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IJITWE -- Special Issue on Visualization and Integration on the Web: Deadline Extension
by Alessandro Bozzon 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 2nd C A L L F O R P A P E R S IJITWE -- Special Issue on Visualization and Integration on the Web Journal Website: http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1093&detailst… **************************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING (IJITWE) SPECIAL ISSUE ON Visualization and Integration on the Web *EXTENDED SUBMISSION DATE*: September 24th, 2011 Aims and Scope -------------- Recent years witnessed a proliferation of semi-structured, structured, and semantically annotated data on the Web: an increasing amount of individuals, public organization and enterprises, is currently publishing information for free usage. The nature and the abundance of such structured data shifts the nature of user interactions, where models based on navigation of documents are replaced by paradigms that leverage the exploration of object repositories; in such a context, providing a satisfactory user experience has proven to be a challenging task for application developers. In addition, as the richness and value of data also increases, Web applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. Contextually, the availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as mash-up platforms ‚Äì has offered to developers (and to end users) several means for the integration of such data, enabling novel applications and business scenario. The usage of the Web as a common publication, mediation, aggregation, and consumption platform decreased the existing gap between Web and enterprise applications, which often leverage common data integration methodologies and tools. As a consequence, a deeper understanding of data integration, visualization and user interaction issues is becoming more and more compelling in applications design and development. In order to tackle the new challenges provided by a Web of Data, data integration, visualization and user interaction methodologies and tools need to be revised to effectively manage the design and the interaction application with information. The objective of this special issue is to review recent works that address state-of-the-art of analysis and design techniques on how to create effective Web applications where the integration, visualization and interaction with data is a main concern, as well as the application of assessed methods and techniques to existing design and development environments. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Integration and visualization of heterogeneous data on the Web * Interfaces for Web-scale and large-scale data repositories search and exploration * Linked Data visualization and exploration * Taxonomies and ontologies for data visualization * Lightweight (semantic) metadata or knowledge integration * Conceptual models for data visualization and exploration * Data visualization for next-generation mobile devices * Studies on quality, usability, effectiveness of data visualization techniques * Innovative uses of tag clouds * Ambient information displays * Data visualization for large screens and interactive tablets * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces * Visualizations for multimodal interaction * Tools for Web data visualizations * Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse Guest Editors ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Sara Comai (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Moira Norrie (ETH Z≈±rich, Switzerland) Submission Procedure -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web on or before August 20, 2011. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL‚ÄôS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igiglobal.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. All submissions should be directed to the attention of: Alessandro Bozzon, Sara Comai, Moira Norrie Guest Editors INT. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING E-mails: alessandro.bozzon(a)polimi.it, sara.comai(a)polimi.it, norrie(a)inf.ethz.ch About IJITWE ------------ This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ijitwe The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING is published quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) since 2006 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ‚ÄúInformation Science Reference‚Äù (formerly Idea Group Reference), ‚ÄúMedical Information Science Reference‚Äù, ‚ÄúBusiness Science Reference‚Äù, and ‚ÄúEngineering Science Reference‚Äù imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. -Editors-in-Chief- * Ghazi I. Alkhatib (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan) * Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy) Indices ------- Burrelle's Media Directory, Cabell's Directory, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), CSA Illumina. DBLP, Gale Directory of Publication & Broadcast Media, GetCited, Google Scholar, The Index of Information Systems Journals, INSPEC, MediaFinder, SCOPUS, The Standard Periodical Directory, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

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WikiViz 2011 extended deadline: August 28, 2011
by Dario Taraborelli 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

