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Final CFP for Int. workshop DataVIEW'10 (Data Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web)
by Alessandro Bozzon 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

[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!] FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DATA VISUALIZATION AND INTEGRATION IN ENTERPRISES AND ON THE WEB (DATAVIEW '10) ***** Final Abstract submission deadline: July 6, 2010 **** ***** Final Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2010 **** Workshop held in conjunction with OTM 2010 Crete (Greece), 25 - 29 October 2010 Workshop website: http://dataview.como.polimi.it Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag. Best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- EXTENDED -> July 6, 2010: Abstracts due (23h59 Hawaii Time) EXTENDED -> July 12, 2010: Papers due (23h59 Hawaii Time) EXTENDED -> August 2, 2010: Acceptance Notification (23h59 Hawaii Time) August 13, 2010: Camera-ready copies (23h59 Hawaii Time) WORKSHOP RATIONALE AND AIMS --------------------------- 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. Contextually, the availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as (enterprise) mash-up platforms - 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. Moreover, 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 proved to be a challenging task for application developers. In addition, as the richness and value of data also increases, Web and Enterprise applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. 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. We believe that, 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 aim of the DATAVIEW workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of Software Engineering, Web engineering, Semantic Web, Databases, (multimedia) Information Retrieval and data visualization. The main goal is to explore the feasibility of using and combining different approaches to create effective Web and Enterprise applications where the integration, visualization and interaction with data is a main concern, as well as to identify additional requirements needed in order to apply these methods and techniques to existing design and development environments. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Areas of particular interest for the Workshop include (but are not limited to): + Integration of heterogeneous data in Enterprises and on the Web + Visualization of integrated heterogeneous in Enterprises and on Web data + 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 and Enterprises data visualizations + Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Enterprise 2.0 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of workshop's core topic. Papers submitted to DATAVIeW ‘10 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. Papers must be in English and may be submitted as: + Full Papers (10 pages) + Short Papers (5 pages) + Position Statements (3 pages) Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper PROCEEDINGS ----------- The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Sara Comai ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Moira Norrie ( ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Alessandro Bozzon ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- + Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) + Irene Celino (CEFRIEL, Italy) + Emanuele DellaValle (Politecnico di Milano, Italy ) + Roberto De Virgilio (Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy) + Flavio Maria De Paoli (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy) + Martin Gaedke (Chemnitz University of Technology) + Michael Grossniklaus (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) + Suzanne Little (KMI - The Open University, UK) + Dennis McLeod (University of Southern California, USA + Juan Carlos Preciado (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain) + Raluca Paiu (L3S Research Center, Germany) + Gabriella Pasi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan) + Beat Signer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) + Giovanni Toffetti Carughi (University of Lugano, Switzerland) + Marco Winckler (University Paul Sabatier, France)

