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Last CFP, Visualisation in Business Intelligence and Open Data, IV'2014
by Gilles Venturini 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

(Sorry for cross-posting) >>> Last Call for Papers, deadline extended to March 21st. 2nd International Symposium, Visualisation in Business Intelligence and Open Data http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/VBI_OD.htm as part of IV2014 - 18th International Conference, Information Visualisation 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 2014, University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France. http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/ http://www.univ-paris5.fr This VBI-OD session focuses on two important issues and inter-dependent domains in which visualisations can play a key role. Business Intelligence (BI) is a domain where data, knowledge and users are tightly related. Data in BI are stored in Data Warehouses and are generally large, heterogeneous, geo-localized and time-dependent. Visualisations in BI must be intuitive and must support an interactive, collaborative and ubiquitous discovery process. These visualisations must deal both with the exploration of data and knowledge, and also with the presentation of results to managers. Open Data (OD) share common properties with BI from the data analysis and visualisation points of view. OD represents a recent issue that concerns the free delivery of a huge amount of information produced by public or private organizations and other data providers. Such Open Datasets cover various topics including politics, taxes, citizens, cities, health, education etc. The users who wish to explore such datasets are often citizens, journalists, politicians, managers and other data or business analysts. In this area, the visualisations are expected to help the users in their exploration of this huge amount of information. This may concern various aspects of visual and interactive methods (overview of a large collection of Open datasets, details on an dataset, interactive discovery, user interfaces, aesthetics, etc). BI and OD thus represent important challenges in the visualisation domain. The aim of this symposium is precisely to make a state of the art and to contribute to these challenging objectives by covering all aspects of interactive visualisations in BI and OD, from both a theoretical and practical point of view. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: § Visual OLAP and visualisations for data cubes, dynamic cross tables, dashboards, scorecards, key performance indicators, reporting, CRM, market basket analysis, strategic watch, § Visualisations for Open Data in various domains (health, education, politics, ...) § Visual assistants, data to visualisation mappings, user feedback, § User interfaces for BI and OD (collaborative, ubiquitous) and aesthetics in visualisations, use of new technologies § Visualisation of time-dependent data, geo-localized data, maps, multidimensional data, hierarchies, big data § Interactions, interactive knowledge discovery, visual operators on data and knowledge, graphical requests, visual analytics for BI and OD § User evaluations and case studies, reports on real cases and experiments Submission procedures: www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/PAPERS.htm Further information: www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Important Dates: 21 March 2014 Submission of papers & Submission of tutorials: https://www.conftool.net/IV2014/ <https://www.conftool.net/IV2014/%3cwill> <will be available shortly> 10 May 2014 Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes Symposium Chair: Dr. Fatma Bouali, University of Lille 2, France Fatma.bouali(a)univ-lille2.fr Patrick Beaucamp , Founder of the Vanilla Project, the True Honest Open Source Business Process Information Platform patrick.beaucamp(a)bpm-conseil.com Prof. Gilles Venturini, University Francois Rabelais of Tours, France venturini(a)univ-tours.fr

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WSCG 2014 Deadline Extended to March 31, 2014 - Graphics, Visualization and Vision
by Vaclav Skala 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

>>> WSCG 2014 <<< >>> http://www.wscg.cz <<< >>> in cooperation with Eurographics, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed <<< Sorry for duplicates if any To be REMOVED from the list: RETURN this mail to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to REMOVE WSCG (exactly please). REMINDER >> DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 31, 2014 << (due to technical problems) infovis(a)infovis.org >> Please, forward to your colleagues << >> and potential authors according to your mailing list << WSCG 2014 conference deadline has been >>> EXTENDED to MARCH 31, 2014 <<<< due to technical problems Please, be so kind and resend information to potential authors if possible. WSCG 2014 International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 http://www.wscg.cz June 2-5, 2014 will be held at Primavera Congress Center Pilsen (Plzen) - the European City of Culture 2015 (close to Prague [Praha] - the Golden European City) Czech Republic 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. 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 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 2014-03-01 4571 --- Tato zpráva neobsahuje viry ani jiný škodlivý kód - avast! Antivirus je aktivní. http://www.avast.com