We received several requests to extend the submission deadline for WikiViz 2011 – a competition organized by WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation to visualize WIkipedia's impact with open data. The WikiSym committee is glad to announce that the deadline has been extended to August 28 2011. http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:presentation http://twitter.com/WikiViz/status/104349201680437248 The 3 finalists will have travel costs covered for the awarding ceremony at WikiSym 2011 in Mountain View, CA (3-5 October 2011) and their work showcased at the conference, featured in our partners' dataviz outlets (FlowingData, Information Aesthetics, Periscopic, Visualizing.org) and published by El Mundo – the largest digital newspaper by readership in Spanish. Please circulate the call to anyone who might be interested. Best, Dario -- Dario Taraborelli, PhD Senior Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://nitens.org/taraborelli

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SPIE VDA 2012 Call for Papers - New Deadline
by Wong, Pak C 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Paper submission deadline for SPIE 2012 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) has been extended to Monday, Aug 1, 2011. For the best VDA conference papers that are led by a student author, the conference will offer a modest monetary award sponsored by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers SPIE 2012 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis January 22-23, 2012 Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Burlingame, CA http://vda-conference.org Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2011 Notification: September 12, 2011 Final Manuscripts: November 14, 2011 Keynote Speakers: * Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University * Tom Malzbender, HP Labs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2012 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 average paper acceptance rate of recent VDA conferences was about 50%. 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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee ================== * Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories * Robert Erbacher, Northwest Security Institute 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 ==================== * Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina Charlotte * Mark A. Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory * Jinah Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Program Committee ================= * Madjid Allili, Bishop's University * Loretta Auvil, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign * Guoning Chen, University of Utah * Yi-Jen Chiang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU * Paul Craig, Napier University * Marian Dörk, University of Calgary * Sussan Einakian, University of Alabama in Huntsville * Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology * Matti T. Grohn, CSC-Scientific Computing * Halldor Janetzko, University of Konstanz * Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Alark Joshi, Boise State University * Dan Keefe, University of Minnesota * Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz * Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research * Bob Lewis, Washington State University * Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Lars Linsen, Jacobs University, Bremen * Zhanping Liu, University of Pennsylvania * Lucille T. Nowell, U.S. Department of Energy * Harald Obermaier, University of Kaiserslautern * Renato Pajarola, University of Zürich * Donald A. Pelligrino, Jr., Drexel University * William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Aaron J. Quigley, University of St. Andrews * Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Computer Graphics and E-Learning * Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz * Christopher D. Shaw, Simon Fraser University * Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University * Mike Sips, German Research Center for Geoscience * Kalpathi R. Subramanian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte * Yinlong Sun, Purdue University * Soon Tee Teoh, San Jose State University * Matthew O. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute * Yingcai Xiao, University of Akron * Ciaxia Zhang, Google, Inc. * Jian Zhang, Drexel University * Song Zhang, Mississippi State University

