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posting for Infovis Digest - new release of XmdvTool
by Matthew Ward 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

For distribution on Infovis Digest: Announcing the release of XmdvTool 7.0 XmdvTool, a software package for visual exploration and analysis of multivariate data sets, has been in the public domain since 1994. This cross-platform tool supports many of the most common methods for displaying multivariate datasets, and via clustering of both records and dimensions, is scalable to millions of records and thousands of dimensions. Some of the new features of Version 7.0 include: * Visualization using pixel-oriented techniques, including linked brushing between all visualizations, powerful data reordering capabilities, and dimension placement based on multidimensional scaling. * Enhanced handling of nominal data, including using correspondence analysis to do data-driven conversion of nominal to ordinal values. * Automated visual clutter measurement and clutter-based dimension reordering. * Interactive control of dimension binning for dimensional stacking. * Significantly improved rendering speeds in many of the displays. * Support for HDF4 and HDF5 data formats, as well as Oracle databases, Excel spreadsheets, and XmdvTool's native .okc format. XmdvTool runs on both Windows and Unix/Linux platforms. It comes with both executables (for Windows, a self-extracting installer is available) as well as source code and build instructions. Sample datasets and documentation are also available. Visit http://davis.wpi.edu/~xmdv for further details and downloads. Questions regarding XmdvTool can be sent to xmdv(a)cs.wpi.edu Matthew Ward and Elke Rundensteiner Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Extended Deadline 9/17 -Call for Papers - C&G Special Issue on Visual Analytics
by Dr. David S. Ebert 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Call for Contributions EXTENDED DEADLINE: September 17th Computers & Graphics - Special Issue on Visual Analytics - vol. 31, no. 3, June 2007 Visual Analytics has become an increasingly important topic on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The integration of data mining technology and information visualization is evolving into a foundation for dealing with the rapidly growing amounts of data in very different areas. All scenarios share the basic idea to support the capabilities of the human mind by computer systems, which extract and compile information from heterogeneous sources and present them in an appropriate way to the user. At the technological level, achievements in visualization, data processing and analysis from the last two decades have to be integrated into this emerging field of research. The International Journal "Computers & Graphics" has decided to dedicate a special issue to Visual Analytics. Contributions to this issue describing original research are solicited that contribute to the technical challenges posed by Visual Analytics. Thus, topics of interest - within the area of Visual Analytics - include, but are not limited to: - Visual representations and new visual paradigms - Integration with automated analysis, databases, statistics, design, perception, etc. - Knowledge representation and semantics - Data streams, data compression & feature extraction - Scalability in problem size - Data quality and uncertainty - Data provenance - Problem solving, decision science, human analytic discourse - Evaluation methods - User acceptability - Synthesis of problems in applications Papers for this special issue will be chosen from the submissions based on their quality and originality. Papers published previously in conferences should contain significant new material, while including the previous version with the submission. Please submit your manuscript via email to cg-special-issue(a)igd.fraunhofer.de Your email message should include the paper title, author names, contact author address and email, abstract and attached PDF-file. Important dates: ---------------- Email expression of interest: as soon as possible Submission of contribution: September 17th, 2006 (EXTENDED DEADLINE) Notification (accept/reject): October 16th, 2006 Final manuscripts: December 22nd, 2006 Publication: June 2007 Please address all questions and correspondence regarding this special issue to: cg-special-issue(a)igd.fraunhofer.de Guest Editors: -------------- Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz David Ebert, Purdue University J�rn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD

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CFP: APVIS 2007
by Richard Webber 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