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IEEE JISIC 2014 CFP
by John Stasko 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC) 2014 [Intelligence and Security Informatics and European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference] September 24-26, The Hague, The Netherlands http://www.eisic.org CALL FOR PAPERS Since 2003 the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is the leading international scientific conference on interdisciplinary research on information technology for intelligence, safety and security. In 2011, the European counterpart of the ISI started as European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC). For the first time both events meet in the IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC), enabling international researchers on the challenging field of intelligence and security informatics to share ideas on problems, solutions and new directions. IEEE JISIC features six tracks that are chaired by leading researchers on the respective theme: 1. Forensic Intelligence (Jeroen Keppens - King's College London) 2. Decisioning and Interaction (John Stasko - Georgia Institute of Technology) 3. Cyber and infrastructure security (V.S. Subrahmanian - University of Maryland) 4. Financial and fraud analysis (Niall Adams - Imperial College London) 5. Computational criminology (Thomas Holt - Michigan State University) 6. Border Control (Jakub Piskorski - FRONTEX) PAPER SUBMISSION We invite academic researchers in the field of Intelligence and Security Informatics and related areas as well as companies, industry consultants, analysts and practitioners in the fields involved to submit papers and proposals for tutorials. We are soliciting both research and practice and experience papers on the topics of the proposed tracks and related topics. Research papers should either: (a) present results of substantial research/scientific work (long papers, 8 pages max), (b) report on an ongoing research activity/effort, ideas and new challenges (short papers, 4 pages max). Experience papers (short papers) should describe experiences encountered in applying novel research results and methods in the context of the conference and/or report on innovative solutions with strong application potential that are not yet on the market, or are on the market, but require guidance regarding further steps in order to convert them into real-world solutions. Submissions should be written in technical style rather than sales styles. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS We seek to extend IEEE JISIC 2014 experience by tutorials on selected topics given by renowned scientists and practitioners in their fields. We solicit proposals for half-day tutorials. Tutorials may be lectures, interactive workshops, hands-on training, or any combination of the above. Exploring diverse ways of interacting with the audience is welcome as are cross-disciplinary topics. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission due: June 1, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2014 * Camera ready paper due: July 18, 2014 * Authors registration due: July 18, 2014 * Conference: September 24-26, 2014 TRACK DESCRIPTIONS 1. Forensic Intelligence A broad range of disparate techniques to tackle evidential reasoning and forensic investigation have emerged from a variety of fields, including argumentation, probabilistic, narrative and knowledge management based approaches to collect and assess evidence, and to manage and coordinate investigations. This track aims to bring together academic researchers and practitioners with interests in evidential reasoning and forensic investigation from disparate fields such as statistics, artificial intelligence, decision sciences, forensic sciences and law, to present new developments in their respective areas and encourage cross-fertilisation between often disparate fields of research and practice. 2. Decisioning and Interaction The track will explore interactive technologies that assist in the decision-making processes of security-related domains. This includes visualization and visual analytics systems, interactive decision-support and analytical reasoning systems, and other forms of multimedia information systems. A key component of this track is a human-in-the-loop interaction technology where computational analyses are complemented by human exploration and investigation. 3. Cyber and Infrastructure Security The Security track focuses on computational models of intelligence, safety and security aspects of crime and terrorism in the context of critical infrastructure and cyberspace. Papers making both theoretical and practical aspects of these topics are welcome. Interdisciplinary and applied papers, where existing computational methods are applied or adapted to the solution of real-world problems in these domains are particularly encouraged. 4. Financial and Fraud Analysis Financial fraud is a serious problem, damaging both international economies and personal lives. The areas in which financial fraud can occur are diverse, including retail finance, insurance, corporate banking and internet transactions. A broad range of tactics are employed by fraudsters to obtain illegal advantage. Moreover, the area of fraud is an arms-race, with fraudsters constantly changing tactics to circumvent protection systems. Thus, methodology that is capable of automatically adapting to such changes is of special interest. Many financial fraud applications have the character of “big data”, in which a very small signal must be extracted from very large and complex data. This track will gather novel research contributions in the area of financial fraud, with the intention of gaining insight from diverse methodologies and application areas. 5. Computational criminology This track will provide examinations of offender behavior, victimology, and law enforcement practices utilizing statistical analysis techniques and unique data sources. This includes tests of various criminological theories, assessments of social network structures, and organizational practices of terror groups, cybercriminals, and gangs. Evaluations of crime prevention strategies, intelligence led policing, and issues of public safety, privacy, and security will also be a focus of this track. 6. Border Control This track solicits papers reporting research work relevant in the context of addressing practical operational challenges encountered by the border control community. Among others, topics of interest include: (a) authentication of documents, people and vehicles, (b) risk assessment of travelers, (c) modelling and optimization of the border control processing chain, (d) border surveillance, (e) platforms, protocols and techniques for secure exchange of information and communication, (f) text/data mining, information fusion and utilization of new sources of information for intelligence gathering and situational awareness, and (g) border control technology impact, acceptance and integration. We are looking forward to see you in The Hague - City of Peace and Justice The IEEE JISIC Organizing Team

