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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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Extended deadline (28th Jan) for call for chapter proposals for CSE Handbook
by Jo Leng 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

The *Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline* is *extended* to the *28th of January 2010*. We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the contribution of chapters to the *“Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”*. This is a short call suggesting some possible topics. You are, however, not limited to these topics. Please feel free to propose any topics that you think are critical issues in the theme. A full call is at http://www.cse-book.com/call/index.html Please forward this call to colleagues and those with an interest in CSE. *--------------- RECOMMENDED TOPICS:* Contributions are invited from experts in CSE who have specialist knowledge of numerical methods, hpc, visualization, developing/using domain specific applications, project management, policy making, security, education and the sociological issues to do with its adoption, organisation, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary nature. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: -- *Hardware trends:* trends in computer architecture, trends in chip architecture, chip architecture and the suitability for particular problem types, IO trends and the affect on the IO bottleneck, optimisation of architecture for particular problem types -- *Numerical methods:* the use and development of numerical methods for particular applications, optimisation for interactivity (levels of detail), evaluation of numerically based software, porting numerical software -- *Programming paradigms:* new languages, changing demands for languages -- *Visualization:* review the state of the art of well known application areas, new applications to visualization, design and development, user assessment, collaborative environments, computational steering, visualization in interactive physics (simulation as a part of virtual reality and games) -- *Software development tools and practices:* review of the tools available for parallel code development and optimisation (challenges and open-source options) , review of CASE tools for serial code development (challenges and open-source options), “best practice,” the importance of standards and accreditation -- *Case studies:* state of the art applications, new applications to CSE, moving from serial to parallel, evaluation including comparing real results to computational results, computation in design, prototype engineering, the use of visualization, the use of collaborative working environments, eScience (CSE delivered through the GRID and/or Web) -- *Organisational and sociological issues: *communicating science to the public, security (both computer and socially), multi-disciplinary and/or international practices in collaborative code development , multi-disciplinary and/or international issues in the evaluation of results and allocation of success to each party, exploration of the sociological factors affecting multi-disciplinary collaboration, technology transfer of the CSE method, technology transfer of computational (numerical) methods across disciplines that use CSE, technology transfer of visualization across disciplines that use CSE, opportunities for training and skill development *--------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: * Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *January 28, 2010,* a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Details on how to submit are given at *http://www.cse-book.com/submission/index.html*. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *February 7, 2010* and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *August 15, 2010*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at editor(a)cse-book.com.

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GeoVA(T) - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time (new deadline: 28/01/2010)
by Andrienko 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

