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Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Disinformation and Toxic Content Analysis (DiTox 2023), September 13th, 2023
by Nazemi, Kawa, Prof. Dr. 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Disinformation and Toxic Content Analysis (DiTox 2023), September 13th, 2023 https://ditox.ait.ac.at/ In conjunction with the 4th biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) to be held in Vienna, Austria. The spread of misinformation and disinformation not only affects people's perceptions and beliefs, but can also have a direct impact on democratic institutions, critical infrastructure, and lives and families. Most critically, it raises the more fundamental issue of what sources of information can be trusted at all, potentially calling into question our relationship of trust with traditional media. Because of these profoundly harmful effects, disinformation is seen as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The weak definition of the research task of disinformation analysis and detection, as well as the enormous range in terms of the heterogeneity and multimodality of the data involved, make this an exceptionally challenging field of research. The complexity ranges from media tampering detection to text content analysis to large-scale information fusion to analyze disinformation trends. Maintaining a comprehensive overview is equally difficult. Respectively, the overall goal of this workshop is therefore to provide insights on how approaches from different domains can be used to address disinformation at a technical level including AI/ML-based methods, visual analytics, and visualization approaches as well as interdisciplinary approaches inspired by the social sciences (i.e., computational social science). To this end, we invite task-specific contributions, as well as large-scale integration approaches, demo and project presentations, to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in countering disinformation. Topics: Full Paper Submissions: - Machine and Deep learning methods for disinformation (e.g., analysis, detection) - Visual analytics and visualization approaches for disinformation - Audio tampering detection - Social network analysis (e.g., key actors, distribution patterns) including visualization approaches - Graph algorithms for disinformation identification - Natural language processing methods (e.g., content evaluation, toxicity, radicalization) - AI-supported fact checking and detection of disinformation campaigns - Identification of fabricated and manipulated content (e.g., deep fakes, audio, generated text) - Community detection and characterization in social networks (e.g., conspiracy theories, echo chambers) - Bots characterization and detection - Multimodal fake content detection - Recommendation systems and disinformation - AI uses, practices and tools in fact-checking journalism - Qualitative and quantitative studies on disinformation - Ethics and law in disinformation Demo and Project Presentation (Short Paper Track, Poster Presentation): - Demo presentations (e.g., fact checking tools, disinformation detection tools) - Project platform presentations - Project presentations Important Dates: - Paper submission: May 21st, 2023 - Notification: June 20th, 2023 - Camera-ready submission deadline: July 9th, 2023 - DiTox workshop: September 13th, 2023 Submission: Submissions can be in the form of Long papers (9-12 pages) and Short papers (4-6 pages). All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published by ACL in an open-access conference proceedings volume, free of charge for authors. The reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. The workshop will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the workshop (either remotely or on-site). There will be no registration fee administered for participating in LDK 2023. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2023/Conference Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi Head of Human-Computer Interaction & Visual Analytics [cid:image001.jpg@01D940B8.5BBE7970] Tel +49.6151.533-639393 kawa.nazemi(a)h-da.de<mailto:kawa.nazemi@h-da.de> Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Schöfferstraße 3 64295 Darmstadt www.vis.h-da.de<http://www.vis.h-da.de> www.univ-tech.eu<https://www.univ-tech.eu/>

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Abstract deadline approaching - CDVE2023 -Feb. 15...
by CDVE2023 12 Feb '23

12 Feb '23

Dear all, The CDVE2023 paper abstract deadline is approaching. CDVE2023 is focus on cooperative design, visualization, engineering and other cooperative application areas. You are most welcome to submit abstracts to the conference. The abstract submission is not obligated but recommended. Please see our call for paper themes for more details: www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html The submission page is:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2023 Looking forward to receiving your submission. ------------------- The 20th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. 1-4, 2023, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2023(a)easychair.org Web: https://www.cdve.org

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WSCG 2023-Call for Papers-Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2023?
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 11 Feb '23