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CFP: EuroVA workshop, Swansea, June 9-10
by margit pohl 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EuroVA 2014, Swansea, June 9-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EuroVA 2014 (www.eurova.org) is the fifth international Eurovis workshop on Visual Analytics held in Europe and aims at continuing the success of the previous editions, held in Bordeaux, France, in Bergen, Norway, Vienna, Austria and Leipzig, Germany. Also this year the goal of the workshop is to promote and advance the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for the purpose of problem solving in a variety of application domains including engineering, business, public policy, biology and medicine, security, etc. EuroVA will be held on June 9th-10th, 2014 in Swansea, as a workshop of the annual EuroVis 2014 Conference. The EuroVA 2014 program will include a keynote talk and short paper presentations. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual techniques, which requires interdisciplinary science integrating techniques from visualization and computer graphics, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Visual analysis processes and workflows * Visual representations and interaction techniques * Data management and knowledge representation * Data analysis and machine learning * Cognitive and perceptual aspects * Infrastructure * Evaluation * Applications, as far as they are strictly related to visual analytics. Important Dates Short Paper submission deadline: March 9th, 2014 Review deadline: April 8th, 2014 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: April 25th, 2014 EuroVA workshop: June 9th-10th, 2014 Short papers submission guidelines Short papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum) must be prepared using the EuroVis formatting guidelines (size of fonts, illustrations,…). Authors of accepted short papers will give an oral presentation. The EuroVA 2014 Conference Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association. The formatting guidelines can be found at the homepage of the workshop (www.eurova.org) Workshop Chairs Pohl, Margit – Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jonathan Roberts – Bangor University, UK

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Reminder: CrowdUI 2014 - Abstract Submission Deadline on March 3rd
by Alessandro Bozzon 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 1st C A L L F O R P A P E R S CrowdUI 2014 1st International Workshop on User Interfaces for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/crowdui2014/ **************************************************************************** *ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE* (not mandatory): March 3rd, 2014 *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: March 7th, 2014 Aims and Scope -------------- Crowdsourcing and Human Computation raises a variety of new challenges for user interfaces and user interaction designers. How to efficiently and effectively support implicit and/or explicit Crowdsourcing and Human Computation tasks is still an open research question. The goal of the CrowdUI workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the diverse fields related to the integration, interaction and visualization of data to explore the feasibility of using and combining different approaches to create effective user interfaces and usage experience for applications relying on, or producing crowdsourced data. Recent years witnessed an explosion in the number and variety of data crowdsourcing initiatives. From OpenStreetMap to Amazon Mechanical Turk, developers and practitioners have been striving to create user interfaces able to effectively and efficiently support the creation, exploration, and analysis of crowdsourced information. A representative example comes from the fields of Smart Cities and Human Mobility: there, new breeds of (mobile) human computation applications and games-with-a-purpose employ new interaction paradigms for the collection and retrieval of urban-related data. On the other hand, analysts and other urban stakeholders are provided with application that fused multiple datasources together in order to support sensemaking and knowledge-extraction processes for decision- making. The extensive usage of crowdsourcing techniques brings a major change of paradigm with respect to traditional user interface for data collection and exploration, as effectiveness, speed, and interaction quality concerns play a central role in supporting very demanding incentives, including monetary ones. At this purpose, cross fertilization between different disciplines is mandatory: existing approaches for visual interfaces design and implementation, data visualization and interaction methodologies, crowdsourced data management, and human computation task design should be merged with the purpose of identifying the best interaction and visualization paradigms for crowd-driven data collection, analysis, and exploration applications. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Interfaces for human computation tasks * Studies on quality, usability and effectiveness of human computation and crowdsourcing user interfaces * Innovative user interaction paradigms for task execution * Human computation interaction design tools * Game interfaces for crowdsourcing and human computation * Tools for human computation task design and deployment * Tools for visual analytics of crowdsourced data * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces for human computation tasks * Spam detection for crowdsourced data collection and analysis * Human factors in human computation task interface design * Work modelling for user interface adaptation * Performer /Task and Task/Performer recommendation Workshop Organizers ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) * Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) * Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano) EMAIL: crowduiworkshop(a)gmail.com Submission Procedure -------------------- *The 2 best submissions of the workshop will be included in the ACM proceedings of the AVI 2014 conference.* We welcome submissions describing ideas, experiments, and application visions originating from requirements for, and efforts aimed at, supporting crowdsourced and human computation tasks. We encourage the following submission types: * demos and posters not exceeding 2 pages * position and technical papers not exceeding 4 pages The CrowdUI workshop also aims at providing visibility and a discussion forum to universities, companies, and developers for presenting software tools related to the field of Web Engineering. We plan to provide you an exciting and highly interactive way of demonstrating your tool, systems, and research, and it is an excellent way of advertising the applicability of your results. Submissions about commercial tools, prototypes, open source software, and ongoing development are welcome. Submissions should describe the innovative aspects of the work they present, highlighting pros and cons with respect to related work. Demo proposals should describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system). Submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the CrowdUI Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. All submission must be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI format. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the CrowdUI 2014 web submission system. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main AVI conference to be found on their website (http://hoc12.elet.polimi.it/avi2014/)

