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Final CfP: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams
by James Burton 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please note that the deadline for submission to ED2014 is in just under two weeks' time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ED 2014 Call For Papers: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams, July 28, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Co-Located with Diagrams 2014 and VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia* ED 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/ED2014 Diagrams 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014 VL/HCC 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2014/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Euler diagrams represent relationships between sets, including intersection, containment, and disjointness. These diagrams have become the foundations of various visual languages and have notably facilitated the modelling of, and logical reasoning about, complex systems. Over the years, they have been extensively used in areas such as biosciences, business, criminology and national security to intuitively visualize relationships and relative cardinalities of sets. This widespread adoption has allowed analysis of complex collections of data. The workshop will cover all aspects of Euler diagram research, including, but not limited to: Theoretical Advances: drawability, layouts, logic, reasoning, Software Support: diagram generation, automated reasoning, data exploration, Real-World Applications: system modelling, information visualization, education, Cognition and Perceptual Principles: readability, aesthetics and evaluation, including comparison to other representations. Recently, there have been significant advances in all of the above areas. This workshop of peer-reviewed submissions will afford the growing Euler diagrams community the opportunity to present and discuss new research, and share multi-interdisciplinary expertise. We envisage that this will stimulate collaborations on current and future research needs. This will be the second time the workshop has run as part of the Diagrams conference series and the fourth Euler diagrams workshop (after successful workshops in 2012, 2004 and 2005). The workshop will bring together researchers with diverse backgrounds, from both academia and industry including those with expertise in mathematic, computer science, artificial intelligence, information design, visualization, human-computer interaction, as well as end-users from various application area. We solicit submissions on the topics mentioned above, 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 - original research contributions All submissions should be in Springer’s LNCS format. The proceedings will be published by CEUR. We will invite authors of the best papers to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information. We are pleased to announce that Atsushi Shimojima will give the keynote talk, entitled "Euler systems as feature indicator systems". Atsushi Shimojima is Professor of Culture and Information Science at Doshisha University in Japan. His research so far has been focused on applying semantical analysis of diagrammatic systems to make predictions on their cognitive potentials and verifying these predictions on the basis of psychological experimentation. A good example of this coupling of semantic analysis and cognitive science is found in his recent publication with Yasuhiro Katagiri in the journal, Cognitive Science, entitled "An Eye-Tracking Study of Exploitations of Spatial Constraints in Diagrammatic Reasoning". See our webpage for more details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission (optional): April 21st Paper submission: April 28th Notification: May 27th Although abstract submission is optional, authors are strongly encouraged to upload their abstract. Program Committee members will be asked to bid on papers for review, between the abstract and paper submission dates. Making your abstract available will help to ensure that the most appropriate experts review your paper. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Chairs Jim Burton, University of Brighton Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton Program Committee Francesco Bellucci (Tallinn University of Technology) Peter Chapman (University of Brighton) Rosario de Chiara (Poste Italiane) Renata de Freitas (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Tim Dwyer (Monash University) Jean Flower (Autodesk) Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) Luana Micallef (University of Kent) Mitsuhiro Okada (Keio University) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers ed2014(a)easychair.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr Jim Burton Senior Lecturer in Computing School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics University of Brighton ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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Personalised Multilingual Information Access Workshop 2014 - Final extended deadline: Apr 15
by Ben Steichen 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