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CfP - IDAMAP 2010: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology
by Wolfgang Aigner 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Dear colleagues, for all of you who deal with (bio)Medicine as an application domain, the following CFP might be interesting. It encourages submissions related to data visualization and exploration. Best regards, Wolfgang Aigner ...Apologies for cross-postings... ******************* Call for papers ****************************** IDAMAP 2010: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology http://idamap.org/idamap2010 Friday November 12, 2010 A one-day colloquium in Washington, DC Kirk T. Phillips and Stephen Swift (chairs) Organized in collaboration with the Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association, and Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: August 1, 2010 Notification: September 1, 2010 Camera-ready: October 1, 2010 GENERAL INFORMATION IDAMAP-2010, a colloquium on intelligent data analysis in biomedicine and pharmacology, will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Symposium of the American Medical informatics Association. The IDAMAP series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical methods include data visualization, data exploration, machine learning, and data mining. Gathering in an informal setting, colloquium participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. The colloquium is intended to be a genuinely interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general discussion. A student challenge on data integration will be organized. Author of the best solution will be invited to present the work at the workshop. A selection of revised and expanded IDAMAP 2010 papers will appear in the Methods of Information in Medicine journal. TOPICS In the colloquium, the attention will be given to methodological issues of intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in biomedicine and pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but are not limited to: - data mining and machine learning techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning problems, - exploiting domain knowledge in learning and data analysis, - data visualization and exploration, - analysis of large data sets and relational data mining, - knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data analysis techniques, and - integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within biomedical information systems. A paper submitted to the colloquium is expected to show a selected methodology can help to solve relevant problems in medicine, and would typically address the following issues: - What is the medical or clinical problem addressed? - Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the data analysis or interpretation of results? - How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use? Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent data analysis techniques are invited, and can for example cover analysis of medical and health-care data, data coming from clinical bioinformatics data bases (like microarray data and DNA sequence analysis), analysis of pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing, and outcomes analysis. PROBLEM OWNERS In addition to regular scientific contributions, we welcome descriptions of problems or data sets that could potentially benefit from an analysis through Intelligent Data Analysis or Data Mining. Problem descriptions must be submitted as abstracts and will be presented at the workshop. They must briefly introduce the problem and provide an overview of the main objectives of the analysis. After the presentations, ample time will be reserved for discussion. DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS We also invite developers of data analysis tools to send an abstract with the description of their tool, and give a demonstration during a special demo session on data analysis tools at the colloquium. The abstract should describe the underlying methodology of the tool and sketch the potential for application in the field of intelligent data analysis in biomedicine. Preferably, abstracts on data analysis tools should also briefly describe a case study where the tool was used. PROGRAM The scientific program of the colloquium will consist of presentations of accepted scientific papers, an invited presentation, and demonstrations of data analysis tools and problem descriptions. Ample time will be allotted for informal discussion among the participants. SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS IDAMAP invites submissions of either short papers (2 pages, up to 1500 words, leading to a short presentation at the meeting) or full papers (up to 6 pages/4500 words, leading to a long presentation at the meeting). Data analysis tools and description of problems should be submitted as abstracts (1 page, up to 750 words). Papers should be written in English. Authors should send an electronic submission in PDF format to both chairs Stephen Swift (stephen.swift@brune), Kirk T. Phillips (kirk-phillips(a)uiowa.edu) please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject, where YOUR_NAME is the surname of the first author. Alternatively to preferred PDF, submissions using Post Script or MS Word format are also welcome. The submissions should be received no later than August 1, 2010. Formatting instructions and instructions for authors are available on the IDAMAP 2010 home page at http://idamap.org/idamap2010. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two people of the program committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by September 1, 2010. Accepted papers will appear in colloquium notes that will be distributed among registered participants. JOURNAL PUBLICATION Selected papers by contributors to IDAMAP 2010 will be invited to submit a revised and expanded version of their paper for publication in Schattauerís Methods of Information in Medicine journal (www.methods-online.com) Publication is scheduled for late 2010/early 2011. REGISTRATION Details on payment and registration will be posted shortly on the AMIA and IDAMAP 2010 pages.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS to host the 5th International MediaArtHistories Conference
by Image Science 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

CALL FOR PROPOSALS to host the 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology The Media Art Histories Board invites applications to host the 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. This international conference series, which was inaugurated in 2005 in Banff, Canada, has since been held in several international venues including Berlin in 2007, Melbourne in 2009 and will be held in Liverpool in 2011. The conference series aims to engage a growing community of scholars from a range of disciplines including art history, contemporary art practice, art theory, history of science, history of technology, science and technology studies, media studies, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, architecture theory, music history, information sciences, image science and visual studies among others, to develop and share new research and scholarship in the intersecting fields of the histories of media art, science and technology. The host of the next conference in 2013 will have the opportunity to continue to build on the impressive history of the conference series. MISSION *Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, the conference series on the Histories of Media Art will discuss the history of media arts within the interdisciplinary and inter-cultural contexts of the histories of the arts. Numerous individuals and institutions collaborate to produce the international art history conference series covering the media arts, the arts and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to the contemporary arts.* Proposals to host the conference should consist of the following information: 1. Proposed Dates 2. Proposed Venues (including information on number, capacity and AV and network capabilities of spaces) 3. Rationale for hosting the conference 4. Host Local Organizing Committee 5. Relevant previous experience (e.g., committee members* experience in hosting conferences, events, etc.) 6. Publicity Plan 7. Funding / Sponsorship plan 8. Preliminary Budget Those interested in making a bid to host the conference are encouraged to write to Oliver Grau at oliver.grau(a)donau-uni.ac.at with an expression of interest prior to submitting a formal proposal. Deadline for final submission of proposals is September 30, 2010 and the MAH Advisory Board will make its final decision on the next host for the conference by December 17, 2010. MediaArtHistory Board (Steering Committee) Sean CUBITT - University of Melbourne Jorge LAFERLA - University of Buenos Aires Oliver GRAU - Danube University Linda HENDERSON, UT Austin Erkki HUHTAMO UC Los Angeles Douglas KAHN - UC Davis Martin KEMP - Oxford University Timothy LENIOR - Duke University Machiko KUSAHARA - Waseda University, Tokyo Gunalan NADARAJAN - MICA Paul THOMAS - UNSW Sydney www.mediaarthistory.org

