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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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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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