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BELIV 2014 Workshop: CFP
by Heidi Lam 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

BELIV 2014, Nov. 10, Paris, France co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 http://beliv.cs.univie.ac.at/ CALL FOR PAPERS (RESEARCH & POSITION) We invite you to contribute to BELIV 2014, the international workshop on evaluation in visualization. Even though established scientific methods like controlled experiments and standard metrics like time and error continue to be the workhorse of evaluation in visualization, there is a growing need in the community to develop special approaches and metrics for evaluation at all stages of the development life cycle that address specific needs in visualization. The goal of the workshop is to continue the discussion and spread the word on alternative and novel evaluation methods and methodologies for visualization. Paper Types We accept two types of submissions--research papers and position papers. The workshop focuses on contributions from all areas of visualization, including visual analytics, information visualization, and scientific visualization. *Research papers* aim to make progress toward novel evaluation methods in visualization and to discuss their benefits and limitations compared to traditional methodologies. As in past editions of BELIV, we will not accept papers that merely report on the evaluation of a system or technique unless the focus of the contribution is on lessons learned about applying a novel evaluation method or methodology and new insights on the evaluation itself are presented. Research papers present new work and unpublished results on the topic areas of the workshop. Research papers will be selected according to their novelty, quality, and relevance. *Position papers* are problem discussions or statements describing the author's relevant experience and ideas in regards to evaluation methods and methodologies for visualization. Position papers will be selected according to their importance and relevance for the workshop topics and how well they will fit the planned discussions. Both types of papers can be up to eight pages long but the length of a submission needs to correspond to its contribution. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee as well as the organizers. We are currently working on making sure that we will be able to publish all accepted papers in the ACM digital library including the assignment of DOIs to the papers. We also plan to invite a selected subset of the papers to contribute to a special issue in a major visualization journal venue such as the Information Visualization Journal. Important Dates June 30, 2014: Paper submission due Aug 1, 2014: First notification Sept 1, 2014: Revisions due Sept 15, 2014: Final notification Nov 10, 2014: BELIV workshop (1-day) Submission To submit a paper create an account and submit the paper to the submission system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BELIV2014/. Please clarify whether you are submitting a position or research paper. For additional questions, email the organizers at beliv.workshop(a)gmail.com Format All the submissions should be formatted in the ACM style. Suitable templates, in LaTeX and Word, can be downloaded from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The submission, however, must be made in PDF format. Topics of Interest Topics include, but are not limited to: Evaluation in the visualization development lifecycle, Utility characterization, Evaluation metrics, Insight characterization, Synthetic data sets and benchmarks, Taxonomy of tasks, Computational evaluation, Benchmark development and repositories, Methods for longitudinal studies and adoption, Evaluation of early prototypes, Evaluation heuristics and guidelines, and Reflections on evaluation practice in visualization in the past, present, and future. Topics of Non-Interest Evaluation results of a visualization system or technique Organizers: Heidi Lam, Google Petra Isenberg, INRIA Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Michael Sedlmair, University of Vienna Papers from previous BELIVs For past BELIV workshops and papers see these links: BELIV 2006: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1168149> BELIV 2008: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1377966> BELIV 2010: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110192> BELIV 2012: published in the ACM DL <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2442576>

