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ESANN 2014: call for papers
by Michel Verleysen 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

ESANN 2014: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 23-24-25 April 2014 http://www.esann.org Call for special sessions ------------------------------- ESANN 2014 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks fields over the years. Each year, 5-6 special sessions on selected hot topics in the field are organized at ESANN. We are currently looking for proposals to organize special sessions. Candidate organizers are invited to read the call for special sessions at https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=cfss (warning: this page is not linked nor referenced from the main ESANN web page). Candidates for the organization of special sessions should send an e-mail to esann(a)uclouvain.be <mailto:esann@uclouvain.be> as soon as possible and at the latest on September 6, 2013. Details on the information to be sent is available from https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=cfss. The conference will be organized in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Designated as the "Venice of the North", the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. We remain of course at your disposal for any information about ESANN 2014 and the organization of special sessions. Sincerely yours, Michel Verleysen ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning <http://www.esann.org/> http://www.esann.org/ * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 <mailto:esann@uclouvain.be> mailto:esann@uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 <mailto:esann@uclouvain.be> mailto:esann@uclouvain.be ========================================================

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CFP: VIS 13 workshop -- Public Health's Wicked Problems: Can InfoVis Save Lives?
by John Stasko 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Announcing a Call for Submissions for a workshop on Public Health's Wicked Problems: Can InfoVis Save Lives? In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2013 October 13-18, 2013 Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.cdc.gov/oid/public-health-workshop-1013.html --Introduction-- Public health is charged with assessing current and emerging health threats and issues, developing effective population-based policies and interventions to address these problems, and monitoring delivery and outcomes of public health actions. Many public health problems, such as the obesity epidemic, HIV/STI transmission, and environmental hazards are called “wicked” due to their complexity and multi-layered causal factors at individual, group, and social levels. Such problems must be tackled with a mix of interventions that can include changes in health care delivery systems, community and neighborhood planning, social and educational institutions, and social and individual behavior change programs. Other public health actions require rapid response and public engagement using the best data possible as it emerges in real-time, such as emerging infectious diseases, outbreaks, and emergency operations to protect public safety. To make decisions about when and where to deploy resources that produce the greatest net benefits in complex or rapidly evolving situations, public health practitioners need new tools to integrate multiple sources of data from formal disease surveillance systems, secondary sources of geographic and demographic data, and new data streams such as real-time social media content. The field of information visualization, in which datasets are explored, analyzed, and presented through a range of graphical means, could offer entirely new ways of representing, seeing, and solving population-based health problems. --Call for Participation-- The goal of the workshop is to bring together world-class public health and information visualization experts and curious learners to discuss how the fields can come together to generate new tools for emerging and longstanding public health problems. All registered attendees of IEEE VIS are encouraged to attend the workshop, with a special invitation to public health professionals who are interested in data visualization techniques to attend the conference in Atlanta. We are soliciting full papers and extended abstracts/presentations across the range of focus areas of visualization, from issues in data collection for maximizing visualization opportunities, to analysis techniques, traditional and novel presentation formats, and data storytelling. Submissions should focus on the use of visualization to identify, analyze, and solve public health and related health system challenges. --Scope and Topics-- We invite original research, case studies/practice reports, systematic reviews, evaluation studies, methodology innovations, or commentary on the following topics of specific interest, while welcoming work on all aspects of public health and information visualization. --Challenges and opportunities in public health/health data collection for public health visualization applications --Data visualization tools and techniques for public health analysis and action --Collaboration between public health domain and data visualization experts --Approaches to analyzing effects of structural and social determinants of health (SDH) --Evaluation studies of the use of visualization in public health applications --Uses of information visualization to communicate public health priorities and potential interventions --Submission Guidelines-- Submissions for papers can be 4-8 pages long, with the length of submission appropriate to the contribution; extended abstracts for presentation should be 2 pages long. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. ***Please email your submissions to publichealthinfoviz(a)gmail.com.*** All submissions should be formatted in the IEEE VIS format style. Use instructions found on this page: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html. Submissions must be made in PDF. --Key Dates-- Deadline for submissions: September 6, 2013 Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2013 Workshop: October 13 or 14, 2013 (pending) --Organizers-- Susan J. Robinson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, SJRobinson(a)cdc.gov Marty Cetron, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MCetron(a)cdc.gov Hazel Dean, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HDean(a)cdc.gov David S. Ebert, Purdue University, ebertd(a)ecn.purdue.edu Bradford Hesse, National Cancer Institute, NIH, hesseb(a)mail.nih.gov Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, ben(a)cs.umd.edu John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology. stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu Workshop Contact Email Please contact Susan Robinson, SJRobinson(a)cdc.gov.