11 Feb '23

>> Apologies for duplicates if any - Vaclav << >> Successful year 2023! Please, forward also to your fellows and/or PhD students Sent to: infovis(a)infovis.org ----------- WSCG 2023 - Call for Papers -------------- 31. WSCG 2023 Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision 2023 (preferred physical mode) -- In copoperation with the Eurographics Association -- ACM & SIGGRAPH listed Pilsen (the city of beer) close to Prague, Czech Republic May 15-19, 2023 - http://www.wscg.cz - detailed info - http://www.wscg.eu ------------------ Important dates & Submission: January 10, 2023 - special session proposals via email only -------------- via submission server only --------------- February 28, 2023 Abstract - recommended sooner February 28, 2023 - Full, Short, Poster papers (submission via server only [http://wscgreg.zcu.cz] Accepted papers to be published in Computer Science Research Notes, ISSN 2464-4617. The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG, ISSN 1213-6972. *>> At least one author has to present the paper physically or online or pre-recorded*. Proceedings will be produced after the conference. Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Accepted workshops/sessions: - Meshless methods in Computer Graphics and Visualization - Other agreements pending Contact: ======== Prof. Vaclav Skala mailto:WSCGconf@gmail.com?subject=WSCG2023 Conference organizer & Chair --------------------------- Prof. Vaclav Skala Contact: http://www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 ID verification:https://www.zcu.cz/cs/Employees/person.html?personId=16821 c/o University of West Bohemia Computer Graphics and Visualization Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0001-8886-4281 ResearcherID:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-9141-2011 Scopus Author ID:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004643209 Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vaclav_Skala/publications DBLP:https://dblp.org/orcid/0000-0001-8886-4281 https://dblp.org/pid/s/VaclavSkala.html ACM:https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100496969 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jakákoli ujednání vzešlá z této e-mailové/elektronické komunikace se do jejich písemného potvrzení podepsaného oprávněnými osobami nepovažují za platná, účinná a vůči ZČU závazná. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any arrangements arising from this e-mail / electronic communication shall not be considered valid, effective and binding upon the UWB until their written confirmation signed by the authorized persons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Visualization on Visual Text Analytics (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
by Andreas Kerren 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Information Visualization on Visual Text Analytics ================================================== Submission deadline (EXTENDED): April 30, 2023 !!! Expected publication: December 2023 Visualizing textual information is a particularly challenging area of information visualization and visual analytics research. The types of data processing and analytic algorithms differ greatly from tabular or geospatial data, and the visualization techniques have additional constraints to consider, including the provision of context for text fragments of similar or different size and structure, depicting embeddings and high dimensional representations, and ensuring legibility of text incorporated into visualizations. The wide variation in data is accompanied by the difficulties in inferring the semantic meaning of ambiguous terms, or determining the referencing between subsequent statements. We invite the community to submit new articles examining the challenges and successes when applying information visualization to text analytics. Articles may focus on theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of visual text analytics approaches and systems. Articles that specifically explore the state of research within the specific theme of this special issue are also welcome, but position papers are not in the focus of the journal. Specific topics of interest, all in context of visual text analytics, are for instance ● Text Data Sources and Diversity ● Model Explainability and Interpretability ● Evaluation and Experimental Designs ● Perceptual Issues Depicting Data with Text ● Representation and Visualization of Text and Documents ● Interaction Design in Visual Text Analytics ● Toolkits and Standards ● Text Visualization Literacy ● Generating Text to Accompany Visualizations ● Uncertainty Localization and Propagation in Text Visualization ● Support for Text Data Annotation ● Visual Analysis of Bias in Text Analytics Inquiries can be made to any of the guest editors. For further author information and submission guidelines (choose "Visual Text Analytics” when submitting your manuscript), we refer to the following web page: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/IVI Guest Editors: Christopher Collins (Ontario Tech University, Canada), christopher.collins(a)ontariotechu.ca Antske Fokkens (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands), antske.fokkens(a)vu.nl Andreas Kerren (Linköping University and Linnaeus University, Sweden), andreas.kerren(a)liu.se Chris Weaver (University of Oklahoma, USA), cweaver(a)ou.edu