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Rewire 2011: Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
by Image Science 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Rewire 2011: Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology LIVERPOOL, 28-30 September 2011 Hosted by FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology) at Liverpool John Moores University In partnership with LJMU; AND (Abandon Normal Devices); Crumb at the University of Sunderland; Lancaster University; Site Gallery; University of Sussex; University of the West of Scotland; Universiteit van Amsterdam; and the Database of Virtual Art at the Department for Image Science, Danube University The Media Art History Board and Rewire Co-chairs would like to invite you to attend the latest international media art history conference, following Banff 2005; Berlin 2007; and Melbourne 2009. Rewire will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, and will illuminate the global phenomena of media art. by discussing new paradigms for media art histories including Science and Technology Studies and Cybernetics, the connections between such histories and those of new technologies and computing, the relations between media art and craft, media archaeology, and institutional and curatorial responses to media art. Rewire will be supplemented with performances, book launches, workshops and special events, and runs concurrently with the AND Festival which will be hosted at numerous sites across Liverpool. Chair: Mike STUBBS, Director at FACT Co-chairs: Paul BROWN, Sarah COOK; Juan CRUZ, Charlie GERE, Andy MIAH, Ed SHANKEN, Laura SILLARS Keynotes: ● Professor Andrew PICKERING of Exeter University, an internationally-known figure in Science and Technology Studies and author of The Mangle of Practice (Chicago University Press, 1995), and The Cybernetic Brain (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ● Professor Tanya HARROD, leading historian of the history of craft and author of The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 1999) ● Steve KURTZ and Shady EL NOSHOKATY. Kurtz is a founding member of the pioneering media art collective Critical Art Ensemble. El Noshokaty is an artist and academic. Speakers: Trish ADAMS, Alessandro ALFIERI, Jamie ALLEN, Patrick ALLEN, Pau ALSINA, Rosanne ALTSTATT, Perry BARD, Clarisse BARDIOT, Dorothy BARENSCOTT, Penelope BOYER, Victoria BRADBURY, Jo BRIGGS, Christoph BRUNNER. Patricia BUENO-DELGADO, Andrew BURRELL, Glòria Munilla CABRILLANA, Jackie CALDERWOOD, Vito CAMPANELLI, Natalia CANTÓ, Jon CATES, Karen CHAM, Paolo CIRIO, Kathy CLELAND, Leon CMIELEWSKI, Felicity COLMAN, Leonie COOPER, Sean CUBITT, Nina CZEGLEDY, Adson DA ROCHA, Michael DARROCH, Hamda DARWISH, Katie DAY GOOD, Annet DEKKER, Emile DEVEREAUX, Sara DIAMOND, Michael DIETER, Zara DINNEN, Diana DOMINGUES, Denise DOYLE, Vince DZIEKAN, Ernest EDMONDS, Francesca FRANCO, Darko FRITZ, Charlotte FROST, Gabriela GALATI, Antonio Bonome GARCIA, Petra GEMEINBOECK, Paul GIRARD, Michael GODDARD, Meredith GODLEY, Monika GÓRSKA-OLESINSKA, Susan GRABOWSKI, Beryl GRAHAM, Simone GRISTWOOD, Charlie GULLSTROM, Markus HAFNER, Simon HAGEMANN, Orit HALPERN, Ben HALSALL, Graham HARWOOD, Thomas HENSEL, Inge HINTERWALDNER, Nadav HOCHMAN, Vanina HOFMAN, Lissa HOLLOWAY-ATTAWAY, Kristen HUTCHINSON, Sharon IRISH, Robert JACKSON, Janis JEFFERIES, Alice Ming Wai JIM, Nigel JOHNSON, Stephen JONES, Marina Soler JORGE, Aleksandra KAMINSKA, Eva KEKOU, Gail KENNING, Jörn KETELSEN, Ji-hoon KIM, Harald KLINKE, Saskia KORSTEN, Guilherme KUJAWSKI, Machiko KUSAHARA, Katja KWASTEK, Maria LAKKA, Nicholas LAMBERT, Caroline LANGILL, Venus LAU, Stephanie LAUKE, Christophe LECLERCQ, Mike LEGGETT, Jonathan LESSARD, Jacob LILLEMOSE, Ana Gabriela Godinho LIMA, William LOCKETT, Alessandro LUDOVICO, Jung-Yeon MA, Elena MARCEVSKA, Janine MARCHESSAULT, Armin MEDOSCH, Chris MEIGH-ANDREWS, Gabriel MENOTTI, Cristiano MIOSSO, Kasia MOLGA, Rosana MONTEIRO, Josei NAGAYASSU, Frieder NAKE, Rachel O’DWYER, Elaine O’HANRAHAN, Margrét ÓLAFSDÓTTIR, Robin OPPENHEIMER, Karen O’ROURKE, Christian OYARZUN, Camille PALOQUE BERGES, Abraham PAREDES, Jussi PARIKKA, Karen PATTERSON, Christiane PAUL,Robin PECKHAM, Valentina PEÑA, Jeremy PILCHER, Morgan QUAINTANCE, Peter RICHARDSON, Ben ROBERTS, Janice ROBERTSON, Axel ROCH, Rebecca ROUSE, Rie SAITO, Chris SALTER, Rob SAUNDERS, Margaret SCHAVEMAKER, Jens SCHRÖTER, Theresa SCHUBERT MINSKI, Adele SENIOR, Mark SMITH, Morten SØNDERGAARD, Josephine STARRS, Jenny STEELE, Wanda STRAUVEN, David TEH, Daniel TEMKIN, Sarah THOMPSON, Jenny TILLOTSON, Heidi TIKKA, Sarah TODD, John TONKIN, Magdalena TYZLIK-CARVER, Rebecca UCHILL, Tomohiro UESHIBA, Eduardo VALLE, Silvana VASSALLO, Sander VEENHOF, Erandy VERGARA-VERGAS, Natasha VITA-MORE, Lioudmila VOROPAI, Pau WAELDER, Birk WEIBERG, Nina WENHART, Florian WIENCEK, Ewa WÓJTOWICZ,Ian WOJTOWICZ, Suzette WORDEN, Maria X, Andrea ZAPP Special thanks to our International Advisory Committee and the Media Art History Board for their expertise and support. Further information can be found at: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/ Details of the schedule and events available at: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/?page_id=105