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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Panels
by G.Elisabeta Marai 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR PANELS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/panels IEEE VIS 2014 Panels should address important and/or controversial applications and issues in scientific and information visualization and visual analytics today. In particular, we invite topics in connection with interesting application fields. Panels including potential users of visualization technology (e.g. practitioners and industry professionals) or panels consisting of experts in fields that might teach us important concepts (e.g. perceptual psychology, visual design, color theory, user-interface design) would also be welcome. Panelists should be experts in their fields who can discuss the challenges of visualization, and engage the audience and fellow panel members in a stimulating, interactive debate. Panel proposals should describe the topic to be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should include a position statement on the topic and a short biography, the total of which should be limited to 500 words for each panelist, up to a maximum of four pages for the whole panel. Panels are scheduled for the duration of an entire paper session; panel proposals should thus target one hour and 40 minutes total duration, including question and discussion periods. We strongly recommend that in order to keep to time, the chair of the panel is not one of the panel speakers. Panel organizers should also submit a short description of the panel format and schedule (max. 1 page). This should be in a separate document from the proposal itself, and should describe the order of topics to be discussed, time to be spent on panelist presentations, and mechanisms for encouraging audience participation. Based on audience feedback, the duration of panelist presentations should allow ample time for intra-panel discussion and discussions between the panel and the audience. We also note that submitting similar topics to multiple venues (e.g. panels and workshops) is likely to result in at most one accepted proposal so that a broad range of topics can be presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Submit via email to: panels(a)ieeevis.org For more information contact: Jo Wood, Jing Yang, and Daniel Keefe at panels(a)ieeevis.org. 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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IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: Workshops
by G.Elisabeta Marai 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/call-participation/workshops We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should: • emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium; or • bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and ‘invitation only’ workshops will not be approved. Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If you wish to have your materials considered for archival electronic publication, please submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia. Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics. Proposals should include: • a title, • the contact details of the organizers, • a brief description of organizers' background, related publications, and research, • the goals, the technical scope, the mission, and the proposed focus, • the planned activities, • the length (full or half day), • a statement of the organization and the development of the list of participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for finalizing workshop presenters), • the requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or in a panel format), and • the intended result & impact of the workshop results. The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for formatting guidelines and submit via PCS http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new lines of research, • the ability to attract people and make them excited about it, • the appropriateness with respect to IEEE VIS topics, • the qualification of the organizers, • the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and • the coherence of the proposed topic. If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please include a discussion of the results and the impact of the previous workshop. The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop. Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research impact, visibility, and attendee feedback will all be taken into account. In addition, the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue. IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission: May 2, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2014 CHAIRS Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond Tobias Isenberg, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz Zoė J. Wood, California Polytechnic For further information, please email workshops(a)ieeevis.org.

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giCentre - PhD Scholarships at City University London
by Dykes, Jason 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

We welcome applications to undertake PhD research in Visualization & Visual Analytics from those wanting to join our group at City University London. The Department of Computer Science, is offering three Doctoral Scholarships each valued at around £50,000 over three years. These will be awarded to the best proposals for research in priority areas: SoftwareSystems Engineering ; Human Centric Systems ; Information Analysis and Visualisation http://www.city.ac.uk/citygraduateschool/fees-and-funding/university-docto ral-studentships We encourage high calibre candidates to apply to undertake research in *Information Analysis and Visualization* through a research proposal that clearly identifies the area of research, articulating *the challenge*, *why this is a challenge* and *how this challenge will be tackled*. Application Closing Date: March 14 2014 Please contact us to discuss our research and your proposal before the end of February - gicentre(a)soi.city.ac.uk Details on giCentre research and information are at http://gicentre.org Criteria for assessment of applications are as follows : 50% Academic Qualifications - we expect a first class undergraduate degree (or 2.1 at high ranking institution), distinction at Masters level or equivalent academic qualifications 25% Proposal & References - we expect an outstanding proposal describing work likely to make a valuable contribution to the field & unequivocal support from referees 25% Academic record - we anticipate successful candidates having high quality publications or relevant professional roles and experience -- Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay, Jo Wood giCentre, City University London http://gicentre.org

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WSCG 2014 - Reminder Call for Papers - March 5, 2014 Graphics, Visualization, Vision - CfP
by Vaclav Skala 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Dear friends, Please, be so kind and distribute the Call for Papers according to your mailing list Many thanks Vaclav Skala sent to: infovis(a)infovis.org ---------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------- >>> REMINDER <<< >>> Call for Papers WSCG 2014 <<< >>> WSCG 2014 <<< >>> in Eurographics cooperation, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH listed <<< WSCG 2014 - 22nd International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 (http://www.wscg.eu - all WSCG events) http://www.wscg.cz will be held at Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (Plzen - the European City of Culture 2015) close to Prague, Czech Republic in June 2-5, 2014. 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 5, 2014 Acceptance notification: April 14, 2014 Venue: June 2 - 5, 2014 Accepted and Presented papers will be published in WSCG proceedings with ISBN and submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and others. 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. The 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 public transport - actually faster than to reach the Prague central parts. Main topics: -------------- 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. Call for new reviewers: -------------------------- If you or colleague of yours would like to act as a reviewer for WSCG events, please, send: - First Name, Last Name, @mail, URL personal page by @mail to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subj. WSCG - Reviewing 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

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