============================================ Call for Papers Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation 5-7 February, 2007 Sydney, Australia http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/apvis2007/ ============================================ APVIS2007 is the sixth annual international symposium to be held in the Asia-Pacific region with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualisation researchers and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original and unpublished research and practical applications in all areas of visualisation. The scope of previous APVIS meetings was limited to graph drawing and information visualisation. From this year, APVIS has been expanded to include scientific visualisation. We anticipate an exciting technical program. * Scope Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to: - Theoretic foundations of visualisation - Usability and human-factors - Visual models and representations - Visual knowledge discovery - Visual data mining - Visual analytics - Interaction techniques - Scientific visualisation - Information visualisation - Graph drawing algorithms - Visualisation of large data sets - Visualisation of time-varying data - Visualisation in bioinformatics - Visualisation in social network analysis - Software visualisation - Case studies - Real-world systems * Invited Speaker The keynote address will be given by Jim Thomas, Director of the National Visualization and Analytics Center and Fellow of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. * Important Dates Submission of draft papers 11 September, 2006 Notification of acceptance 3 November, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers 17 November, 2006 Symposium 5-7 February, 2007 * Submission and Publication Submitted papers should be at most 8 pages in length and conform to the formatting conventions of VGTC/IEEE (see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html for details and templates). All papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF format to http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/ConfMan/REG-paper/ Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and the accepted submissions will be included in the official proceedings of the symposium, which will be printed by VGTC/IEEE. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to attend APVIS2007 and present the paper. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to prepare an expanded version of their papers to be included in a special issue of Information Visualization or a scientific visualisation journal as appropriate. * Affiliations - National ICT Australia (sponsor) - Defence Science and Technology Organisation (sponsor) - IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (sponsor, pending) - ACM SIGGRAPH (in-cooperation, pending) * Symposium Chair - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia) * Program Co-chairs - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia) - Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California Davis, USA) * Program Committee - Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz, Germany) - Wei Chen (Zhejiang University, China) - Ed Chi (PARC, USA) - Sara Irina Fabrikant (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA, France) - Issei Fujishiro (Tohoku University, Japan) - John Grundy (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Helwig Hauser (VRVis Research Center, Austria) - Mao Lin Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - T. J. Jankun-Kelly (Mississippi State University, USA) - Hideki Koike (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) - Koji Koyamada (Kyoto University, Japan) - Wei Lai (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) - Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) - Torsten Möller (Simon Fraser University, Canada) - Stephen North (AT&T Research, USA) - Huamin Qu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) - Kozo Sugiyama (JAIST, Japan) - Vincent Tam (University of Hong Kong, China) - Jiro Tanaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, Australia) - Melanie Tory (University of Victoria, Canada) - Rudi Vernik (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia) - Martin Wattenberg (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) - Jarke van Wijk (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Pak Chung Wong (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) - Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) * Local Organising Committee - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia), chair - Xiaoyan Fu (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Barbara Munday (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Richard Webber (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Kai Xu (National ICT Australia Ltd.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. This notice should not be removed.

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Post-doc job offer at INRIA / Bordeaux, France
by Guy Melançon 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting / Forward to all potentially interested colleagues or students ------------------------------ INRIA, the national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). INRIA is offering a 1 year post-doc position in Bordeaux, France in the area of "Interactive and Visual Graph Mining". You can find more information on INRIA's web site www.inria.fr (follow the link Work & Training or go directly to the URL www-futurs.inria.fr/emplois/fiches_post_doc/Fiche_Melancon_Ang.html ). ------------------------------ Post-doc job offer art INRIA / Bordeaux, France Interactive and Visual Graph Mining. Applications to strategic and competitive watch, and to social network analysis. By nature, strategic watch as well as social network analysis (in a wider sense) mix data from various sources. The goal is then to be able to discern relevant signals in massive information in order to anticipate tendencies or events that can be critical to organizations. In these contexts, interactive and visual graph mining is a fruitful approach requiring the development of techniques astutely combining dynamic graphical representations with interactive mining. The project will evolve in collaboration with the members of the Visualization of Massive Data research theme of the MABioVis team at LaBRI (Université Bordeaux I). Its focus will primarily be the study of social networks (close to the on-going ANR project SPANGEO SPAtial Network in GEOgraphy) and strategic watch (ANR RNTL grant proposal). Other application domains include biology and bio-informatics, where various data sources are combined (proteomics, clinical data, bibliographical data) in order to help biologists gain perspective and iteratively refine their research strategies. Mining large and complex graphs to identify sub-communities requires developing ideas emerging from graphical statistics, combinatorial analysis (graphs), classification and clustering, often with the necessity to integrate specific domain knowledge. Interacting on graphical representations (and on the underlying data), and visually detecting structural patterns provide insights that sometimes cannot be captured by classical statistical analysis. When dealing with dynamic data, visually identified components or specific data elements can be put under surveillance to follow their evolution and help diagnose or decide of actions to take. The Bordeaux team develops a software framework (Tulip www.tulip-software.org) for the visualization and manipulation of graphs, capable of dealing with large graphs, and targeted at computing and navigating graph hierarchies. Required skills Skills are required in visual mining (graphical representations and interaction), but also in combinatorics and/or statistics (with an emphasis on clustering/classification). The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and have clearly shown her/his abilities to conduct research at an international level. Techniques developed within the team are naturally experimented with Tulip before going into future releases. We seek persons having programming experience, to compute and/or experiment with graphs, and also to acquire and/or extract data. For more information, contact: GUY MELANÇON (Guy.Melancon(a)lirmm.fr) Tél. +33 467 41 85 43 MAYLIS DELEST (Maylis.Delest(a)labri.fr) Tél. +33 540 00 60 82 LaBRI UMR 5800 (Université Bordeaux I) www.labri.fr