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VizSec Post-Docs: Army Research Laboratory
by Robert Erbacher 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

We are looking for Post-Docs to join the Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, MD) in the area of Cyber-Security. This is a unique opportunity to work with actual analysts on real data. Post-Docs can be funded through either NRC or ORAU. We can also work with Scholarship for Service students. The main limitation is that we can only take US citizens. Please feel free to contact me with any questions (Robert.Erbacher at gmail.com) The main focus of the research is described below; though we are looking to expand our capabilities: The goal of this research is to examine the issues underlying cyber security, devising novel theoretical constructs on which future cyber security advances will be based. Research focuses on developing theories, models, and understanding that will lead to more effective intrusion detection techniques (e.g., how data can be effectively visualized for decision makers and how existing information can be acquired and fused with the effect of engendering greater understanding of events. Some specific areas of research being considered include but are not limited to: (1) exploring models for the representation of cyber security (e.g., game theory); (2) exploring ensemble techniques for improved detection with consideration of Byzantine General type attacks; (3) considering forensics and anti-forensics in the context of cyber security, both as a representational model as well as an analysis paradigm; (4) considering behavior as a fundamental indicator in detection and analysis; (5) acquiring improved network understanding with the goal of improving detection; and (6) developing novel detectors based on improved understanding to achieve low FP and FN. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on future cyber security research, work with actual analysts in the network analysis domain, validate theories with ARL scientists, and test techniques on real-world data. Keywords: Cyber security; Intrusion detection; Visualization; Cyber security theory; Cyber security models; Cyber security foundations; Network understanding; Ensemble techniques; Evidence fusion;

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CFP: IEEE VisWeek Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making
by Eser Kandogan 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making Dates: October 23-28, 2011 Location: Providence, RI Important Dates: Papers Due: Sep 2, 2011 Notification of Papers: Sep 16, 2011 Final Papers Due: Sep 30, 2011 Madness Participation Registration: Oct 10, 2011 Analyzing text documents has become increasingly an important part of decision making in large corporations, small businesses, and households. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in text visualization, text analytics, and visual analytics, to define the emerging fields of visual text analytics, and to discuss ideas, techniques, and applications to support decision making in different domains. Topics: We invite paper submissions that address any topic related to visual text analytics and application domains especially how interactive visual text analytics can facilitate decision making. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: · Visual and interaction design for text analytics · Visual representation, structure, metaphors for text · Perception and cognition in text visualizations · Systems, languages, and architectures for text analytics · Methodologies, processes for visual text analysis · Collaborative analysis of text corpora · Real-time visualization of streaming text data · Visual text analytics in social media · Industry-specific applications of visual text analytics (e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Government, etc.) · Studies of analytic work on document collections · Evaluation of visualization techniques; Metrics and bench-marks · Datasets and tasks for visual text analytics to facilitate decision making · Representations of uncertainty in text analytics Submission: We are looking for research and industry papers related to visual text analytics with a focus on facilitating human decision making. Papers are limited to 4 pages. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for a 15 minute (plus 5 minutes for questions) oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session. Papers must be formatted according to VisWeek format (see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html) Papers must be submitted by email to the conference organizers (eser(a)us.ibm.com) by September 2, 2011. Final versions of the papers are due September 30, 2011. 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 Oct 10, 2011. For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/, or send email to Eser Kandogan (eser(a)us.ibm.com) If you are interested please connect through FaceBook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/IEEE-Workshop-on-Interactive-Visual-Text-Anal… Organizers : Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Eser Kandogan, IBM Research Shixia Liu, Microsoft Research Asia Michelle Zhou, IBM Research