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New book release: Making with data
by Samuel Huron 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Our new book edited with Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg and Weseley Willet is out ! ** Abstract ** "MAKING WITH DATA: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World" provides a snapshot of the diverse practices contemporary creators are using to produce objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. Across 25+ beautifully-illustrated chapters, international artists, designers, and scientists each explain the process of creating a specific data-driven piece—illustrating their practice with candid sketches, photos, and design artifacts from their own studios. Featuring influential voices in computer science, data science, graphic design, art, craft, and architecture, Making with Data is accessible and inspiring for enthusiasts and experts alike. Get the book at https://bit.ly/MKWD-CRC or in any bookstore. Also check out our Blog (https://bit.ly/MKWDBlog) Twitter ( https://twitter.com/makingwithdata) and Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/makingwithdata/) for inspiration and background information. ** Endorsement ** *"This book has fresh inspirations from innovative artist-inventors who open up new possibilities for anyone who has data that tells a story. It makes me want to turn on the laser cutter and restart the 3D printer to fabricate something startling, informative, and eye opening."* Ben Shneiderman, Professor, Computer Science, University of Maryland "This timely book explores new ways data is penetrating our living environment and is crossing the boundary between the physical and the digital. A compelling read for any data enthusiast!" Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT Senseable City Lab "*You will discover both an exhibition of wonderful data-inspired works as well as the backstories of each of these pieces. A mind-blowing collection highlighting what is happening at the frontiers of art and sciences in this new field of data design.*" Giorgia Lupi, partner at Pentagram and author of Dear Data ** Table of contents ** Series Foreword - Alberto Cairo and Tamara Munzner Foreword - Barbara Tversky Foreword - Hiroshi Ishii Introduction - Samuel Huron, Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg, and Wesley Willett Handcraft Introduction - Sheelagh Carpendale and Lora Oehlberg Snow Water Equivalent - Adrien Segal Life in Clay - Dr. Alice Thudt V-Pleat Data Origami - Sarah Hayes Anthropocene Footprints - Mieka West Endings - Loren Madsen Participation Introduction - Georgia Panagiotidou and Andrew Vande Moere Cairn - Pauline Gourlet and Thierry Dassé SeeBoat - Laura Perovich Let’s Play with Data - Jose Duarte and EasyDataViz 100% [City] - Rimini Protokoll ( Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel) Data Strings - Daniel Pearson, Pau Garcia, and Alexandra de Requesens Digital Production Introduction - Yvonne Jansen Chemo Singing Bowl - Stephen Barrass Wage Islands - Ekene Ijeoma Data That Feels Gravity - Volker Schweisfurth Orbacles - MINN_LAB Design Collective (Dan Keefe, Ross Altheimer, Andrea Johnson, Mahdieh Mahmoudi, Patrick Moe, Maura Rockcastle, Marc Swackhamer, and Aaron Wittkamper) Dataseeds - Nick Dulake and Ian Gwilt Actuation Introduction - Pierre Dragicevic Tenison Road Charts - David Sweeney, Alex Taylor, and Siân Lindley LOOP - Kim Sauvé and Steven Houben AirFIELD - Nik Hafermaas, Dan Goods, and Jamie Barlow EMERGE - Jason Alexander, Faisal Taher, John Hardy, and John Vidler Zooids - Mathieu Le Goc, Charles Perin, Sean Follmer, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Pierre Dragicevic Environment Introduction - Dietmar Offenhuber Perpetual Plastic - liina klauss, Moritz Stefaner, and Skye Morét Dataponics: Human-Vegetal Play - Robert Cercós Solar Totems - Charles Sowers Staubmarke (Dustmark) - Dietmar Offenhuber Conclusion - Samuel Huron, Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg, and Wesley Willett ** Photos ** [image: 1-front-MKWD.jpg] [image: 2-back-MKWD.jpg] Best regards, Samuel

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Postdoctoral Fellow at American University, Washington, DC
by Alex Godwin 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

The Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow. The appointment is a 12-month position, with the possibility of renewal for one additional year, and will commence on August 1, 2023. Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field on or before August 1, 2023. This position is part of a collaboration between the Computer Science department at American University, the Environmental Science department at American University, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The successful candidate will become a part of an interdisciplinary team working to visualize global seafood trade data to understand when global seafood trade either improves or threatens food and nutrition security. The project aims at developing novel methods and systems to support the construction and analysis of a global seafood trade network database to advance human-environmental research. The focus of this postdoctoral fellow position at American University will be in analyzing geographic network flow datasets and delivering novel and interpretable representations on the web. Candidates must have a strong programming background. Requirements: * Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field. * Strong background in interactive data visualization and analysis. * Expertise in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, and other technologies supporting website development. * Experience with server-side web technologies, such as NodeJS and Flask, is preferred * Experience with online databases, especially network database schema (e.g., Neo4J), is preferred * Experienced in designing and implementing empirical user studies. * Experienced with quantitative research methods. * Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a diverse interdisciplinary team. * Demonstrated ability to work with and mentor undergraduate students. * Excellent written and oral communication. * Research experience in spatial data analysis and/or GIS technologies is preferred. Annual salary is $65,000. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit applications via: http://apply.interfolio.com/120001. Include a letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, and copies of recent published papers or working papers. Please contact Prof. Alex Godwin, 202-885-2790, or godwin(a)american.edu<mailto:godwin@american.edu> if you have any questions. American University is a private institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation's capital. For more information about American University, visit www.american.edu<http://www.american.edu>. The Department of Computer Science is a small but exciting department with a growing student population and strong research achievements. American University has specifically identified Computer Science as one of its targets for growth, with the goal of making it a premium research and teaching unit within the university. Along with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Department of Physics, the Game Lab, the Collaborative for Applied Perceptual Research and Innovation (CAPRI), and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Incubator, the Department of Computer Science has moved into the brand-new Don Myers Technology & Innovation Building. A proposal for a combined Ph.D. program with the Mathematics and Statistics Department as well as the Game Lab is also in the works. Learn more about the College of Arts and Sciences at http://www.american.edu/cas/ and about the department at http://www.american.edu/cas/cs/. American University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution that operates in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, personal appearance, gender identity and expression, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, veteran status, an individual's genetic information or any other bases under federal or local laws (collectively "Protected Bases") in its programs and activities. American University is a tobacco and smoke free campus. To ensure the health and safety of our community, American University requires that all faculty and staff are vaccinated for Covid-19. To learn more about American University's health and safety directives please click here. https://www.american.edu/hr/how-we-work/vaccinations.cfm Hiring offers for this position are contingent on the successful completion of a background check. Alex Godwin, PhD Assistant Professor, Computer Science Don Myers Building - 112C American University https://jagodwin.github.io<https://jagodwin.github.io/>