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RENEW: Intl. Conf. on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology : Oct 8-11, RIGA
by Image Science 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

(please excuse cross-postings) Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology RIGA, Latvia - October 8 - 11, 2013 The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology - RENEW, will be hosted by RIXC in partnership with the Latvian Academy of Arts, Stockholm School of Economics and Danube University’s Center for Image Science. Following Banff 2005, Berlin 2007, Melbourne 2009 and Liverpool 2011, the Media Art History Boards and Renew Co-chairs invite you to attend Renew in Riga 2013. Renew will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions on the histories of networked digital, electronic and technological media arts. SESSIONS: :: Histories of networked art and media technologies, :: Archiving, preserving and representing new media art, :: Multifarious potential of expression in media art - 'new imagery' of our times, :: Media archaeology, :: Paradigm shift - from new media to post-media conditions in art, :: Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the Baltics, :: Revising the geospatial aspects - for writing comparative media art histories, :: Resilient networks and emerging 'techno-ecological' art practices, :: Art and Science, :: and Paradigm shifts - in media art education. With special emphasis being given to current tendencies in sustainability, discussing approaches in the issues of producing, preserving and representing media artworks - how to 'renew' them through both - tools and histories. KEYNOTES: Prof. Errki HUHTAMO / University of California, Los Angeles Prof. Lev MANOVICH / The City University of New York Prof. Edward A. SHANKEN / University of Washington CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS SPEAKERS (selection): Kuai SHEN AUSON, Vanni BRUSADIN, Richard BARBROOK, Dusan BAROK, Giselle BEIGUELMAN, Erich BERGER, Ilze BLACK, Roberta BUIANI, Brogan BUNT, Annick BUREAUD, Charlotte BYDLER, Michael CENTURY, Venzha CHRIST, Damien CHARRIERAS, Ana Carolina DA CUNHA, Nina CZEGLEDY, Tjarda DE HAAN, David Maulen DE LOS REYES, Mario DE VEGA, Brian DEGGER, Annet DEKKER, Sophia DRAKOPOULOU, Alejo DUQUE, Ernest EDMONDS, Branislav EGIC, Patrick ELLIS, Jonatan Habib ENGQVIST, Patrícia FALCO, Ksenia FEDOROVA, Paul FEIGELFELD, Lauren FENTON, Bronac FERRAN, Alberto FRIGO Darko FRITZ, Marialaura GHIDINI, Gabriel MENOTTI GONRING, Oliver GRAU, Yara GUASQUE, Kevin Chris HALES, HAMILTON, Marta HEBERLE, Jay HETRICK, Vanina HOFMAN, Nanette HOOGSLAG, John HOPKINS, Hanna Barbara HÖLLING, Kathy Rae HUFFMAN, Roddy HUNTER, Agathe JARCZYK, Agnieszka JELEWSKA, Timo KAHLEN, Douglas KAHN , Silva KALCIC, Eva KEKOU, Raivo KELOMEES, Olga KISSELEVA, Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, Rudi KNOOPS, Saskia KORSTEN, Bartek KORZENIOWSKI, Mirjana KOVACEVIC, Slavo KREKOVIC, Katja KWASTEK, Guilherme KUJAWSKI, Anne LAFORET, Paul LANDON, William LOCKETT, Richard LOWENBERG, Alessandro LUDOVICO Kristian LUKIA, Jungyeon MA, Gavin MACDONALD, Damián PERALTA MARELARENA, Victor MAZON, Armin MEDOSCH, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Frieder NAKE, Magdalena NOWAK, Rachel O'DWYER, Margret Elisabet OLAFSDOTTIR, Maciej OZOG, Aneta PANEK, Jussi PARIKKA, Martina PFENNINGER, Christiane PAUL, Eva PASCOE, Andrew PATERSON, Valentina MONTERO, Joanna PHILLIPS, Julian PRIEST, Andrew PRIOR, Mikhel PROULX, Perttu RASTAS, Adair ROUNTHWAITE, Ashley SCARLETT, Ilva SKULTE, Andrey SMIRNOV, Brian Reffin SMITH, Emit SNAKE-BEINGS, Morten SONDERGAARD, Josephine STARRS, Stahl STENSLIE, Daniel TEMKIN, David THOMAS, Paul THOMAS, Leila TOPIC, Marc TUTERS, Pau WAELDER, Clea T. WAITE, James WERNER, Florian WIENCEK, Artemis WILLIS, Wessel VAN RENSBURG, Gabriel VANEGAS, Erandy VERGARA, Helene VON OLDENBURG, & Dietmar UNTERKOFLER SESSION CHAIRS: Inke ARNS, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Shu Lea CHEANG, Wendy COONES, Nina CZEGLEDY, Dieter DANIELS, Darko FRITZ, Oliver GRAU, Douglas KAHN, Raivo KELOMEES, Machiko KUSAHARA, Armin MEDOSCH, Frieder NAKE, Andrew PATERSON, Christiane PAUL, Nishant SHAH, Gediminas URBONAS ----- Registration is open now – EARLY BIRD AVAILABLE until August 1, 2013: www.mediaarthistory.org/renew/registration ----- Preliminary program: www.mediaarthistory.org/renew ----- The RENEW conference will be complemented by a variety of affiliated events, including the ART+COMMUNICATION festival, with SAVE AS - a thematically related media art exhibition, receptions, workshops, live performances and concerts. Special thanks to MAH boards for their expertise and support. :: Honorary Board: Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Douglas DAVIS, Robert ADRIAN :: Renew Conference Advisory Board: Erik KLUITENBERG, Armin MEDOSCH, Inke ARNS, Andrey SMIRNOV, Jussi PARIKKA, Edwin van der HEIDE, Mark TRIBE, Gediminas URBONAS, Marko PELJHAN, Nishant SHAH, Edward SHANKEN, Darko FRITZ, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Frieder NAKE :: MAH Conference Series Steering Committee: Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver GRAU, Douglas KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS More info: www.mediaarthistory.org http://rixc.lv/13

