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IEEE VIS 2015 CFP: Tutorials and Workshops
by Jian Chen 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

IEEE VIS 2015 http://ieeevis.org Call for Tutorials: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/tutorials Call for Workshops: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/workshops Deadline: April 30 2015 =============== Tutorials: =============== Tutorials are intended to cover a wide selection of topics related to IEEE VIS 2015 and provide background on new tools and application domains necessary for research in data and information visualization and visual analytics. Tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, including volume visualization and rendering, information visualization, geographic visualization, visual analytics, high performance computing, and scientific application communities. We are soliciting half-day tutorial proposals in the areas of visualization systems, mathematical foundations, methods, and application areas. We welcome course proposals that introduce emerging technologies to the visualization community, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. Topics can include--but are not limited to--any of those listed in the calls for papers for VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis. Tutorials with an application focus are also encouraged. TUTORIAL DETAIL Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the tutorial's importance and suitability for presentation in a tutorial format, the past experience and qualifications of the instructors, the overall balance in the tutorial program, and the likely attendance of the tutorial. All tutorial proposals should include: - The level of the tutorial (beginning, intermediate, or advanced) - An abstract of the tutorial topic - A description of the tutorial's organization including time allocation and outline for major course topics (500 word minimum) - The background and contact information for each instructor. Proposals should not exceed two (maximum three) pages, and should be submitted via PCS <http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/>. Please note the formatting guidelines <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> when preparing your submission. Feel free to address any questions concerning submission, format, and content to tutorials(at)ieeevis.org. *IMPORTANT DATES* Deadline: April 30, 2015 CHAIRS Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London Joao Comba, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University For more information, email tutorials(at)ieeevis.org =============== Workshops =============== 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. Workshops should: - emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium, or - bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. *Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees* and 'invitation only' workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for printed publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: - title - contact details of the organizers - brief description of organizers' background, related publications and research - goals, technical scope, the mission, or proposed focus - planned activities - length (full or half day) - statement of the organization and development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters) - requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format) - intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines. The proposal should be submitted via PCS here <http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/>. The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, - the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, - the appropriateness with IEEE VIS topics, - the qualification of the organizers, - the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and - the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. *IMPORTANT DATES* Proposal Submission: April 30, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2015 *CHAIRS* Markus Hadwiger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State Universtity For further information, please email workshops(at)ieeevis.org. Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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Final CFP: IJDL Special Issue on “Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR)”
by Mutschke, Peter 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

== Final Call for Papers == International Journal on Digital Libraries Special Issue on “Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR)” https://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-2-1435147-preview&dynamic=true === Important Dates === Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2015 First notification: June 30, 2015 Revision submission: August 31, 2015 Second notification: October 31, 2015 Final version submission: December 1, 2015 === Aims and Scope === The success of an information system depends mainly on its ability to properly support interaction between users and information. Current information systems, however, show as a particular point of failure the vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information space in question. Studies in interactive information seeking behavior have confirmed that the ability to browse an information space and observe similarities and dissimilarities between information objects is crucial for accidental encountering and the creative use of information. This is in particular true for heterogeneous information spaces within the open web. Some kind of guided searching therefore becomes more and more important in order to precisely discover information without knowing the right search terms. Knowledge mapping encompasses all attempts to use visualizations to gain insights into the structure and evolution of large-scale information spaces. Knowledge maps can take the form of network visualizations, heat maps, tree maps or specific, map like arrangements of search results. However, most maps are static visualizations made for special purposes, and usually neither interactive nor dynamic. Moreover, not much of the experiences made in knowledge mapping have ever been implemented in online interfaces to digital libraries and collections, nor is there a stable and continuous knowledge exchange between the “map makers” on the one hand and the Information Retrieval (IR) specialists on the other hand. Thus, knowledge maps of digital library collections are promising navigation tools through knowledge spaces but still far away from being applicable for searching - due to a lack of models that properly combine insights of the two strands. The focused issue therefore aims at bringing together these two communities in order to discuss the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes and to create a common ground for experiments aiming at the incorporation of knowledge maps into IR models at the level of the user interface. Therefore, the leading research questions for this special issue are twofold: How can knowledge maps be utilized for information seeking in large information spaces? And, the other way around: Can insights from IR also improve knowledge mapping itself? === Topics of Interest === This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate exceptional achievements on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval, including but not limited to: · Knowledge maps for digital libraries · Knowledge orders of information spaces · Information seeking behaviour · Information discovery · Interactive IR systems · Human–computer IR · Knowledge Visualization in IR · Visual interfaces to information systems · Browsing and navigating information spaces · Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization · Evaluation of interactive IR systems. === Guest Editors === Peter Mutschke, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany (contact person) Andrea Scharnhorst, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, USA André Skupin, San Diego State University, USA Philipp Mayr, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany === Paper Submission === Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/799. At the beginning of the submission process, under “Article Type”, please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard review process. Kind regards, Peter Mutschke -- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Mail: peter.mutschke(a)gesis.org<mailto:peter.mutschke@gesis.org> www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>