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WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of Wikipedia - call for participation
by Dario Taraborelli 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

We are proud to announce the second data challenge co-organized this summer by the Wikimedia Foundation. WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation are jointly launching WikiViz 2011 – a call for data/information visualization experts, computational journalists, data artists and data scientists to create the most insightful visualization of Wikipedia’s impact. The goal of the competition is to use open datasets to help improve our understanding of how Wikipedia is affecting the world beyond the scope of its own community. The award: The WikiViz 2011 Awarding Ceremony will take place on October 4, at the WikiSym 2011 venue, the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley campus (Mountain View, California). The ceremony will be introduced by a keynote by Jeff Heer (Stanford University), on the impact of emerging visualization techniques to understand open collaboration today. Three finalist teams (1 winner, 2 runners-up) will be invited to present their work at WikiSym 2011. Travel expenses and registration fees will be covered for a delegate per team. The works from these three teams will be showcased at the WikiSym 2011 exhibit, presented during the WikiViz awards ceremony and featured by our Knowledge and Media Partners: El Mundo.es, the largest digital newspaper in Spanish by readership worldwide, as well as four among the leading outlets and organizations in data visualization: FlowingData, Information Aesthetics, Visualizing.org and Periscopic. Unidad Editorial will also run a dedicated “Public's choice” track among the top 10 submissions received. The winner will be featured on the digital edition of El Mundo. The jury: The finalists will be selected by a jury composed by world-class experts in data visualization and social computing • Moritz Stefaner, Well Formed Data • Kim Rees, Periscopic • Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven and Information Aesthetics • Erik Zachte, Wikimedia Foundation • Gregorio Convertino, Xerox PARC and WikiSym The official announcement: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/05/wikiviz-2011-visualizing-the-impact-o… The call for participation: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:cfp Contacts, news and updates: For any questions, comments or interest in supporting or collaborating with this challenge, please contact the co-organizers at: wikiviz2011 [at] easychair [dot] org • Felipe Ortega, WikiSym • Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation You can also follow us on Twitter: @WikiViz (tag your tweets with #wikiviz11) -- Dario Taraborelli, PhD Senior Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://nitens.org/taraborelli

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conference announcement
by tom.corby 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

