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CfP: 1st International Workshop on Graph Visualization in Practice (August 2014)
by Karsten Klein 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------- GVP 2014 Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Graph Visualization in Practice August 1, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-located with Diagrams 2014 and VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia GVP 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/workshops/ Diagrams 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/ VL/HCC 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2014/ The "Workshop on Graph Visualization in Practice: Challenges and Methods" is a forum to foster exchange and discussions among researchers in graph visualization and people from application areas that require graph visualization. The objective is to discuss challenges emerging from applications, recent advances in research, and how to facilitate the transfer of research results into practical applications. Graphs provide a versatile model for data from a large variety of application domains, including biology, finance, information security, telecommunication, software engineering, and social sciences. Graph visualization helps scientists and engineers to understand critical issues in these domains. However, the depth of understanding depends on the quality of the visualization and the interactive interface. Graph visualization techniques need to be intuitive for domain experts to facilitate exploration of networks within the experts' work flow. In particular, one has to take into account application semantics or user-defined constraints. In many areas, the application of graph visualization methods seems to lag behind the current state of the art in research by many years, whereas in others the most pressing challenges have not yet been addressed sufficiently by the research community. We invite researchers in the field of graph visualization and related areas as well as practitioners in fields of application both from academia and industry to submit papers. Papers should either describe substantial research in graph visualization concerned with application-driven requirements (long paper, 10 pages maximum) or ongoing research, experiences and challenges in application areas (short paper, 5 pages maximum). The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: * graph drawing * interactive graph exploration * graph-based visual data analysis * evaluation of graph visualizations * graph visualization software * graph models and analysis All submissions should be in Springer's LNCS format. The proceedings will be published by CEUR. We plan to organise a special issue of a journal for extended versions of the best papers. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: May 17, 2014 Paper submission due: May 23, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2014 Workshop: August 1, 2014 ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Markus Chimani (Osnabrück University) Walter Didimo (University of Perugia) Yifan Hu (Yahoo Labs) Quang Vinh Nguyen (University of Western Sydney) Martin Nöllenburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Carsten Gutwenger (Technical University Dortmund) ---------- Organizers ---------- Karsten Klein, The University of Sydney Steve Kieffer, Monash University Melbourne ------- CONTACT ------- If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers workshops(a)diagrams-conference.org

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Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) - Papers due Apr. 1
by Ben Steichen 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