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CALL FOR PAPERS - 2013 Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE and EuroVR - LAST REMINDER
by Sabine Coquillart 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

[ Apologies for cross-postings / Please forward to interested colleagues and students ] 2013 Joint Virtual reality Conference of EGVE - EuroVR EGVE - the 19th E urographics Symposium on Virtual Environments EuroVR - the 10th EuroVR Conference Paris Saclay, France December 11-13, 2013 Call for papers ( LAST REMINDER ) http://jvrc2013.sciencesconf.org/ Call for Papers and Short Papers: DEADLINE July 29th, 2013. Original, unpublished papers and short papers documenting new research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of virtual environments, augmented relaity, mixed reality and 3D user interfaces, are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Advances in display technologies * Audio and Multimodal Interfaces * Haptic systems and devices * Tracking and sensing * Real-time rendering, modeling & simulation * Image-based 3D modeling and rendering * Interactive and immersive multimedia * Augmented Reality (AR) and mobile devices * Mixed Reality (MR) * VR/AR/MR system architecture * Collaborative and distributed VR/AR/MR * User studies and evaluation trials * Presence and cognition * 3D user interfaces * 3D interaction metaphors * Self-representation and embodiment * Virtual humans * Human Factors * VR, AR, and MR applications Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments journal (MIT press). Submission site (with guideline): https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/JVRC%202013 International Program Committee Co-chairs Betty MOHLER (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany) Bruno RAFFIN (INRIA/LIG, France) Hideo SAITO (Keio University, Japan) Oliver STAADT (University of Rostock, Germany) International Program Committee Norman Badler (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Roland Blach (Fraunhofer IAO, Germany) Doug Bowman (Virginia Tech, USA) Wolfgang Broll (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany) Sabine Coquillart (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France) Henry B.L. Duh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Thierry Duval (IRISA, France) Pablo Figueroa (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) Henry Fuchs (UNC-Chapel Hill, USA) Raphael Grasset (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota, USA) Daniel Keefe (University of Minnesota, USA) Luciana Nedel (UFRGS, Brazil) Dirk Reiners (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) Christian Sandor (University of South Australia, Australia) Jose San Martin (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Dieter Schmalstieg (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Nadia Thalmann (MIRALab-University of Geneva, Switzerland) Robert Van Liere (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherland) Uwe Woessner (HLRS, Germany) Robin Wolff (DLR, Germany) Contact Information For more information, please visit http://jvrc2013.sciencesconf.org/ or contact: jvrc2013-scientific(a)sciencesconf.org