The final submission deadline for the PMIA 2014 workshop has been extended to Apr. 15. --------------- Call for Papers --------------- International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014 held in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. -------- Overview -------- With the unrelenting rise in global information production and usage, systems increasingly need to handle 1) a growing variety of user differences (including language, culture, situational context), and 2) heterogeneous and multilingual information sources. This full-day workshop aims tackle these challenges by bringing together researchers working on cross-/multi-lingual information access, personalisation for web and hypermedia, personalised search, information seeking, multilingual interfaces, multilingual semantic web, and recommender systems. The aim is to share, discuss, and combine ideas for novel solutions that support users according to their particular language abilities, as well as other characteristics (e.g. culture, domain expertise) and contexts (e.g. intent, topic) that influence what and how information should be retrieved, composed, and presented. The workshop aims to both advance the current state of the art in personalised multilingual information access, as well as to develop a detailed roadmap that identifies the most pressing current and future research challenges (e.g. novel information access interfaces, evaluation of complex systems). Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Individual user characteristics that influence information access, e.g. language proficiency, culture, personality, user intent, topic domain * Modeling of user profiles, e.g. multilingual data collection, model creation, model exploitation * Adaptive systems for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. personalised search, recommender systems * Novel interfaces, e.g. presentations of content in multiple languages, search result presentation beyond the ranked list paradigm, document summarisation * Tools and methods for multilingual and cross lingual search * Content analysis and processing, e.g. knowledge extraction, duplication detection * Content translation and localisation * Multilingual semantic web, including search and extraction * External knowledge resources for personalised multilingual information access (e.g. ontologies) * Domain modeling (e.g. adaptation to different domains) * Issues and dangers of personalisation, e.g. over-personalisation (also known as "the filter bubble"), privacy issues * Personalisation of multilingual tools * Evaluation methods and metrics for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. how to evaluate compositions from multiple languages, aggregate search evaluation. ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage submissions from diverse backgrounds and aim to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. In addition, submissions that focus on non-English data, or research with a clear application in a multilingual scenario are equally welcome. We invite submissions of more established ideas and methods as long papers (8 pages), preliminary work as short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published by CEUR. Extended versions of selected workshop papers may be included in a special journal issue (TBD). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. --------------- Important dates --------------- Apr 15, 2014: Submission Deadline May 01, 2014: Notification to Authors May 15, 2014: Camera-ready Due Jul 07 (tentative): Workshop day -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - steichen(a)cs.ubc.ca Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) - agosti(a)dei.unipd.it Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - seamus.lawless(a)scss.tcd.ie Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - vincent.wade(a)scss.tcd.ie For further questions please contact a member of the organising committee. -- Dr. Ben Steichen Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T14Z, Canada www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/

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Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop - CfP EXTENDED to 25 April
by Geoff Ellis 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

------------------------------------------------------------------ CfP: Overcoming Cognitive Biases workshop http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This one-day workshop will be held as part of i-KNOW 2014 (14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business),in Graz, Austria, 16-19 September 2014. http://i-know.tugraz.at IMPORTANT DATES - Submission by: ** EXTENDED to 25 April, 2014 ** - Notifications of acceptance :16 May 2014 - Camera Ready Copy: 5 June 2014 - Workshop day: 16 September 2014 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss how to reduce the impact of cognitive biases in the systems we build. Work to date has generally focussed on developing user training to mitigate the effect of a small number of cognitive biases with little effort on software solutions. The latter not only requires research to identify situations where help would assist in better decision making, but also in developing novel corrective actions ideally tailored to the user. In the visualisation domain, work has centred around improving hypothesis generation to avoid confirmation bias, where the user unconsciously seeks evidence to confirm what they already believe, rather than seeking disconfirming evidence. There is plenty of scope for investigating whether or not the cognition of visualisation or elements therein are subject to cognitive biases. We invite participants from a wide range of disciplines such as decision science, cognitive psychology, information visualisation, visual analytics, software engineering, business and intelligence to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and promote future research potential. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - cognitive biases and information visualisation - new classification schemes for cognitive biases - integrating cognitive bias mitigation into existing software - measuring susceptibility to cognitive bias - cognitive biases in groups/collaborative situations - training/learning tools to overcome particular cognitive biases - business decision making - impact of big data on cognitive biases - evaluation techniques/methodologies The workshop will include invited talks, short individual presentations and group activities and will provide a forum for participants to exchange ideas and establish a roadmap of the state of the art and identify future research potential. We hope to grow this interdisciplinary community to promote future collaboration. SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit original work, as either 2-3 page position papers or 4-6 page research papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the supplementary proceedings of i-KNOW 2014 (either ACM or IEEE). Submissions should be in ACM SIG proceedings format (standard 2-column style) as a PDF file through the workshop website. CONTACT For further details please contact Geoffrey Ellis, ellis(a)dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de Twitter: @ocb_workshop website: http://ocbworkshop.dbvis.de/ ORGANISERS Geoffrey Ellis, University of Konstanz Gaëlle Lortal, THALES Research & Technology, Paris Michael Bedek, University of Graz ------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP: Information Technology Special Issue on Visual Analytics
by Tobias Schreck 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

(Apologies for cross postings) ----------------------------------------------------------- Information Technology Special Issue on Visual Analytics First call for papers Full papers due by July 18, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------- We invite submissions to a forthcoming special issue on Visual Analytics of the Information Technology journal published by de Gruyter Oldenbourg Scientific Publishing. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by highly interactive visual interfaces. Researchers in this fast growing field regularly consider the design, implementation, application and evaluation of methods that tightly integrate appropriate methods from data analysis and interactive data visualization, with the aim of solving real-world analysis problems. Innovative Visual Analytics approaches to date have been successfully applied in many domains where large amounts of complex data need to be explored and understood for effective decision making. Examples of the many challenging fields of application for Visual Analytics systems include, among others, problems in the natural and social sciences, the humanities, in business analytics, geospatial information systems, or multimedia analytics. Topics of interest for the special issue include but are not limited to: • Scalable visual analytics representations and interaction techniques • User steering of data analysis methods and parameter space analysis • Visual Analytics approaches for heterogeneous data analysis problems • Visual Analytics approaches for large text and video collections • Spatiotemporal data analytics and visualization • Big data analytics including very high-dimensional data • Scientific applications, e.g., in Bioinformatics and Public Health • Collaborative and distributed analysis processes support Important dates: • Abstracts due: July 11, 2014 • Submissions due: July 18, 2014 • Conditional notification: September 15, 2014 • Revised papers due: October 15, 2014 • Camera ready papers due: November 15, 2014 • Special issue publication: 1/2015 or 2/2015 it – Information Technology was founded in 1958 and is the longest established German journal in the field of information technology. The main focus of the scientific journal is the publication of methods and innovative applications of informatics and information technology which have been developed worldwide - with an emphasis on the German language area - and which are on the cusp of industrial application. It is published by de Gruyter Oldenbourg Scientific Publishing. An overview of previous special issues can be found at http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/ti/it/themenhefte/. Submission Information: Submissions to the special issue must comprise original and unpublished work on Visual Analytics and will undergo a peer review process for selection. Submissions can be up to 6 pages at about 5.000 characters less figures and tables. Please use the Stylefiles template available at http://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/752/fr-autoren-herausgeber for preparing submissions. Authors intending to submit a paper to the special issue are kindly asked to indicate their intent to do so by email to the guest editors. Prior to the full paper submission, we also ask for submission of an abstract by email to the guest editors until July 11, 2014. Full paper submissions need to be made through the it Editorial Manager submission site at http://www.editorialmanager.com/itit/. Guest Editors: • Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany. Email: daniel.keim(a)uni-konstanz.de • Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany. Email: tobias.schreck(a)uni-konstanz.de

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CfP i-KNOW 2014 - topics include InfoVis and Visual Analytics