EasyChair now open for submissions of long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). --------------- 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 01, 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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CfP: Workshop on dirty time-oriented data @ I-KNOW 2014
by Aigner Wolfgang 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: DIRTY TIME-ORIENTED DATA: WHEREABOUTS AND BOTTLENECKS An interdisciplinary and interactive session on the handling of imperfect time-stamped information sets 16-17 September 2014 In conjunction with i-KNOW 2014 Graz, Austria, i-know.tugraz.at 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: First call for papers www.map.archi.fr/dirtytime dirtytime(a)map.archi.fr :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::: Context and motivation In a number of application fields, pieces of data and information need to be modelled and visualised so as to analyse patterns of change over time, or so as to pinpoint time-related causal chains. Briefly said, understanding facts often implies understanding processes that lead to facts, or that derive from facts – and reasoning on processes implies mastering the time parameter. However, coping with dirty time-oriented data (inaccurate, incomplete, erroneous, contradictory, etc.) remains, by and large, an open issue. If scientists and practitioners are to foster the emergence of effective solutions, it is of great importance they get an opportunity to confront their approaches, ideas, experiences and methods. The workshop’s ambition is to foster interdisciplinary scientific exchanges both on theoretical or technological aspects and on practical cases/feedbacks stemming from a wide range of application fields. ::::::::::::::: Topics of interest Handling “dirty” time-oriented data is naturally a key issue in human sciences, yet the issue is more generally raised in all activities where unreliable and/or incomplete and/or inaccurate temporal data sets have to be dealt with. The workshop wishes to host contributions covering a wide range of application fields, of scientific practices, and of theoretical or methodological approaches (historical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, conceptual modelling, health sciences, monitoring and planning activities, etc.). Accordingly, we welcome submissions related to (but not limited to) the handling of imperfect time-stamped information sets in the following research areas: Knowledge Representation, Visual Analytics & Information Visualisation • Temporal knowledge discovery, databases. • Temporal logic, temporal representation and reasoning. • Uncertainty modelling, data and information quality. • Information visualisation, visual representations and interaction techniques. • Visualisation of temporal or spatio-temporal data. • Process and workflow visualisation. Geosciences • Geovisualisation, geovisual analytics. • Simulation, multi-agent systems. • Geography, geomatics, time geography, mobility, flows, etc. • Urban planning, landscape analysis & monitoring, etc. • Risk assessment, climate research. Historical Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences • Archaeology, environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany. • Ethnology, ethnography, linguistics, etc. • History, history of art and architecture, etc. • ITC in health services. • Intelligence, social networks, etc. • Business intelligence. ::::::::::::::: Deadlines - Submission deadline: April 27, 2014 - Notifications: May 16, 2014 - Camera-ready version: June 5, 2014 - Workshop 16-17 September 2014 ::::::::::::::: Location Graz, Austria, (Messe Congress Graz , <ww.mcg.at/en>); in conjunction with i-KNOW 2014 , Graz University of Technology, Know Center <i-know.tugraz.at/> ::::::::::::::: Submissions Submissions are invited on the above topics, either as short papers (4 pages) - position papers, test cases - or as regular contributions (8 pages). Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's Programme Committee in an interdisciplinary approach (cross-examination from the application field point of view and from a KR perspective). All selected papers will be published in the workshop notes, either in conjunction with the conference proceedings or online as part of an Open Access peer-reviewed journal. Submissions will be handled electronically, formatting guidelines and address to be announced shortly here: www.map.archi.fr/dirtytime. ::::::::::::::: Event format and expected outcomes The event will combine a “traditional” workshop format - keynotes focusing on dirty time-oriented data as such and talks focusing either on theoretical or technological aspects or on feedbacks from a variety of application fields - and a collective initiative aimed at pulling together test cases and resources (interdisciplinary references on one hand, and on the other hand test benches freely usable by the community in its subsequent work). Expected outcomes of this workshop accordingly include a better acquaintance with relevant work across scientific domains and application fields as well as the emergence of ad-hoc metrics – an attempt to ease the task of cross-examining responses to data quality issues. Ultimately, the initiative wishes to contribute to the strengthening of the community of analysts dealing with quality issues in the context of temporal data and information sets. ::::::::::::::: Programme Committee F. Bertoncello - CNRS, France A. Bertone -Technical University Dresden, Germany P. Buono - University of Bari, Italy M.P. Davoine – University of Grenoble, France J. Kehrer - Vienna University of Technology, Austria O. Klein - CEPS, Luxembourg E. Leclercq – University of Burgundy, France J. Ma - University of Greenwich, United Kingdom N. Mahmood- University of Karachi, Pakistan H. Mathian – CNRS, France K. Matoušek - Czech Technical University, Czech Republic T. Nocke - Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, Germany D. O'Sullivan - University of California, Berkeley, USA T. Pellegrini - St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria A. Raffaetà - University of Venice, Italy C. Renso - CNR, Italy V. Sabol – TU Graz, Know-Center, Austria H. Senaratne - University of Konstanz, Germany C. Stasch - University of Muenster, Germany M. Streit - JKU Linz, Austria ::::::::::::::: Organisers W. Aigner, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria J.Y. Blaise, I. Dudek, CNRS (UMR 3495 CNRS/MCC MAP), France T. Gschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria -- WOLFGANG AiGNER Lecturer Department Technology media computing research group IC\M/T - Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences Matthias Corvinus Strasse 15, 3100 St. Poelten, Austria T: +43 (0) 2742 313 228 - 611 E: wolfgang.aigner(a)fhstp.ac.at I: mc.fhstp.ac.at/people/wolfgang-aigner FN 146616m, LG St. Pölten, DVR 1028669F :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: B O O K ::: VISUALIZATION OF TIME-ORIENTED DATA Wolfgang Aigner • Silvia Miksch • Heidrun Schumann • Christian Tominski Springer, 2011 • http://www.timeviz.net :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: B O O K :::

