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Invitation to try an online document visualization system
by Christopher Collins 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Dear InfoVis Community, Please try our newly launched DocuBurst website. DocuBurst is an online document visualization tool for: * Uploading your own text documents * Generating interactive visual summaries * Exploring keywords to uncover document themes or topics * Investigating intra-document word patterns, such as character relationships * Comparing documents * Commenting, annotating and sharing visualizations with others Visit the website at: http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/docuburst Sharing the link with your colleagues or friends is greatly encouraged. If you have any questions, feel free to ask us. Thanks, Christopher Collins (Assistant Professor) and Brittany Kondo (Master's Student, Computer Science) University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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CFP: IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications issue on Visual Analytics for Biological Data
by Goerg, Carsten 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Visual Analytics for Biological Data Final submissions due: 21 July 2013 Publication date: March/April 2014 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cgacfp2 The emergence of pre-eminent systems approaches in biological and life-sciences creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques to enable researchers to gain insight from their large, highly complex, and multiple data sets. The special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications on Visual Analytics for Biological Data seeks contributions that describe applications of visual analytics techniques to yield viable results that are biologically relevant and significant. We welcome case studies that were greatly facilitated or could not have been completed in the absence of visual analytics techniques. Existing, modified, or new analytical and visualization techniques can be applied to verify prevailing or novel hypotheses or to allow for discovery of new facts and hypotheses as manifest in the data. Ideally, the submitted case studies should be conducted by teams of researchers from the visualization and bioinformatics or biology communities. We are looking for contributions ranging from data on organization, form, and function of phenotypes that may come from a multitude of scales ranging from molecular and subcellular, to cell, tissue, organism and populations thereof. Similarly, contributions that visualize and analyze genomic alterations and explain associations between genotypes and phenotypes (for example, eQTL studies, GWAS) are welcome. It is important that the submissions have a narrative that highlights utility in terms of successful, biologically-relevant results. Suggested case studies include, but are not limited to: - genome and sequence data, including genomic variation data, - multivariate omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and so on), - biological networks (protein-protein interactions, co-expression, and so on) and pathways, - structures (for example, protein or RNA structures) and their relationship to function, - association studies in the clinic and the laboratory (eQTL, GWAS), - visualization in neurobiology and developmental biology, - integration of visualization in biological workflows or collaborative processes, - visualization and visual analytics of integrated biological data sets (for example, image and omics data) for purposes of biomarkers, and subtyping, and so on, - creative visual-analysis of publicly available datasets (for example, The Cancer Genome Atlas, Allen Brain Atlas, and son on) and privately curated datasets, and - creation and visualization of ontologies, biological atlases and metadata. Questions? Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors: Carsten Görg, University of Colorado, Carsten.Goerg(a)ucdenver.edu Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, machiraju.1(a)osu.edu Arthur Olson, Scripps Institute, olson(a)scripps.edu Submission Guidelines Articles should be no more than eight magazine pages, where a page is 800 words and a quarter-page image counts as 200 words. Please cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing (technical) background information in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to a total of 10. Visit the CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/cga. We also strongly encourage you to submit multimedia (videos etc.) to enhance your article. Visit CG&A supplemental guidelines atwww.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/accga#supplemental Please submit your paper using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your paper, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also, include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer review coordinator at cga-ma(a)computer.org.

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CFP - VDA 2014 - Due July 23, 2013
by Wong, Pak C 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

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 =============== Paper Submission Deadline: July 23, 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) Pacific Northwest National Lab * David L. Kao (david.l.kao(a)nasa.gov) NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao (ming_hao(a)hp.com) Hewlett-Packard Labs * Chaomei Chen (Chaomei.Chen(a)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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VizSec '13 Paper Deadline EXTENDED to July 22, 2013!
by Sophie Engle 09 Jul '13

09 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 (REVISED) ======================================= 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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Last Call: VizSec Papers Due 07/08!
by Sophie Engle 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

# Welcome to 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 from around October 1 until the day of 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 # ## Papers ## - Jul 08, 2013: Submission for Papers - Aug 16, 2013: Author Notification for Papers - Aug 30, 2013: Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers - Oct 01, 2013: Papers Available in ACM Digital Library ## Posters ## - Aug 23, 2013: Abstract Submission for Posters - Sep 15, 2013: Author Notification for Poster # 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://vizsec.org/> for more information. Email questions to <vizsec2013(a)easychair.org> or post to the Google Group at <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec>.

