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VizSec 2008 Call for Papers
by John Goodall 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

The full and short paper deadline for VizSec has been extended. Proceedings will be published by Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The Keynote speaker at VizSec will be Ben Shneiderman, speaking on the topic Information Forensics: Harnessing visualization to support discovery. VizSEC 2008 Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security http://vizsec.org/workshop2008/ September 15, 2008 / Cambridge, MA USA In conjunction with RAID 2008 The 5th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security will provide a forum for new research in visualization for computer security. We are pleased to be holding this year's meeting in conjunction with the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection. The VizSec Workshop will be held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Monday, September 15, 2008. The Keynote this year will be given by Ben Shneiderman on the topic Information Forensics: Harnessing visualization to support discovery As a result of previous VizSec workshops, we have seen both the application of existing visualization techniques to security problems and the development of novel security visualization approaches. However, VizSec research has focused on helping human analysts to detect anomalies and patterns, particularly in computer network defense. Other communities, led by researchers from the RAID Symposia, have researched automated methods for detecting anomalies and malicious activity. The theme for this year's workshop, which will be held in conjunction with RAID 2008, will be on bridging the gap between visualization and automation, such as leveraging the power of visualization to create rules for intrusion detection and defense systems. We encourage VizSec participants to stay for the RAID Symposium and RAID participants to come a day early to participate in VizSec. There will be a discount for joint registration. We also solicit papers that report results on visualization techniques and systems in solving all aspects of cyber security problems, including: * Visualization of Internet routing * Visualization of packet traces and network flows * Visualization of intrusion detection alerts * Visualization of attack tracks * Visualization of security vulnerabilities * Visualization of attack paths * Visualization of application processes * Visualization for forensic analysis * Visualization for correlating events * Visualization for computer network defense training * Visualization for offensive information operations * Visualization for building rules * Visualization for feature selection * Visualization for detecting anomalous activity * Deployment and field testing of VizSec systems * Evaluation and user testing of VizSec systems * User and design requirements for VizSec systems * Lessons learned from development and deployment of VizSec systems All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Full and short papers will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in the VizSec 2008 Proceedings. Poster and Demo abstracts will be made available on the VizSec web site. Submissions should list all authors and their affiliations; in case of multiple authors, the contact author must be indicated (anonymized submissions are not required). For accepted papers, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. Submissions must be in PDF format. All submissions should include an abstract, keywords, references, and high resolution, color images. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to a journal or to any other conference or workshop with proceedings. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. VizSec, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of the program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. Further questions on the submission process may be sent to the program chair. Deadlines April 21, 2008 : Deadline for full paper submission May 19, 2008 : Deadline for short paper submissions July 18, 2008 : Deadline for poster and demo abstracts Full Papers Full papers should present mature research results. Accepted papers will be presented and included in the VizSec 2008 proceedings. Papers must include an abstract and a list of keywords and can be up to 18 pages in total length, including the bibliography and appendices. Short Papers Short papers can be used to present less mature research results than full papers, or late-breaking results. Accepted short papers will be presented and included in the VizSec 2008 proceedings. Short papers must include an abstract and a list of keywords and can be up to 8 pages in total length, including the bibliography and appendices. Posters Posters can be used to describe work in progress or updates to previously published VizSec research or R&D. Poster submissions should consist of a 2 page abstract. Poster will be presented at the VizSec/RAID reception. Abstracts will be made available on the web site. Demos Demonstrations can be used to show new or updated development efforts. Demo submissions should consist of a 2 page abstract. Demonstrations will take place at the VizSec/RAID reception. (You will need to bring a laptop for demos.) Abstracts will be made available on the web site. Formatting Instructions All accepted, camera-ready manuscripts must be submitted using the LaTeX2e (strongly preferred) or Word templates provided by Springer for LNCS 'Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes.' http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Submission Instructions Please submit PDF papers using the EasyChair workshop site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizSEC08 VizSec 2008 is sponsored by: NSA's National Information Assurance Research Laboratory (NIARL) Microsoft CA Labs Applied Visions http://vizsec.org/workshop2008/ -- john goodall, phd . JohnG(a)SecureDecisions.avi.com 518.248.8195 (mobile) . 631.754.4920 (office) Secure Decisions division of Applied Visions Inc. http://securedecisions.com . http://vizsec.org

