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CFP: 1st Workshop on Personalized Search: From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems (PESE2014)
by Giulio Jacucci 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Apologies for cross-posting. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Personalized Search: From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems (PESE2014) In conjunction with UMAP2014 7-11 July 2014- Aalborg, Denmark http://www.pese2014.com Submission Deadline: April 15, 2014 ========================================================================== It is widely accepted that personalized search is extremely powerful when facing realities such as the increasing amount of information available, the potential ambiguity of searched queries, or the between-users and between-tasks differences in search behaviors. Available information retrieval systems are particularly optimized for retrieving facts or answering specific questions. However, when the aim of the search is to learn or investigate, the systems are far from being optimized. In opposition to search for facts, exploratory search involves a continuous change of the state of the users, while they explore, learn or investigate. Consequently, relevance of items is no longer a static concept, as the perception of relevance varies according to the learning or investigation phase. Therefore, user modeling in exploratory search systems need to find mechanisms to track, recognize, or even predict perception of relevance, which is continuously evolving while in the search task. The workshop will focus on challenges, trends and solutions of personalizing search tasks. We aim to particularly discuss personalization in exploratory search scenarios, yet we enthusiastically welcome the discussion of any kind of personalized search. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from multiple fields such as information retrieval, user modeling, exploratory search, information visualization, recommender systems, and psychophysiology, among others. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to personalized search, especially in the areas related with exploratory search. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • Visualization approaches • Implicit interaction and relevance approaches • Harvesting of profile of users from history of interaction approaches • Context-awareness approaches • Combining recommender and retrieval systems approaches • Physiological interfaces for implicit relevance feedback approaches PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION Papers should not exceed 6 pages including references and must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style guidelines. Papers should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair Conference System. All the submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two of the Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published online in a CEUR-WS UMAP Workshop and poster proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES *April 15, 2014 – Paper submission deadline *May 10, 2014 – Notification to authors *May 20, 2014 – Camera-ready paper *July 7 or July 11, 2014 – PESE Workshop day (confirmation pending) The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Giulio Jacucci – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki (Finland) Peter Brusilovsky – University of Pittsburgh (USA) Samuel Kaski – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University (Finland) Tuukka Ruotsalo – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University (Finland) Oswald Barral – Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki (Finland)

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CFP - Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA) at UMAP 2014
by Ben Steichen 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

--------------- Call for Papers --------------- The 1st 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: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams (ED2014)
by James Burton 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. We have two pieces of news since the call for papers was last sent. Firstly, the keynote talk will be given by Prof. Atsushi Shimojima. Secondly, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI). Full details below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________

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BioVis 2014 CFP
by G.Elisabeta Marai 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

BioVis 2014 http://biovis.net/year/2014/info/cfp BioVis: The 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization @ ISMB (July 11-12, 2014) ========================================================== BioVis 2014: Call for Participation We invite you to contribute to the 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization. For the first time, the symposium will be held as a special interest group meeting at ISMB in Boston, MA, USA. The Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is an international and interdisciplinary event for presenting peer-reviewed scientific work on all aspects of visualization in biology. The symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. We are looking for contributions on all aspects of visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Possibilities of contribution are full scientific papers, scientific posters, a data contest, and a redesign contest. All papers accepted to the conference will be considered for publication in BMC Bioinformatics, as part of a thematic issue on Biological Data Visualization, associated with the conference. In addition, all accepted papers to the conference will be indexed through the IEEE Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: March 15th 2014 Data Analysis Contest submissions: May 1st 2014 Redesign Contest submissions: May 1st 2014 Poster submissions: May 24th 2014. All deadlines are 5pm (PDT). CONTACT papers(a)biovis.net Paper Chairs Seán O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburgh, USA On behalf of the BioVis organizers, -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai

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UMAP 2014: Doctoral Consortium Deadline Reminder, List of Workshops, Call for posters and demonstrations
by Ben Steichen 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

