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2016 New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS)
by Meghan Haley 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

2016 New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) The New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook University (SBU), New York University (NYU) and the IEEE Computer Society Long Island Chapter the conference will take place at NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 USA on August 14-17, 2016. The theme of this year's conference is "Data-Driven Discovery." Website https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/ <https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/reg/step1.php> With keynote speakers from industry and international big-science projects, the 2-1/2 day conference is organized into five sessions with topics including streaming data analysis, long term data storage, curation, and sharing, experimental data, industry solutions and challenges for big data and the convergence of data and HPC. Sponsors include BNL, the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at SBU, the NYSTAR High-Performance Computing Consortium (HPC2), New York University Center for Data Science, the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment and the IEEE Computer Society Long Island Chapter. We are looking for original research paper or poster contributions related to analysis or visualization of scientific data. Two–four page extended abstracts describing the paper or poster must be received by April 25, 2016 and can be submitted through: https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/abstracts.php <https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/abstracts.php> Registration to the conference can be made through: https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/reg/step1.php#form <https://www.bnl.gov/nysds16/reg/step1.php#form> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Scientific data management • Visual analytics, and scientific visualization • Streaming methods for analysis, collection and visualization of scientific data • Real time interaction with scientific data • Distributed, parallel or MapReduce based methods applied to scientific data • Scientific data case studies • Industry solutions for handling large scientific data For more information contact conference coordinator: Lauri Peragine 631-344-7090 <tel:631-344-7090>  lperagine(a)bnl.gov <https://mail.bnl.gov/owa/14.3.279.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?REF=Tl5-e7Bl….>

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VINCI 2016 call for paper
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '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 eight (8), 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 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 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 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 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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BioVis at ISMB 2016 Call for Participation
by Jillian Aurisano 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

The BioVis Interest Group (http://www.biovis.net) is organizing a meeting at *ISMB in 2016*. This 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. *BioVis@ISMB 2016* is co-located with ISMB 2016 <http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016> and will be taking place on July 8 in Orlando, Florida at the Disney World Resort Swan and Dolphin hotel <http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016-accommodation>. The main ISMB 2016 conference will run from July 8 through July 12. There are three possible ways to participate in *BioVis@ISMB*: 1. New Research: Participants are invited to submit an abstract describing high-quality original research. Abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee and all accepted abstracts will be included in the poster session. The authors of selected abstracts will be asked to give a brief oral presentation during the SIG meeting. 2. Highlights: Participants may submit an abstract describing work published in the previous year as well as additional work undertaken since publication. The program committee will review these abstracts. Additionally, the BioVis SIG program committee may also invite authors of outstanding publications from other venues. The authors of selected abstracts will give an oral presentation during the SIG meeting. 3. Posters: We seek work in progress and preliminary results; previously published work from other venues; visualization challenges. *Key Dates for BioVis@ISMB:* May 3, 2016 - Submission deadline for the Highlights Track and New Research Track May 17, 2016 - Submission deadline for Poster Track May 20, 2016 - Notifications for Highlights, New Research, and Posters For more info on *BioVis@ISMB* see: http://biovis.net/2016/ismb/ *BioVis is also holding a meeting at IEEE VisWeek in 2016. *For more info on *BioVis@VIS *see:http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ 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, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA - Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)

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IEEE VIS 2016 2nd Call for Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, and Posters
by Jian Chen 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

IEEE VIS 2016 http://ieeevis.org/ <parse.php?redirect=http://ieeevis.org/> 23 - 28 October, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis <parse.php?redirect=https://twitter.com/ieeevis> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis <parse.php?redirect=https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis> LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/5qABWF <parse.php?redirect=https://goo.gl/5qABWF> We solicit Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, and Posters for IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, MD. =============== Tutorials: =============== Submission deadline: April 30, 2016 Tutorials are intended to cover a wide selection of topics related to visualization and provide background on techniques, tools and application domains relevant for visualization. Submissions consist of a three page outline of your proposed tutorial. For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/tutorials <parse.php?redirect=http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/tut…> . =============== Workshops =============== Submission deadline: April 30, 2016 We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Submissions consist of a four page outline of your proposed workshop. For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/workshops <parse.php?redirect=http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/wor…> . =============== Panels =============== Submission deadline: June 15, 2016 Panels address important and/or controversial applications and issues in visualization today. In particular, we invite topics in connection with interesting application fields. Panels bringing together potential users of visualization technology (e.g., practitioners and industry professionals) and leading researchers, or panels consisting of experts in fields that might teach us important concepts (e.g., perceptual psychology, visual design, color theory, user-interface design) are welcome. For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/panels <parse.php?redirect=http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/pan…> . =============== Posters: =============== Submission deadline: June 24, 2016 The poster program offers a timely venue to present and discuss new visualization research through a forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration and active engagement with IEEE VIS participants. Submissions consist of a two-page summary of your work. Interactive poster sessions will provide a forum for presenting your work and discussing new ideas with your peers. Live demos and videos are encouraged. Posters will be displayed throughout IEEE VIS and the summary will be published in the electronic conference proceedings. For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/posters <parse.php?redirect=http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/pos…> . Best regards, -- Jian( on behalf of VIS Publicity) -------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen <parse.php?redirect=http://www.csee.umbc.edu/%7Ejichen>