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vizNET 2008: Call for videos and posters
by John O'Brien 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques 7th - 9th May 2008, Loughborough University, UK Flyer: http://www.viznet.ac.uk/files/viznet2008_flyer.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vizNET 2008 conference aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities. Visualization is no longer a tool just for scientists and engineers - increasingly the arts and humanities communities are making greater use of visualization techniques in their activities. There is a great deal that the science, engineering, arts and humanities communities can learn from each other. The scope of the event covers a wide range of visualization topics that are applicable for novice, novice-advanced, and expert visualization users. This will be an important opportunity to present and hear about the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas, as well as their applications. The full event will include 2 day introductory workshop on visualization (for novice and novice-advanced visualization users) followed by a third day of expert visualization users. Registration is now open online at http://www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2008 Call for Posters and Videos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Delegates are invited to submit an A1 poster of their work. There will be tables available to demonstrate the work described by the poster during the event. A prize will be awarded for the best poster. Delegates are also invited to submit a short (3 minute) video clip of their work. The video clips will be included in one of the early presentation sessions, giving participants a chance to show off new visualization techniques. Full details on the submission process are available from the vizNET website (http://www.viznet.ac.uk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Visual Analytics Evaluation - SPECIAL ISSUE + other activities
by Plaisant, Catherine 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

4 activities of interest related to the VISUAL ANALYTICS EVALUATION 1) CALL FOR PAPERS - Computer Graphics and Applications SPECIAL ISSUE (see details below) SUBMIT by September 12th. 2) NEW RESOURCE on Visual Analytics Evaluation: SEMVAST http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/semvast/ JOIN our mailing list, CHECK our wiki listing workshops (e.g. Beliv'08) and other activities 3) VAST CHALLENGE 2008 announced as a participation category of the VisWeek 08 and the VAST symposium http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge08/ now with mini-challenges. PARTICIPATE, TEST your tools! 4) PAPER summurizing the findings of the VAST 2007 contest just appeared in March issue of CG&A http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_cga/cga/homepage/2008/cg20080200 12.pdf Read about the benefits of the contest to participants and our community Catherine Plaisant HCIL, University of Maryland Special Issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) on Visual Analytics Evaluation 1st Call for Papers Guest Editors: Catherine Plaisant, Georges Grinstein and Jean Scholtz Submissions Due: September 12, 2008 Author Notification: December 15, 2009 Final Versions Due: January 30, 2009 Publication: May/June 2009 Issue of IEEE CG&A Visual analytics (VA) is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Assessing the effectiveness of visual analytics technology is challenging because VA tools often combine several disparate components, both low and high level, integrated in complex interactive systems used by analysts. These components include analytical reasoning, visual representations, computer human interactions, data representations and algorithms, tools for collaboration and especially for communicating the results of their usage. Users' activities can be exploratory and can take place over days, weeks or months. Users may not follow a predefined or even linear work flow. Users may work alone or in groups. To understand these complex behaviors, evaluation efforts can be targeted at the component level, the system level, and the work environment level, and require realistic data and tasks. Traditional evaluation metrics such as task time completion, number of errors, or recall and precision are insufficient to quantify the utility of visual analytics tools, and new research is needed to improve our visual analytics evaluation methodology. We invite submissions in all areas related to the Evaluation of Visual Analytics. Topics include, but are not limited to * Evaluation metrics and tools * Insight characterization and measures * Benchmark task and data set development * Methodology of longitudinal case studies * Characterization of the challenges of VA evaluation * Survey of existing VA evaluation methodologies * Lessons learned from specific evaluation activities * Automation of evaluation * Synthetic data set generation and usage Articles should be no more than 10 magazine pages, where a page is 750 words and an image counts as 200 words. Citations should consist of the 12 most relevant references. Background can be provided for non-expert readers in sidebars. Color images can be interspersed through the article and should be limited to a total of 10. Visit CG&A style and length guidelines at http://www.computer.org/cga/author.html. Please submit your paper using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your paper, please select the appropriate special issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors and coauthors in the submission. If you have any questions about submitting your article, please contact Manuscript Assistant Alkenia Winston at cga-ma(a)computer.org. Please direct any correspondence prior to submission the guest editors: Email: plaisant(a)cs.umd.edu; grinstein(a)cs.uml.edu; jean.scholtz(a)pnl.gov Phone: (301) 405-2768 - Catherine Plaisant Phone: (978) 934-3627 - Georges Grinstein