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IEEE VIS 2015 CFP
by Jian Chen 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

IEEE VIS 2015 http://ieeevis.org/ 25-30 October 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis (please spread the news) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis (please ‘like’ us) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… What you will find in this e-mail: 1. Four co-located events (deadlines and websites are up-to-date) 2. Workshops 3. Tutorials 4. Panels 5. SciVis contest 6. Doctoral colloquium 7. Arts program 8. Location CO-LOCATED EVENTS: *= *The 5th IEEE Sympoisum on Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV): http://ldav.org Contact: papers(a)ldav.org Important dates: Abstracts due: June 17, 2015 Paper submission deadline: June 24, 2015 *= *Visual Data Science Symposium: http://visualdatascience.org Important dates: Short paper deadline: July 1, 2015 Author notification: September 4, 2015 Camera ready submission and copyright forms: September 18, 2015 *=* Visualization for Cyber Security Workshop (VizSec): http://www.vizsec.org/ Contact: vizsec2015(a)easychair.org or Google Group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec> or twitter: @vizsec <https://twitter.com/vizsec> Important dates: Paper deadline: August 1, 2015 Author notification for papers: September 5, 2015 Camera ready submission and copyright forms: September 19, 2015 Poster deadline: September 19, 2015 Author notification for posters: September 26, 2015 *=* VAST Challenge Workshop: http://www.vacommunity.org <http://www.vacommunity.org/tiki-index.php> Contact: vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org Important dates: TBD WORKSHOPS: Submission deadline: April 30, 2015. Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2015 We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS 2015 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. Workshops should emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium, or bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and 'invitation only' workshops will not be approved. For more information, please visit: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/workshops. Chairs: Markus Hadwiger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University Contact: workshops(a)ieeevis.org TUTORIALS: Submission deadline: April 30, 2015 Tutorials are intended to cover a wide selection of topics related to IEEE VIS 2015 and provide background on new tools and application domains necessary for research in data and information visualization and visual analytics. Tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, including volume visualization and rendering, information visualization, geographic visualization, visual analytics, high performance computing, and scientific application communities. We are soliciting half-day tutorial proposals in the areas of visualization systems, mathematical foundations, methods, and application areas. We welcome course proposals that introduce emerging technologies to the visualization community, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. Topics can include--but are not limited to--any of those listed in the calls for papers for VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis. Tutorials with an application focus are also encouraged. For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/tutorials. Chairs: Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London Joao Comba, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University Contact: tutorials(a)ieeevis.org PANELS: <http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/panels>Submission deadline: June 15, 2015 Panels address important and/or controversial applications and issues in scientific and information visualization and visual analytics 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 more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/panels. Chairs: Heike Leitte, Heidelberg University Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Pierre Dragicevic, INRIA Contact: panels(a)ieeevis.org POSTERS: Submission deadline: June 26, 2015. Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2015. Camera ready (video preview) submission: August 7, 2015. 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. In addition to a poster being displayed throughout IEEE VIS, a two-page summary of your work will be published in the electronic conference proceedings, interactive poster sessions will provide a forum for presenting your work and discussing new ideas with your peers, and finally video previews for posters are strongly suggested. For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/posters <http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/posters>. Chairs: Jing Yang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Enrico Bertini, NYU Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland Tim Dwyer, Monash University Australia Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University Hamish Carr, University of Leeds Contact: posters(a)ieeevis.org SCIVIS CONTEST (Visualize the Universe): submission deadline: July 31, 2015 The goal of the project is to visualize cosmological simulations, which are a cornerstone of our understanding of the Universe during its 13.7 billion year progression from small fluctuations that we see in the cosmic microwave background to today. For more information, please visit http://darksky.slac.stanford.edu/scivis2015/ Organizers: Contest Chair: Bernd Hentschel, Virtual Reality Group, RWTH Aachen University Contest Co-Chair: Berk Geveci, Kitware Inc. Scientific Organizers: Matthew Turk, NCSA and Samuel Skillman, Stanford/SLAC Contact: scivis_contest(a)ieeevis.org DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM: Submission deadline: May 10, 2015, notification of acceptance: July 1, 2015 The doctoral colloquium (DC) is a single-day invitation-only event taking place the day before IEEE VIS where Ph.D. students in any visualization field---preferably those at the proposal defense stage or equivalent---present their proposed dissertation work and receive feedback from leading senior visualization researchers. We invite contributions from the scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics student communities. For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium. Chairs: Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Liz Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago Margit Pohl, TU/Wien Contact: doctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org ARTS PROGRAM: Submission deadline: June 15, 2015 The theme for VISAP’15 is data Improvisations. Artists and visualization researchers share common goals: to make things visible which are normally difficult to see; and to enable reasoning about information that we might otherwise remain ignorant of. For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/arts-program Chairs: Fanny Chevalier, INRIA Angus Forbes, University of Illinois at Chicago Daria Tsoupikova, University of Illinois at Chicago Contact: art(a)ieeevis.org VIS 2015 LOCATION The conference venue, the Palmer House Hilton, is a historic hotel located in the heart of downtown Chicago, the third largest city in the United States and home to world-class architecture, museums, parks, and restaurants. VIS 2015 GENERAL CHAIRS Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago Michael E. Papka, Argonne National Laboratory and Northern Illinois University vis15(a)anl.gov VIS 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon LenSx Inc. Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health Contact: program(a)ieeevis.org Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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VISSOFT 2015: 3rd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization - Call for Papers
by fabian＠fbeck.com 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