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CFP - VDA 2014 - Due Monday, August 5, 2014
by Wong, Pak C 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

* * * Extended Paper Deadline: Monday, August 5, 2014 * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers SPIE 2014 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis February 3-5, 2014 Hilton San Francisco, Union Square San Francisco, CA http://vda-conference.org Important Dates =============== Extended Paper Submission Deadline: August 5, 2013 Notification: October 7, 2013 Final Manuscripts: November 25, 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2014 covers all research and development and application aspects of data visualization and, more recently, visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in 1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their work and share their experience every year. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research as full paper or a poster. Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. The paper acceptance rate at VDA 2012 was 48%. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including: * Internet imaging, medical imaging, image processing * Biomedical visualization and applications * Internet, web, and security visualizations * Analysis techniques and data mining * Data exploration using classical and novel approaches * Databases and visualization * High-performance computing and parallel rendering * Tools and applications exemplified by case studies * Virtual environments and data visualization * Information and scientific visualization * Volume and flow visualization * Interaction paradigms and human factors * Big data visualization and analytics Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization. Questions regarding paper submission or conference participation should be directed to the conference chairs: * Pak Chung Wong (pak.wong(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:pak.wong@pnnl.gov>), Pacific Northwest National Lab * David L. Kao (david.l.kao(a)nasa.gov<mailto:david.l.kao@nasa.gov>), NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao (ming_hao(a)hp.com<mailto:ming_hao@hp.com>), Hewlett-Packard Labs * Chaomei Chen (Chaomei.Chen(a)cis.drexel.edu<mailto:Chaomei.Chen@cis.drexel.edu>), Drexel University ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chairs ================= * Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories * Chaomei Chen, Drexel University Conference Co-Chairs ==================== * Christoper G. Healey, North Carolina State University * Mark A. Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory * Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University * Ian Roberts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Steering Committee ================== * Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories * Robert Erbacher, Northwest Security Institute Program Committee ================= * Aidong Lu, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte * Alark Joshi, Boise State Univ. * Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Barry Becker, Pros * Bob Lewis, Washington State Univ. * Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Brown University * Chad A. Steed, Oak Ridge National Lab. * Chaoli Wang, Michigan Tech University * Christoph Garth, University of Kaiserslautern * Daniel Cernea, Univ. of Kaiserslautern * Donald A. Pellegrino, Dow Chemical * Guoning Chen, The Univ. of Utah * Guo-Shi Li, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company * Halldor Janetzko, Univ. Konstanz, Germany * Hank Childs, University of Oregon * Harald Obermaier, University of California, Davis * Jaegul Choo, Georgia Tech * John Gerth, Stanford University * Kalpathi R. Subramanian, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte * Lars Linsen, Jacobs Univ. Bremen gGmbH, Germany * Madjid Allili, Bishop's Univ., Canada * Matti T. Gröhn, Ctr. for Scientific Computing, Finland * Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. * Ming-Hsuan Yang, UC Merced * Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. * Remco Chang, Tufts University * Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Lab. * Shigeo Takahashi, University of Tokyo * Sussan Einakian, The Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville * Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Computer Graphics and E-Learning * Tobias Schreck, Univ. Konstanz, Germany * Yi-Jen Chiang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU * Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University

