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CFP - Interactive Visual Decision Analytics at HICSS-50: January 4-7, 2017 Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii -- Submission Deadline June 15, 2016
by David S. Ebert 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

We are soliciting papers in interactive visualization and analytics for decision support, operational management, and scientific discovery as part of the Interactive Visual Decision Analytics minitrack of the Decision Analytics Track at HICSS 50. Accepted paper will appear in the proceedings as well as the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS is always one of the top conferences for downloads in the IEEE Digital Library! A description of the paper topics is below, the minitrack RFP is below, and the conference RFP is available at http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp. Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions by June 15, David, Brian, Kelly David Ebert Brian Fisher Kelly Gaither - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, www.purvac.org - - ebertd(a)purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Minitrack: Interactive Visual Decision Analytics DECISION ANALYTICS, MOBILE SERVICES AND SERVICE SCIENCE Interactive Visual Decision Analytics supports human decision making through interaction with data and statistical and machine learning processes. IVDA applies in broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. Current applications include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, precision medicine, safety and security and business processes. We also encourage submissions that extend the areas of use to new analytic tasks in science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, and other domains. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, Interactive Machine Learning, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. We seek to define analytical methods and technologies that use interactive visualization to meet challenges posed by data, platforms, and applications for decision making and risk-based decision making, such as: . Visualization and Analysis of datasets of varying size and complexity from archives and real-time streams . Collaborative visual analysis and operational coordination within and across organizations. . Interactive and Visual Risk-based decision making . Cross-platform interoperability, from mobiles to data walls . Managing response time of complex analytical tasks . Effective deployment and case studies of success from deployed visualization and analytics experiences We invite computational, cognitive, and organizational perspectives on advanced data processing and interactive visualization across a range of human endeavors. We also invite participation from researchers who are looking at scaling issues and multiscale issues, whether these scales refer to the time of decision making, the form-factor and operational constraints of mobile devices, the number of decision makers or the more traditional notion of multiscale simulation and real world scales of data. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine computational and interactive analytics in "mixed initiative" systems, decision support in the context of an organization (e.g. communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus on the analytics of the data itself and coordination of multiple levels of analysis and operations to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for stakeholders

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VINCI 2016 call for paper
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 24 Apr '16

24 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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FedCSIS 2016 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'16 - 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'16 - 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'16 - 1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'16 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DSTUI'16 - 6th International Workshop on Dealing with Spatial and Temporal Uncertainty and Imprecision --- LTA'16 - 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'16 - 9th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'16 - 1st International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BCPC'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'16 - 9th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- CPORA'16 - 1st Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- IWCPS'16 - 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'16 - 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'16 - 8th Workshop on Scalable Computing * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- IEES'16 - 1st International E-education Symposium - Education of the Future --- DS-RAIT'16 - 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology * iNetSApp'16 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'16 - 3rd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'16 - 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'16 - 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'16 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'16 - 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- APICSS'16 - 1st Workshop on Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems --- ASEG'16 - 1st Workshop on Advanced Systems for e-Governance and e- Democratization --- ISM'16 - 11th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'16 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'16 - 22nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- MIQH'16 - 1st Workshop on M-Health Innovations for Quality in Healthcare --- UHH'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'16 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'16 - 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'16 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- BTMSPA'16 - 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches --- MDASD'16 - 4th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'16 - 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-36 - The 36th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop --- WASE'16 - 1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Keynote title : How enterprise architecture management improves IS capabilities - Results from a multiple case study - Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Keynote title : Big Water Meets Big Data: Analytics of the AIS Ship Tracking Data - Michael Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Keynote title : Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks? - Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US, Keynote title: Service focus and focused service composition PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CFP: GD2016, Athen, Greece. Sept 19-21, 2016
by Yifan Hu 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