==== Call for Papers ==== VISSOFT 2015: 3rd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization September 27 - September 28, 2015, Bremen, Germany http://vissoft.info Software visualization is a broad research area encompassing concepts, methods, tools, and techniques that assist in a range of software engineering and software development activities. Covered aspects include the development and evaluation of approaches for visually analyzing software and software systems, including their structure, execution behavior, and evolution. The VISSOFT IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization continues the history of the ACM SOFTVIS Symposium on Software Visualization and the IEEE VISSOFT International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis. The conference focuses on visualization techniques that target aspects of software maintenance and evolution, program comprehension, reverse engineering, and reengineering, i.e., how visualization helps professionals to understand, analyze, test and evolve software. We aim to gather tool developers, experts, users, and researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. We seek technical papers, empirical studies, applications, or case studies and provide a platform for presenting novel research ideas and tools. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for software engineering data, such as, - source code - static and dynamic dependencies - software evolution and repositories - software documentation - web services - protocol, log, and performance data - parallel techniques - database schemes - software security and privacy issues - workflow and business processes * Visualization to support program comprehension, software testing, and debugging * Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization * Visualization-based techniques in computer science and software engineering education * Integration of software visualization tools and development environments * Empirical evaluation of software visualization * Industrial experience on using software visualization Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool track related to the same list of topics suggested above. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. -== Technical papers ==- These contributions describe in-depth mature research results in the above-mentioned areas of interest. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit such video should provide a URL to the video. Technical papers have to be maximum 10 pages long (including bibliography and annexes). Abstract submission date: April 27, 2015 Full paper submission date: May 4, 2015 Author response period: June 8 - 12, 2015 Notification: June 18, 2015 Artifacts: Traditionally, technical research papers are published without including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.), even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers. Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE11, authors of accepted technical papers at VISSOFT 2015 can have their artifacts evaluated by the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be reflected in the paper publication and presentation. More information about the artifacts may be found on http://www.artifact-eval.org . Artifact submission for accepted papers: June 24, 2015 Artifact notification: July 31, 2015 Awards: VISSOFT 2015 will award distinguished technical papers. Monetary awards will be sponsored by ObjectProfile.com Special issue: A selection of the best technical papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special section of Information and Software Technology (IST) published by Elsevier. -== NIER papers ==- The NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography and annexes). Paper submission date: June 15, 2015 Notification: July 31, 2015 -== Tool papers ==- Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography and annexes). Paper submission date: June 15, 2015 Notification: July 31, 2015 -== How to Submit ==- Submissions must be submitted online via the VISSOFT 2015 EasyChair conference management system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2015 Please adhere to the formatting instruction published on the ICSME website: http://www.icsme.uni-bremen.de/formatting.php -== Organizing Committee ==- General Chair: Jürgen Doellner, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany -- http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/doellner/ Program Co-Chairs: Fabian Beck, University of Stuttgart, Germany -- http://research.fbeck.com Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile -- http://bergel.eu NIER/Tool Co-Chairs: Craig Anslow, University of Calgary, Canada -- http://anslow.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ Johan Fabry, University of Chile, Chile -- http://pleiad.cl/people/jfabry Web Chair: Juraj Kubelka, University of Chile, Chile -- http://www.juraj-kubelka.cz/ Program Committee: Craig Anslow, University of Calgary Stephan Diehl, University Trier Johan Fabry, PLEIAD lab - Department of Computer Science (DCC) - University of Chile Tudor Girba, University of Bern Carsten Goerg, University of Colorado School of Medicine Michele Lanza, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland Claus Lewerentz, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University Chris Muelder, U. C. Davis Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington Wim De Pauw, Google Inc. Steven Reiss, Brown University Sébastien Rufiange, EISTI Houari Sahraoui, DIRO, Université De Montréal Bonita Sharif, Youngstown State University Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen Andy Zaidman, TU Delft Please visit http://vissoft.info for updates. Best regards, Fabian Beck and Alexandre Bergel Program Co-Chairs ----------------------------------------- Dr. Fabian Beck VISUS, University of Stuttgart Allmandring 19 70569 Stuttgart, Germany mail: <mailto:fabian.beck@visus.uni-stuttgart.de> fabian.beck(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de web: <http://research.fbeck.com> http://research.fbeck.com phone: +49 711 685 88622 -----------------------------------------