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3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics @ IEEE VIS 2013
by Steed, Chad A. 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics: Integrated Analysis of Heterogeneous Data and Ubiquitous Text Analytics IEEE VIS 2013 Atlanta, GA USA October 2013 http://www.textvis.org Much research has been reported on visual text analytics for plain text documents viewed in traditional analytic settings. In this workshop, we would like to push the boundary of visual text analytics toward heterogeneous textual data (text associated with other data types) and ubiquitous text analytics. First, we would like to use the workshop to collect various use cases about heterogeneous data and ubiquitous text analytics. From the use cases, we hope to better understand the requirements of heterogeneous textual data analysis from a task-driven perspective. Although there is some work on visual analysis of heterogeneous textual data, there is not a clear understanding of the typical tasks that people would like to achieve in analyzing heterogeneous textual data. Moreover, how will different tasks influence the design and development of both text analytics and visualization technologies? We thus would like to leverage the workshop to examine a number of use cases and draft a taxonomy that characterizes the design dimensions of the space and guide the future design and development. Second, based on the use cases, we would like to use this workshop to examine how to best leverage state-of-the-art text analytics and traditional data mining techniques in conjunction with novel interactive visual analytics to address the challenges manifested by the collected use cases. PAPER SUBMISSION ================== We invite 2-4 page position paper submissions that address topics related to interactive visual analysis of heterogeneous data or visual analysis of text data on mobile devices or in ubiquitous scenarios, with a requirement that every submission must clearly state one or more concrete use cases, including the tasks to be achieved, the two or more types of data to be analyzed, and data analytic methods used. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Task taxonomy of analysis of heterogeneous textual data or ubiquitous text analytics * Visual metaphors for heterogeneous textual data or ubiquitous text analytics * Coordinated visualizations of textual and non-textual data * Perception and cognition in heterogeneous data visualization or ubiquitous text analytics * Mobile visual text analytics and mobile visual interaction * Systems, languages, and architectures for heterogeneous textual data analysis * Collaborative analysis of heterogeneous textual data * Real-time visualization of streaming heterogeneous textual data * Opinion summarization from heterogeneous textual data * Visual event identification and prediction from heterogeneous textual data * Uncertainty in interactive heterogeneous textual data analysis or ubiquitous text analytics * Industry-specific applications of visual analysis of heterogeneous textual data (e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Government, etc.) * Studies and evaluation of heterogeneous textual data visualization techniques, systems, metrics, and bench-marks * Datasets and tasks for visual text analysis of heterogeneous textual data IMPORTANT DATES ================= August 31st: Position paper due September 14th: Notification October 1st: Final version of papers due October 14th: Visual text analytics workshop Please submit your position papers by email to: textvis(a)us.ibm.com ORGANIZERS ================= Christopher Collins (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) Eser Kandogan (IBM Almaden Research Center) Shixia Liu (Microsoft Research Asia) Michelle X. Zhou (IBM Almaden Research Center) Chad Steed (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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LAST CALL: Extended VizSec Deadline **July 22**
by VizSec 2013 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