by Geoff Ellis 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business 16-19 September 2014, Graz, Austria http://www.i-know.at/ Important Dates Full Paper Submissions (8 pages) * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 7, 2014 - EXTENDED * Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2014 - EXTENDED * Notification of Acceptance: May 19, 2014 - EXTENDED * Camera-Ready Paper: June 16, 2014 - EXTENDED Poster & Demonstration Submissions (4 pages) * Submission Deadline: May 19, 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: June 16, 2014 I-KNOW proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS COLLOCATED CONFERENCES We are proud to announce that EC-TEL 2014 (European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning) will this year be organized co-located to i-KNOW in Graz. Therefore, we are also specifically interested in workshops which bridge the two conferences. Topics historically covered at our conference (such as semantics, LOD, social semantic web) will also be integrated into i-KNOW 2014 and contributions are encouraged to cover these topics. CONFERENCE THEME: Cognitive Computing and Data-Driven Business i-KNOW 2014 aims at advancing research at the intersection of disciplines such as knowledge discovery, semantics, information visualization, visual analytics, social (semantic) and ubiquitous computing. The goal of integrating these approaches is to create cognitive computing systems that will interact naturally with humans, learn from their experiences and generate and evaluate evidence-based hypotheses. That is, we interpret cognitive computing as the convergence of various knowledge technologies research fields. On the other hand, data-driven business represents the business perspective on cognitive computing and takes application specific knowledge (such as semantics) into account. We are specifically interested in the integration of data-centric and user-centric approaches and welcome contributions from both ends of the spectrum. CONFERENCE TOPICS include (but are not limited to): Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining * Big data in knowledge discovery * Data mining in the linked data cloud * Text/web/social/user behaviour mining * Unsupervised, supervised and semi-supervised machine learning * Deep machine learning * Enterprise retrieval * Online machine learning * Natural language analysis and sentiment detection * Data and information retrieval (e.g. cross-language retrieval, interactive retrieval methods, multimedia and cross-modal information retrieval) * Data and information quality * Knowledge base population and information extraction * Content-based recommender systems * Intent Mining & Understanding Visual Analytics & Information Visualization * Visual analytics and intelligent user interfaces for data analytics * Scalability of visual analytics and knowledge discovery techniques * Interactive knowledge discovery * Visual representations and metaphors * Natural interaction techniques for visualization * Visualization of knowledge, semantic information and linked data * Visualization of search results, text and multimedia corpora * Visualization of temporal, spatial and sensory data * Process and workflow visualization * Visual support for reasoning and decision making * Discourse and collaborative visualization * Cognitive and perceptual factors in visualization Social Computing * Social media, social web, and social network analysis * Web 2.0, future internet, and web science * Collaborative knowledge creation and crowdsourcing * Information quality and knowledge maturing * Community evolution and user engagement * Social information seeking and recommender systems * Social search and retrieval systems * Temporal and spatial analysis of social and information networks * Social-semantic-content networks and their analysis * Semantic uplifting in social networks * Spam, misinformation and malicious activity discovery in social systems * Social gaming and human computing * Privacy & trust in social computing Ubiquitous Context-aware Computing * Ubiquitous information access * Ubiquitous (collaborative) work, learning, creativitiy, etc. * Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing * Bridging the digital and physical worlds * Mobile sensors and sensor analytics * Usage and usage data analytics * Mobile social networking and mobile web * Ubiquitous computing architectures and infrastructures * User interaction and usability on mobile devices * Augmented reality and augmentation interfaces * Mobile visual interfaces for collaboration support * User profiles and user models * Context-aware recommenders * Adaptive systems, applications, interfaces and visualizations * Evaluation and measurement approaches * Security and privacy aspects of (mobile) sensing applications Science 2.0 & Open Science * New publication and research processes * Opportunities and challenges for researchers and research organizations * New indicator systems to measure scientific quality * Awareness-support for science 2.0 activities * New paradigms for scientific communication * New feedback mechanisms among researchers and between science and society * Empirical studies on the use of web 2.0 tools for science 2.0 * Marketplaces for scientific data and publications * Recommender systems in science 2.0 * Virtual research environments * Digital research libraries * Applications in and for science 2.0 * Crowd-sourcing in science * Robust methods for dealing with noisy crowd-sourced data * Data schemes and interoperability formats * Social mining and metadata extraction in academic resources * Metadata quality and quality assessment * Design and architecture of data sharing facilities * Semantic web standards for science 2.0 * Systems design accounting for standardized data sets CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: General Chairs * Stefanie Lindstaedt (Know-Center Graz, Austria & Graz University of Technology) Email: slind(a)know-center.at * Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany) Email: michael.granitzer(a)uni-passau.at * Harald Sack (Hasso-Platter Institute fot IT Systems Engineering, Germany) Email: harald.sack(a)hpi.uni-potsdam.de Program Chairs Knowledge & Data Analytics * Joern Kohlhammer, FHG IGD, Germany (to be confirmed) * Roman Kern, Know-Center Graz, Austria * Vedran Sabol, Know-Center Graz, Austria * Wolfgang Kienreich, Know-Center Graz, Austria * Christin Seifert, University of Passau, Germany Program Chairs Social & Ubiquitous Computing * Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology * Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz, Austria†&†Graz University of Technology * Christoph Trattner, Know-Center Graz, Austria Program Chairs Science 2.0 & Open Science (to be confirmed) * Klaus Tochtermann, ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics, Germany * Peter Kraker, Know-Center Graz, Austria Poster & Demonstration Chairs * Joerg Simon, Know-Center Graz, Austria Local Organization & Dissemination Chair * Nina Simon, Know-Center Graz, Austria