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Reminder: CfP WSCG 2014 Deadline Extended to March 31, 2014 - Graphics, Visualization and Vision
by Vaclav Skala 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

>>> WSCG 2014 <<< >>> http://www.wscg.cz <<< >>> in cooperation with Eurographics, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed <<< To be REMOVED from the list: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE%20infovis@infovis.org or RETURN this mail with the email address in the text to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to REMOVE WSCG (DO NOT REMOVE the @mail address in the mail we sent to you). --------------------------------------------------------------- infovis(a)infovis.org REMINDER - deadline extended to March 31, 2014 ======= WSCG 2014 22. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 Plzen [Pilsen] close to Praha [Prague], Czech Republic http://www.wscg.cz Venue dates: June 2-5, 2014 >> Please, forward to your colleagues << >> and potential authors according to your mailing list << >>> EXTENDED deadline is MARCH 31, 2014 <<<< due to technical problems Recent WSCG conferences (with on-line papers in PDF) ------------------------------ Please, see: http://www.wscg.eu Digital library, Recent keynote speakers etc. Keynote speakers -------------------- Manuel M. Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tino Wienkauf, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany Important Dates ------------------- Paper submission: March 31, 2014 [EXTENDED] Acceptance notification: April 20, 2014 Venue: June 2 - 5, 2014 Main topics (but not limed to) ---------------------------------- Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modelling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modelling, shape analysis & modelling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and related topics. Publications ---------------- Accepted papers will be published in WSCG proceedings with ISBN and submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and others. Recent years have been indexed alredy. The best papers will be selected for publication in the Journal of WSCG ISSN 1213-6972 (http://wscg.zcu.cz/JWSCG/) ALL WSCG proceedings and Journal of WSCG since 1992 are available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm, access free. Travelling Info ------------------ Pilsen City is close to Prague (Praha) - the Golden European city approx. 80km from the Plzen city (60 mins. by a coach). To reach the Pilsen city from the Prague airport is approx. 75 mins. by the public transport actually faster than to reach the Prague central part. If interested in WSCG 2015 ----------------------------------- Please, register at http://wscgreg.zcu.cz to be kept informed Call for new reviewers ----------------------------- If you or colleague of yours would like to act as a reviewer for WSCG events, please, send me - First Name;Last Name;@mail URL personal page via @mail to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subj. WSCG - Reviewing Contact ---------- Feel free to contact me if you would have any question Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz SUBJ.: WSCG 2014 Date 2014-03-21 4571

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ESANN 2014: program
by Michel Verleysen 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