*apologies for cross-posting* Please circulate to those you think may be interested *Date:* 21 July 2011 10.30am - 21 July 2011 6.00pm* Location:* University of Westminster, Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW FREE but register here: http://bit.ly/lv1LsT Public 2.0: Culture, Creativity and Audience in an Era of Information Openness In recent years significant changes in the technological, social and media landscapes have redrawn relationships between cultural producers of all stripes and the people previously called readers, audiences and users. In parallel with this, unprecedented amounts of information have entered the public domain as a result of both top-down policy pressures and 'bottom-up' social activism. This process in turn has given birth to new cultural movements, opportunities for creativity, forms of information visualisation, and modes of content production. This free one-day conference brings together journalists, academics, developers, artists, activists and business people to reflect upon these phenomena, show work, exchange experiences and signpost future trends. The conference will be followed by an exhibition opening of work produced as part of/Data Art/, an AHRC funded research project exploring how broadcast and news data can be reformatted, explored and navigated using information visualisations. The project is the result of collaboration between: the Centre for Research in Education Art and Media (CREAM), the University of Westminster; BBC Learning and BBC Future Media and Technology. Invited speakers include *Tom Corby*, conference convener, artist, academic and writer working at the University of Westminster. *Simon Rogers*, editor of the Guardian Datablog and Datastore. *Ian Forrester*, Senior Producer at BBC R&D and emergent technology expert. *Roland Harwood*, co-founder of 100%Open an innovation agency. *David Gauntlett,*writes and teaches on how digital media gives people new opportunities to create and connect. *Rob Myers*, artist, writer, hacker and Chief Technology Officer for Philter Phactory. *Drew Hemment*, associate Director of ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, and Director of the FutureEverything Festival. (TBC) *Julian Tate*, lead developer on the Manchester Open Data Cities project for FutureEverything. *Ruth Catlow*, media artist and co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield.org media arts organization. *Santiago Ortiz*, Co-founder and research director at Bestiario. In addition a 'show and tell' session will feature art and design works by independent companies and developers including the Bestiario design company, Andy Littledale, Gavin Baily and Harry Robbins.

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12th (FR) International Conf on Knowledge discovery and management
by Guy Melançon 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

12th Francophone International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management EGC 2012, January 31 – February 3 2012, Bordeaux, France http://egc2012.labri.fr/ Honorary President Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA Invited Speakers Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Michel Tenenhaus, HEC, France Program Committee Chair Yves Lechevallier, INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt, France Organizing co-Chairs Guy Melançon/Bruno Pinaud, Université Bordeaux 1, France The 12th Francophone International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management (EGC 2012) wll take place in Bordeaux from January 31 till February 3, 2012. EGC aims at gathering researchers in neighbor scientific areas (learning, statistics, data analysis, information systems and databases, knowledge engineering), as well as actors of the industry. The conference is a unique forum to communicate on recent research results, exchange ideas and report on industrial initiatives. EGC 2012 welcomes contributions in various formats: tutorials, focused workshops, paper presentations, posters and software demonstrations. The EGC 2012 proceedings are published as a RNTI journal special issue. An (English) extended version of high quality papers will subsequently be submitted for an international audience journal. Papers (6 or 12 pages) can be submitted in French or English. The 2012 edition welcomes three types of papers: academic, applied or industrial research, junior researchers (details on who may apply to this latter category will soon be published). The best contributions in each of these categories will be awarded prizes. Papers will be reviewed following a double blind process. Submissions shall be uploaded through the conference website Important dates. All dates are hard dealines. All papers (6 or 12 pages) must comply with the LaTeX RNTI style) Paper abstract submission: October 7, 2011 Full paper submission: 14 octobre 2011 Author notification and rebuttal: November 11--17, 2011 Final notification: November 21, 2011 Paper final version: December 9, 2011 Software deminstration (new this year: 4 pages) Demo submission: November 25, 2011 Final notification: December 2, 2011 Demo paper final version: December 9, 2011 Workshops (please follow format specification posted on the conference website) Workshop proposal expected on: October 14, 2011 Workshop acceptance notification: October 21, 2011 -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 308

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IEEE BioVis: Call for Abstracts & Contest Announcement
by Carsten Görg 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