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Deadline extended to April 22! - International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, Sydney Aug 5-8
by tony huang 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please consider contributing and help to distribute. -------- Call for papers for VINCI14, Aug 5-8 Sydney Australia New Dates: Long papers: April 22, 2014 Short papers: April 22, 2014 Posters: May 20, 2014 -------- The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI14) will be held on August 5-8 in Sydney, Australia. VINCI14 aims to provide an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. -------- This year's edition of the conference features three exciting keynotes by Professor Peter Eades from University of Sydney, Professor Bruce Thomas from the University of South Australia and Dr. Helen Purchase from University of Glasgow. -------- Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Area 1: Visualization methodologies Information visualization Graph drawing and visualization Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Visual metaphors and symbols Usability or empirical study of new visual metaphors Design theory in the digital age Aesthetics in visual communication and digital media Interaction methods (touch-based, haptic, vision-based, multi-modality Big Data Visual languages Diagrams Art + Science Area 2: Visualization applications Visual Analytics Sketching Graphical user interface design Software visualization Visual approaches to knowledge discovery Visualization on mobile devices Animation Game design Biological visualizations Area 3: Visual design and art Interaction design Interactive art Infographie and data-driven art Visual perception and cognition Multimedia Virtual actors Interactive storytelling Augmented reality and its applications Virtual reality and its applications Computational (or digital) aesthetics Wearable computers Ubiquitous / responsive environments Entertainment technology -------- Proceedings will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI-indexed). Further, it has been confirmed that a high number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE, SCI indexed) and a special issue of International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI). To submit: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2014 For more information, visit web: http://www.vinci-conf.org/ ------ VINCI14 Organizing committee August 5-8, 2014, Sydney Australia Email: info(a)vinci-conf.org

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Professorship Position in Visual Analytics
by Daniel Keim 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

-------------------------------------- Professorship Position in Visual Analytics Leibniz Universität Hannover , Germany Application Deadline: May 30, 2014 -------------------------------------- The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science invites applications for a University Professorship (Salary Scale W2 BBesO) in Visual Analytics starting on January 15st, 2015. The position is initially limited to five years. The professorship is connected with the leadership of the research department of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). The applicant should have a strong research and publication record in Visual Analytics, for example in - (Interactive) information visualization in digital libraries and the Web - Visual search and analysis of big complex data sets, nontextual materials, research data and social media - Interaction with and exploration of big and complex data sets - (Interactive) data analysis and knowledge discovery - Data management and knowledge representation for digital libraries - Affinity to usability, human computer interaction and/or semantic visualization Visual analytics plays an important role in the research program of TIB, a member institute of the German Leibniz Association. A strong cooperation with TIB research and its competence center for nontextual materials is expected, as well as interdisciplinary research and acquisition of third party funding. Within the faculty the professorship should contribute to the M.Sc. study programs of computer science as well as internet technologies and information systems. Conditions of appointment are in accordance with § 25, Niedersachsen Higher Education Act (NHG). Leibniz Universität Hannover is a member of Niedersachsen Institutes of Technology (NTH), to which the vacant professorship is also attached. Candidates are therefore expected to participate in coordinated interdisciplinary programmes and to collaborate in research and teaching with the technical universities in Lower Saxony, and especially within the NTH. For more information on NTH please visit http://en.nth-online.org. Part time employment can be arranged on request. As an equal opportunities employer, Leibniz Universität Hannover has set itself the strategic aim of significantly increasing the proportion of women. Female scientists are therefore particularly encouraged to apply. Applications from abroad are especially welcome. Equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference. In its mission statement, Leibniz Universität Hannover attaches great importance to the international orientation of teaching and research. At the same time, it places major value on the intensive guidance and support of its students and on the university's close ties to the region and to Lower Saxony. Its professors are thus expected to take up residence in the Region of Hannover. Successful candidates who have reached the age of fifty by the time of appointment and who do not already have civil servant status will be given an employment contract. Further information is available from the Head of the Appointment Committee, Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl, (Tel. 0511 762-19710, nejdl(a)kbs.uni-hannover.de) Please submit your full application by May 30, 2014 to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover Dean of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Appelstr. 11, 30167 Hannover http://www.uni-hannover.de/jobs

