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CFP: 6th Int. Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBi)
by Urska Cvek 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

6th International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) ****************** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/IVbm.htm ************************** IVBI 2012: July 11, 2012 * IV 2012: July 10-13, 2012 * Montpellier * France ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Call for papers and participation Organized as part of the 2012 International Information Visualisation Conference, the 4th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original papers in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical biomedical and biomolecular data and processes. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization and issues affecting interaction with large and complex data sets. We encourage the submission of papers covering new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys. Peer-reviewed papers will be published in conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines. ** Example topics include, but are not limited to: High-performance computing and parallel rendering Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment and search Protein structure, function, sequence analysis Signaling pathways, biochemical networks Gene regulation, expression, identification and networks DNA, RNA structure, function, sequence analysis Biochemical and cellular simulations and models Structural, functional and comparative genomics Biomarkers Drug design Computer aided diagnosis ** Examples of visualization topics include, but are not limited to: Interaction with data sets, human factors Data exploration using classical and novel approaches Visualization and databases Linking literature and semantics in pathway visualizations Volume and flow visualization Annotation and labeling Overview and detail presentation of predictive or uncertain data Comparative Methods / User studies / Surveys Identification of correlated and anomalous relationships in disparate data sets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 1 March 2012 - Submission of papers through online submission system 5 May 2012 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) and early registration 11 July 2012 - Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/IVbm.htm Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/PAPERS.htm IV 2012: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/ ** Symposium chairs: Urska Cvek, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport Email: ucvek (AT) lsus.edu Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstein (AT) cs.uml.edu Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus.edu ** Instructions for Authors Reviewing is applied to all submitted papers. Authors are invited to upload full original papers to the conference online submission system by March 1, 2012. Electronic submissions (PDF) are preferred and should be formatted according to the instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/PAPERS.htm. The final manuscripts for full papers are expected to be no more than 6 pages - up to 4 excess pages may be purchased and is set by publisher at 30GBP per page. With the camera ready paper submission for publication, you agree to pay the registration fee (or reduced registration fee if your registration form is received on or before the early registration date) and published papers must be presented by at least one of the authors. === Please, do not hesitate to contact us, should you have any questions. ===

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CFP: DCIS 2012 "Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces" at AVI 2012
by Hans-Christian Jetter 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Apologies for cross-posting. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Workshop DCIS 2012 @ AVI 2012, Capri, Italy (May 21 or 25, 2012) "Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning." Website: http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/dcis/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission until: March 19, 2012 (4 page research & position papers, ACM SIG Proceedings Format) Interactive spaces are physical environments or rooms for co-located collaborative work that are augmented with ubiquitous computing technology. Their purpose is to enable a computer-supported collaboration between multiple users based on a seamless use of different devices for natural post-Windows-Icons-Menu-Pointer interaction, e.g., multi-display environments, multi-touch walls, interactive tabletops, tablet PCs, tangible user interfaces or digital pen & paper. These environments can serve to support or augment group activities such as presentation, discussion, brainstorming, sketching, drafting or sensemaking. While the original vision of interactive spaces can be traced back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, many findings about the theory, design and practice of interactive spaces have to be re-evaluated today. Due to the recent advances in commercially available hardware and software (novel tabletops such as Microsoft Surface 2.0, light high-performance tablets and tablet PCs, pico projectors & depth cameras for gestural and 'touch anywhere' interaction, operating systems bridging mobile and stationary devices, e.g. Microsoft Windows 8), this field moves quickly and formerly impossible designs and visions can now be put into practice. This new generation of interactive spaces with natural user interfaces is of great relevance in knowledge-intensive and collaborative domains such as e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning. The DCIS 2012 workshop aims at documenting and advancing the current state-of-the-art of co-located collaboration in interactive spaces. Our goal is to identify the essential research challenges and formulating a future research agenda by inviting high-quality position and research papers from HCI, Information Visualization, CSCW, e-Science and CSCL. This multi-disciplinary perspective is intended to provide an overview of the field beyond the typical boundaries of disciplines. *** Submissions: *** We invite high-quality non anonymized research and position papers of up to 4 pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings format http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. To submit your position or research paper, please send it to dcis(a)inf.uni-konstanz.de. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by anonymous reviewers from the workshops program committee. All accepted submissions will be published on the workshop website. Extended versions of selected submissions will be published in a special issue of the Springer journal Personal Ubiquitous Computing (http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) Topics include but are not limited to: - Understanding users natural collaboration in rooms when using interactive spaces or non-digital physical artifacts. - Conceptual frameworks for natural user collaboration, learning and interaction. - Novel designs of interaction techniques, visualizations, smart furniture or devices for natural collaboration in interactive spaces. - Enabling technologies for natural interaction in interactive spaces ranging from software frameworks to computer vision and new sensor technology. - New observation and evaluation approaches for interactive spaces (e.g. longitudinal evaluation). - Best-practice examples and lessons learned from different application domains based on the experiences of academics and industry. As participants, we invite researchers from academia (professors, postdocs, PhD and graduate students), researchers from research labs, and practitioners from industry. In particular, we invite professional users of interactive spaces (e.g. designers, scientists, architects, analysts, journalists) to report about their real-world tasks, needs and experiences. Please note that the submission and acceptance of a research or position paper is necessary for attending the workshop (max. 3 participants per paper). *** At the workshop: *** We aim at high-quality 25 minute presentations (15 minute talk, 10 minute discussion) for each peer-reviewed submission. The presentations are followed by an open discussion or working groups to formulate a future research agenda for collaborative interactive spaces from the different domains. We hope to continue our discussion in a relaxed informal atmosphere at a workshop dinner as social event in the evening. *** Important dates: *** Submission deadline for research & position papers: March 19, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2012. Date of the workshop: May 21 or 25, 2012. *** Contact: *** For question about the workshop please contact hans-christian.jetter(a)uni-konstanz.de. To submit your position or research paper, please send it to dcis(a)inf.uni-konstanz.de. *** Organizers: *** Hans-Christian Jetter, Florian Geyer, Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany. Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Rainer Groh, Media Design, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. *** Journal Publication Chair: *** Peter Thomas, Manifesto Group, London, Melbourne & New York. *** Program Committee: *** Hans-Christian Jetter, Florian Geyer, Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany. Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Rainer Groh, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Peter Thomas, Manifesto Group, London, Melbourne & New York tbc -- Hans-Christian Jetter (M.Sc.) Human-Computer Interaction Group http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/staff/Jetter University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Box D 73, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Room D 212, Phone +49-7531-88-3534

