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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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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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