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[WCCS] Deadline approaching: IEEE WCCS 2015 Submissions Extended 15 July: Submitting to IEEE Xplore/ISI/
by Mohamed Nemiche 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to the IEEE 3rd World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS15). The submission deadline is July 15, 2015. http://mscomplexsystems.org/wccs15/ November 23-25, 2015 Marrakech, Morocco CONFIRMED SPECIAL ISSUES =============================== All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Distinguished papers from WCCS14 will be invited to submit a revised and extended version to indexed International Journals: 1) Systems Research and Behavoral Science (Impact factor: 0.474) 2) International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) (Indexed) 3) International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC) (Indexed) CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ============================== 1)Professor Didier DUBOIS, IRIT, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FRANCE. 2)Professor Eleni KARATZA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE. 3)Professor. Helder Coelho BioISI and Mind-Brain College, University of Lisbon, Portugal 4)Professor Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ========================================================== Foundations of Complex Systems Modeling Social Systems Evolution and Ecology Information and Communication Technologies Cloud Computing and Complexity Computational Intelligence and Applications Multi-Agent Systems and Applications Software Engineering Research and Practice Embedded and Real-time Systems and Applications Modeling and Control of Complex Systems Complex Robotic and Automated Systems Mining Complex Data Network computing Image, Biomedical Engineering and Signal Processing Special Sessions: ===================== 1) Machine Learning Techniques and Information security (MLTIS) 2) Applications of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering 3) Characterising and Analysing Emergent Properties in Complex Systems & Systems of Systems More information at http://mscomplexsystems.org/wccs15/keynotes ========================================================================= Best regards, Dr. M NEMICHE, Co-Chair of WCCS15; _______________________________________________ WCCS mailing list WCCS(a)mscomplexsystems.org http://mscomplexsystems.org/mailman/listinfo/wccs_mscomplexsystems.org

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[Ieee_vis] CFP: Workshop on Personal Visualization: Exploring Data in Everyday Life at IEEE VIS
by Charles Perin 20 Jun '15

20 Jun '15

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: Workshop on Personal Visualization: Exploring Data in Everyday Life (In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2015, Oct 25th or 26th, Chicago, IL) Website: http://www.vis4me.com/personalvis15 *** Paper Submissions due August 31st, 2015 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: -------------------------------- Information visualization and visual analytics tools have tended to focus on data that is important to science, finance, business, and government. These tools have typically been designed for experts, including scientists, financiers, and other professionals. However, individuals are now increasingly able to collect and manipulate large volumes of data about themselves (e.g. biometric data, exercise, sleep, and nutrition data) as well as data about topics that interest them (neighborhood statistics, sports metrics, environmental data, etc.). This "personal data" is creating new opportunities for both visualization and visual analytics, and presents a variety of new research and design challenges. Recently, the visualization community has started to consider the emerging and important case of "personal visualization" and examine the challenges and potential associated with collecting, visualizing, and making sense of personal data. This workshop, held in conjunction with the <http://ieeevis.org/> 2015 IEEE VIS conference in Chicago, will examine the opportunities and challenges for personal visualization and personal visual analytics. The venue will provide an opportunity to discuss the current landscape of personal visualization tools and approaches as well as highlight ongoing work in this new area. We welcome submissions both as papers and as posters/demos. PAPERS Authors should submit a 2-4 page position paper in <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html> TVCG format which describe a personal visualization challenge, informed by their own research, observations, or thinking about personal visualization and analytics. Position papers should clearly identify one challenge and discuss implications for the visualization community. POSTERS/DEMOS Authors wishing to demo should submit a 2-page description of the work in <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html> TVCG format, accompanied by an A0 poster and/or a plan for an interactive demonstration. Posters and demos should present new or ongoing research on the topic of personal visualization. Example demonstrations might include tools the authors have built for themselves, for relatives, or for novice communities, while poster submissions might include design ideas and early sketches describing new personal visualization tools and concepts. TOPICS AND SCOPE: ------------------------ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Defining and exploring the relationship between personal visualization and parallel research areas such as personal informatics that focus on collecting personal data. * Providing approaches for visualizing and making sense of large quantities of multi-dimensional, temporal, multi-variate personal data. * Examining the role of communities, sharing, and privacy in personal analytics. * New application areas that involve personal data (health and well-being, environmental concerns, sport monitoring, etc.). * Designing visualization and analysis tools for non-expert. * Exploring the relationship between personal visualization tools and data portraits, data sculptures, and other artistic representations of personal information. * Evaluation tools and strategies for measuring the impact of personal visualization. * Visualization designs that consider factors such as pleasure, gamification, and engagement with personal data. Detailed information available on the workshop website: http://www.vis4me.com/personalvis15 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: -------------------------------- <http://charles.perin.free.fr/> Charles Perin, University of Calgary <http://alicethudt.de/> Alice Thudt, University of Calgary <http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~mtory/> Melanie Tory, University of Victoria <http://www.wjwillett.net/> Wesley Willett, University of Calgary <http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sheelagh/wiki/pmwiki.php> Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary

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Visualization Postdoc Position at SCI in Utah
by Alexander Lex 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah is looking to hire a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in visualization. The ideal candidate has a strong publication record and is interested in visualization for biology, but candidates with experience in other areas of visualization are also encouraged to apply. For details please refer to the job announcement: http://www.sci.utah.edu/75-sci-opportunities/post-doc/536-post-doc-lex.html To apply for this position please send your CV and at least three references to Alexander Lex at alex(a)sci.utah.edu. Don't hesitate to write if you have any questions. -- Alexander Lex http://alexander-lex.net SCI Institute & School of Computing, University of Utah The Caleydo project: http://www.caleydo.org

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Final CfP IEEE BDVA 2015 Special Session on "Immersive Analytics"
by Karsten Klein 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Apologies for cross-posting *IEEE BDVA - Big Data Visual Analytic**s 2015* 22-25 September 2015, Hobart, Australia *Call for Papers "Special Session on Immersive Analytics"* Accepted papers will be published as part of the IEEE BDVA proceedings. High quality papers might be selected for a journal publication. *Submission deadline* - June 30 *Notification* - July 10 During IEEE BDVA 2015 a special session on Immersive Analytics will be hold. Immersive Analytics is an emerging research thrust which investigates how new interaction and display technologies can be used to support analytical reasoning and decision making. The aim is to provide multi-sensory interfaces for analytics approaches that support collaboration and allow users to immerse themselves in their data and designs. Immersive Analytics builds on technologies such as large touch surfaces, immersive virtual and augmented reality environments, and sensor devices. For this special session, we aim to bring together researchers working on all aspects of Immersive Analytics to discuss research directions and challenges, and to present the current state of the art. Topics of interest include the whole range of topics touched by Immersive Analytics research, including * development and evaluation of innovative interfaces and devices, * development and evaluation of interaction metaphors * development and evaluation of visualizations adapted to the new environments * systematic assessment of analytic workflows in application areas to investigate the potential of immersive analytics approaches for both * research and commercial applications challenges from application areas, e.g. life sciences, business intelligence, logistics, information security, software engineering, that highlight the shortcomings of classical mouse and keyboard approaches Both researchers working on Immersive Analytics and practitioners from potential application areas are welcome to submit a paper for the special session. Due to the emerging nature of Immersive Analytics, both papers that describe original research, including research in progress, and position papers are welcome. *Submission* (see also the submission page on www.bdva.net) Authors should submit manuscripts via Easychair that are neither submitted for publication or under review elsewhere. The page limit is 8 pages, depending on the nature of the paper and the state of the research papers can be shorter, but should have at least 4 pages in the IEEE manuscript format . Accepted papers will be published as part of the BDVA proceedings. High quality papers might be selected for a journal publication. *Submission deadline* - June 30 *Notification* - July 10 For more details on the special session please contact technical programme chair Karsten Klein (karsten.klein(a)monash.edu)

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IEEE VIS 2015: LDAV abstract deadline June 17 (tomorrow)
by Jian Chen 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

IEEE VIS 2015, http://ieeevis.org/ 25-30 October 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA *The 5th IEEE Symposium on Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV):* <http://ldav.org/> *http://ldav.org* <http://ldav.org/> Contact: papers(a)ldav.org Important dates: - Abstracts due: June 17, 2015 - Paper submission deadline: June 24, 2015 Symposium Chairs: - Kelly Gaither, The University of Texas at Austin - Venkatram Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory Paper Chairs: - Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratory - Hank Childs, University of Oregon / Lawance Berkeley National Lab - Markus Hadwiger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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VIS publication dataset available
by John Stasko 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