We apologize for possible duplicates of this message sent to distribution lists. ESANN 2014: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 23-24-25 April 2014 http://www.esann.org/ Preliminary program The preliminary program of the ESANN 2014 conference is now available on the Web: http://www.esann.org/ For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related machine learning and artificial neural networks sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much! For 22 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field of neural computation and machine learning. ESANN is a selective conference focusing on fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. The titles of the sessions are: - Advances in Spiking Neural Information Processing Systems (SNIPS) - Vector quantization- and nearest neighbor-based methods - Byte the bullet: learning on real-world computing architectures - Reinforcement learning and optimization - Nonlinear dimensionality reduction - Signal and temporal processing - Learning of structured and non-standard data - Kernel methods - Learning and Modeling Big Data - Classification - Dynamical systems and online learning - Advances on Weightless Neural Systems - Clustering - Regression, Forecasting and Extreme Learning Machines - Label noise in classification The program of the conference can be found at http://www.esann.org/, together with practical information about the conference venue, registration, etc. Other information can be obtained by sending an e-mail to esann(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:esann@uclouvain.be>. Venue ------ The conference will be held in Bruges (also called "Venice of the North"), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). Designated as the "Venice of the North", the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. Steering and local committee ---------------------------- François Blayo Ipseite (CH) Gianluca Bontempi Univ. Libre Bruxelles (B) Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Mia Loccufier Univ. Gent (B) Bernard Manderick Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) Jean-Pierre Peters FUNDP Namur (B) Johan Suykens K. U. Leuven (B) Joos Vandewalle K.U. Leuven (B) Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve Louis Wehenkel Univ. Liège (B) Scientific committee -------------------- Fabio Aiolli Univ. degli Studi di Padova (I) Davide Anguita Univ. of Genoa (I) Cecilio Angulo Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Aluizio Araújo Univ. Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) Cédric Archambeau Amazon.com (D) Miguel Atencia Univ. Malaga (E) Michael Aupetit CEA (F) Andreas Backhaus Fraunhofer-Institut (D) Lluís Belanche Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Younès Bennani Université Paris 13 (F) Michael Biehl Univ. of Groningen (NL) Martin Bogdan Univ. Leipzig (D) Hervé Bourlard IDIAP Martigny (CH) Charles Bouveyron Univ. Paris Descartes (F) Antonio Braga Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais (Brazil) Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Stéphane Canu Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F) Andreu Català Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Sylvain Chevallier University of Versailles (F) Valentina Colla Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna Pisa (I) Nigel Crook Oxford Brookes University (UK) Holk Cruse Universität Bielefeld (D) Giovanni Da San Martino Univ. of Padova (I) Bernard de Baets Univ. Gent (B) Kris De Brabanter K. U. Leuven (B) Massimo De Gregorio Istituto di Cibernetica-CNR (I) Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I) Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL) Marc Duranton CEA Saclay (F) Richard Duro Univ. Coruna (E) Mark Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Anibal Figueiras-Vidal Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E) Jean-Claude Fort Univ. Paris Descartes (F) Felipe M. G. França Univ. Federal Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Leonardo Franco Univ. Malaga (E) Damien François Université catholique de Louvain (B) Manjunath Gandhi Jacobs University (D) Alessandro Ghio Univ. of Genova (I) Luis Gonzalez Abril University of Sevilla (E) Marco Gori Univ. Siena (I) Bernard Gosselin Univ. Mons (B) Philipe-Henri Gosselin INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atl. (F) Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E) Anne Guérin-Dugué IMAG Grenoble (F) Barbara Hammer Bielefeld Univ. (D) Verena Heidrich-Meisner CAU Kiel (D) Tom Heskes Univ. Nijmegen (NL) Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler Univ. Life Sci. & Natural Resources (A) Christian Igel Univ. Copenhagen (DK) Jose Jerez Univ. Malaga (E) Gonzalo Joya Univ. Malaga (E) Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F) Juha Karhunen Aalto Univ. (FIN) Marika Kästner Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) DaeEun Kim Yonsei Univ. (South Korea) Stefanos Kollias National Tech. Univ. Athens (GR) Jouko Lampinen Aalto Univ. (FIN) Petr Lansky Acad. of Sci. of the Czech Rep. (CZ) Beatrice Lazzerini Univ. Pisa (I) John Lee Univ. cat Louvain (B) Minho Lee Kyungpook National Univ. (KR) Soo-Young Lee Korea Adv. Inst. Sci. & Tech. (KR) Amaury Lendasse Aalto Univ. (FIN) Priscila M. V. Lima Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Paulo Lisboa Liverpool John Moores Univ. (UK) José D. Martín Univ. of Valencia (E) Erzsebet Merenyi Rice Univ. (USA) David Meunier Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (F) Anke Meyer-Bäse Florida State Univ. (USA) Yoan Miche Aalto Univ. (FIN) Alessio Micheli Univ. of Pisa (I) Erkki Oja Aalto Univ. (FIN) Tjeerd olde Scheper Oxford Brookes University (UK) Madalina Olteanu Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Gilles Pagès Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) (F) Kristiaan Pelckmans Uppsala University (SE) Jaakko Peltonon Aalto University (FIN) David Picard Université de Cergy-Pontoise (F) Gadi Pinkas The Center for Acad. Studies (Israel) Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E) Didier Puzenat Univ. Antilles-Guyane (F) Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F) Fabrice Rossi Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Ulrich Rückert Bielefeld University (D) David Saad Aston Univ. (UK) Francisco Sandoval Univ.Malaga (E) Jose Santos Reyes Univ. Coruna (E) Frank-Michael Schleif Univ. Bielefeld (D) Udo Seiffert Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D) Alessandro Sperduti Università degli Studi di Padova (I) Jochen Steil Univ. Bielefeld (D) Peter Tino Univ. of Birmingham (UK) Claude Touzet Univ. Provence (F) Vanya Van Belle KUL Leuven (B) Marc Van Hulle K. U. Leuven (B) Alfredo Vellido Polytechnic University of Catalonia (E) Thomas Villmann Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) Willem Waegeman Univ. Gent (B) Heiko Wersing Honda Research Institute Europe (D) Axel Wismüller Univ. of Rochester, New York (USA) ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning http://www.esann.org/ * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be =======================================================