==================================================================== Call for Papers GD 2016 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 19-21, 2016 – Athens, Greece http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/ ==================================================================== Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs andconstitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing andNetwork Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial tovisually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of suchapplication areas include data science, social sciences, Web computing,information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, informationsecurity and software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Itsfocus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well asthe design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2016 will behosted by the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, an affiliate ofthe National Technical University of Athens from September 19 to 21, 2016 inAthens, Greece. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspect of graphdrawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and postersand to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. PAPERS------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoreticalor practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. Regularpapers must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks. Paperssubmitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the othertrack. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects---------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such ascombinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this trackincludes (but is not limited to): • Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms • Geometric graph theory• Geometric computing• Planarity and topological graph theory• Optimization on graphs Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects----------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such asthe development of network visualization systems and interfaces in differentapplication areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is notlimited to): • Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications, including big data• Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems• Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms• Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems and user interfaces• Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction• Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs Short papers------------ Besides regular papers in the two tracks above there will be a separatecategory for short papers. In this category it will be possible to submittheoretical contributions and applied papers of shorter length. Papers in thiscategory will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. Demos----- Authors of applied regular and short papers will have the opportunity to show ademo of their software/system during the poster session. Submission format----------------- All submissions must be formatted using the LaTeX style file for the conferenceseries Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. Thedefault margins and fonts must not be modified. Submissions that do not complywith this format risk being rejected. The length of regular papers is limitedto 12 pages (excluding references), while the length of short papers is limitedto 6 pages (excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fullysubstantiated, including full proofs or appropriate experimental data. If thisinformation does not fit within the page limits, the authors should include itin a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which thereviewers may read at their own discretion. POSTERS------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and relatedareas are also solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for thecommunication of late-breaking research results (which may also appearelsewhere) to the graph drawing community. Authors of posters should prepare anabstract (up to two pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted togetherwith the poster itself. CONTEST------- Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference willbe provided on the conference Web site. PUBLICATION----------- All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published bySpringer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and, followinga green open access policy, as a conference index on the arXiv repository. TheLNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community uponpublication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. The self-archivedarXiv proceedings will provide immediate and unrestricted open access. Twelvepages (excluding references) will be allocated for regular papers and six pages(excluding references) for short papers. Upon submission of the camera-readyversion of accepted papers, the identical paper (optionally including a clearlymarked appendix) must be submitted to the arXiv repository and its arXividentifier must be specified for inclusion in the conference index. For each paper, an author must register and present the paper at the conference (baring unforeseen circumstances) otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings.Abstracts of accepted posters will also appear in the conference proceedings (two pages), but will not be made available for indexing. Selected papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. AWARDS------ For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2016 will give a BestPaper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to presenttheir work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there willbe a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2016attendees. IMPORTANT DATES--------------- Paper submission deadline June 12 (23:59 PDT)Notification of paper acceptance July 24Poster submission deadline August 17 (23:59 PDT)Notification of poster acceptance August 28Final versions due September 1Contest submission deadline September 11Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 19-21 INVITED SPEAKERS---------------- Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, DERoger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, CH PROGRAM COMMITTEE----------------- Patrizio Angelini, University of Tübingen, DETherese Biedl, University of Waterloo, CAWalter Didimo, University of Perugia, ITCody Dunne, IBM Watson Health, USADavid Eppstein, UC Irvine, USAJean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, FRStefan Felsner, TU Berlin, DERadoslav Fulek, IST Austria, ATEmden Gansner, Google, USAYifan Hu (co-chair), Yahoo Labs, USAKarsten Klein, Monash University, AUStephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USAMarc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, NLJan Kynčl, Charles University Prague, CZKwan-Liu Ma, UC Davis, USATamara Mchedlidze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DEMartin Nöllenburg (co-chair), TU Vienna, ATStephen North, Infovisible, Oldwick, USAMaurizio Patrignani, Roma Tre University, ITHelen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UKHuamin Qu, HKUST, Hong KongGünter Rote, FU Berlin, DEAndré Schulz, University of Hagen, DELei Shi, Chinese Academy of Science, CNAlexandru Telea, University of Groningen, NL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE-------------------- Kostas Karpouzis, National Tech. Univ. of Athens, GRChrysanthi Raftopoulou, National Tech. Univ. of Athens, GRAntonios Symvonis (chair), National Tech. Univ. of Athens, GR CONTEST COMMITTEE----------------- Philipp Kindermann, University of Hagen, DEMaarten Löffler (chair), Utrecht University, NLLev Nachmanson, Microsoft Research, USAIgnaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE

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Reminder: CDVE2016 short paper deadline approaching
by cdve .org 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

CDVE2016 call for short papers - www.cdve.org CDVE2016 conference short paper submission deadline is coming soon. You are welcome to submit short papers up to 4 pages. See our call for papers page for more details. The deadline for submitting the short paper is April 20, 2016. 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 short paper should address 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. Short papers can report intermediate results of the research on the above topics. The paper should be original and has not been submitted to other conferences and journals. If you are preparing a full paper and missed the deadline, you can still submit it. 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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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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