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CFP: AAAI ICWSM Workshop on Social Media Visualization
by Eser Kandogan 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Call for Papers Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) 4th June 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://socmedvis.ucd.ie Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields into a single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are varied, data visualization and analytics plays an important role. For industry and academics alike, visualization of social media data helps with hypothesis formation and supports the explanation of phenomena. The Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) will be held in conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) in Dublin on 4th June 2012. The workshop is a venue for presentation of research and applications of visualization of social media data. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in visual and interactive techniques for social media analysis to discuss their potential application to the social sciences, humanities, and industry. We solicit contributions that discuss novel techniques and applications of visualization and visual analytics approaches to social media data sources. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2012 Notification: 16th March 2012 Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: 2nd April 2012 Early registration for ICWSM'12: 6th April 2012 Workshop: 4th June 2012 Topics We invite research, application, and position papers on the topic of visualization and social media. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Visual Analysis of Evolving Social Media Data Interactive Techniques for Sentiment Analysis and Brand Perception Visualization of Memes and Trends in Social Media Visualization of Social Media for Media Studies Social Media in Social Sciences and Humanities Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media Visual Analytics of Social Media in Industry Formal Evaluation Techniques in Social Media Systems and Languages for Social Media Analytics Methodologies and Processes for Social Media Analysis Collaborative Analysis of Text Corpora Real-Time Visualization of Social Media Data Visualization and Visual Text Analytics in Social Media Visualization and Visual Analytics of Social Media Networks Studies of Analytic Work on Social Media Representations of Uncertainty in Text Analytics Submissions Papers are limited to 4 pages in length and should have a visualization or visual analytics component to them. Papers must be formatted according to AAAI guidelines. Papers in PDF format must be submitted using EasyChair by 2nd March 2012. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session or interactive demo session. The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the madness session by 2nd April 2012. We also plan to host a panel of researchers in social sciences and humanities and industrial researchers of varied perspectives on the application of visualization to academic disciplines and industry where visualization is needed to understand social media data. For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://socmedvis.ucd.ie or email socmedvis(a)ucd.ie. Regards, Daniel Archambault, University College Dublin, daniel.archambault(a)ucd.ie Eser Kandogan, IBM Research, eser(a)us.ibm.com Martin Harrigan, University College Dublin, martin.harrigan(a)ucd.ie