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David E Hanna/chaska/BII is out of the office.
by dehanna＠beckman.com 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I will be out of the office starting 06/30/2006 and will not return until 12/31/2006. I have moved to DSL in Webster TX. Please contact S Tupy for any Instrument Technical Operations issues. ======================================================================================================================== This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Beckman Coulter, Inc. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. ========================================================================================================================

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Preliminary Call for Papers: Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation (APVIS) 2007
by Richard Webber 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

============================================ Preliminary Call for Papers Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation 5-7 February, 2007 Sydney, Australia http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/apvis2007/ ============================================ APVIS2007 is the sixth symposium (formerly known as Invis.au) for visualisation researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original and unpublished research or practical applications in any area of Information Visualisation or Scientific Visualisation. * Scope Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to: - Theoretic foundations of visualisation - Usability and human-factors - Visual models and representations - Visual knowledge discovery - Visual data mining - Visual analytics - Interaction techniques - Scientific visualisation - Information visualisation - Graph drawing algorithms - Visualisation of large data sets - Visualisation of time-varying data - Visualisation in bioinformatics - Visualisation in social network analysis - Software visualisation - Case studies - Real-world systems * Important Dates Submission of draft papers 8 September, 2006 Notification of acceptance 3 November, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers 17 November, 2006 Symposium 5-7 February, 2007 * Publication Submitted papers will be refereed and the accepted submissions will be in the official proceedings of the symposium. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. After the symposium, selected papers will be published in a special issue of Information Visualization. * Symposium Chair - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia) * Program Committee - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia), co-chair - Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California Davis, USA), co-chair - Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz, Germany) - Wei Chen (Zhejiang University, China) - Ed Chi (PARC, USA) - Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA, France) - Issei Fujishiro (Tohoku University, Japan) - John Grundy (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Helwig Hauser (VRVis Research Center, Austria) - Mao Lin Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - T. J. Jankun-Kelly (Mississippi State University, USA) - Hideki Koike (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) - Koji Koyamada (Kyoto University, Japan) - Wei Lai (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) - Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) - Stephen North (AT&T Research, USA) - Kozo Sugiyama (JAIST, Japan) - Vincent Tam (University of Hong Kong, China) - Jiro Tanaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, Australia) - Melanie Tory (University of Victoria, Canada) - Rudi Vernik (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia) - Martin Wattenberg (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) - Jarke van Wijk (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Pak Chung Wong (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) - Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) * Organising Committee - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia), chair - Xiaoyan Fu (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Barbara Munday (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Richard Webber (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Kai Xu (National ICT Australia Ltd.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. This notice should not be removed.