********* New deadline ***************** * * * Thursday, the 28th of January, 2010 * * * **************************************** ________________________________________________________________________ Dear colleagues, For the forthcoming workshop GeoVA(T): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time we are pleased to announce the keynote talk Title: Space and Time: Research Opportunities in Two Critical Foundations of Visual Analytics by Jim Thomas AAAS, PNNL Fellow Senior Science Advisor National Visualization and Analytics Center, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory President and CEO DiscoverVisualAnalytics LLC Short Bio Jim Thomas is American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow and Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with over 35 years of experience. He is founder and past Director of a Department of Homeland Security National Visualization and Analytics Center and the science of visual analytics. He is considered the father for visual analytics and specializes in the research, design, and implementation of innovative information and analytic visualization, multimedia, and human computer interaction technology; however, he has a broad working knowledge of information technology. Some of the recent technologies developed have set a new stage for the visualization of masses of multimedia information sources with several publications, patents, digital media with recent publications being widely referenced and re-printed. He received the Christopher Columbus award for science innovation supporting homeland security in the US Capital Oct 13, 2009. Jim has led teams in text, numerical, image and video, temporal and geospatial analysis for massive information spaces. He has received several international science awards including "Top 100 Scientific Innovators" (Science Digest) and twice the Research and Development's Industrial Research 100 Significant Scientific and Industry Accomplishments "Top 100 Innovators in Science and Industry". In addition, twice he was awarded the Federal Laboratories Consortium Technology Transfer Award for innovation in transferring research technology to industry and universities. Best regards, Gennady, on behalf of the workshop organizers P.S. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (up to 4-pages PDF, IEEE VisWeek style) is January 28, 2010 Workshop Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 Conference management system: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVAT2010/ ____________________________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and ____________________________________________________________ ---------------------- Call for papers ------------------------------- GeoVA(T): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 Workshop at AGILE http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt/ , 11 May 2010, and special issue of IJGIS - Int J GIScience http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/13658816.html tentative publication date: September 2010 The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on - Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference, - Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008, - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008. Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers, were published as special issues of - IJGIS, 2007, v.21(8), 2007 - Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4) - CaGIS, 2009, v.36 (3) The theme for the workshop and this special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing methods. The workshop will provide participants with the possibility to present ongoing and developing work without committing to a full journal paper. The journal special issue will provide participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in a refereed journal. Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive analysis of large data sets representing: - individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces - dynamics of geo-localised sensor data - spatio-temporal events - remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal - large high-dimensional data sets in space and time - streams of spatio-temporal data as well as - models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics - knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes - application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems Organizers and Guest Editors: ----------------------------- Gennady and Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Menno-Jan Kraak, and Heidrun Schumann ICA Commission on GeoVisualization, http://geoanalytics.net/ica Supported by: ------------- - VisMaster - Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (FET-Open Coordination Action) http://www.vismaster.eu - SPP VA - Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis Systems of Complex Information Spaces (DFG Priority Research Program) http://www.visualanalytics.de/ - MODAP - Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (FET-Open Coordination Action) http://www.modap.org - MOVE - Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (COST-Action IC0903) http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=177&action_number=IC0903 Paper submission and selection procedure: ----------------------------------------- - January 28, 2010 - submission of extended abstracts. Authors should submit extended abstracts (PDF, up to 4 pages in IEEE VisWeek format, see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html for formatting details) via the conference management system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVAT2010/ AND send a message to GeoVA2010 at geoanalytics dot net. Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome, they should be included to the PDF. Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the abstract into a full paper for the special issue - February 15, 2010 - Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors - April 16, 2010 - Full papers for the special issue are submitted - May 11, 2010, Guimaraes, Portugal - authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion - May 25, 2010 - Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue - June 25, 2010 - Deadline for submitting revised papers and responding to reviewer’s comments - July 12, 2010 - final notifications - September 2010 (tentative) - special issue published Please send all inquiries to Dr. Gennady Andrienko at GeoVA2010(a)geoanalytics.net Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010 Conference management system: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVAT2010/ ________________________________________________________________________

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Extended deadline (21st Jan) for call for chapter proposals for CSE Handbook
by Jo Leng 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