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CFP: IEEE Network, Special Issue on Computer Network Visualization
by John Goodall 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Computer Network Visualization, Nov./Dec. 2012 issue Background Computer networks are dynamic, growing, and continually evolving. As complexity grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate to human decision-makers the results of methods and metrics for monitoring networks, classifying traffic, and identifying malicious or abnormal events. Network administrators and security analysts require tools that help them understand, reason about, and make decisions about the information their analytic systems produce. To this end, information visualization and visual analytics hold great promise for making the information accessible, usable, and actionable by taking advantage of the human perceptual abilities. Information visualization techniques help network administrators and security analysts to quickly recognize patterns and anomalies; visually integrate heterogeneous data sources; and provide context for critical events. Scope This special issue seeks original articles examining the state of the art, open issues, research results, evaluations of visualization and visual analytic tools, and future research directions in computer network visualization and visual analytics. All submissions should be written to be understandable and appealing to a general audience. Research papers should contain a substantial amount of tutorial content and minimal mathematics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Uses of visualization for network status monitoring and situational awareness * Visualization methods employed in the classification of network traffic and its analysis * Visualization methods enhancing network intrusion detection and anomaly detection * Visualization methods for the analysis of network threats (e.g. botnets) * Visualization methods for the analysis of network routing * Methods for integrating analytics and visualization together for network analysis tasks * Methods for visually integrating heterogeneous data sources to support network analysis tasks * Case studies of open source visualization tools in network analysis tasks * Evaluations of network visualization tools in situ Manuscript Submission Articles should be written in a style comprehensible and appealing to readers outside the speciality of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Guidelines for manuscripts" at the IEEE Network Magazine web site at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original work and must not be under consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit their manuscripts in PDF through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose this special issue from the drop down menu on the submission page. Authors uncertain about the relevance of their paper to this special issue should inquire with the guest editors before submission. Schedule Submissions: April 1, 2012 Author notifications: July 1, 2012 Final papers: September 1, 2012 Publication: November 2012 Guest Editors John Goodall Oak Ridge National Lab jgoodall(a)ornl.gov John Gerth Stanford University gerth(a)graphics.stanford.edu Florian Mansmann University of Konstanz Florian.Mansmann(a)uni-konstanz.de

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CFP: VisualCol 2012 (1-week deadline reminder, submissions due Feb 5, 2012)
by Robert Biuk-Aghai 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Call for Papers and Participation International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration (VisualCol 2012) As part of The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) May 21-25, 2012, The Westin Westminster Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA Workshop website: http://cts2012.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-17-visualcol In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Submission Deadline: February 05, 2012 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters Brief Description: In many collaborative situations, multiple distributed users simultaneously interact with and analyse complex information while sharing their results with others. It is through such collaboration that multiple users bring their expertise to bear on a particular problem to analyse incomplete information and reach collaborative decisions. Such collaboration is far more effective when users collaborate by interacting with meaningful visualizations that accurately depict shared information. Visualizations must present information in a manner that is easily understood by individuals with different expertise and perspectives on the problem at hand. Users must be able to interact with the visualization to highlight or manipulate information in a natural way that is readily observed by other participants. At the same time it is also important to understand the collaborative processes that users in collaborative environments carry out, and the outcomes of these processes, particularly in large-scale collaborations such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogging (twitter, identica etc), social networking and other Web 2.0 collaborative environments. Visualizations of collaborative structures, processes and outcomes help researchers, site administrators and end-users to perceive such patterns that are otherwise difficult to perceive given the vastness of the information involved. This workshop on Visualization and Collaboration – to be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) – will have a dual focus on visualization and its role in collaboration, as well as visualization of collaboration. The objective is to highlight key issues and solutions for visualization in and of collaborative environments. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging visualization speciality. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative visualization architectures, technologies, or algorithms - Visualization for managing collaborative environments - Unique challenges in collaborative visualization - Collaborative visualization solutions and applications - Web-based collaborative visualization - Visualization in collaborative decision making and support - Collaborative data analysis and visualization - Visualization in/of Social Networks and Media - Visualization of collaborative structures, processes and outcomes of collaborative environments and social networks Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline ---------------- February 05, 2012 Notification of Acceptance --------------- February 19, 2012 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due ---- March 01, 2012 Conference Dates: ------------------------ May 21 - 25, 2012