We have made available to all a dataset of information about the IEEE VIS Conference papers from 1990-2014. The dataset contains each paper that has appeared at the IEEE VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis Conferences, and it includes information such as the paper's year, conference, title, authors, abstract, DOI, pages, and more. We also provide the de-duped author names for each paper, that is, a list of authors where the different spellings, initials used, etc., of a specific person have been unified to one consistent string. Additionally, for each paper we include a list of the earlier papers from the three conferences that it cites as a reference. Further information about the dataset and a download link can be found at http://vispubdata.org. We have created this dataset as a resource for the entire visualization community and we hope that it will be helpful to you in your own research. We also intend to update the dataset in the future with the information about each new year's papers. If you find errors or mistakes in the datafile, please leave a comment there and we will correct them. Additionally, three visualizations useful for exploring different aspects of the dataset can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/citevis/VIS25/. They were originally created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the conference in November in Paris at VIS '14, and they now have been udpated to include the 2014 papers data as well. Petra Isenberg Florian Heimerl Steffen Koch Tobias Isenberg John Stasko

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12th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) Call for Papers
by Nicolas Prigent 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

****************************************************************************** 12th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) Call for Papers vizsec.org ****************************************************************************** The 12th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Technical Papers ---------------- Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situation awareness and/or understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigations - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) - Modeling system and network behavior - Modeling attacker and defender behavior - Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks - Predicting future attacks or targets - Security metrics and education - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable. Posters ------- Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Tests and Evaluation -------------------- When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. Submissions ----------- The VizSec 2015 proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formated using the IEEE VGTC template that can be found at http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html. Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2015 Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST Papers August 1, 2015 Submission for Papers September 5, 2015 Author Notification for Papers September 19, 2015 Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Posters September 19, 2015 Abstract Submission for Posters September 26, 2015 Author Notification for Poster

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Postdoctoral Research Position in scientific processes visualisation
by Yannick Prié 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

A 24 months postdoctoral position beginning in Fall 2015 is opened in Nantes (France) in information visualisation, namely visualization of scientific processes in astrophysics. The researcher will collaborate with an epistemology researcher on the analysis and visualization of astrophysicists’ activity. Three categories of visualization tools are considered for three categories of users: epistemologists, astrophysicists, and the general public. The project is well funded and will provide an excellent environment for publishing in leading venues in HCI, frequent travels to Paris (Saclay) are to be expected. The net salary, including medical insurance, will be > 2000€ net, depending on experience and qualification. The candidate should have a PhD with honours in HCI, infovis or activity analysis and an interest for humanities, as well as good programming skills. Apply by contacting yannick.prie(a)univ-nantes.fr <mailto:yannick.prie@univ-nantes.fr> and aurelien.tabard(a)univ-lyon1.fr <mailto:aurelien.tabard@univ-lyon1.fr> with CV + motivation letter + 2 references. For more information see http://duke.univ-nantes.fr/blog/postdoc-position/ <http://duke.univ-nantes.fr/blog/postdoc-position/>

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IEEE VIS 2015: VAST challenge: Deadline July 7th, 2015
by Jian Chen 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