The *Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline* has been *extended* to the *28th of January 2010*. We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the contribution of chapters to the *“Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”*. The following outline identifies objectives for this manuscript collection, as well as suggestion of some possible topics on which you may wish to contribute. You are, however, not limited to these topics. Please feel free to propose any topics that you think are critical issues in the theme. Please forward this call to colleagues and those with an interest in CSE. *--------------- INTRODUCTION:* CSE is an emerging, rapidly developing, and potentially very significant force in changing scientific practice by offering a ‘third way’ of carrying out research in addition to, or indeed, instead of, theory and experiment. This handbook will provide a basic reference text for the fundamental elements making up CSE and showing their interdependence in a way that (a) reviews state of the art and current achievements; (b) explores imminent developments that will advance the state of play; and (c) presents these in a form accessible to as wide an audience of interested parties as possible. Since this handbook is produced in a time of transition, it will invite key figures to evaluate the state of play in their specialist areas and to identify main lines of future development, attempting to survey the critical elements in CSE, ranging from fundamental technological developments, through pioneering applications of computational sciences to the impact on the organisational infrastructure of scientific research, particularly with respect to the level and integration of the multiple resources and competences involved in a way that alerts readers to the hurdles facing further development of computational science in their discipline, as well its advantages. Over time the techniques used in CSE have broadened as more academic disciplines use computers as research tools. While social scientists are still not great users of academic HPC services or CSE, there is an adoption pathway from the natural sciences through the humanities to the social sciences and arts in the western world via central government’s funding for the development of eScience. Equally, there is an adoption pathway from the developed world to the developing world. In a world of globalised Internet access amongst researchers, CSE is, from the beginning, a means of inter- and multi-national research collaboration. Equally, by its very nature, CSE involves interdisciplinary collaboration in order to produce meaningful results, often between computational specialists and different scientific disciplines. *--------------- OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK: * This handbook is timely, since the development of computing and its application in the sciences are undergoing paradigm shifts and CSE is achieving takeoff. Until the present, however, much of the discussion about and understanding of CSE has been confined to high performance computing (HPC) and its concern with disseminating the use of the latest developments in computer hardware; but the situation is changing and there is a need to familiarise a much wider audience with a much wider range of issues in CSE which can be done through the handbook’s twinned emphasis on theory and practice. The handbook aims at a comprehensive and organised survey of the state of research in CSE. The chapters should be designed to report on advanced developments, but, as this is such a cross-disciplinary field, the contributors are not expected to be writing exclusively to people within their own specialisms, so whilst one reader can usefully consult the book for up-to-date work in their own specialism, it is important that readers outside that specialism can also access its contents as a means of understanding the topography of computational science and guiding the reader to sources of more advanced understandings. Each chapter should clearly focus on the research role of computational science, but be framed into the context of the book, which is meant to capture the architecture of computational science. In this way, the handbook will discuss the field of computational science rather than the research outputs of the various disciplines that currently use the methodology which are diffuse, reported separately, and largely not read by those interested in the general field. *--------------- TARGET AUDIENCE: * This handbook is designed to act as an information source for those largely unfamiliar with the nature and potential of computational science or those involved in the low-end who wish to up their game. It aims to be of use to research decision makers as well as to scientific researchers, making them aware of the nature and range of developments now under way, allowing the reader to understand long term implications of early technology choices that may later create problems that will be difficult to rectify. It will also act to familiarise those in computational disciplines with the ways in which their skills and interests interface with scientific work, enabling research beginners to understand what computational resources and technologies can be applied in their field, and how these are currently being exploited in cutting edge work. Equally, it alerts research scientists to the priorities and concerns of computational specialists. Although many key developments are now concentrated in the most advanced industrial economies such as the U.S. and Europe, the handbook will reflect the extent to which CSE and eScience are an increasingly globalised and globalising activity. *--------------- RECOMMENDED TOPICS:* Contributions are invited from experts in CSE who have specialist knowledge of numerical methods, high performance computing, visualization, developing/using domain specific applications, project management, policy making, security, education and the sociological issues to do with its adoption, organisation, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary nature. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: -- *Hardware trends:* trends in computer architecture, trends in chip architecture, chip architecture and the suitability for particular problem types, IO trends and the affect on the IO bottleneck, optimisation of architecture for particular problem types -- *Numerical methods:* the use and development of numerical methods for particular applications, optimisation for interactivity (levels of detail), evaluation of numerically based software, porting numerical software -- *Programming paradigms:* new languages, changing demands for languages -- *Visualization:* review the state of the art of well known application areas, new applications to visualization, design and development, user assessment, collaborative environments, computational steering, visualization in interactive physics (simulation as a part of virtual reality and games) -- *Software development tools and practices:* review of the tools available for parallel code development and optimisation (challenges and open-source options) , review of CASE tools for serial code development (challenges and open-source options), “best practice,” the importance of standards and accreditation -- *Case studies:* state of the art applications, new applications to CSE, moving from serial to parallel, evaluation including comparing real results to computational results, computation in design, prototype engineering, the use of visualization, the use of collaborative working environments, eScience (CSE delivered through the GRID and/or Web) -- *Organisational and sociological issues: *security (both computer based and socially based), multi-disciplinary and/or international practices in collaborative code development , multi-disciplinary and/or international issues in the evaluation of results and allocation of success to each party, exploration of the sociological factors affecting multi-disciplinary collaboration, technology transfer of the CSE method, technology transfer of computational (numerical) methods across disciplines that use CSE, technology transfer of visualization across disciplines that use CSE, opportunities for training and skill development The book is directed at both the academic and non-academic audience including researchers, users, organisations, policy initiators, students and practitioners in the field, meaning that chapters should address advanced issues, but should attempt to do this in a manner accessible to non-specialists. *--------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: * Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *January 28, 2010,* a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. The web site *http://www.cse-book.com/* is dedicated to the development of this handbook and submissions will be received through this site. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *February 7, 2010* about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *August 15, 2010*. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at editor(a)cse-book.com. *--------------- PUBLISHER: * This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com <http://www.igi-global.com/>. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010. *--------------- IMPORTANT DATES: * January 7, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline January 28, 2010: Extended Proposal Submission Deadline February 7, 2010: Notification of Acceptance April 30, 2010: Full Chapter Submission July 15, 2010: Review Result Returned August 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission September 15, 2010: Final deadline

