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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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CHI 2010 Post - CHI begins in less than 3 weeks!
by Eben Haber 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

CHI 2010 less than 3 weeks away! Less than 3 weeks remain until CHI 2010 gets underway, so it's time to get ready. * Online registration ends on April 3 (http://www.chi2010.org/attending/registration.html#registration) * You can find a preview (http://www.chi2010.org/press/preview.html) of what to look for on the CHI website. * Also remember that course registration limits have been lifted, if you want to add more courses (http://www.chi2010.org/attending/courses.html) * There is still space in a few of the Atlanta HCI Tours for the Friday after the conference (http://www.chi2010.org/attending/events.html#tours) * Finally, be sure to check out the CHI Madness preview on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/CHIMadness2010#p) CHI 2010 iPhone App now Available It's CHI in your pocket! Thanks to Justin Weisz, Stephen Oney, and Jason Weise at CMU, there is an iPhone app for navigating the CHI 2010 schedule. Browse papers by session, title, or author, and build your own custom schedule of the things you want to see. Best of all, it's free! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chi-2010/id362206698?mt=8 Connect with CHI 2010 on Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr! Share your thoughts, experiences, and photos related to CHI 2010. For Flickr, tag photos with #chi2010. For Twitter, tag tweets with #chi2010 and optionally the session room. And become a fan of CHI 2010 on facebook to see updates from the conference organizers. The CHI 2010 website has pageswith the Twitter feed (http://www.chi2010.org/socialmedia/twitter_stream.html) Flickr stream (http://www.chi2010.org/socialmedia/flickr_stream.html) and Facebook updates (http://www.chi2010.org/socialmedia/facebook_stream.html) Event Maps for CHI2010 Event Maps is a rich internet application intended to help people browse/organize/collaborate on multi-track conference events. Event Maps is brought to you by IBM Research - Watson and is being deployed for CHI 2010 attendees to help refine the system and provide an attendee benefit. Using Event Maps, you can browse, search and navigate the sessions of a conference via a zoommable interface. If you log in, you will be able to mark sessions of interest as favorites, export favorites, make comments, view the comments of others, and see the popularity of sessions according to favorite counts. Event Maps is an accepted Work In Progress for CHI 2010 and this "live demo" of the system is being provided as an adjunct to their poster. You can see the Event Map for CHI 2010 here: https://researcher.ibm.com/eventmaps/?eventId=CHI2010. CHI 2010: The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) is the premier international conference for the field of human-computer interaction. CHI 2010 looks outward to the human experience of computing in the world. "We are HCI" challenges our community to embrace the diversity of HCI in the world and to exclaim our commitment as a profession to empower people from all walks of life.

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LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP for the 1st International Masters in MediaArtHistories
by Image Science 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

The Department for Image Science and Leonardo/ISAST are pleased to announce their new cooperative effort, a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course in MediaArtHistories, with a start in May 2010! => LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist. => FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES (low-residency; English language, international faculty) The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER, Sean CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, netart, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science &Technology will be discussed. => DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau, 70km from Vienna, is the only public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners. Our students & faculty members come from the USA, Italy, Canada, Syria, Austria, Mexico, & Hong Kong, among others. Without interrupting their career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. => LEONARDO/ISAST - Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and technology. Through publications, initiatives and public forums, Leonardo/ISAST facilitates cross-disciplinary research in these fields, seeking to catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century. Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. By enhancing communication between scientists, artists, and engineers, Leonardo supports experimental projects and interacts with established institutions of art and science to transform their research and educational practices. =>LEAF - The Leonardo Education and Art Forum promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEAF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society. Application documents (digital) : - Letter of Motivation - Application form - Copies/scans of certificates - Copy/scan of passport Application Deadline: 28. March 2010 Further Information: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah www.leonardo.info www.virtualart.at www.mediaarthistories.org Contact: Andrea Haberson Department for Image Science Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569 andrea.haberson(a)donau-uni.ac.at www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

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CFP: 4th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics
by Urska Cvek 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

4th International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) ****************** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/IVbm.htm ****************************** July 27, 2010 * London * United Kingdom --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and Participation Organized as part of the 2010 International Information Visualisation Conference, the Fourth International Symposium of 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. Proceeding will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and to be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines. Example topics include, but are not limited to: Array data (mRNA, exon, CGH, etc.) design and analysis Biomolecular data and networks, phylogeny Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment and search Protein structure, function, sequence analysis Signaling pathways, biochemical networks Genetic sequence analysis, comparison and alignment networks Gene regulation, expression, identification and network DNA, RNA structure, function, sequence analysis Biochemical and cellular simulations and models High-performance computing and parallel rendering Structural, functional and comparative genomics Biomarkers Neuroscience and physiology 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 2010 - Submission of papers through online submission system 30 April 2010 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) and early registration 27 July 2010 - Symposium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/IVbm.htm Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/PAPERS.htm IV 2010 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/ Symposium chairs: Urska Cvek, Sc.D. Computer Science Department Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Email: ucvek (AT) lsus.edu Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Computer Science Department Louisiana State University Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus.edu Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstein (AT) cs.uml.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, 2010. Electronic submissions (PDF) are preferred and should be formatted according to the instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/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 25 GBP 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.

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2nd CFP: ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (SOFTVIS'10) - Call for Papers
by Carsten Görg 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

We apologize if you receive this message more than once! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ACM/IEEE 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 (pending). 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 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, Växjö 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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