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Research Fellow in Visualisation and Reasoning, University of Brighton
by Peter Chapman 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

The University of Brighton invites applications from highly motivated researchers to work on a project that aims to make ontologies accessible to a wide range of stakeholders through visualisation. This EPSRC-funded project, titled "Visual Justifications for Ontologies" (EP/M016323/1), will also involve collaboration with Nokia Networks in Finland. The successful applicant will have (or be close to attaining) a PhD or equivalent level of professional research experience in computer science (or a related discipline), a record of quality research publications, skills applicable to at least one of diagrammatic logic, visualisation or empirical computer science. Experience with description logics and ontologies is also desirable. Informal enquiries about the project should be directed to Dr Peter Chapman (p.b.chapman(a)brighton.ac.uk) In making your application, you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the range of research activity undertaken by the Visual Modelling Group, University of Brighton. This post is fixed term for 12 months. For application details, see http://jobs.brighton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SM4059-15-080 -- Dr Peter Chapman Senior Lecturer in Mathematics CEM, University of Brighton ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________

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IEEE VGTC Chair Election Begins on April 15, 2015: Check your VGTC membership
by Christopher Collins 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Forwarding on behalf of Huamin Qu huamin(a)cse.ust.hk<mailto:huamin@cse.ust.hk>: Dear all, The Visualization and Computer Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is electing its new chair and you are invited to cast your vote. The election period will begin on April 15, 2015 and will remain open for 15 days until April 30. The new Chair's term will run from May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2017. The main elections page at http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-2015-chair-elections will link to the voting once the elections open, and contains all of the information below. Following a 3-month community-wide solicitation period the VGTC chair nomination committee composed of the VGTC directors, after careful deliberation, nominated the following two candidates to serve as the next VGTC chair: Mark Livingston (please see bio and statement at http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-chair-candidate-mark-livingston) Claudio Silva (please see bio and statement at http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-chair-candidate-cl%C3%A1udio-silva) Please note that in order to vote in the VGTC elections, you must be a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the VGTC. Since the IEEE has only this year eliminated its recurrent practice of asking for annual renewal of VGTC membership, you are strongly encouraged to explicitly check your VGTC membership to ensure that you are properly enrolled before April 15, when the election will begin. All enrolled members will receive an email on specific information on how to vote. To check your membership, please log in at https://www.ieee.org/profile/membershipandsubscription/showMembershipsAndSu… and see if you have the following two items listed under Memberships and marked as active: "IEEE Computer Society Membership" and "Visualization and Graphics, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on" Note that VGTC membership is completely free for IEEE CS members. The cost of IEEE CS membership is $56 (or between $8 and $13 if you are a student, depending on where you live) if you are already an IEEE member, or $125 if you are not an IEEE member. The cost of IEEE membership ranges from $80 to $193 for professional members, or from $27 to $37 for students, depending on where you live. You can join IEEE here: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join You can join IEEE CS here: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage… You can join the VGTC for free here: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage… The VGTC sponsors or co-sponsors several major conferences in the field of Visualization and Computer Graphics -- VIS, VR, ISMAR, 3DUI, Pacific Vis, EuroVis. You probably have attended one more of these in the past and hopefully will attend them in the future. The VGTC's mission is to facilitate a vibrant community for researchers and practitioners in this field and to encourage new talent to join in. The VGTC recognizes technical achievements at all levels through a set of annual awards, ranging from career to technical to dissertation awards. Its community website http://vgtc.org offers archives of a growing set of conferences, videos of the talks, and much more. You are very much invited and encouraged to participate in the discussion forums that have been established for each paper. Best, Huamin Qu Secretary of the VGTC Executive Committee

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Open PhD and MS positions in Visual Analytics, Sabanci University, Istanbul
by Selim Balcisoy 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

We have two fully-funded PhD and MS scholarships in Computer Graphics Laboratory, Sabanci University, Istanbul. The project is funded by TUBITAK (Turkish NSF) and will focus on the following topics: - Physical visualizations and tangible interaction models - Spatial augmented reality More information on the lab: http://graphics.sabanciuniv.edu Please apply directly to Sabanci University before May 8, 2105. Online application link: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/admission-requirements-for-graduate-school-of… Keywords: Physical Visualizations, Spatio-temporal data, Big Data Analytics, Augmented Reality, HCI -- Selim Balcısoy Sabancı University Orhanlı Tuzla Istanbul - Turkey voice: +90 216 4839569 fax: +90 216 4839550 email: balcisoy(a)sabanciuniv.edu url: graphics.sabanciuniv.edu linkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/selim-balcisoy/2/122/985

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EuroVis 2015 - REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
by Meghan Haley 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