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CFP: International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBi)
by stefano foresti 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

************************************************************************************* International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBi) ******************http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/IVbm.htm************************ 9 July, 2008 LONDON * ENGLAND ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper deadline: March 15, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and Participation Proceedings will be published by IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY We are soliciting original papers in the area of information visualization applied to biomedical and biomolecular data, including genomic and proteomic data. One of the great challenges is the presentation of and interaction with large and complex data sets. The need for integrated methods and creative strategies has provided an opportunity for novel solutions. We encourage the submission of new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys. Examples of application topics include, but are not limited to Microarray data, design and analysis Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment Sequence analysis, comparison and alignment networks Evolutionary phylogenetic trees Gene expression and gene discovery Signaling pathways, biochemical networks Biochemical and cellular simulations and models Mass spectrometry data analysis Heterogeneous medical data sources Neuroscience and physiology Patient records etc. Examples of visualization topics include Interactions with large data sets Annotation and labeling Linking literature and semantics in pathway visualizations Systems-level analysis of experimental data 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: 15 March 2008 - Submission of papers online submission system < https://www.conftool.net/IV08/> 21 April 2008 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) 9 July 2008 - Symposium ============================================ Symposium URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/IVbm.htm Organized with IV 2008: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/ OR to the symposium chairs: Georges Grinstein, Ph.D. Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: grinstei AT cs.uml.edu 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

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APGV 08 - call for papers
by Bernhard Riecke 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

--------------------------------------------------------------------- APGV 08: FIFTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION Co-located with ACM Siggraph in Los Angeles, USA 9th - 10th August, 2008 http://www.apgv.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception. Since 2004, this symposium has brought together researchers from the fields of perception, graphics, and visualization, to facilitate a wider exchange of ideas. Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the intersection of computer graphics, visualization, and perception to fulfill two goals of this multidisciplinary community. Goal 1. Use insights from perception to advance the design of methods for visual, auditory and haptic representation. Specific examples include, but are not limited to: * applications of insights from perception to the development of algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling, rendering and/or animation * applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods for more effective representation and communication of data * computational aesthetics, stylization and perceptual aspects of non-photorealistic rendering * perceptual issues arising due to fusion of digital imaging, computer vision, and computer graphics techniques * perception-inspired interfaces for immersive activities in virtual worlds Goal 2. Advance and facilitate novel basic perception and cognition research that uses and is relevant to applications in computer graphics and visualization. Here specific examples include, but are not limited to: * perception and visuomotor control in computer games, virtual and augmented environments * fundamental contributions in spatial and temporal vision * integration of empirical perception research with computational models * color vision and color appearance modeling * the influence of attention and eye movements on visual perception and visual memory * statistical learning and perception of natural scenes * perception of shapes, surfaces and materials * visual illusions and perceptual organization having potential to enhance image depiction Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be published by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be invited to be extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. http://www.acm.org/tap/ By co-locating APGV 08 with the thirty-fifth annual SIGGRAPH Conference (SIGGRAPH 08), we aim to further promote communication between the core perception and the core computer graphics communities, and also bring APGV back to the United States. CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------------- Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University Betty Mohler, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics PROGRAM CHAIRS ----------------------- Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah Karol Myszkowski, MPI Informatik IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- Paper Submission: Monday, April 7, 2008 Poster Submission: Monday, May 12, 2008 Symposium: Saturday, August 9, 2008 - Sunday, August 10, 2008