===================================================================== UMAP 2014 - 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Aalborg, Denmark, 7-11 July, 2014 http://www.um.org/umap2014/ ===================================================================== *** Doctoral Consortium Deadline reminder *** Paper submission: 7th March 2014 For more information, please visit http://um.org/umap2014/?q=submissionsDCpapers *** List of Workshops *** Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA) User-Adaptive Visualization Interfaces (WUAVI) News Recommendation and Analytics (NRA) Linking User Data (LiUD) Personalizing Search - From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems (PESE) LifeLong User Modelling (LLUM) Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE) Personalization in e-Government Services, Data and Applications (PEGOV) Trust, Reputation and User Modeling (TRUM) Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE) Workshop on UMAP Projects Synergy (ProS) *** Call for posters and demonstrations *** We are soliciting peer reviewed poster and demo papers presenting original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Important dates for poster submissions: Paper submission: 7th April 2014 Notification to authors: 2nd May 2014 Camera ready submission: 16th May 2014 For more information, please visit: http://um.org/umap2014/?q=callforpostersdemos -- 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: Call for Reviewers
by G.Elisabeta Marai 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Dear colleagues in visualization --- Please volunteer as a reviewer for the upcoming IEEE VIS 2014 conferences: VAST 2014, InfoVis 2014, and SciVis 2014. The expected success of these important conferences, to be held this year between Nov. 9 and 14 in Paris, strongly depends on the high-quality reviewing of a large number of experts from the field of visualization. Many thanks in advance for your important support! To register as a potential reviewer for IEEE VIS 2014, use https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ We would appreciate it very much if you could also motivate to volunteer other visualization experts from your research environment. With best regards, the VIS 2014 Co-Chairs

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: VizSec
by G.Elisabeta Marai 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ VizSec 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 www.vizsec.org The 11th Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Paris, France on November 10, 2014 in conjunction with IEEE VIS. Important research problems often lie at the intersection of disparate domains. Our focus is to explore effective, scalable visual interfaces for security domains, where visualization may provide a distinct benefit, including computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, preventing user assisted attacks, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing in addition to traditional network security. Human time and attention are precious resources. We are particularly interested in visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts so that further processing may be handled by machines, freeing analysts for other tasks. For example, a malware analyst might use a visualization system to analyze a new piece of malicious software that facilitates generating a signature for future machine processing. When appropriate, research that incorporates multiple data sources, such as network packet captures, firewall rule sets and logs, DNS logs, web server logs, and/or intrusion detection system logs, is particularly desirable. TECHNICAL PAPERS Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: Situation awareness and/or understanding Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response Computer forensics Recording and reporting results of investigations Reverse engineering and malware analysis Multiple data source analysis Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) Modeling system and network behavior Modeling attacker and defender behavior Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks Predicting future attacks or targets Security metrics and education Software security Mobile application security Social networking privacy and security Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, and will be publicly available in the ACM Digital Library one week prior to the conference start date. DATA If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. SUBMISSION Papers Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Formatting The VizSec proceedings will be published by the ACM. Submissions must the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. If you are using LaTeX, please use "Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style" for your submission. Word or LaTeX templates are available to download at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The full classiciation scheme is available at: http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998 ACM invites authors to submit an image representation of their article. The image must be selected from the article body and can be any of the following: art, graphic, table, figures, etc. (Image files are to be as square as possible, 100x100 ppi and in jpg format.) Authors must supply a caption with the image. The caption length should be no more than 512 characters. Submission Submit papers and posters using EasyChair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2014 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. Papers Aug 01, 2014: Submission deadline for papers Sep 05, 2014: Author notification for papers Sep 26, 2014: Camera-ready submission Oct 27, 2014: Papers available in ACM Digital Library Nov 10, 2014: VizSec 2014 in Paris, France COMMITTEE General Chair: Kirsten Whitley, US Department of Defense Program Chair: Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco Publications Chair: Lane Harrison, Tufts University Local Chair: Nicolas Prigent, Supélec Website Chair: John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Program Committee David Barrera, Carleton University Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Gregory Conti, US Military Academy at West Point Gustavo de los Reyes, AT&T Ron Dilley, UberAdmin David Ebert, Purdue University Alex Endert, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Rob Erbacher, Army Research Laboratory Fabian Fischer, University of Konstanz Deborah Frincke, US Department of Defense Carrie Gates, Dell John Gerth, Stanford University Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD Tim Leschke, US Department of Defense and Johns Hopkins University Celeste Lyn Paul, Department of Defense Raffael Marty, PixlCloud Chris Muelder, University of California Davis Stephen North, Graphviz Joe Parry, Cambridge Intelligence Elisha Peterson, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory Nicolas Prigent, Supélec Danny Quist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Chris Simpson, National University Diane Staheli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Teryl Taylor, University of North Carolina Olivier Thonnard, Symantec Research Labs Europe Joanne Treurniet, Defence Research and Development Canada David Trimm, US Department of Defense Grant Vandenberghe, Defense Research and Development Canada Sean Whalen, University of California San Francisco Anatoly Yelizarov, Lomonosov Moscow State University Tamara Yu, MIT Lincoln Laboratory CONTACT Website: http://www.vizsec.org/ Email: vizsec2014(a)easychair.org Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec The IEEE 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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Last CFP MediVis 2014
by Urska Cvek 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

