techniques that help users combine and make sense of multiple, heterogeneous representations of geographical areas such as, e.g., topographic maps, ortho-images, live geolocation feeds, geophysical phenomenon simulations such as tsunamis. This is a joint project with IGN, the French national mapping institute [2]. Within this general context, the candidate is welcome to develop his/her own research directions, and will have the opportunity to design novel techniques for either workstations, ultra-high-resolution wall displays, or both. Applicants must have a PhD in Computer Science and be interested in interactive cartography and geovisualization. Expertise in Human-Computer Interaction / Information Visualization is required. Knowledge of Geographical Information Systems is a plus, but is not mandatory. The position is for 12 months. Starting date is flexible, before March 2017. Interested applicants should contact Emmanuel Pietriga (emmanuel.pietriga(a)inria.fr) and Caroline Appert (caroline.appert(a)lri.fr) We will both be attending CHI '16 in San Jose. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us there! [1] http://ilda.saclay.inria.fr [2] http://www.ign.fr -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA & INRIA Chile http://pages.saclay.inria.fr/emmanuel.pietriga

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CDVE2016 paper deadline extended to May 20, 2016
by cdve .org 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering October 24-27, 2016 Sydney, Australia www.cdve.org Due to requests from many of our potential authors, CDVE2016 conference paper submission deadline is now extended. Both full paper and short paper deadline has been extended to May 20, 2016. You are welcome to submit full papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 4 pages. See our call for papers <http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html> page for more details. Your paper should dress one of the major topics in the call for paper themes. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You should submit your paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page <http://www.cdve.org/submit.html> for how to submit. If you have not yet submitted a paper, you can definitely take this as a great opportunity! -- 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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Deadline extended (May 20): CDVE2016 in Sydney
by CDVE16 Sydney 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Dear Colleagues The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering -CDVE2016 will be held on Oct. 24 - 27, 2016, in the beautiful city Sydney, Australia: www.cdve.org The deadline for both full and short papers has been extended to May 20, 2016. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You should submit your full paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page for how to submit on the conference website. All the accepted papers (full - 8 pages and short - 4 pages) will be published in the proceedings by Springer on their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). In addition, our selected papers have been and will be published in SCI indexed journals including some IEEE transaction journal special issues. All the accepted and published papers will be indexed by EI, ISI Web of Science，ACM Digital Library, dblp，Google Scholar, IO-port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH. Please feel free to forward this call for papers. We look forward to meeting you in Sydney! -- 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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Deadline Extension (May 8th): IEEE TMM Special Issue on Visualization and Visual Analytics for Multimedia
by Nan Cao 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