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CFP: Geospatial Visual Analytics @ GIScience 2008
by Andrienko 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Geospatial Visual Analytics Workshop at the GIScince 2008 Conference (Park City, Utah, USA, 23-26 September 2008) and Special Issue of the CaGIS journal (provisional issue Vol.36 No.3, July 2009) The workshop is a follow-up to the successful workshop on “Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support” at the GIScience’2006 conference. The previous workshop attracted about 70 participants. Selected workshop papers, including the "Setting the research agenda" paper, were published as a special issue of IJGIS, v.21(8), 2007. The workshop supported by the Commission on GeoVisualization (http://geoanalytics.net/ica) of the International Cartographic Association aims at bringing together researchers from relevant fields to address research issues of geospatial visual analytics in the multidisciplinary context of GI Science. A big part of data that the modern society deals with has both spatial and temporal characteristics. Visualisation of spatial and temporal data traditionally belongs to the research area known as geographic visualisation, or geovisualisation. Geovisual Analytics (short for Geospatial Visual Analytics) extends geovisualisation research by enhancing purely visual and interactive methods with new possibilities provided by computational techniques such as data mining, statistics, and optimisation. Potential enhancements come also from developing methods to support analytical reasoning, argumentation, knowledge building, and knowledge communication. The frontier research problems in Geovisual Analytics involve the scalability of tools and their usability. The goal of the workshop is to present the most advanced methods and applications of geovisual analytics, discuss problems and possible approaches to solving them, and define appropriate directions for further research. Major scientific topics to be addressed: - scalability - how to make visualisation suitable for huge data sets (e.g. with the help of database technologies and data mining); - usability – how to fit the tools to the needs, abilities and conditions of different categories of users (for example, domain experts vs. decision makers); - effectiveness - how to ensure the effectiveness of visual analytics tools and how to test and prove it; - innovative visually driven methods of data analysis addressing the problems of scalability, usability, and effectiveness. Challenging applications of geovisual analytics: - decision support: * generation, evaluation and comparison of alternatives, * accounting for uncertainty of decision recommendations, * explanation, justification, and communication of results; - education: enhancing learning and knowledge transfer; - scientific research: acquiring new knowledge; - collaboration: supporting communication, cooperative problem solving and knowledge construction. Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or application reports in English. The authors are requested to stress the multidisciplinary character of their approaches and their relevance to the theme of the workshop. We encourage submissions presenting early stages of cutting-edge research and development, as well as submissions from PhD students. Organizers and Guest Editors: Gennady and Natalia Andrienko, Piotr Jankowski, Menno-Jan Kraak ICA Commission on GeoVisualization, http://geoanalytics.net/ica Submission and selection procedure: - March 3, 2008 - CFP announced - June 1, 2008 - Authors should submit extended abstracts. Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome. The Program Committee will review the submitted extended abstracts and evaluate them according to the following criteria: relevance to call; soundness of methodological approach; degree of novelty & innovation; progress demonstrated; potential impact; potential interest to the GeoVisualization and Visual Analytics communities. - June 30, 2008 - Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors. Accepted extended abstracts will be published online at the workshop web site. - September 23, 2008 - workshop at GIScience 2008 - November 28, 2008 - Full papers for the special issue are submitted - January 30, 2009 - Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue. - February 28, 2009 - Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer’s comments. - July 2009 - Post-workshop special issue of CaGIS Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko: gennady dot andrienko at iais dot fraunhofer dot de Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVisualAnalytics08 ____________________________________________________________