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CFP: ACM TiiS special issue on Interactive Computational Visual Analytics
by Remco Chang 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Apologies for cross-listing Call for Papers Subject: ACM TiiS special issue on Interactive Computational Visual Analytics Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on INTERACTIVE COMPUTATIONAL VISUAL ANALYTICS Main submission deadline: May 31st, 2012 http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html AIMS AND SCOPE Visual analytics is defined as "the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by visual interactive interfaces." Since its inception in 2006, the field has grown to encompass a wide array of topics relating to the theory, design, and development of interactive visual interfaces for the purposes of data exploration, data analysis, sense making, and decision making. While the scope of visual analytics is broad, one principle that has emerged over the years is the need for visual analytics systems to leverage computational methods in data mining, knowledge discovery, and machine learning for large-scale data analysis. In these systems, the human operator works alongside the computational processes in an integrated fashion - the computer can sift through large amounts of data and identify the relevant information, while the human interactively explores the reduced data space to discover trends and patterns and make informed decisions. The two components operate in coordination, allowing for a continuous and cooperative analytical loop. This special issue will publish papers that address how computational methods can be integrated into interactive visualization systems from a variety of perspectives. The dimensions listed below indicate the range of work that is relevant to the special issue. In case of doubt about the relevance of your topic, please contact the guest editors. TOPIC DIMENSIONS Models, Theory, and Methods for Interactive Computational Visual Analytics - Mathematical foundations of data transformations - Data management and knowledge representation - Integration of multiple or disparate simulation models - Interaction, analytical discourse, and sensemaking - Analytic provenance and quantification and storage of interactions - ... Real-World Applications Using Interactive Computational Visual Analytics - Large-scale (real-world scale) data - High-dimensional data - Real-time data - Streaming data - Geospatial data - ... Evaluation of Interactive Computational Visual Analytics - Empirical and observational studies - User studies with general implications - Novel evaluation techniques - ... SPECIAL ISSUE ASSOCIATE EDITORS - Remco Chang, Tufts University (contact: remco[at]cs[dot]tufts[dot]edu) - David Ebert, Purdue University - Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz IMPORTANT DATES - By May 31st, 2012: Submission of manuscripts - By September 13th, 2012: Notification about decisions on initial submissions - By December 12th, 2012: Submission of revised manuscripts - By February 10th, 2013: Notification about decisions on revised manuscripts - By March 12th, 2013: Submission of manuscripts with final minor changes - Starting April, 2013: Publication of the special issue on the TiiS website, in the ACM Digital Library, and (shortly afterward) as a printed issue HOW TO SUBMIT Please see the instructions for authors on the TiiS website (tiis.acm.org) ABOUT ACM TiiS TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S") is a recently founded ACM journal for research about intelligent systems that people interact with. The journal's procedures and infrastructure have been designed to combine the traditional quality and depth of ACM journals with the efficiency and predictability of the best-run conferences. -- Remco Chang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Tufts University http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~remco (office) 617-627-3681