**NOTE: PAPER DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 22** VIZSEC 2013 ======================================= VizSec will be held in Atlanta GA, USA on October 14, 2013. VizSec brings together researchers and practitioners in information visualization and security to address the specific needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. VizSec will be held as a workshop at IEEE VIS. The proceedings will be in the ACM Digital Library. Proceedings will be publicly available for one week prior to the event. Call for Papers ======================================= The 10th 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 will provide an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. 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 human analyst insights so that further processing may be handled by machines, freeing the analyst for other tasks. For example, a malware analyst might use a visualization system to analyze a new piece of malicious software and then facilitate 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 offering novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We encourage papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: - Situational awareness / understanding - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response - Computer forensics - Recording and reporting results of investigation - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation / 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 - Cyber intelligence - Human factors in cyber security Posters --------------------------------------- Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website. Awards --------------------------------------- There will be an award for the best paper from the accepted program. The best paper award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality. A key element of the best paper selection process will be whether the results are believed to be repeatable by other scientists based on the algorithms and data provided in the paper. This award will be chosen by the program committee. Data --------------------------------------- If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST 2012 Challenge data. VAST 2011 also had cyber security data if you are looking for additional data. Submissions ======================================= 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 merits. 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, preferably by themselves or by prior arrangement through a delegate. Posters --------------------------------------- Poster submissions consist of an extended abstract of at most 2 pages including figures and references. Authors must present a corresponding poster during the designated poster session. Poster authors have the opportunity to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast forward" session. Paper Formatting --------------------------------------- The VizSec proceedings will be published by ACM. The ACM SIG Proceedings Templates provides Word and LaTeX templates. (If you are using LaTeX, please use Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style.) Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. 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 poster abstracts using EasyChair: <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2013> Important Dates (Updated) ======================================= Papers --------------------------------------- *All deadlines are 5:00 PM EDT.* Jul 22 2013: Submission for Papers *(EXTENDED)* Aug 23 2013: Author Notification for Papers Sep 06 2013: Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers Oct 08 2013: Papers Available in ACM Digital Library Posters --------------------------------------- Aug 23 2013: Abstract Submission for Posters Sep 01 2013: Author Notification for Posters Hotel and Venue --------------------------------------- The conference will be located at the downtown Marriott Marquis Hotel. The Atlanta Marriott Marquis, 3rd largest Marriott in the world, rises 50 stories and contains 1,569 rooms and 94 suites. For more information see the IEEE VIS venue information page, hotel information page, and travel information page. Committee ======================================= **General Chair** John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory **Program Chair** Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis **Publications / Publicity Chair** Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco **Poster Chair** Fabian Fischer, University of Konstanz Program Committee --------------------------------------- - David Barrera, Carleton University - Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Greg 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 - Carrie Gates, CA Technologies - John Gerth, Stanford University - T. J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University - Lane Harrison, University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD - Raffael Marty, PixlCloud - Chris Muelder, University of California, Davis - Stephen North, AT&T - Joe Parry, Cambridge Intelligence - Celeste Lyn Paul, Department of Defense - Teryl Taylor, University of North Carolina - Olivier Thonnard, Symantec - Joanne Treurniet, Defence Research and Development Canada - Anatoly Yelizarov, Lomonosov Moscow State University - Tamara Yu, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Contact ======================================= See <http://www.vizsec.org> for more information. Email questions to <vizsec2013(a)easychair.org> or post to the Google Group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec>.

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IUI'2014 - Call for papers
by Tintarev, N 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