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CFP: GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change
by Gennady Andrienko 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Call for papers: GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change Workshop at the AGILE 2008 Conference (Girona, Spain, May 2008) and Special Issue of the Information Visualization journal (provisional issue Vol.7 No.3) The theme for the workshop and this special issue of Information Visualization is the use of GeoVisualization and GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing the visualization methods supported by and integrated with data mining and other computational processing. 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 - knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes - application of innovative visualization methods to real-life problems Organizers and Guest Editors: Gennady and Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Sara Fabrikant and Monica Wachowicz ICA Commission on GeoVisualization, http://geoanalytics.net/ica Paper submission and selection procedure: - 15th of November, 2007 - CFP announced - 20th of January, 2008 - Authors should submit abstracts. Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome. Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the abstract into a full paper for the special issue. - 15th of February, 2008 - Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors. - 31st of March, 2008 - Full papers for the special issue are submitted - 5th of May 2008, Girona, Spain - authors of submitted papers present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion - 18th of May, 2008 - Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue. - 29th of June, 2008 - Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer’s comments. Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko: gennady dot andrienko at iais dot fraunhofer dot de Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVis08 ____________________________________________________________

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Call for Participation: Socially Induced Web Navigation Survey (IRB study #07-12006)
by Justin Donaldson 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Please support the GiveALink project ( http://givealink.org/) by participating in a brief online user study that will help us develop improved interfaces for Web search and navigation. The study is completely anonymous and will take at most thirty minutes of your time --- but you can help a lot even in a few minutes. Socially Induced Web Navigation Survey (IRB study #07-12006) We invite volunteers to participate in an experiment to evaluate Web exploration methods. Volunteers will use any computer to browse through a number of Web pages on predefined topics, using particular interfaces in an open-ended manner, and providing feedback on information they find. *If you wish to participate in this study, please visit the experiment page by clicking on the link below, where you will find an informed consent form:* http://www.givealink.org/cgi-pub/social_nav_study/consent.cgi (or http://tinyurl.com/346grk ) Thank you in advance for your participation and support! Justin Donaldson (PI), Dept. of Informatics, Indiana University Ben Markines (Co-Investigator), Dept. of Computer Science, Indiana University Heather Roinestad (Co-Investigator), Dept. of Computer Science, Indiana University Mike Conover (Co-Investigator), Dept. of Informatics, Indiana University Filippo Menczer (Sponsor), School of Informatics, Indiana University PS: *Please feel free to forward this invitation to any other list or person who may be interested in the experiment.* -- Justin Donaldson PhD Candidate, Informatics Indiana University Department of Human Computer Interaction Eigenmann Hall 1900 E.10th Street, Room 931 Bloomington, IN 47406