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FW: Special Issue on Multimedia Analytics!
by Ribarsky, William 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Please post the following announcement right away; it is time sensitive. Thanks. Bill Ribarsky ++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW DEADLINE IS JANUARY 27. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! Call for Papers Special Issue on Multimedia Analytics IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Submission deadline: 27 Jan. 2010 Target publication date: Sep./Oct. 2010 Multimedia make up 95 percent of the digital universe, and the percentage is growing. Most of these media are unstructured or, at best, semistructured, so it's hard to retrieve, analyze, and understand their content. Multimedia are now the main components of online news, blogs, medical imagery, general picture databases, scientific data, patient or health records, and many other types of digital collections. This special issue will focus on current tools and research in this very challenging and important area. Work on video analytics, either by itself or as part of multimedia analysis, is of special interest as are exploratory interactive visualization methods. Possible topics include, but aren't limited to, · user interfaces for multimedia analysis that optimize cognition; · tools for exploring multimedia collections; · applications that categorize multimedia based on content; · capabilities to fuse multimedia content into one conceptual space; · annotation schema for multimedia analysis; · automated or social methods of annotating multimedia for improved retrieval; · image, speech, soundtrack, and text processing that supports analysis of large multimedia collections; · methods for handling real-time or streaming multimedia; · methodologies for determining originator, message, and audience impacts of multimedia; and · applications that support reporting multimedia analysis results in a multimedia format. A workshop on video analytics that was held at IEEE VisWeek 2009 (http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2009) provides context for the importance of multimedia analytics and for some of these topics. We expect that a report on the outcomes of the workshop will appear in this issue of CG&A or in an issue around this time. Articles should be no more than 8,000 words, with each figure counting as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to a total of 10. You can find CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html. Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer-review coordinator at cga-ma(a)computer.org. Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors: Nancy Chinchor, nancyc(a)rccb.osis.gov; William Ribarsky, ribarsky(a)uncc.edu; and Michael Christel, christel(a)cs.cmu.edu ----------- Dr. William Ribarsky Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology Chair, Computer Science Department Director, Charlotte Visualization Center College of Computing and Informatics University of North Carolina at Charlotte www.viscenter.uncc.edu

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Post-doc position
by Guy Melançon 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a post-doc position on interactive visualization of dynamic graphs through multilevel representations. The selected candidate is expected to look at a number of issues posed by the interactive visualization of dynamic graphs, within the context of semantic graphs visualization. The problem of graph clustering is challenged and the idea of a just-in-time strategy requires to have a closer look at how neighborhoods are defined/computed for dynamic graphs. For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon at inria.fr or go to GRAVITÉ's website http://gravite.labri.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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