This is a friendly reminder: the VAST challenge submission deadline is fast approaching. For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-challenge. *VAST Challenge 2015 Call for Participation* Announcing the VAST Challenge 2015! All data are now available. See http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2015 for details. This year’s VAST Challenge presents two related mini-challenges and an overall Grand Challenge for your consideration. The challenges are open to teams and individuals in academia, industry, and government. This year, we would like to encourage participants create innovative visualizations to support their analyses of the data. There will be many different features within the data sets that could use creative approaches, so even if your particular approach doesn’t address the entire Challenge problem set, please enter and show us your new ways of working with this data. *Background* *Note: 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.* DinoFun World is a modest-sized park amusement park, sitting on about 215 hectares and hosting thousands of visitors each day. It has a small town feel, but it is well known for its exciting rides and events. One event last year was a weekend tribute to Scott Jones, internationally renowned football (“soccer,” in US terminology) star. Scott is from a town nearby DinoFun World. DinoFun World declared “Scott Jones Weekend” where he was scheduled to appear in two stage shows each on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to talk about his life and career. In addition, a show of memorabilia from his career would be displayed in the park’s Pavilion. However, the event did not go as planned. Scott’s weekend was marred by crime and mayhem perpetrated by a poor, misguided and disgruntled figure from Scott’s past. While the crimes were rapidly solved, park officials and law enforcement figures are interested in understanding what happened during that weekend to better prepare themselves for future events. They are interested in understanding how people move and communicate in the park, as well as how patterns change and evolve over time, and what can be understood about the motivations for changing patterns. *The Challenges* *Mini-Challenge 1 * Mini-Challenge 1 focuses on movement of people around the park. You are asked to characterize the movement of groups and individuals, with a special emphasis on what might be relevant to better understanding the incident that occurred in June 2014. Please visit VAST Challenge 2015: Mini-Challenge 1 <http://vacommunity.org/2015+VAST+Challenge%3A+MC1> for more information and to download the data. *Mini-Challenge 2 * Mini-Challenge 2 asks you to dive into the communications over time that took place among the park visitors using the park app. Linkages between visitors and among park patrons and park staff could reveal behaviors of interest. Please visit VAST Challenge 2015: Mini-Challenge 2 <http://vacommunity.org/2015+VAST+Challenge%3A+MC2> for more information and to download the data. *The Grand Challenge * The Grand Challenge requires you to blend your knowledge obtained from the two mini-challenges to answer questions of interest to law enforcement officials. How was the crime executed and who was responsible? Please visit VAST Challenge 2015: Grand Challenge <http://vacommunity.org/2015+VAST+Challenge%3A+Grand+Challenge> for more information. *For Further Information* For more information, please see http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2015 or contact vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org. The submission deadline is July 7, 2015. We look forward to seeing your creative solutions! *VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs* Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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2nd call for applications: Doctoral Candidate Position in Machine Learning and Visual Analytics (Aalto University, Finland) - deadline June 17
by Peltonen Jaakko 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Doctoral Candidate Position in Machine Learning and Visual Analytics A PhD position is available at the Statistical Machine Learning and Bioinformatics Group, Aalto University, Finland. Finding and understanding what is relevant in big data is challenging and needs support from novel computational methods. You will develop new probabilistic modeling and machine learning based methods for exploratory data analysis and visualization, applied to big data domains such as scientific publications or online news. Join us to create new ways to explore big data. The position is a full-time and fixed-term 2+2 years research position funded by the Revolution of Knowledge Work 2 research project (www.reknow.fi) which develops methods and tools for modern knowledge work such as advanced interactive information retrieval systems that outperform traditional typed query systems. The highly successful research has already led to numerous publications and a spin-off company. A master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, visual analytics, or a related field is needed. An interest in probabilistic modeling and/or machine learning is necessary. A strong study record is appreciated. Studies or practical experience in machine learning, probabilistic modeling, information visualization, and/or visual analytics is an advantage. Good programming skills in languages such as C/C++/Matlab/R/Python and good written and spoken communication skills are desired. It is possible to start as an undergraduate working on the master's thesis. About Aalto: Aalto University (www.aalto.fi) is a new multidisciplinary university created from a merger between three leading universities - the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The university has 20 000 students and a staff of 5 000 including 370 professors. The position is at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, a joint research institute of Aalto University and University of Helsinki. HIIT's research has been deemed excellent in assessments by its scientific advisory board and by the two universities. The research group (research.ics.aalto.fi/mi/) is multicultural, lively, and has a highly successful track record. Finland is a Nordic country achieving high scores in evaluations of education, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, and quality of life. The research site is at the Aalto University campus. Helsinki and the capital area are a great place to live, with numerous local attractions and events, scenic landscapes of small forests, islands and urban areas, a high standard of living, and excellent travel connections to national and international destinations. How to Apply: Please fill in your application using the Saima recruitment system, see the link in the online version: http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/509/ The application materials must include a motivation letter, curriculum vitae, a copy of study records, contact details of at least two references, and any other materials deemed relevant. The application deadline is June 17th, 2015. Further information: For additional information, please contact Academy Research Fellow Jaakko Peltonen (email: jaakko.peltonen [at] aalto.fi).

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