******** EUROVIS 2015 -- REGISTRATION IS OPEN! ******** EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization May 25th to 29th, 2015 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy http://www.eurovis2015.it EuroVis 2015, hosted by CRS4 in Italy, is the 17th annual visualization gathering organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and supported by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (IEEE VGTC). EuroVis has been a Eurographics and IEEE co-supported international visualization symposium held in Europe annually since 1999. Since 2014 EuroVis is a conference. EuroVis2015 will take place from May 25th to May 29th in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. May 25th-26th will be dedicated to co-located events, while the main conference will open on Tuesday, May 26th and close on Friday, May 29th. The conference opening with the paper fast forward will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 26th. This year's co-located events are: EGPGV, the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization EuroVA, the sixth international Eurovis workshop on Visual Analytics EnvirVis, the EuroVis workshop on Visualization in Environmental Sciences EuroRVVV, the third international EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization *** REGISTRATION === REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please note: the discounted === 'Early-bird' rates are available until April 30th. === After that date full conference rates will apply. === Discounted rates are available for students, EG members, and IEEE members. === Co-located events only, Conference only, and Full Week registration options are available === See http://www.eurovis2015.it/for-attendees/registration/ for details. *** FURTHER INFORMATION Full details on the conference, co-located events and program can be found through the conference web site at: http://www.eurovis2015.it/ Travel to Cagliari is very easy, with a number of options available. Details on travel options can be found here: http://www.eurovis2015.it/for-attendees/travel Conference Chair (chair-ev2015(a)crs4.it) Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4, Italy Local Organization (local-ev2015(a)crs4.it) Fabio Bettio, CRS4, Italy Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4, Italy Secretariat (secretariat-ev2015(a)crs4.it) Katia Brigaglia, CRS4, Italy Cinzia Sardu, CRS4, Italy