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Call for Submissions to ShARe/CLEF eHealth Visualisation Task 2014
by Tobias Schreck 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

(apologies for multiple postings) ========================================================== Submissions are sought until May 1, 2014 to Task 1: Health Information Visualisation - Visual-Interactive Search and Exploration of eHealth Data within the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. Please see http://clefehealth2014.dcu.ie/ for participation information. ============================================================ The ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab is a set of three shared tasks focused on interface design, natural language processing and information retrieval for clinical care. Lab registration is open at http://147.162.2.122:8888/clef2014labs/. The tasks are open to all registered lab participants. The vision for the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab is two-fold: (1) to develop tasks that potentially impact patient understanding of medical information and (2) to provide the community with an increasingly sophisticated dataset of clinical narrative to advance the state-of-the-art in information visualisation, natural language processing, information extraction and information retrieval in healthcare. CLEF eHealth ORGANISING COMMITTEE =================================== Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland Gondy Leroy, University of Arizona, USA Danielle L. Mowery, University of Pittsburg, PA, USA Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany Hanna Suominen, NICTA, Australia Sumithra Velupillai, Stockholm University, Sweden

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POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND
by Giulio Jacucci 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for several researchers in these areas. Postdocs are sought for fixed-term periods of at most three years and research fellows at most five years. The deadline for the call is 6 April 2014. Further details regarding the positions and the application procedure are available at https://www.hiit.fi/node/2644. In particular please notice: ------- HIIT-Wide Focus Area “Information Exploration” The HIIT-wide focus area is a big multidisciplinary project spanning several research groups of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT at Aalto University and University of Helsinki. Several postdoc positions are now offered in the project. The postdocs will collaborate with several PI's. Information Exploration, a central aspect of Knowledge and scientific work, can be profoundly improved through computational and information retrieval methods. Novel intelligent systems will be able to better utilize the massive explosion in raw data, documents, distributed information and links between these. Information Exploration as a focus of research develops information technology methods and pilot applications for making the data-driven fields such as modern biology, business intelligence, and others revolutionizing the way we search and access and share information. In particular improving the general problem solving method of science, in collaboration with the other fields, is the best way for our research community to contribute to solving the grand challenges of the humanity. http://www.hiit.fi/augmentedresearch Example profiles and positions: • Analysing ubiquitous sensor data • Interactive Visualization • Psychophysiology for Implicit Interaction and Brain Computer Interfaces • Intelligent user interfaces, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems • Machine Learning and Data Analysis for Context based information retrieval • Probabilistic modelling and data analysis for bioinformatics ------- Open position for Senior / Postdoc Developer for Future Intelligent Information Retrieval, Professor Giulio Jacucci, Department of Computer Science & HIIT, University of Helsinki. Unique position to lead the development of a future generation system for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The position has both development of a system for real wide deployment as also cutting edge research environment with academic impact. As senior / postdoc developer the candidate will be responsible of leading the development of a new generation intelligent information retrieval system that is utilising latest techniques in distributed computing, machine learning, adaptive computing, visualisation and user modelling. Beside academic research activities the practical work includes: Programming backend, organising modular development, issuing guidelines for development. Needed competencies and experiences: wide experience in programming in large real deployment projects, Strong skills in selected programming languages, experience of appropriate frameworks (MVC frameworks, such as Spring), Hands on experience in Web development, Experience in working with DBs - MongoDB, Postgres, etc. Duration: 5 years, salary 3 200–4 000 according to qualifications. ------- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT open call for postdocs and research fellows. Contact persons: Ella Bingham, research coordinator of HIIT and Samuel Kaski, director of HIIT. HIIT offers postdoc and research fellow positions for outstanding candidates, to be affiliated with any of its research groups. Requirement for these open positions is substantial prior experience outside the particular group. http://www.hiit.fi/groups