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: International Workshop on Set Visualisation and Reasoning
by Sven Linker 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Due to multiple requests, we decided to extend the submission deadline for the Workshop on Set Visualisation and Reasoning by a week. NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 18 April 2016 ====================================================================== 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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Reminder: CDVE2016 full paper deadline approaching
by cdve .org 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

CDVE2016 call for papers www.cdve.org CDVE2016 conference full paper submission deadline is coming soon. You are welcome to submit full papers up to 8 pages. See our call for papers page for more details. The deadline for submitting the full paper is April 15, 2016. The short paper deadline is April 20. 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 Your paper should dress one of the major topics in the call for paper themes. Our conference is focused on the "cooperative", "concurrent", "integration" aspects of the design, visualization, engineering and any other applications that these main aspects are emphasized. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. You do not have to submit an abstract to submit a full paper. You should submit your full paper directly to the Easychair system. See paper submission page for how to submit. All the accepted papers (full and short) 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 some journals including 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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IEEE VIS2016: VAST Challenge 2016 CFP: Submission Deadline: July 12 2016
by Jian Chen 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '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 *VAST Challenge* http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2016 *Submission deadline*: July 12, 2016 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours). All participants are invited to attend the VAST Challenge 2016 Workshop, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland USA. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. We encourage your submissions and look forward to seeing your innovative approaches to solving these challenges using visual analytics. This year’s VAST Challenge returns to the island of Kronos for three mini-challenges to test the skills of designers and visual analytics groups alike. This scenario and all the people, places, groups, technologies, contained therein are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, places, groups, or technologies is purely coincidental. *Available Now! Mini-Challenge 1:* Please visit VAST Challenge 2016: Mini-Challenge 1 ( http://vacommunity.org/2016+VAST+Challenge:+MC1) for more information and to download the data. The Euybia Island Resort and Conference Center is a busy convention resort hotel and casino off the coast of Kronos. You are a designer specializing in visual analytics and human-computer interaction. Euybia Island has hired you to design an innovative interactive visual interface that enables their facility’s security investigators to conduct real-time analysis of streaming data. Successful designs will provide investigators with the ability to understand current situations as they evolve, look at past data that puts current data in context, and anticipate what might happen next. It will also allow investigators to reconsider recent data in light of new events. *Coming Soon. Mini-Challenges 2 and 3* Please visit VAST Challenge 2016: Mini-Challenge 2 ( http://vacommunity.org/2016+VAST+Challenge:+MC2 ) and Mini-Challenge 3 ( http://vacommunity.org/2016+VAST+Challenge:+MC3) for more information and to download the data. After the successful resolution of the 2014 kidnapping at GAStech’s Abila, Kronos office, GAStech officials determined that Abila offices needed a significant upgrade. In 2015, the growing company moved into a state-of-the-art three-story building near their previous location. The new office is built to the highest energy efficiency standards, and it is fully instrumented with sensors that identify everything from building temperatures to concentration levels of various chemicals. GAStech has recently introduced new security processes. Staff members are now required to wear proximity (prox) cards while in the building, so that incidents like the 2014 kidnapping cannot occur again. As an expert in visual analytics, you have been hired to help GAStech understand its steady stream of operations data. This includes data from stationary and mobile sensors of multiple types. The company needs your help in operational issues as well as security issues. Can you identify the issues to safeguard the company’s employees? Mini-Challenge 2 asks you to analyze two weeks of building sensor data to identify patterns of concern. Mini-Challenge 3 poses a streaming analysis challenge. You will be given access to two days of streaming building sensor data. How can you identify important changes in the stream in real time? How can you quickly come up to speed on changes in the data since you last looked at it? What sensor would you add in order to better understand the suspicious events? *Which Challenges Are Right for You?* • Mini-Challenge 1 is a design challenge. No software development is required. This challenge is ideal for graphic designers, human-computer interaction specialists, • Mini-Challenge 2 involves analysis of a collection of static data about two weeks of GAStech operations data, including building sensor readings and prox-card movement throughout the building. This challenge is ideal for visual analytics researchers and developers. • Mini-Challenge 3 involves analysis of a few days of streaming data from the GAStech building sensors and prox-card movement. Tools will be provided to make it easier for you to connect to and test the text stream. This challenge is ideal for visual analytics researchers and developers. *Important Information about the VAST Challenge:* Participants are welcome to enter one, two, or all three of the Mini-Challenges. Entries may be submitted by teams or individuals. Anyone not associated with the VAST Challenge Committee may submit an entry. Entries will be judged based on the criteria appropriate to the specific Mini-Challenge. Award winners will receive a recognition certificate. Award winning participants will be contacted by August 17, 2016. All participants are also invited to submit a two-page summary of their entry for inclusion in the IEEE VIS 2016 electronic conference proceedings. At this workshop, challenge organizers, participants, and conference attendees come together to discuss their work on this year's Challenge. Award certificates are presented during the workshop. The workshop includes presentations by selected participants, invited speakers, a poster session for the participants, and other activities. Following the workshop, the submissions will be posted to the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository ( http://hcil2.cs.umd.edu/newvarepository/benchmarks.php/) . Submissions from previous years can also be found in this repository. For questions, please email vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org. *VAST Challenge Committee Chairs:* • Kris Cook, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts-Lowell • Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2016 - Call for Papers
by Turkay, Cagatay 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