----------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------ IUI 2014 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'2014) Haifa, Israel February 24-27, 2014 http://www.iuiconf.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IUI 2014 is the 19th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are very interested in contributions that bridge these two fields and also related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI researchers are interested in improving the symbiosis between humans and computers, so that interface design and interactive experiences yield higher performance outcomes. This may involve designing interfaces that incorporate intelligent automated capabilities, if the net impact is a human-computer interaction that improves performance or usability in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface that effectively leverages human skills and capabilities, so that human performance with an application excels. In other cases, such as educational interface design, it may involve exercising judgment in when not to automate a function so that humans are encouraged to exert themselves as they acquire new skills or domain knowledge. We call for original submissions that describe novel technologies and applications to intelligent user interfaces. IUI topics of interest including, but not limited to: * User input - Processing of multi-modal input - Natural language and speech processing - Gestures, eye gaze, face recognition * Generation of system output - Intelligent visualization tools - Intelligent generation of user-consumable content * Ubiquitous computing - Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing - Smart environments and tangible computing * Help and Persuasive Technologies - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Support for collaboration in multiuser environments - Intelligent information and knowledge management - Persuasive technologies in IUI * Personalization - User-adaptivity in interactive systems - Recommender systems - Modeling and prediction of user behavior * AI Techniques in IUI - Planning and plan recognition - Reasoning in interfaces - Knowledge-based systems * Social Computing - Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces - Social networks and collaboration * IUI Design - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction - Example-and demonstration-based interfaces * User studies - User studies concerning intelligent interfaces - Evaluations of implemented intelligent user interfaces * Semantic Web - Query interfaces and novel interfaces for Linked Data - Consuming Linked Data - Interfaces for creating and using large ontologies SUBMISSION VENUES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * Full and Short Papers We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. IUI 2014 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for interface design. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Full papers should make substantial, novel and relevant contributions to the field. Short papers can either contain smaller contributions, novel ground-breaking ideas, or work in progress. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation and short paper either as oral or poster presentation. Abstracts Due: October 4, 2013 Full and Short Papers Due: October 9, 2013 * Demonstrations The demonstrations track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. Submissions Due: December 12, 2013 * Industrial Track The industrial track represents an opportunity for the companies in the field to present their late work (as presentations, posters or interactive demos) and receive valuable feedback from the research community. It also provides an opportunity for recruitment and for networking. The industry track will not be peer-reviewed but the relevance of proposals for the field will be judged by a jury. Please contact industry track chairs at indtrackchair2014(a)iuiconf.org Submissions Due: November 15, 2013 * Student Consortium The IUI 2014 Student Consortium provides an opportunity for Masters and Doctoral students to present and receive feedback about their research in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of mentors, selected from senior people in the field. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their research to apply for this unique opportunity to share their work with students in a similar situation as well as senior researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have a clear topic and research approach, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along their research that they can no longer make changes. Submissions Due: November 1, 2013 * Workshops Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. Workshop Proposals due: September 16, 2013 ORGANIZATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * General Co-Chairs: - Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa - Oliviero Stock, FBK-irst * Program Co-Chairs: - Joyce Chai, Michigan State University - Antonio Kruger, Saarland University and DFKI GmbH * Treasurer - Melinda Gervasio, SRI International * Industry Chair: - Claudia Goldman, General Motors - Advanced Technical Center - Israel - Doron Friedman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya - Massimo Zancanaro, FBK-irst * Student Consortium Co-Chairs: - Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA - Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo * Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs: - Ido Guy, IBM Research - Haifa - Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University * Demo Co-Chairs: - Doron Friedman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya - Massimo Zancanaro, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: - Joel Lanir, The University of Haifa - Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University * Registration Chair - Amit Tiroshi, The University of Haifa * Social media Chair - Angel Puerta, RedWhale Software * Publicity Chair: - Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

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IUI'2014 - Call for workshop proposals
by Tintarev, N 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

=========================== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS =========================== In conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2014) Haifa, Israel February 24-27, 2014 http://www.iuiconf.org/Authors/Workshops http://www.iuiconf.org/ ================================================================================= IUI'2014 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; such workshops may wish to ask participants to submit a white paper or position statement. - Mini-conferences on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation. =============== PROPOSAL FORMAT =============== Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI. (http://chi2013.acm.org/authors/format/) submitted by e-mail to the workshop co-chairs at: workshops_tutorialschair2014(a)iuiconf.org The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop name and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic and its interest to the intelligent user interface community and the IUI 2014 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names and full addresses (including email and web address) of the workshop organizer(s). This can be a single person or a group of persons. Please indicate the primary contact person for the workshop to IUI 2014. Strong proposals include organizers who bring differing perspectives to the workshop topic and who are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the workshop program committee in charge of evaluating the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. The proposal should include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest in the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Workshop proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI. (http://chi2013.acm.org/authors/format/) Additional guidelines: ------------------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chair and the IUI 2014 conference and program committees. - Publication: An extended abstract of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2014. Workshop proposals and workshop papers will not be published in the ACM Digital Library. A single PDF including all workshop papers and notes will be published on the IUI 2014 web site. - Cancellation: Workshops with fewer than 10 paper submissions by December 23, 2013 may be cancelled. - Submission: https://precisionconference.com/~sigchi, using the template from: http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-formatting-instructions.shtml#extendedformat Additionally, we strongly suggest to have organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and additional publicity such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Organizers must maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop. The workshop organizers coordinate the paper collection, production, and distribution of the working notes for the workshops. This should be result in a single PDF with the workshop material to allow inclusion in the IUI 2014 web site. The organisers should also produce an extended abstract which is a description of the workshop intended for publication in the IUI 2014 proceedings and may not exceed four pages. It must contain a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics. It must follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI. (http://chi2013.acm.org/authors/format/) =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Workshop Proposals due: September 16, 2013 Decisions sent: October 7, 2013 Workshop go/no-go date: December 23, 2013 Workshop date: February 24, 2014 ================== WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ================== Ido Guy, IBM Research - Haifa, Israel Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University - USA ------------------------------ The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