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2nd CfP: International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI14) to be held in Sydney Aug 5-8
by tony huang 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross posting. Please consider contributing and help to distribute. ================================================= Call for papers, posters, workshop and tutorial proposals 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 to be given 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. Papers can be submitted as long papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers, including workshop papers, will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI-indexed), as has been the case in previous years. 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<http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijseke> (IJSEKE, SCI indexed) and a special issue of International Journal of Software and Informatics <http://www.ijsi.org/ch/index.aspx> (IJSI). Important Dates: Workshop proposals: March 25, 2014. Tutorial proposals: March 25, 2014 Long papers: April 8, 2014 Short papers: April 8, 2014 Posters: May 20, 2014 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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Fwd: CDVE2014 Call for Papers, Deadline April 1, 2014. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
by Cecilia Aragon 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Apologies for cross-posting... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuhua Luo - <y.luo(a)uib.es> Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:18 PM Subject: CDVE2014 Call for papers, Deadline April 1, 2014. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering To: cdve2014(a)cdve.org *CDVE2014 Call for Papers: Deadline April 1, 2014. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Seattle WA* The international conference CDVE 2014 (http://www.cdve.org<http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html>) will be held in the US for the first time after 10 conferences in Europe and Asia. Taking place in Seattle WA in September 2014, its focus is on cooperative applications and approaches to design, visualization, and engineering. Paper deadline is April 1, 2014. Long papers are 8 pages and short papers are 4 pages. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected expanded papers may be published in special issues of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work or the Journal of Concurrent Engineering. Submissions are welcomed in the following areas: Cooperative Design (CD) * Multiple user, multiple location collaborative design applications * Concurrent design, collaborative editing, real time user interactions * Demonstrating feasibility and applicability in CD * Cooperative User Experience (UX) design * Design for total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing or construction * Cooperative design analysis, verification, integration and interoperability, standards * Scenarios, case studies of cooperative design in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, building architecture, engineering and construction, automobile, microelectronics, software engineering, entertainment and other areas * Special issues in cooperative design Cooperative visualization (CV) * Multiple user, multiple location visualization, concurrent visualization, * System architecture, prototypes, user interfaces for CV: web applications, textual and multimedia 2D, 3D desktop interfaces, 3D virtual world environments, and multiple user embedded systems. * Large scale, massive data storage, access, exploration, and manipulation, for cooperative visualization * Multi-resolution and other efficient computer graphics, visualization algorithms for cooperative visualization * Visualization in multiple user games, networked games, simulation visualization for multiple users Cooperative Engineering (CE) * Total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing and construction * Collaborative process planning, scheduling, control, conformance testing and interoperability checking, cooperative decision making. * Human-machine interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems for CE * Concurrent prototyping, manufacturing and engineering. * Concurrent process modeling, product modeling, reference models, business models, data representations and standards. * Integration and interoperability, intelligent infrastructures and automated methods for integrating systems, multi-level integration, enterprise integration * Long-term large scale project data archiving, access, concurrent data control for CE * Smart grids * Industrial scenarios, case studies