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VAST 2010 Visual Analytics CHALLENGE - Final CALL
by Plaisant, Catherine 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

>>> Visual Analytics Challenge <<< www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge2010 A submission category of the IEEE VAST 2010 Conference FINAL CALL: Submission Deadline June 29 Do you think you can analyze JUST ONE of these data sets? - Text Records ~ an investigation into arms dealing) - Hospitalization Records ~ characterizing a pandemic spread - Genetic Sequences ~ tracing the mutations of a disease We have DATA and REPRESENTATIVE TASKS for YOU... You can submit a Mini-Challenge entry for any of these tasks. And if you can pull all that data together and analyze the overall situation then you can submit to the Grand Challenge. Entries will be judged on the ACCURACY of the answers (compared to our ground truth scenario) and the RATINGS given by Visual Analytics peer reviewers AND by professional analysts. DATES - Submission: June 29 - Results: ~ August 10 - Challenge Participant Workshop: October 24 (only if you submit) - VisWeek 2010: October 24 - 29, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA WHAT DO YOU GET? - The most deserving entries receive awards, have their two-page summary PUBLISHED in the PROCEEDINGS of the VAST 2010 Conference. - ALL submitted entries have their two-page summary, answers and descriptive materials PUBLISHED on an archival website. - All the teams submitting an entry are invited to a Challenge Participant WORKSHOP to compare their experiences (with short presentation and poster session), discuss the results, and influence next year's Challenge. - Student participants may apply for partial travel support www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge2010 VAST Challenge Chairs - Georges Grinstein, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell - Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland - Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Lab - Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Lab --- Questions: use the blog, or email challengecommittee(a)cs.umd.edu --- Catherine Plaisant, PhD Associate Director of Research Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park (301) 405-2768 http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/

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Post-doc position INRIA / France - Interactive Exploration of Semantic Networks
by Guy Melançon 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a one-year post-doc position. The successful candidate will be involved in an advanced research project dedicated to the visual and interactive exploration of semantic networks. The project takes place within the ANR TANGUY project headed by Thalès Communications and in collaboration with Xerox (XRCE Grenoble) and the law firm FIDAL. The project aims at designing a methodology to support the incremental construction and easy use of semantic networks. The development of a (prototype) system should help law experts to deal with large document collections from which potential facts have to be identified, extracted, organized and ultimately validated or annotated. Starting from valid pieces of information extracted from text document (Xerox expertise), our goal is to offer adapted mechanisms to visualize, navigate and annotate all this information. The construction of a network of facts should follow from semantic proximity between pieces of information or from users’ knowledge. The awarded candidate will be involved in multi-disciplinary and fundamental research residing mainly at the crossings of computational linguistic, artificial intelligence and information visualization. Several directions of research may be followed depending on the goals and competences of the selected candidate. Prior knowledge in (some) of the following areas shall be positively considered: network science, graph theory, graph drawing, graph visualization. We seek for candidates with a (strong) programming experience in C++. Past experience using the Tulip (graph visualization) platform is a plus. Preference will also be given to candidates that have demonstrated their abilities to carry out research at top international standards and to publish their results in international journals. The starting date of the position is opened. To apply, please send your resume and research statement by email to Guy.Melancon at inria.fr -- 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 269

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1st CFP: Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2011
by Wong, Pak C 24 May '10