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2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) at JCDL 2015
by Mutschke, Peter 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) Workshop at JCDL 2015 June 24 or June 25 (tba.) 2015, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmir2015 (submission instructions see below) Workshop page: http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/kmir2015/ (coming up Monday) Conference page: http://www.jcdl2015.org Abstract: Knowledge maps are promising tools for visualizing the structure of large-scale information spaces, but still far away from being applicable for searching. The workshop aims at bringing together experts in IR and knowledge mapping in order to discuss the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes. Motivation, Goals, Objectives, Outcome The success of an information system depends mainly on its ability to properly support interaction between users and information. Current information systems, however, show as a particular point of failure the vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information space in question (Mayr et al. 2008, Mutschke et al. 2011). Studies in interactive information seeking behavior have confirmed that the ability to browse an information space and observe similarities and dissimilarities between information objects is crucial for accidental encountering and the creative use of information (Nicholas et al. 2004, Westerman et al. 2005). This is in particular true for heterogeneous information spaces within the open web. Some kind of guided searching therefore becomes more and more important in order to precisely discover information without knowing the right search terms. Yet, this seems to remain the weakest point of interactive information systems (Ford 2000, Foster 2004, Tang 2007). Knowledge mapping encompasses all attempts to use visualizations to gain insights into the structure and evolution of large-scale information spaces. Knowledge maps can take the form of network visualizations, treemaps or specific, map like arrangements of search results (cf. Börner et al. 2003, Shiffrin/Börner 2004, Börner 2010, Klavans/Boyack 2010, Skupin et al. 2013, Sahal et al. 2013, Boyack/Klavans 2013). As an activity performed in very different disciplines - and often independent from each other - it stands in line with the dominance of the visual in our culture (Manovich 2009). Knowledge maps of digital library collections are promising navigation tools through knowledge spaces but - to the best of our knowledge - still far away from being applicable for searching digital libraries. Most maps are made for special purposes, are static, and usually not interactive (Akdag Salah et al. 2012). In interactive information systems the use of visual elements to enhance information seeking and discovery is a recurring research issue. However, not much of the experiences made in knowledge mapping have ever been implemented in online interfaces to digital libraries and collections (Börner/Chen 2001), nor is there a stable and continuous knowledge exchange between the "map makers" on the one hand and the Information Retrieval (IR) specialists on the other hand. Thus, there is also a lack of models that properly combine insights of the two strands, which are driven by quite different epistemic perspectives. Our workshop aims at bringing together these two communities: experts in IR reflecting on visual enhanced search interfaces and experts in knowledge mapping reflecting on visualizations of the content of a collection that might also present - visually - a context for a search term. The intention of the workshop is to raise awareness of the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes and to create a common ground for experiments aiming at the incorporation of knowledge maps into IR models at the level of the user interface. The major focus of the workshop is on the question of how knowledge maps can be utilized for scholarly information seeking in large information spaces. Our interests include interactive IR, information seeking behavior, knowledge mapping, science modelling, information visualization, and digital libraries. The workshop is closely related to the COST action KNOWeSCAPE (Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes: http://knowescape.org/<http://www.gesis.org/http:/>) which aims at implementing new navigation and search strategies based on insights of the complex nature of knowledge spaces as well as visualization principles for knowledge maps. The proposed workshop can tie up to the success of the first international workshop on "Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR)", held as part of the DL 2014 in London (see http://www.gesis.org/en/events/events-archive/conferences/kmir2014/ or workshop proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1311) The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches for combining knowledge mapping and IR. More specifically, we address questions such as: * What are appropriate interactive knowledge maps for IR systems * How can knowledge maps be utilized for information seeking purposes? * How to locate an information need on a knowledge map? * How can (visually enhanced) search interfaces to knowledge maps look like? * How can interaction with knowledge maps be transformed into IR tasks? * Can knowledge maps improve searching in large, in particular heterogeneous, cross-language, cross-domain information spaces? * And the other way around: Can insights from IR also improve knowledge mapping itself? The availability of new IR test collections that contain citation and bibliographic information like the iSearch collection (see Lykke et al. 2010) or the ACL collection (Ritchie et al. 2006) could deliver an interesting playground for developing or evaluating combined models of IR and knowledge mapping for scholarly searching. Topical Outline To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Knowledge maps for digital libraries * Knowledge orders of information spaces * Information seeking behaviour * Information discovery * Interactive IR systems * Human-computer IR * Knowledge Visualization in IR * Visual interfaces to information systems * Browsing and navigating information spaces * Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization * Evaluation of interactive IR systems. Types of Submissions * Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work * Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress * Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes All submissions must be written in English following the Springer LNCS Author Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/lncs) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmir2015. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. At least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Important Dates * Submission deadline: May 3, 2015 * Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2015 * Workshop: June 24 or June 25 (tba.), 2015 Output Printed proceedings will be distributed to all attendees. In addition, workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Program Committee * Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University (USA) * Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) * Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) * Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark) * Claus-Peter Klas, University of Hagen (Germany) * Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark) * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) * André Skupin, San Diego State University (USA) * Catherine L. Smith, Kent State University (USA) * Howard D. White, Drexel University (USA) Organizers * Peter Mutschke (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany) * Andrea Scharnhorst (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) / Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Amsterdam / The Hague, The Netherlands) * Philipp Mayr (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany) * Preben Hansen (University of Stockholm, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Sweden) * Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague, The Netherlands) Kind regards, Peter Mutschke --- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS) GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Fax: +49(0)221 / 47694 -8500 Mail: peter.mutschke(a)gesis.org<mailto:peter.mutschke@gesis.org> www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>

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Correction: Reminder: IEEE VIS (InfoVis / VAST / SciVis): Abstract due TOMORROW (Mandatory)
by Jian Chen 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Please note that the abstract submission is mandatory and is due* tomorrow (March 21st)!* Please follow the link below for submission information. 26th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/scivis-papers 21st IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/infovis-papers 10th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-papers Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2015 Paper submission: March 31, 2015 Contact: papers(a)ieeevis.org <infovis_papers(a)ieeevis.org> For the full conference, please visit us: IEEE VIS 2015 http://ieeevis.org/ 25 - 30 October, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis (spread the news) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis (please ‘like’ us) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… Thanks, -- Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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