Dear colleagues, We invite submissions to the following conference: ====================================================== COMPUTER GRAPHICS & VISUAL COMPUTING 2016 (CGVC 2016) The 34th Annual Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association, 15-16 September 2016, Bournemouth University, UK, http://www.eguk.org.uk/CGVC2016/ ====================================================== The annual EGUK conference is a meeting place for all those in the UK working in computer graphics and visual computing. It attracts researchers from across the country and from further afield. The 2016 conference Computer Graphics & Visual Computing will be an overnight meeting (lunchtime to lunchtime). The conference wants to focus on increasing the dialogue between academic research groups, researchers in academic and in industrial developments. In order to facilitate such dialogue, we are seeking contributions mainly in the form of extended abstract and industrial demonstrations. However, we also welcome submissions of full papers. Full papers - a paper of 4 to 8 pages describing completed research. Papers will be refereed by members of the EGUK programme committee. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to give a 20 minute presentation at the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the Eurographics digital library and will count as full paper publications. Extended abstract - an abstract of up to 1000 words, plus figures and references. An extended abstract can describe work in progress, interim results, industrial work, or research presented more fully elsewhere. Extended abstracts will also be refereed by a panel drawn from the EGUK programme committee. All accepted extended abstracts will be presented as posters in a poster session and authors of selected submissions will also be expected to give a 15 minute presentation at the conference. Industrial project abstracts �C a technical abstract of 1 to 4 pages, demonstrating implementations and/or product development. Technical abstracts will be presented at the conference site as large format posters during a poster session. Accepted abstracts will appear in the Eurographics digital library. An extended abstract and industrial project abstract will not be considered as a full paper publication, instead being similar to a SIGGRAPH one�\page sketch or to a conference poster without an associated paper. As such, presenting an extended abstract at this conference has no effect on your ability to publish a fuller version of the same work in another venue. See full instruction at the conference website. ====================================================== Topics include but are not limited to: Computer animation and image-based animation Computer-based arts and entertainment Vision-based techniques and image processing Acquisition and reconstruction techniques Graphics architectures and acceleration hardware Medical imaging Multimedia visualisation Computer Games Rendering techniques Scientific visualization and big data Information visualization Visual analytics Augmented reality and collaborative environments Mobile Apps and Interactive Devices Human computer interaction, robotics, and haptics Modelling methods ====================================================== Important Dates: Submission Deadline: ***** 17 June 2016 ***** Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2016 Camera Ready: 5 August 2016 Conference: 15-16 September 2016 ====================================================== Conference co-chairs: Dr Cagatay Turkay, City University London, UK, Dr Tao Ruan Wan, Bradford University, UK. . Contact: chairs-cgvc2016(a)eg.org<mailto:chairs-cgvc2016@eg.org> Local arrangement co-chair: Dr Wen Tang, Bournemouth University, UK; ======================================================

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VINCI 2016 call for paper
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '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 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 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 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 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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CFP (3rd Call): IEEE TMM Special Issue on Visualization and Visual Analytics for Multimedia
by Nan Cao 02 Apr '16

02 Apr '16

*IEEE TMM Special Issue on Visualization and Visual Analytics for Multimedia* *Submission Info: * Deadline:18:00 EST, May 1st, 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: 05/01/2016 - 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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