24 May '10

*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS *** Call for Papers Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2011 http://cgv.kaist.ac.kr/vda2011/ 23-27 January 2011 Part of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2011 Highlights ========== Venue: Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel, San Francisco, CA 94010 http://sanfranciscoairport.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp Submission Deadline: 28 June 2010 http://cgv.kaist.ac.kr/vda2011/?page=submission Keynote Address: "The Science of Visual Analysis at Extreme Scale" Dr. Lucille T. Nowell Program Manager, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Journal Extension: Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of Information Visualization (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html) Conference Sponsorship: The VDA 2011 conference is pending sponsorship by Hewlett Packard (HP) Labs, National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC), and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ============================================================================ The VDA 2011 conference covers all research and development and application aspects of data visualization and, more recently, visual analytics (http://nvac.pnl.gov) 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 posters and join us in San Francisco, CA. Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. The average paper acceptance rate of the recent VDA conferences was about 50%. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of Information Visualization (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html) Since the term "data visualization" was found in the literature in the early 90's, it has gradually evolved into a broad area of research and development. The data visualization Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_visualization) and its references provide a glimpse into its history of innovation and the latest cutting-edge technology. Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization. They include, but are not limited to: * 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 Conference Chairs ================= * Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, pak.wong(a)pnl.gov * Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, Chaomei.Chen(a)cis.drexel.edu * Ming C. Hao, Hewlett Packard Labs, ming_hao(a)hp.com * Jinah Park, KAIST, jinah(a)cs.kaist.ac.kr Conference Co-Chairs ==================== * Katy Börner, Indiana University, katy(a)indiana.edu * David Kao, NASA Ames, david.l.kao(a)nasa.gov * Jonathan Roberts, University of Bangor, j.c.roberts(a)bangor.ac.uk Steering Committee ================== * Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett Packard Labs, Umeshwar.dayal(a)hp.com * Robert Erbacher, Utah State University, Robert.Erbacher(a)gmail.com Program Committee ================= * Loretta Auvil, UIUC,lauvil(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu * Madjid Allili, Bishop's University, mallili(a)ubishops.ca * Paul Craig, Napier University, p.craig(a)napier.ac.uk * Sussan Einakian, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Einakis(a)eng.uah.edu * Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, keim(a)inf.uni-knostanz.de, * Bill Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, william.pike(a)pnl.gov * Carsten Görg, Georgia Tech, goerg(a)cc.gatech.edu, * Matti Grohn, CSC-Scientific Computing, matti.grohn(a)iki.fi * Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, jiang4(a)llnl.gov * Robert Kosara, UNCC, rkosara(a)uncc.edu * Heidi Lam, Google, heidi.lam(a)gmail.com * Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research, bongshin(a)microsoft.com * Bob Lewis, Washington State University, bobl(a)tricity.wsu.edu * Renato Pajarola, University of Zürich, pajarola(a)acm.org * Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, lindstrom2(a)llnl.gov * Lars Linsen, Jacobs University, Bremen, l.linsen(a)jacobs-university.de * Zhanping Liu, Kitware, zhanpingliu(a)hotmail.com * Torsten Moeller, Simon Fraser University, torsten(a)cs.sfu.ca * Chris North, Virginia Tech, north(a)vt.edu * Lucy Nowell, Department of Energy, Lucy.Nowell(a)ascr.doe.gov * Aaron J. Quigley, University College Dublin, aquigley(a)ucd.ie * Tobias Schreck, TU Darmstadt, tobias.schreck(a)gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de * Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Lab, jean.scholtz(a)pnl.gov, * Chris Shaw, Simon Fraser University, shaw(a)sfu.ca * Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University, hwshen(a)cse.ohio-state.edu * Mike Sips, German Research Center for Geoscience, msips(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de, * Kalpathi R. Subramanian, UNCC, krs(a)uncc.edu * Yinlong Sun, Purdue University, sun(a)cs.purdue.edu * Soon Tee Teoh, San Jose State University, teoh(a)cs.sjsu.edu * Melanie Tory, University of Victoria, mtory(a)cs.uvic.ca * Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, matt(a)cs.wpi.edu * Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University, thomas.wischgoll(a)wright.edu * Mark A. Livingston, Naval Research Lab, markl(a)ait.nrl.navy.mil * Yingcai Xiao, University of Akron, xiao(a)uakron.edu * Zaixian Xie, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, xiezx(a)cs.wpi.edu * Jing Yang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, jyang13(a)uncc.edu * Eugene Zhang, Oregon State University, zhange(a)eecs.oregonstate.edu