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Call for book chapters: Human centric visualization: Theories, methodologies and case studies
by whua5569＠gmail.com 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Please help to circulate. ******** CALL FOR CHAPTERS ************* Abstract due: Feb 24, 2012 Notification due: March 09, 2012 Full chapter due: June 15, 2012 *Human centric visualization: Theories, methodologies and case studies * A book edited by Tony Huang (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia), to be published by Springer: www.springer.com Web: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=19780%A9ownerid=14… *1. Introduction* Visualizations are produced for people to make sense or interact with them. Rapid advances in display technology and computer power have enabled researchers to produce visually appealing pictures or compelling visual environments to end users. However, the effectiveness of those pictures in conveying embedded information to the users and impact of visual environments on humans have not been fully understood. This book addresses issues related to design, evaluation and application of visualizations from a human centric perspective. This cutting-edge book is an edited volume whose contributors include experts worldwide, from diverse disciplines including psychologist, artists, engineers and scientists. Academics, students, engineers and consultants will find this book useful for both research and engineering purposes. *2. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:* *Part I: Introduction and overview* Current status and future challenges of visualization methods Current status and future challenges of human centric visualizations research Survey of design principles and evaluation methods in visualization *Part II: Theories, models, heuristics and design principles for human centric visualization* Survey of theories, models, heuristics and design principles for visualization Theories of visual thinking, diagram perception, cognition and reasoning and their applications Latest developments toward theories of visualization Latest development of models, heuristics and design principles for visualization Applications of the theories, models, heuristics and design principles Adaptations and applications of theories from other domains in visualization *Part III: Methodologies for design, development and evaluation of human centric visualization* Evaluation methods Measurement metrics Taxonomies of tasks Design and evaluation frameworks Development and validation of methodologies Application of methodologies Lessons learned and experience obtained in developing and applying methodologies *Part IV: Case studies of human centric visualization* Human factors (e.g., memory, cognitive ability, gender, individual differences) Visual perception and cognition Social, cultural aspects of visualizations Implications of new technologies (e.g., displays, new media) on humans User experience Implications of interactive methods on humans Implications of new visualizations on humans Roles of human in collaborative visualizations Use of visualizations for decision making Use of visualizations for learning Use of visualizations in business Use of visualizations in software engineering Visualizations in virtual reality/mixed reality/augmented reality Case studies and evaluations of interfaces, systems and prototypes of visualizations Lessons learned and experience obtained in evaluating and designing visualizations ......... *3. International editorial advisory board* Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA Philip Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA Joe Goldberg, Oracle, USA John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Maolin Huang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy Ric Lowe, Curtin University, Australia Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State University, USA Jack van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands *4. Important dates* Abstract due: Feburary 24, 2012 (Abstract has no length limits, usually should include motivations, method, contributions and a brief outline of the full chapter) Notification: March 09, 2012 Full chapter due: June 15, 2012 Full manuscript due to publisher: August 1, 2012 Book publication: October 1, 2012 *5. Contact* All submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Tony Huang (CSIRO ICT Center, Australia) Email: whua5569(a)gmail.com

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CfP for a Special Session on Visual Data Clustering at IV2012
by Gilles Venturini 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

[Please distribute and accept our apologies for cross-posting.] ================================ Call for Papers ================================ special session on Advances in Interactive and Visual Data Clustering http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/AIVDAC.htm organized within the 16th International Conference Information Visualisation 2012, which will be held on 10, 11, 12 and 13 July 2012, LIRMM CNRS Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier, France. (http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/) Scope -------- Visual and interactive approaches have been developed for data clustering since several decades now with the aim of improving the discovery of clusters in unlabelled data. With the new challenges that result from the accumulation of large and complex datasets, efficient visual data clustering requires the study and implementation of new and advanced methods. The aim of this symposium is to let researchers make a state of the art, discuss their ideas, present recent advances and results within the context of data clustering and visualizations or interactive methods. The scope of the symposium will cover all aspects of visual and interactive data clustering. This includes many different issues like: - How can the domain expert create clusters from an interactive visualization of large and/or complex data? - How can standard clustering algorithms be combined and improved with visualizations and interactions? - What methods may efficiently reorganize a visual structure in order to let clusters appear? - What are the recent and successful applications of visual data clustering? Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics covered, but not limited to, include: - Visualization of clusters: maps, dendrograms, trees, matrices, 1D/2D/3D/nD ... - Clustering algorithm that produce visual results: Self-Organizing Maps, hierarchical agglomerative clustering, biomimetic algorithms, proximity graphs - Cooperation between clustering and visualization algorithms - Reorganization of visualizations, rearrangement clustering, matrix or tree reordering - Interactive discovery of clusters, other interactions with clusters in visualization - Visual analytics and data clustering - Handling large and complex data: Bioinformatics, Social networks, attributes-values, sequences, trees, graphs - Parallel implementation of visual clustering approaches - User and case studies Organizers --------------- - Hanene Azzag, University of Paris 13, France hanene.azzag(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr - Mustapha Lebbah, University of Paris 13, France Mustapha.lebbah(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr - Gilles Venturini, University Francois Rabelais of Tours, France venturini(a)univ-tours.fr Important Dates ---------------------- 1 March 2012 : Submission of papers 22 April 2012 : Notification of Reviewing Result 05 May 2012 : Submission of camera-ready Instruction 5 July 2012 : Pre-Registration date 10- 13 July 2012 : Conference Days Author Guidelines: -------------------------- Please follow the regular submission guidelines of IV 2012 for full paper or short paper at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/PAPERS.htm Submit your paper using paper submission system, select the correct special session and notify us by sending an email. -- Assistant professor University of Paris 13 LIPN-UMR 7030 - CNRS 99, av. J-B Clément F-93430 Villetaneuse Tel: +331 49 40 28 31 Fax: +331 48 26 07 12