*IEEE TMM Special Issue on Visualization and Visual Analytics for Multimedia* *Submission Info: * Deadline: 18:00 EST, May 8th, 2016 Link: *http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-special-issues/ <http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-special-issues/>* *Editor-in-Chief:* Chang Wen Chen, The State University of New York at Buffalo *Guest Editors:* Nan Cao, NYU Tandon School of Engineering & NYU ShangHai Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University David Gotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Daniel A. Keim, University of Konstanz Yap-Peng Tan, Nanyang Technological University *Contact Method*: nan.cao (at) nyu.edu *IEEE Transactions on Multimedia:* *http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/ <http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/> * *————————————————————————————————* We call for novel and high-quality papers on the topic of visualization and visual analytics of multimedia data for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM). This special issue focuses on presenting the state-of-the-art visualization and visual analysis techniques that are developed for solving important problems in the multimedia domain. Visual analytics is an emerging research direction that focuses on data exploration and analysis with a seamless integration of interaction, visualization, and analysis (such as data mining and machine learning). By showing data and analysis results in context, a visualization can display rich evidences that support or against the analysis results, thus helping with data interpretation and results validation. The analysts can annotate on (e.g. label on) or adjust the results via interactive user interfaces and visualizations to supervise the underlying analysis procedure based on, for example, advanced active learning algorithms, producing more and more precise analysis and correct results gradually. The combination enables human-centric computational intelligence by effectively integrating human knowledge and expertise with powerful computational algorithms through the high-bandwidth visual processing channel and user interaction. Recent progress on visualization and visual analytics creates new opportunities for understanding and making sense of large-scale, dynamic, heterogeneous multimedia data through “analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces”. Existing studies of visual analytics have already produced some insightful results and findings, which demonstrates the success and effectiveness of visual analyticsfor dealing with the complex multimedia data. This special issue will introduce the readership to the latest innovations in visual analytics for multimedia and provide a spotlight on an emerging and promising area of research within the larger multimedia community. *Topics* The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visual analytics of multimedia datasets, such as - Texts and audio data / Speech and music data - Images and videos - Spatio-temporal data - Social media data / Mooc data / Social and web multimedia data - Sensor data / Healthcare Data - Visual and interaction assisted multimedia analysis techniques for - Multimedia search and retrieval - Multimedia indexing (e.g., hashing) - Object detection, tracking, categorization, and clustering - Surveillance and semantic analysis - Outlier detection in multimedia - Visualization based multimedia environment, such as - Multimedia interfaces and interactions - Visual environments and workspaces - Multimodal signal representation and visualization - Human-centric multimedia, such as - Multimodal human-human and human-computer Dialog - Multimodal human-machine interfaces and interaction - Multimedia using haptic and physiological information - Multimodal perception, integration, and multisensory Fusion - Multi-screen user experience - Subjective and objective quality assessment, and user experience *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: 05/08/2016 - First Round Review Notification: 7/01/2016 - Revision Due: 8/01/2016 - Final Acceptance Notification: 9/01/2016 - Camera Ready (after minor revision) Due: 9/15/2016 - Publication: November 2016 *Submission guideline:* Prospective authors should submit original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. Prospective authors are required to strictly follow the Author’s Guide formanuscript submission to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) at *http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/ <http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/>*, and manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission portal at *http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee <http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee>*

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BioVis@Vis 2016 Updated Call for Participation
by Jillian Aurisano 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

BioVis 2016 BioVis at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD October 23rd, 2016 http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ #biovis *Important Dates:* Paper submission (one-page IEEE abstract): April 29, 2016 BMC manuscript submission: May 6, 2016 Poster submission: August 26, 2016 Design Contest submission: September 23, 2016 All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT). BioVis 2016 is the 6th Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. It is hosted as a one-day single-track event at VIS (http://ieeevis.org) and a SIG half-day meeting at ISMB (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016) We invite submissions of original research, poster submissions, as well as submissions for data visualization and redesign contests. We invite contributions on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Paper and Contest submissions can only be submitted to the BioVis meeting at VIS. All accepted abstracts for the conference will be linked on the BioVis website (http://www.biovis.net) All abstracts accepted into the conference will be considered for publication, once extended into papers, in the thematic series on Biological Data Visualization of BMC Bioinformatics (impact factor 2.6), as part of a two-round review process. We are currently working with IEEE on confirming the publishing model as described in this Call for Participation, i.e., an open access publication with BMC Bioinformatics. Should this model not be realized, the manuscripts will be indexed under IEEE. All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis website. Data Analysis and Design Contest entries that are accepted, and deemed to make a significant contribution to the field, will be invited to submit full manuscripts for inclusion in the BMC Bioinformatics journal. *Submission Guidelines:* Authors are required to submit a 1-page abstract for the conference due Apr 29th, and an extended, full BMC paper due May 6th. Note that due to copyright regulations, the 1-page abstract text must be completely different from the extended paper text (including the BMC-style paper abstract.) For the BMC manuscript, please use the templates provided on the http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ website. When formatting the IEEE abstract, please use the template provided at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html *Keynote Talk: * Sheelagh Carpendale University of Calgary General chairs - G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Paper chairs - Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Poster chairs - Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA Publication chairs - Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA - Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA Primer & challenges chair - Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland Highlights chair - Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia Data contest chairs - Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA - Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK Design contest chairs - Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium - Francis Rowland, EBI, UK Industry and fundraising chair - Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA Website chairs - Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada Publicity chairs - Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Steering Committee - Kay Nieselt <http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/>, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nils Gehlenborg <http://www.gehlenborg.com/>, Harvard Medical School, USA - Jessie Kennedy <http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/people/peopleid/41>, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Jos Roerdink <http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/>, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Raghu Machiraju <http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~raghu>, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)

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