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Survey on volume data (MRI/CT/PET scans) analysis tasks
by Bireswar Laha 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hello Friends and Colleagues: **** Apologies for cross posting**** We seek respondents for a survey we are conducting on visual analysis tasks with volume datasets. Anyone who works with *volume data (e.g., MRI or CT or PET scans)* is eligible.* Also, please forward the survey link to your colleagues working with volume data.* The survey consists of questions related to tasks performed with volume data, and also gathers demographics, but not name or identity. The survey should take about 20 minutes. As a token of appreciation, respondents who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to receive one of ten $20 gift cards from amazon.com. This study has been approved, as required, by the Institutional Review Board of Virginia Tech (protocol 13-138), Blacksburg, VA, USA. *Please note that you should be more than 18 years old to take this survey. * The survey is available here: https://virginiatech.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3xiRpIrvsh1sl93. Please email *blaha(a)vt.edu* if you have any questions. Thanks and Best Regards, Bireswar Laha and Doug Bowman, Virginia Tech <blaha(a)vt.edu> blaha(a)vt.edu <http://people.cs.vt.edu/blaha/> http://people.cs.vt.edu/blaha/

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There is still time to participate in VAST Challenge 2013
by Cook, Kristin A 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

[Apologies for cross-posting] There is still time to submit your entries for VAST Challenge 2013. See http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2013 for details. This year's challenge presents three distinct mini-challenges to test your skills. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. Creative approaches to visual analytics are encouraged. Submissions are due July 31 for Mini-Challenge 1. Mini-Challenge 1 focuses on predictive analytics for movie openings. It will challenge your ability to use visual analytics for predictive analysis, as well as your ability to manage large data and to make decisions in a short timeframe. Using data we specify, you will use your interactive visualization tools to predict upcoming movies' opening weekend box office successes and viewer ratings. It is decidedly different from previous VAST Challenges in that it will be continuous and iterative with reviewing and recognition being presented from now until the final judging session. Please visit boxofficevast.org for more information and to register. Submissions are due July 8 for Mini-Challenge 2. Mini-Challenge 2 tests your skills in visual design. The fictitious Big Enterprise is searching for a design for their future situation awareness display. The company's intrepid network operations team will use this display to understand the health, security, and performance of their entire computer network. This challenge is also very different from previous VAST Challenges, because there is no data to process and no questions to answer. Instead, the challenge is to show off your design talents by producing a creative new design for situation awareness. Please visit VAST Challenge 2013: Mini-Challenge 2 for more information. Submissions are due July 8 for Mini-Challenge 3. Mini-Challenge 3 focuses on unusual happenings on the computer network of a marketing company. Can you identify what looks amiss on the network using the network flow and network health data provided? And can you ask the right questions to help you piece together the timeline of events? Please visit http://www.vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2013MC3 for more details. For more information, please contact vast_challenge(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vast_challenge@ieeevis.org>. We look forward to seeing your creative solutions. Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs

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VizSec Workshop @ IEEE VIS 2013
by Sophie Engle 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

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. # Call for 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 Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Please see <http://www.vizsec.org/> for the full call for papers. # Call for 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. Please see <http://www.vizsec.org/> for the full call for posters. # Important Dates # - Jul 08 2013: Paper Submission Deadline - Aug 16 2013: Paper Notification Deadline - Aug 23 2013: Poster Submission Deadline - Sep 15 2013: Poster Notification Deadline - Oct 14 2013: VizSec @ IEEE VIS 2013 # Contact Information # - Website: <http://www.vizsec.org/> - Email: <vizsec2013(a)easychair.org> - Google Group: <http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec>

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VDA 2014 online CFP
by Mark A. Livingston 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hello all! With apologies for cross-posting... SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis will take place in San Francisco, CA in early February 2014. Submissions will be due on 23 July 2013. See the attached call and the web site referenced in it for all the details. Enjoy, Mark

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CFP - Submit papers now for the Visualization and Analytics Minitrack at HICSS 47, January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii - Deadline June 15, 2013
by David S. Ebert 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

We are soliciting paper in visualization and analytics for decision support, operational management, and scientific discovery as part of the minitrack with the same name at HICSS 47. Accepted paper will appear in the proceedings as well as the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS is always one of the top conferences for downloads in the IEEE Digital Library! A description of the paper topics is below. Please contact us with any questions. Here are the relevant links: - CFP document: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf - the conference homepage: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm and - our track: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/da.html We look forward to receiving your submissions, David, Tom, Kelly David Ebert Tom Ertl Kelly Gaither ------------------------------------------ This minitrack will have applications in a broad range of situations where human expertise must be brought to bear on problems characterized by massive datasets and data that are uncertain in fact, relevance, location in space and position in time. Examples include environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, health and related life sciences, safety and security (aircraft safety, law enforcement, antiterrorism, disaster relief) and business processes. We encourage submissions that extend the areas of use to include a broader range of analytic tasks such as science and technology, public health, business intelligence, financial analysis, and other domains where interactive visualization systems may be used to improve human decision making. Submissions may include studies of visual analytics and decision support in the context of an organization (e.g., communication between analysts and policy-makers), perceptual and cognitive aspects of the analytic task, and collaborative analysis using visual information systems. -------------------------------------------------- - Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - - Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 - - Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability - - Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence - - http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org - - Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, www.purvac.org - - ebertd(a)purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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