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Jacques Bertin passed away
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 17 May '10

17 May '10

Dear Colleagues, I have the regret to inform you that Jacques Bertin, author of the well-known book "Semiology of Graphics" and pioneer of the domain of visual representation of abstract data for exploration passed away on May 3rd at the age of 92. Jacques Bertin was a cartographer by training, but he expanded the field and created and improved a very large number of graphical representations of abstract data. His books are incredibly rich and will remain a source of inspiration for several generations of visualization researchers and practitioners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Bertin -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr AVIZ Team Leader, INRIA www.aviz.fr INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France www.aviz.fr/~fekete Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud tel: +33 1 69156494 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France fax: +33 1 69154240

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Assistant/Associate Professor in HCI and Visualization
by Chris North 07 May '10

07 May '10

Assistant/Associate Professor in HCI and Visualization CyberInfrastructure Division of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech Position Description The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) is a world-class research institute in the life sciences developed in a transdisciplinary team research model. The Institute's mission is to solve some of society's most important problems in the life sciences through transdisciplinary research and education. To support the growth of its transdisciplinary research portfolio, VBI's CyberInfrastructure Division is looking for an Assistant or Associate Professor to lead Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Visualization efforts. The Assistant/Associate Professor will be responsible for developing and conducting a vigorous, extramurally funded research program related to HCI and Visualization for life sciences; the securing of grant and contract funding for the research program; integrating HCI/Visualization practices throughout appropriate CyberInfrastructure program areas (infectious disease, and translational informatics); responsible for providing leadership, mentoring, and developing a team of researchers and students engaged in HCI/Visualization/Life Science research; responsible for defining, designing, and evaluating innovative user interface solutions using a transdisciplinary scientific approach for projects with HCI/Visualization needs; and pursuing professional activities as expected from a professional computer scientist. Qualifications Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Human Factors or other discipline closely related to HCI; demonstrated record of publication in peer-reviewed journals; demonstrated capability of working closely with software engineers and life scientists (researchers, clinicians or epidemiologists) on user interface design and development efforts; demonstrated experience in interfacing and collaborating with the scientific community; capable of working in a team environment and a strong inclination for trans-disciplinary science; and possesses creativity, independence, and selfmotivation with good communication skills. Preferences will be given to candidates having experience in both basic HCI/Visualization research and applying HCI to real-world bioinformatics software development environments, as well as evidence of successful grant writing experience. Applicants at the Associate level must have an extramurally funded research program in place. listings.jobs.vt.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=191504

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Final CFP: ACM SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (SOFTVIS'10) - Call for Papers
by Carsten Görg 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Final CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (SOFTVIS'10) ---------------------------------------------------- SOFTVIS is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE and IEEE CS/VGTC. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 25-26, 2010 http://www.softvis.org/softvis10 SOFTVIS'10 is part of IEEE VisWeek'10 and shares a single registration, see http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2010 IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Papers Due : April 30, 2010 Notification : June 30, 2010 Posters/Tool Demos Due: July 14, 2010 Symposium : October 25-26, 2010 SCOPE: ------ Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its evolution. The ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS), now at its fifth edition, is the premiere forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, and computer science education) to present original research on software visualization. We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications, techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization of algorithms - Program visualization - Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams - Visualization of parallel programs - Visualization-based software in computer science and software engineering education - Visualization of workflow and business processes - Integration of software visualization tools and development environments - Visualization of data and processes in applications - Visualization of web services - Visualization of software evolution - Visualization of the software development process - Visualization of data base schemes - Protocol and log visualization (security, trust) - Source code visualization - Graph drawing algorithms for software visualization - Visual debugging - Program analyses and visualization - 3D software visualization - Software visualization on the internet - Empirical evaluation of software visualization SUBMISSIONS: ------------ Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. Authors should prepare and electronically submit their papers (up to 10 pages in standard ACM 2-column format, http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) according to the instructions on the symposium website: http://www.softvis.org/softvis10. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is encouraged. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue on Software Visualization in the Information Visualization journal (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/) As in the previous SOFTVIS editions we will award a best paper. In addition to technical papers, we are also inviting poster and tool demo submissions. Posters and tool demos offer the opportunity to present new ideas and work in progress during an interactive session. Authors should prepare and submit poster and tool demo abstracts of up to 2 pages in standard ACM 2-column format. Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. ORGANIZATION: ------------- General Chair: Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands Program Co-chairs: Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA Poster Chair: Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Rob DeLine, Microsoft Research, USA Arie van Deursen, Delft University / CWI, Netherlands Stephan Diehl, University of Trier, Germany Holger Eichelberger, University of Hildesheim, Germany Harald Gall, University of Zürich, Switzerland Danny Holten, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USA Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia, USA Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis, USA Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA Nick Mitchell, IBM Research, USA Tom Naps, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA Thomas Panas, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA Wim De Pauw, IBM Research, USA Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Susan Rodger, Duke University, USA Jorma Sajaniemi, University of Joensuu, Finland John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Lucian Voinea, Solidsource, Netherlands Chris Weaver, University of Oklahoma, USA Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA