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CFP: VisualCol 2012
by Robert Biuk-Aghai 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Call for Papers and Participation International Workshop on Visualization and Collaboration (VisualCol 2012) As part of The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) May 21-25, 2012, The Westin Westminster Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA Workshop website: http://cts2012.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-17-visualcol In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Submission Deadline: February 05, 2012 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters Brief Description: In many collaborative situations, multiple distributed users simultaneously interact with and analyse complex information while sharing their results with others. It is through such collaboration that multiple users bring their expertise to bear on a particular problem to analyse incomplete information and reach collaborative decisions. Such collaboration is far more effective when users collaborate by interacting with meaningful visualizations that accurately depict shared information. Visualizations must present information in a manner that is easily understood by individuals with different expertise and perspectives on the problem at hand. Users must be able to interact with the visualization to highlight or manipulate information in a natural way that is readily observed by other participants. At the same time it is also important to understand the collaborative processes that users in collaborative environments carry out, and the outcomes of these processes, particularly in large-scale collaborations such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogging (twitter, identica etc), social networking and other Web 2.0 collaborative environments. Visualizations of collaborative structures, processes and outcomes help researchers, site administrators and end-users to perceive such patterns that are otherwise difficult to perceive given the vastness of the information involved. This workshop on Visualization and Collaboration – to be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012) – will have a dual focus on visualization and its role in collaboration, as well as visualization of collaboration. The objective is to highlight key issues and solutions for visualization in and of collaborative environments. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging visualization speciality. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative visualization architectures, technologies, or algorithms - Visualization for managing collaborative environments - Unique challenges in collaborative visualization - Collaborative visualization solutions and applications - Web-based collaborative visualization - Visualization in collaborative decision making and support - Collaborative data analysis and visualization - Visualization in/of Social Networks and Media - Visualization of collaborative structures, processes and outcomes of collaborative environments and social networks Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline ---------------- February 05, 2012 Notification of Acceptance --------------- February 19, 2012 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due ---- March 01, 2012 Conference Dates: ------------------------ May 21 - 25, 2012

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CFP: AAAI ICWSM Workshop on Social Media Visualization
by Eser Kandogan 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Call for Papers Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) 4th June 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://socmedvis.ucd.ie Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields into a single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are varied, data visualization and analytics plays an important role. For industry and academics alike, visualization of social media data helps with hypothesis formation and supports the explanation of phenomena. The Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) will be held in conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) in Dublin on 4th June 2012. The workshop is a venue for presentation of research and applications of visualization of social media data. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in visual and interactive techniques for social media analysis to discuss their potential application to the social sciences, humanities, and industry. We solicit contributions that discuss novel techniques and applications of visualization and visual analytics approaches to social media data sources. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2012 Notification: 16th March 2012 Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: 2nd April 2012 Early registration for ICWSM'12: 6th April 2012 Workshop: 4th June 2012 Topics We invite research, application, and position papers on the topic of visualization and social media. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Visual Analysis of Evolving Social Media Data Interactive Techniques for Sentiment Analysis and Brand Perception Visualization of Memes and Trends in Social Media Visualization of Social Media for Media Studies Social Media in Social Sciences and Humanities Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media Visual Analytics of Social Media in Industry Formal Evaluation Techniques in Social Media Systems and Languages for Social Media Analytics Methodologies and Processes for Social Media Analysis Collaborative Analysis of Text Corpora Real-Time Visualization of Social Media Data Visualization and Visual Text Analytics in Social Media Visualization and Visual Analytics of Social Media Networks Studies of Analytic Work on Social Media Representations of Uncertainty in Text Analytics Submissions Papers are limited to 4 pages in length and should have a visualization or visual analytics component to them. Papers must be formatted according to AAAI guidelines. Papers in PDF format must be submitted using EasyChair by 2nd March 2012. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session or interactive demo session. The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the madness session by 2nd April 2012. We also plan to host a panel of researchers in social sciences and humanities and industrial researchers of varied perspectives on the application of visualization to academic disciplines and industry where visualization is needed to understand social media data. For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://socmedvis.ucd.ie or email socmedvis(a)ucd.ie. Regards, Daniel Archambault, University College Dublin, daniel.archambault(a)ucd.ie Eser Kandogan, IBM Research, eser(a)us.ibm.com Martin Harrigan, University College Dublin, martin.harrigan(a)ucd.ie

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