** Reminder: Submissions due March 21, 2014** You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate in a section of the 11th International Conference on BioMedical Visualization (MediViz 2014). The conference will be one of the events of the 18th International Conference on Information Visualization 2014 (http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/) to be held in Paris, France July 15 to 18, 2014. About MediVis 2014 MediViz is a forum for the presentation of original papers in the theory and applications of visualization to biomedical and biomolecular data and processes. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization, visual analytics and issues affecting interaction with big data from the medical field. We encourage the submission of papers covering novel techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys. MediViz has evolved rapidly from its original concentration purely on medical visualization and is now a leading interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and results on visualization in the broader interdisciplinary biomedical sciences pushing forward the boundaries of modern medicine. Examples of biomedical topics include, but are not limited to - Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment, search and variant calling - Protein structure, interaction, function, sequence analysis - Signaling pathways, gene regulation, expression, identification and networks - DNA, RNA structure, function, sequence analysis - Biochemical and cellular simulations and models - Structural, functional and comparative genomics - Biomarkers and drug design - Systems Biology and Systems Medicine - Clinical and translational science - Public and global health - Computer aided diagnosis Examples of visualization topics include, but are not limited to: - Interaction and human factors - Novel approaches to data exploration - Visualizations of linked literature, semantics and data - High-performance computing and parallel rendering - Volume and flow visualization - Annotation and labeling - Overview and detail presentation of predictive or uncertain data - Comparative methods / user studies / surveys - Identification of correlated and anomalous relationships in disparate data sets - Application of previously published methods to analyze experiment-specific data Conference Proceedings Papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings after oral presentation, following a peer-review process. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society with an ISBN number and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical databases. Please visit the Conference website for more information on proceedings (http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/IVPublications.htm) Abstract submissions Please create a login in the EasyChair web site for the conference (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medivis2014) and submit your PDF document. Your submission must include a title, abstract and author names and contact information. Important deadlines March 21, 2014 Submission of full papers, typically 6 pages (with up to 4 excess pages which may be purchased) through the ConfTool web site (https://www.conftool.net/IV2014/) April 24, 2014 Notification of review results May 10,2014 Submission of camera-ready versions of accepted papers At least one of the co-authors is required to register for the Conference by May 15, 2014 and present the paper at the Conference. Individuals may appear as co-authors in more than one paper or poster. Please do not hesitate to contact one of the co-chairs (listed below) or the Program Administration (IV14(a)graphicslink.co.uk) should you need any assistance during this process. We look forward to your submission and participation. Kindest regards, MediViz 2014 Co-Chairs -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Urska Cvek, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport Email: ucvek (AT) lsus (DOT) edu Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstein (AT) cs (DOT) uml (DOT) edu Andreas Holzinger, Ph.D. Head Research Unit Human-Computer Interaction for Medicine and Health Medical University Graz (MUG) Email: andreas.holzinger (AT) medunigraz (DOT) at Heimo Mueller, Ph.D. Medical University Graz (MUG) Email: heimo (DOT) mueller (AT) medunigraz (DOT) at Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus (DOT) edu

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Four PhD Positions in Visual Analytics, Middlesex University, London, UK (Deadline: 14 March 2014)
by Kai Xu 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Four PhD Studentships in Visual Analytics for Criminal Intelligence Analysis are available in the Interaction Design Centre (http://idc.cs.mdx.ac.uk/) School of Science and Technology, at the Middlesex University, London (http://www.mdx.ac.uk/) Successful candidates will carry out their research with a team of international collaborators in context of an European Commission funded FP7 project. No prior knowledge in criminal intelligence is required, but an excellent background in data visualisation, human-computer interaction, data analytics algorithm, or research ethics is essential. Specific areas of research are: * Visual Analytics for Geo-Spatial Temporal Re-Construction of Situations in Criminal Intelligence Analysis [details<http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Visual%20Analytics%20for%20Geo-Spatial.pdf>: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Visual Analytics for Geo-Spatial.pdf]. * Visual Analytics for Insight Generation in Criminal Intelligence Analysis [details<http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Visual%20Analytics%20for%20Insight%20Generation…>: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Visual Analytics for Insight Generation.pdf]. * Interactive Feature Selection and Projection of High-Dimensional Data for Criminal Intelligence Analysis [details<http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Interactive%20Feature%20Selection.pdf>: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Interactive Feature Selection.pdf]. * Ethically Informed Design for Addressing Legal and Privacy Issues in Criminal Intelligence Analysis [details<http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Ethically%20Informed%20Design.pdf>: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Ethically Informed Design.pdf]. The deadline is 14 March 2014, and the application form is available here: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/ INFORMAL INQUIRIES: Professor B.L. William Wong, w.wong(a)mdx.ac.uk The details are available on the Middlesex University website: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bursaries/comp-sci.aspx OTHER Computer Science PhD studentships: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/employer/middlesex-university --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University.