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Research and Teaching Position (Danube University Krems)
by Silvia Miksch (asgaard) 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Research and Teaching Position (Danube University Krems) ======================================================= The Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering (www.donau-uni.ac.at/ike) at Danube University Krems (Austria, www.donau-uni.ac.at) is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate for the research project VisuExplore (full-time position; 3 years) in the fields of Information Visualization, Visual Data Analysis, Interaction Design, or Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The aim of VisuExplore is to design and develop interactive visual representations and exploration methods of time-oriented, medical data and information to gain new insights and ease the exploration process for the medical staff (mainly physicians). Main tasks You will * perform research in the fields of Information Visualization, Visual Data Analysis, Interaction Design, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) * design and write scientific publications * participate in writing research proposals * participate in scientific and consulting projects * Work within a creative, highly motivated, and international team Conditions of admission: required education/skill set You * are a university graduate (at the diploma, master of science, or PhD level) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent University study * should have background and knowledge in one or more of the following fields - Information Visualization - Visual Data Analysis - Interaction Design - Graphical User Interface Design - Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or the willingness to quickly become acquainted with research explained above * are interested in medical applications * are interested and enjoy scientific working * like to work as an independent and flexible researcher * have abilities to work in interdisciplinary teams * are fluent in the English language and eager to communicate your work both orally and in written form * should possess knowledge of the German language Closing date for applications: November 26, 2007 The full-time position will be filled earliest at February 1, 2008 (starting of the project financing). Send your applications (with the usual application documents including a statement of interest, full CV - list of subjects taken at university plus grades, publications, etc.) to: Personalabteilung der Donau Universitaet Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 A-3500 Krems, Austria or in an email to astrid.adam(a)donau-uni.ac.at We encourage sending your application in electronic form. The Danube University Krems aims for enhancing the number of women in scientific positions and therefore, particularly invites women to apply. Applicants are not entitled to claim reimbursement of traveling expenses and/or other costs caused by the application procedures. If you have any more questions, please contact univ.prof. SILVIA MIKSCH, ph.d danube university krems department of information and knowledge engineering (ike) dr.-karl-dorrek-strasse 30, A-3500 krems, austria T: +43 (0) 2732-893-2451 (2450) ::: F: +43 (0) 2732-893-4450 silvia.miksch(a)donau-uni.ac.at http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/ike ==== Background: University and Department ==== Danube University Krems (www.donau-uni.ac.at) is a State University that is specialized in postgraduate academic studies and offers selected programs in the fields of economics and management, communications, IT and media, medicine and health, law, European integration and public administration, educational and cultural sciences, as well as of building and environment. Being a European model project, Danube University Krems combines high quality in education, research and consulting with excellent customer orientation and service. More than 3,700 students from 50 countries are enrolled in over 150 academic programs. The Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering (ike; www.donau-uni.ac.at/ike) is concerned with computer-tools, methods, and concepts which support humans in dealing with complex information spaces. One of the main interests of ike is to make complex information structures more comprehensible, facilitate new insights, and enable knowledge discovery. As a matter of fact, the research topics ike focuses on are (1) information visualization and visual analytics, and (2) plan management. Data and information are a broad field we focus particularly on the temporal dimension and study time-oriented data and information. ====

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CFP - Special Session on Visualization and Collaboration -- CTS 2008
by Tim Jacobs 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

The 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008) CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Visualization and Collaboration May 19-23, 2008 The Hyatt Regency Irvine Irvine, California, USA Submission Deadline: January 7, 2008 Brief Description: In many collaborative situations, multiple distributed users simultaneously interact with and analyze complex information while sharing their results with others. It is through such collaboration that multiple users bring their expertise to bear on a particular problem to analyze incomplete information and reach collaborative decisions. Such collaboration is far more effective when users collaborate by interacting with meaningful visualizations that accurately depict shared information. Visualizations must present information in a manner that is easily understood by individuals with different expertise and perspectives on the problem at hand. Users must be able to interact with the visualization to highlight or manipulate information in a natural way that is readily observed by other participants. This special session on Visualization and Collaboration - to be held as part of the 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'08) - will focus on visualization and its role in collaboration. The objective is to highlight key issues and solutions for interactive visualization in a collaborative environment. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging visualization specialty. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): o Collaborative visualization architectures, technologies, or algorithms o Visualization for managing collaborative environments o Unique challenges in collaborative visualization o Collaborative visualization solutions or applications o Web-based collaborative visualization o Visualization in collaborative decision making and support Instructions for Authors: Authors are invited to submit original papers to the special session organizer by January 7, 2008. Electronic (pdf) submissions are encouraged and should be sent to tjacobs(a)stanfieldsystems.com. For other review electronic formats, please check with the organizer. Papers submitted for review should not exceed 10 pages in IEEE single-spaced, double-column format. Include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 350 words. Submissions should also include the title, authors name, affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence should also be included. If accepted, the final manuscript will follow the CTS 2008 format that is available on the conference Web site at http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/. Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, once accepted. All accepted papers are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. Special Session Organizer: Timothy M. Jacobs Stanfield Systems, Inc. 718 Sutter Street, Suite 108 Folsom, CA 95630 Voice: (916) 608-8006 Fax: (916) 608-0657 Email: tjacobs(a)stanfieldsystems.com Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline January 7, 2008 Notification of Acceptance February 8, 2008 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due March 3, 2008 For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill McQuay at AFRL/IFSD, WPAFB (William.McQuay(a)wpafb.af.mil) or Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari(a)notes.udayton.edu)

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