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Post-Doc / PhD Position at MPI Tuebingen
by Heinrich H. Buelthoff 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is seeking a qualified Postdoctoral Researcher or PhD student For Modeling and Measuring the Focus of Spatial Attention see also <http://www.kyb.mpg.de/jobs/BWFIT_postdoc_int.pdf> As part of a consortium of nine grants recently funded by Baden-Württemberg (BW-FIT) on Interactive Visualization with Gigapixel Displays, the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Department of Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics (Prof. Heinrich H. Bülthoff), Tübingen, Germany has a research position available for a PostDoc / PhD student Investigating the measurement, prediction and manipulation of gaze-direction Project: The consortium brings together researchers from computer graphics, visualization and psychophysics to investigate and optimize the use of very large visual displays ("Gigapixel displays") for viewing and interacting with vast quantities of data. Our project involves: (i) building a gaze-contingent multi-resolution system that takes into account the gaze and gestures of a freely-moving user, and (ii) developing computational models of attention for predicting and influencing the focus of attention. It is an excellent opportunity to bring together applied and basic research while covering both experimental and theoretical work. Institute: The successful applicant would join a thriving international research group at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de) which uses a combination of psychophysics, computational modeling and cutting-edge technology to study the human brain. The group is well-known for its experience with Bayesian models of perception and action, as well as computer graphics and virtual reality. The institute also offers a unique range of technical facilities (eye-, head and body tracking, HDR and stereo displays, render cluster, motion platforms, 3D scanners and printer, fMRI, etc.). The scientists are supported by dedicated technicians. Requirements: Applicants for the Post-doc position should have a PhD in Psychology, Cognitive science, Neuroscience, Computer science, Biology, Physics or related areas. A strong background in visual psychophysics, eye-movements and/or attention is a major advantage. Applicants for the PhD position should have a master/diploma or equivalent degree in the previously listed areas. Prior experience in data analysis and modeling as well as computer programming would be an advantage. Offer: The position is available immediately and lasts 3 years. The salary depends on the qualifications, based on the TVöD E13 or E14 payscale (PostDoc: 35-46.000 €/y, PhD: 18-20.000 €/y), according to the German Public Service regulations. Disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential treatment. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Candidates should send CV, reprints, and the names of two referees to <bwfit(a)tuebingen.mpg.de> (electronic submission preferred; postal addresses available upon request). Further information about the position can be obtained from the same address.

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David E Hanna/chaska/BII is out of the office.
by dehanna＠beckman.com 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

I will be out of the office starting 05/08/2006 and will not return until 06/26/2006. I will be out of the office until June 26th, 2006 ======================================================================================================================== This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Beckman Coulter, Inc. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. ========================================================================================================================

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fellowships available
by Matthew Ward 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Ph.D. Fellowships in Visual Analytics The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Computer Science Department seeks applicants for 1-3 Ph.D. Fellowships in the area of Visual Analytics. These awards, as part of the Department of Education's GAANN Program (Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need), are restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science who plan a career in research or education. The awards, which cover tuition, a stipend of $30K per year, and some travel funds, are renewable for up to three years. Renewal of a fellowship is based on evaluation of academic and research performance. Continued funding beyond the Fellowship, if needed, will be provided in the form of a research or teaching assistantship. Applications are being considered for both the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters. Applicants should have a strong background in one or more areas relevant to visual analytics, including information and data visualization, graphics, human-computer interaction, knowledge discovery in databases, and statistical analysis. Inquiries and applications can be sent to the address below. Applications should include a letter of intent, a resume, and a description of any coursework or research completed in areas of relevance to visual analytics. Contact: Dr. Matthew Ward Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609 matt(a)cs.wpi.edu 508-831-5671 (voice) 508-831-5776 (fax)

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Research and Teaching (Danube-University Krems)
by Silvia Miksch 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

The Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering at Danube-University Krems (Austria, www.donau-uni.ac.at) announces a Research and Teaching Assistant/PhD Candidate position within the area of Visual Analytics with particular focus on the analytical component. Conditions of admission: required education/skill set You * are a university graduate (at the diploma or master of science level) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent University study. * have programming experience in Java * are fluent in the English language and eager to communicate your work both orally and in written form. * are interested in and enjoy scientific working Main tasks You * should perform research and teaching in the field of Visual Analytics with particular focus on the analytical component (Machine Learning, Information Mining, Statistics, and explorative Data Analysis) and Information Visualization * have knowledge or the willingness to quickly become acquainted with research explained above * design and write scientific publications * design and write research proposals * participate in scientific and consulting projects * help to establish the new founded Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering and its research and teaching activities Closing date for applications: April 28, 2006 Send your applications (with the usual application documents., include 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 daniela.placht(a)donau-uni.ac.at We encourage to send 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. Women who are as qualified for the position in question as male applicants will be given priority. 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, PhD. MSc. Danube-University Krems Department of Information & Knowledge Engineering (with particular consideration of Health Care) Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 A-3500 Krems, Austria phone: +43 (0) 2732-893-2450 fax: +43 (0) 2732-893-4450 url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia email: silvia.miksch(a)donau-uni.ac.at

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