of CE: in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), automobile, microelectronics, and others Basic Theories, methods and technologies that support CDVE (BT) * Distributed systems, grid systems, real time systems, groupwares * Cloud computing for cooperative work * Algorithms, architectures, frameworks, platforms for CDVE * Data consistency, concurrent processing, middleware, agent based methods * Collaborative and multimode working environment * Design patterns, reusability and component-based methods * Communication, transport, application protocols for CDVE * Internet computing, web environment for collaborative working * Knowledge management, information systems, large databases, data-mining * Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration * Ontology for information sharing, cooperative applications * Security for CDVE * Human machine interaction for CDVE Cooperative Applications (CA) * Cooperative learning * Multiple user gaming * Cooperative decision making * Social networks * Cooperative Internet of Things (IoT) * Collaborative Information Seeking * Information integration in sensor networks * Collaborations in emergency response and disaster management * Collaborative mobile systems, group interaction in mobile system and mobility communities * Collaborative robots and human robot interaction * Collaboration technologies and systems for healthcare * Web based cooperation tools, cooperative web design such as Wiki's * Other cooperative applications *Deadline*: April 1, 2014 *Conference Dates*: September 14-17, 2014, Seattle WA *Submissions:* http://www.cdve.org/submit.html *Conference Website:* http://www.cdve.org<http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html> Program committee *Conference Chair* Professor Yuhua Luo University of Balearic Islands, Spain *Program Committee Chair * Professor Dieter Roller University of Stuttgart, Germany Members Cecilia R. Aragon University of Washington USA Jose Alfredo Costa Federal University, UFRN Brazil Peter Demian Loughborough University UK Carrie Sturts Dossick University of Washington USA Susan Finger Carnegie Mellon University USA Sebastia Galmes University of Balearic Islands Spain Halin Gilles School of Architecture of Nancy France Matti Hannus Technical Research Centre of Finland Finland Shuangxi Huang Tsinghua University China Jian Huang University of Tennessee USA Tony Huang University of Tasmania Australia Claudia-Lavinia Ignat INRIA France Jessie Kennedy Edinburgh Napier University UK Ursula Kirschner Leuphana University Lüneburg Germany Harald Klein Siemens AG Germany Jean-Christophe Lapayre Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France Francis Lau University of Hong Kong HongKong Pierre Leclercq University of Liege Belgium Jang Ho Lee Hongik University South Korea Jos P. Leeuwen Universidade da Madeira Portugal Ken Lin Google Inc. USA Kwan-Liu Ma University of California, Davis USA Mary Lou Maher University of North Carolina Charlotte USA Toan Nguyen INRIA France Moira C. Norrie ETH Zurich Switzerland Manuel Ortega Castilla - La Mancha University Spain Niko Salonen Rolls-Royce Oy Ab Finland Marc Aurel Schnabel The Chinese University of Hong Kong China Weiming Shen National Research Council of Canada Canada Ram Sriram National Institute of Standards & Technology USA Chengzheng Sun Nanyang Technological University Singapore Thomas Tamisier Public Research Centre - G. Lippmann Luxembourg Carlos Vila Jaume I University Spain Xiangyu Wang Curtin University Australia Nobuyoshi Yabuki Osaka University Japan

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Open Positions: Research Scientists -- Visualization
by Jim Klosowski 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

In AT&T Labs' Big Data Research organization, we develop new analytic methods for massive data sets to learn about our network and our customers, understand products, and improve services and operations. We are seeking outstanding PhD-level researchers at all levels of experience with expertise in: Visualization Data Mining / Statistics / Machine Learning Database Systems Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external collaborators, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs Research is an exciting place to work. Positions are based in New York, NY and Bedminster, NJ. For more information, visit www.research.att.com and click on "Working with us". AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications will be reviewed on a continuous basis until positions are filled. Questions may be directed to: Jim Klosowski jklosow(a)research.att.com http://www.research.att.com/groups/infovis

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