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1st CFP: ACM CHIMIT '10 - HCI for IT Management
by Eben Haber 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

*Apologies for cross-postings* 2010 ACM Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT '10) http://chimit10.org November 12-13, 2010 San Jose, CA USA Co-located with the 24th USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '10) http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/ ---------1st CALL FOR PAPERS (3 months to deadline)-------------- Since 2007, CHIMIT has been the leading forum for discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and technology. At CHIMIT, researchers and practitioners share issues, solutions, and research drawing upon fields such as human-computer interaction, human factors, collaborative work, computer systems, and management and service sciences to address cognitive, social, and technical issues in managing the increasing complexity of modern Information Technology (IT) systems. Information Technology (IT) is central to modern life. From our homes to our largest enterprises, we are surrounded by software and hardware components that support our work and personal lives: wireless access points, network routers, firewalls, virus scanners, databases, web servers, storage and backup systems, etc. These components exist to permit us to do other things, e.g., manage inventory, communicate with friends or customers, sell products through websites, yet all too often managing the underlying IT infrastructure takes time and resources away from the real work at hand. IT systems have grown increasingly complex over the years, and the cost for keeping the infrastructure running is now a significant burden. We are at a turning point where further advances in technology and business efficiency and growth require fundamentally new approaches to IT system design, management, and services. CHIMIT is an ACM-sponsored conference, and accepted Paper and Short Paper submissions will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. We are also soliciting submissions for Panels, Courses, and a non-archival Poster Session for work in progress. Suggested Topics ============== - User Studies of IT infrastructure management in context, exposing user needs, pain points, work practices, and examples of both successful and unsuccessful work. - Design - approaches to bring about improved, human-centered IT systems. - Experimental Studies on the usage of new or existing IT systems. - Tools and Techniques for improved administration, e.g., visualizations of system behavior, or collaborative interfaces. - Automation approaches to reduce administration workload or improve productivity. - Computer supported cooperative work ˆ how do those who manage an organization‚s IT interact with the users they support, their technical community, and other stakeholders? - Organizational Knowledge - how can shared knowledge improve IT management. - Processes and Practices - examples of best practices and improved processes in IT management. - New Technologies - how will the changing technological landscape (e.g., Cloud Computing, pervasive mobile devices, etc.) affect IT management? - IT Beyond the Enterprise - what are the implications now that we're doing backups, network configuration, etc. in the home? Submission Guidelines ================== Papers should be submitted in English. Instructions for authors are available at http://chimit10.org/submission.html CHIMIT '10 is accepting Papers and Short Papers, as well as non-archival Posters, Courses, and Panels. Important Dates ============ Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2010 Panels and Courses due: August 7, 2010 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2010 Posters due: September 10, 2010 Poster selections announced: September 26, 2010 CHIMIT Committee =============== General Chairs --------------------- Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Pepperdine University Adam Moskowitz Program Chairs --------------------- Tamara Babaian, Bentley University Konstantin Beznosov, UBC Steering Committee --------------------------- David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University Ken Chizinsky, Cisco Narayan Desai, Argonne National Labs Andrew Hume, AT&T Labs Research Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google NYC

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