This posting contains the following three news items about the IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization: 1) Keynote Speaker Announcement 2) Call For Abstracts (Deadline: July 8, 2011) 3) Data Visualization Contest Announcement (Deadline: September 1, 2011) ====================================================================================== We are excited to announce Lynda Chin (Harvard Medical School/Broad Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) as the BioVis 2011 Keynote Speaker. Details will be posted on our website shortly. http://www.biovis.net ====================================================================================== *** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS *** BioVis 2011: IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at VisWeek 2011 in Providence, RI October 23-24, 2011 Website: http://www.biovis.net Abstract Submission Deadline: July 8, 2011 *** 1. Aims and Scope *** The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques that enable researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets. The goal of the first IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis 2011) is to create the premier international and interdisciplinary event for all aspects of visualization in biology. This symposium will bring together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. As the first annual BioVis Symposium, this event seeks to emphasize inclusion and interaction between these communities as its primary impact. The symposium will serve as a platform for researchers from these fields to increase the impact of visualization approaches in biology. The breadth and diversity of biological research areas will enable researchers from all parts of the visualization community to contribute to this effort, and the symposium will provide an excellent opportunity to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations. Finally, it will provide an outlet and training ground for young and freshly minted visualization researchers with a keen interest in problems of biology and provide a venue for researchers in biology and bioinformatics to share pressing visualization challenges and potential solutions in their fields. *** 2. Topics *** We are looking for contributions on all aspects of visualization in biology. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Genome and sequence data, including genomic variation data - Multivariate omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) - Phylogenetic data - Ecological and taxonomic data - Biological networks and pathways - Biological ontologies - Molecular structures (protein structures, RNA structures, etc.) - Subcellular, cellular, tissue- and organ-level structures - Visualization of image data, such as microscopic or radiological data - Integration of image and omics data for systems biology - Modeling, simulation and visualization of biological systems - Visualization in neurobiology and developmental biology - Systems and software frameworks for biological visualization - Integration of visualization in biological workflows or collaborative processes - Visualization and visual analytics of integrated data sets - Evaluation of biological visualization systems including interfaces, usability, laboratory experiments, and field studies - Creation and visualization of biological atlases and metadata - Processes for interdisciplinary collaboration between biology and visualization *** 3. Abstract Criteria *** Given the goal of bringing together members of both the biology and visualization communities for discussion, the symposium solicitation is purposefully broad and open-minded to diverse types of submissions. The abstracts are meant to support an exchange of ideas and can be based on work in progress. Each abstract will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Types of submissions include, but are not limited to: - Descriptions of work in progress and preliminary results - Demonstrations of new or recent systems, both open source and proprietary - Descriptions of analysis challenges where current tools fall short for specific datasets and goals, to inform the visualization community in producing better future solutions - Ideas for future research directions - Experience reports, highlighting lessons learned from the deployment of relevant previously published work - Reports of original research Abstracts may be up to 2 pages. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters, interactive demos or videos at the symposium -- authors will be asked to specify the mode of presentation at the time of submission. All presenters will have the opportunity to give a brief overview of their work in a plenary "fast-forward session". Additionally, presenters of selected abstracts will be given the opportunity for longer oral presentation at the symposium. All abstracts will be considered a "personal communication" to the symposium attendees. Abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but will appear in the program, with the distributed symposium materials, and on the symposium website. *** 4. Important Dates *** Abstract submission: Friday, July 8, 2011 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: August 15, 2011 Camera ready copy: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT). Details on how to submit abstracts are provided on http://www.biovis.net/submission.html . Further details about this CFP can be found on http://biovis.net/cfp.html. We look forward to your submissions! Miriah Meyer and Cydney Nielsen BioVis 2011 Abstract Chairs ====================================================================================== Data VIsualization Contest @ Symposium on Biological Data Visualization The 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (23-24 october 2011 / providence, RI ) is pleased to announce the opening of its Data-Visualization contest. Featuring the analysis and visualization of expression Quantitative Trait Locus (eQTL) data, this year's contest aims squarely at one of the most pervasive issues in Biological Data Visualization and Analysis : the conversion of vast catalogs of error-prone individual measurements and observations that contain implied correlation and causation, into actionable knowledge regarding the networks of controlling relationships within the data. Entrants from Biological, Visualization, Bioinformatic, and all related fields are encouraged to participate, individually or in teams. We anticipate providing awards for not only the best comprehensive approach, but also for outstanding solutions to discrete issues within the domain. Please visit http://www.biovis.net/contest.html for more information.

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