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Call for Participation IEEE VIS 2014 Doctoral Colloquium
by Christopher Collins 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

***Call for Participation IEEE VIS 2014 Doctoral Colloquium*** We solicit submissions to the doctoral colloquium (DC) for IEEE VIS 2014. The 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. The colloquium will allow students to discuss their research directions in a supportive atmosphere with a panel of distinguished leaders and with their peers. Students can expect helpful feedback and fresh perspectives on their research topics and possible career paths, and will have the opportunity to interact closely with expert researchers in their field. The colloquium will support community-building by connecting beginning and advanced researchers. The DC is open to Ph.D. students in all stages of their studies, regardless of whether they are presenting research work at the main conference or not. Only selected applicants will be allowed to participate in the colloquium, and will be expected to attend the full day of events. Preference will be given to students who have formulated a dissertation topic but are still a year or more away from graduating. In North American terms, this corresponds to students that will or have recently defended their thesis proposal. Students who are in the process of formulating their research topic are particularly encouraged to apply, as this is the time where external feedback can have most impact. It is our experience that students who participate in the DC too early in their studies will not be able to get focused and useful feedback, whereas participating too late means that any significant feedback received will not be possible to incorporate in the student's dissertation due to time constraints. All research topics suitable for the IEEE SciVis, IEEE InfoVis, and IEEE VAST main programs as well as associated workshops and symposia are appropriate for the Doctoral Colloquium. **Format** The colloquium will likely consist of both parallel sessions of student presentations as well as common discussions with the expert panelists. A lunch is also planned that will give student participants the opportunity to interact more informally with panelists. **Funding** Contingent upon pending requests for external sponsorship of the VIS DC, we might be able to partially fund the travel, conference registration, and lodging for some accepted DC student participants. **Submissions** The deadline for DC submissions is May 10, 2014. Applicants to the Doctoral Colloquium should submit: * A four-page summary of their thesis research, including the problem being addressed, methodology and plan of research, a description of the progress to date, and the type of input expected from DC panelists. Please distinguish between work that has been accomplished and that which remains to be completed. The writing should be in a proposal format to facilitate feedback from the panelists as to validity of your problem and the efficacy of your approach. * An email from the student's advisor supporting the student's attendance at the colloquium and confirming that the student is in a good position to benefit from participating. Note that this should NOT be a letter of recommendation; a brief statement of support is sufficient. The e-mail should be sent directly to doctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:doctoral_coll@ieeevis.org>. * (Optional) A draft poster in PDF format (see below.) Student submissions should be emailed to doctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:doctoral_coll@ieeevis.org>. Formatting guidelines and LaTeX/Word templates can be found at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html. Student submissions will be peer-reviewed and selections will be made on the basis of their contribution to the colloquium's goals, strength of research direction, and the advisor's assessment. Accepted submissions will be printed for colloquium participants. **Poster Presentations** Accepted participants of the Doctoral Colloquium will also be allowed to present their work as a poster that will be displayed together with the regular poster program. Please consider including a draft poster with your DC submission. Participants may be asked to refine their posters and summaries based upon reviewer feedback. The poster session chairs will have a final say in accepting all poster submissions, even for DC participants. Also note that DC posters will NOT appear in the official IEEE VIS poster proceedings The posters themselves have no predefined formatting, but dimensions may not exceed A0 paper size (841mm x 1189mm / 33.1" x 46.8"). Participants are responsible for bringing a hardcopy poster for display during VisWeek. They should be available at the poster to discuss their work during the scheduled evening poster session(s). **Doctoral Colloquium Chairs** Jian Chen, University of Maryland Baltimore County Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Margit Pohl, TU / Wien Contact VIS DC co-chairs: doctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:doctoral_coll@ieeevis.org>

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