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Deadline approaching April 8th - Final CfP International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, Sydney Aug 5-8
by tony huang 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please consider contributing and help to distribute. -------- Important Dates: Long papers: April 8, 2014 Short papers: April 8, 2014 Posters: May 20, 2014 -------- The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI14) will be held on August 5-8 in Sydney, Australia. VINCI14 aims to provide an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state of the art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. -------- This year's edition of the conference features three exciting keynotes by Professor Peter Eades from University of Sydney, Professor Bruce Thomas from the University of South Australia and Dr. Helen Purchase from University of Glasgow. -------- Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Area 1: Visualization methodologies Information visualization Graph drawing and visualization Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Visual metaphors and symbols Usability or empirical study of new visual metaphors Design theory in the digital age Aesthetics in visual communication and digital media Interaction methods (touch-based, haptic, vision-based, multi-modality Big Data Visual languages Diagrams Art + Science Area 2: Visualization applications Visual Analytics Sketching Graphical user interface design Software visualization Visual approaches to knowledge discovery Visualization on mobile devices Animation Game design Biological visualizations Area 3: Visual design and art Interaction design Interactive art Infographie and data-driven art Visual perception and cognition Multimedia Virtual actors Interactive storytelling Augmented reality and its applications Virtual reality and its applications Computational (or digital) aesthetics Wearable computers Ubiquitous / responsive environments Entertainment technology -------- Proceedings will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI-indexed). Further, it has been confirmed that a high number of selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE, SCI indexed) and a special issue of International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI). To submit: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vinci2014 For more information, visit web: http://www.vinci-conf.org/ ------ VINCI14 Organizing committee August 5-8, 2014, Sydney Australia Email: info(a)vinci-conf.org

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Personalised Multilingual Information Access 2014 - Deadline extension - Apr 8
by Ben Steichen 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

--------------- Call for Papers --------------- International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014 held in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. -------- Overview -------- With the unrelenting rise in global information production and usage, systems increasingly need to handle 1) a growing variety of user differences (including language, culture, situational context), and 2) heterogeneous and multilingual information sources. This full-day workshop aims tackle these challenges by bringing together researchers working on cross-/multi-lingual information access, personalisation for web and hypermedia, personalised search, information seeking, multilingual interfaces, multilingual semantic web, and recommender systems. The aim is to share, discuss, and combine ideas for novel solutions that support users according to their particular language abilities, as well as other characteristics (e.g. culture, domain expertise) and contexts (e.g. intent, topic) that influence what and how information should be retrieved, composed, and presented. The workshop aims to both advance the current state of the art in personalised multilingual information access, as well as to develop a detailed roadmap that identifies the most pressing current and future research challenges (e.g. novel information access interfaces, evaluation of complex systems). Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Individual user characteristics that influence information access, e.g. language proficiency, culture, personality, user intent, topic domain * Modeling of user profiles, e.g. multilingual data collection, model creation, model exploitation * Adaptive systems for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. personalised search, recommender systems * Novel interfaces, e.g. presentations of content in multiple languages, search result presentation beyond the ranked list paradigm, document summarisation * Tools and methods for multilingual and cross lingual search * Content analysis and processing, e.g. knowledge extraction, duplication detection * Content translation and localisation * Multilingual semantic web, including search and extraction * External knowledge resources for personalised multilingual information access (e.g. ontologies) * Domain modeling (e.g. adaptation to different domains) * Issues and dangers of personalisation, e.g. over-personalisation (also known as "the filter bubble"), privacy issues * Personalisation of multilingual tools * Evaluation methods and metrics for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. how to evaluate compositions from multiple languages, aggregate search evaluation. ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage submissions from diverse backgrounds and aim to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. In addition, submissions that focus on non-English data, or research with a clear application in a multilingual scenario are equally welcome. We invite submissions of more established ideas and methods as long papers (8 pages), preliminary work as short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published by CEUR. Extended versions of selected workshop papers may be included in a special journal issue (TBD). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. --------------- Important dates --------------- Apr 08, 2014: Submission Deadline May 01, 2014: Notification to Authors May 15, 2014: Camera-ready Due Jul 07 (tentative): Workshop day -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - steichen(a)cs.ubc.ca Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) - agosti(a)dei.unipd.it Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - seamus.lawless(a)scss.tcd.ie Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - vincent.wade(a)scss.tcd.ie For further questions please contact a member of the organising committee. -- Dr. Ben Steichen Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T14Z, Canada www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: VAST Challenge
by G.Elisabeta Marai 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ VAST 2014 Challenge CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 This year's VAST Challenge presents three inter-related mini-challenges and an overall Grand Challenge to test your skills. These challenges feature a mix of data types, including text, transaction, network, and geospatial / temporal. This year's challenge also features a first for the VAST Challenge - a streaming text dataset for you to analyze. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. We encourage your submissions, and look forward to seeing your innovative approaches to solving these challenges using visual analytics. Background: The Kronos Incident In the roughly twenty years that Tethys-based GAStech has been operating a natural gas production site in the island country of Kronos, it has produced remarkable profits and developed strong relationships with the government of Kronos. However, GAStech has not been as successful in demonstrating environmental stewardship. In January, 2014, the leaders of GAStech are celebrating their new-found fortune as a result of the initial public offering of their very successful company. In the midst of this celebration, several employees of GAStech go missing. An organization known as the Protectors of Kronos (POK) is suspected in the disappearance, but things may not be what they seem. As an expert in visual analytics, you are called in to help law enforcement from Kronos and Tethys assess the situation and figure out where the missing employees are and how to get them home again. Time is of the essence. The Challenges *Data Available Now! **Mini-Challenge 1* <http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+1>focuses on the disappearance itself. As an analyst, you have a set of current and historical news reports at your disposal, as well as resumes of numerous GAStech employees and email headers from two weeks of internal GAStech company email. You are being counted on to bring law enforcement up to date on the current organization of the POK and how that organization has changed over time, as well as to characterize the events surrounding the disappearance. *Description Available! **Mini-Challenge 2* <http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+2>asks you to analyze movement and tracking data. GAStech provides many of their employees with company cars for their personal and professional use, but unbeknownst to the employees, the cars are equipped with GPS tracking devices. You are given tracking data for the two weeks leading up to the disappearance, as well as credit card transaction and loyalty card usage data. From this data, can you identify suspicious behaviors? Can you identify people and locations that law enforcement should investigate? Data for this mini-challenge will be made available in April. *Description Available! **Mini-Challenge 3* <http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+3>poses a streaming analysis challenge. You will have access to real-time feeds of microblogs and emergency calls. Can you monitor this stream to identify where the missing GAStech employees are, where they may located in the near future, and what steps are needed to bring them home? Data for this mini-challenge will be made available in April. *Available Now! *In the *Grand Challenge*<http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Grand+Challenge>, you are asked to put all the pieces together. Who disappeared? Who was responsible for the disappearance? And what were the underlying motivations for the disappearance? For Further Information For more information, please see http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 or contact vast_challenge(a)ieeevis.org. The submission deadline is July 8, 2014. We look forward to seeing your creative solutions! Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs The VIS 2014 Publicity Chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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