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Sports Data Visualization workshop at IEEE VIS '13
by John Stasko 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

What's the score?: The 1st Workshop on Sports Data Visualization IEEE VIS 2013 Atlanta, Georgia October 2013 http://workshop.sportvis.com Few areas involve, generate, and celebrate data in the manner that sports does. Almost any sport, be it individual or team, produces large amounts of data as the result of matches, data that lend themselves to statistical analysis. This area of sports analytics continues to gain popularity and is perhaps most connected to the sport of baseball, largely through the work of people like Bill James and books and films such as Moneyball. More recently, other sports, including basketball, soccer, professional football, ice hockey, and golf have begun to be the focus of analytics research. Surprisingly, there have been few applications of visualization presentation and exploration tools to sports data. General purpose displays, interaction techniques, and tools like Tableau are often used to present simple views of sports data, but complex structure and relationships in the data frequently necessitate approaches that leverage domain knowledge. Some sports-specific visualizations exist (for example, the commonly used basketball shot chart), but they have largely remained stagnant. Special-purpose tools that allow people to explore and analyze sports data interactively could not only enhance the enjoyment of fans, but also assist media coverage and team officials' decision making. This workshop will serve as the first meeting of researchers and practitioners interested in presenting sports data through visualization. It will provide an opportunity for those engaged in this topic to interact and share their experiences. Hopefully, it will spur growth in a new sub-area of data visualization for the future. All registered attendees of VisWeek are encouraged to attend the workshop. In order to present a paper, it is necessary to have your paper accepted. Papers ------ We are soliciting papers and presentations covering topics across the visualization spectrum, including visualization design, presentation and storytelling techniques and tools, and more traditional infovis tools for exploration. Work should focus on topics specific to the use of visualization on sports data, rather than general tools or techniques with only a tangential connection to sports data. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design ideas and representations for sports data visualizations, * Visual methods for storytelling with sports data, * Exploration and discovery within sports data, * Data and visual analytics techniques for sports data, * Visualization designs for specific sports domains, * Visualization designs for specific target audiences (e.g. officials, team managers, or the general public), * Tools and techniques for visual representation or exploration of data for a single game, * Tools and techniques for visual representation or exploration of data for multiple games or matches, * Evaluation methodologies and guidelines. Papers can be up to eight pages long, with the length of the submission corresponding to the technique's contribution. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. Dates ----- * Deadline for submissions: September 6, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: September 13, 2013 * Camera ready papers due: September 20, 2013 * Workshop October 2013 (date TBD) Submission ---------- Please email your submissions to workshop-at-sportvis.com <http://workshop-at-sportvis.com>. All submissions should be formatted in the IEEE VIS format style (http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html <http://www.cs.sfu.ca/%7Evis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html>). Submissions must be made in PDF. Organizers ---------- Rahul Basole, Georgia Institute of Technology Edward Clarkson, Georgia Tech Research Institute Andy Cox, The Weather Company and Crashing the Dance Christopher Healey, North Carolina State University John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology Chad Stolper, Georgia Institute of Technology

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