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CFP: Persuasive Technology 2023 workshop on Visual Interfaces and Interactions for AI-based Persuasive Systems (VII-AIPS 2023)
by Masood Masoodian 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Call for Papers – Visual Interfaces and Interactions for AI-based Persuasive Systems (VII-AIPS 2023) Persuasive Technology 2023 Workshop   19 April 2023 – Eindhoven, The Netherlands More info: http://avcd.aalto.fi/viiaips2023/ Submission deadline 06 March 2023 ============================================== ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ================== This workshop aims to bring together researcher and practitioners from a range of diverse disciplines to shed light on the various interdependencies that exists in the triangle formed by PT (persuasive technologies), XAI (AI systems with self-explanation capabilities), and IxD (interaction design), with a particular focus on visual interfaces and interaction for AI-based persuasive systems. The workshop will provide the participants with an opportunity to share their diverse perspectives and research coming from their own contributing fields. It is part of the The 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2023 Conference. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================== Potential participants are invited to submit short position papers that address and highlight their specific interests in the main research question of this workshop: How can visual interfaces and interactions be used to exploit the self-explanatory capabilities of AI-based persuasive systems to support their users? In addressing this question, the position papers may relate to a range of topics and areas of interest, including, but not limited to: – role of visual explanations in behavior change mechanisms and models. – explanation-based and/or visual persuasive strategies. – visual user interfaces and virtual agents for persuasive systems. – IxD aspects of interventions and visual feedback mechanisms. – quantitative and qualitative research investigating the effectiveness of AI-based persuasive strategies. – best practices, case studies, and applications of visual interfaces and interactions for persuasive systems. Numbers permitting, the workshop will also be open to other participants without an accepted position paper. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE ================== This one-day workshop is structured to make it fully participatory, practice-oriented and engaging. It comprises two main sessions. The morning session will be used for presentations given by the participants and an invited speaker. The afternoon will be reserved for group work to identify application domains, collect use cases, identify domain-specific as well as domain-agnostic commonalities and requirements, and exchange experiences on what has worked and what has not worked. Based on the analysis we will then compile a set of guidelines and recommendations for the design of visual interfaces and interactions for AI-based persuasive systems. We hope to run the workshop in person at the conference. Provisions will however be made to run the workshop in remote or hybrid mode if necessary. SUBMISSIONS ================== Position papers should generally be short (5-9 pages max), and prepared according to the Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) Submissions should be made through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=viiaips2023) The workshop organizers will review the submitted position papers, and select 10-15 papers for presentation at the workshop based on their quality, originality and relevance to the workshop research question and topics of interest. Accepted position papers will be made available to the workshop participants. The authors will also have the option of including their papers in a post-conference workshop proceedings that will be published through CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) Details of this option will be made available closer to the workshop by the conference organizers. In addition, through the planned discussion session and group work, the workshop will actively seek other potential future outcomes. These may, for instance, include a special issue of an international journal and/or a co-authored report for dissemination of the workshop results. IMPORTANT DATES ================== Submission dealine: 06 March 2023 Notification: 13 March 2023 Revised version: 10 April 2023 Workshop date: 19 April 2023 Final version: TBC post-conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ================== Thomas Rist, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland) -- Prof. Masood Masoodian Visual Communication Design Aalto University avcd.aalto.fi

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[Deadline Extension] BigVis 2023: 6th Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics Workshop @ EDBT/ICDT 2023 Ioannina, Greece
by Nikos Bikakis 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

*** SUMBISSION DEALINE EXTESNION: February 5, 2023 (AoE) *** ---------------------------------- Call for Papers BigVis 2023: 6th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2023 March 28 2023, Ioannina, GR Held in conjunction with the 26th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 26th Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2023) Information Visualization is nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a data-curious user into someone who can access and analyze that data is even more burdensome now for a great number of users with little or no support and expertise on the data processing part. Thus, the area of data visualization, visual exploration and analysis has gained great attention recently, calling for joint action from different research areas from the HCI, Computer graphics and Data management and mining communities. In this respect, several traditional problems from these communities such as efficient data storage, querying & indexing for enabling visual analytics, new ways for visual presentation of massive data, efficient interaction and personalization techniques that can fit to different user needs are revisited. The modern exploration and visualization systems should nowadays offer scalable techniques to efficiently handle billion objects datasets, limiting the visual response in a few milliseconds along with mechanisms for information abstraction, sampling and summarization for addressing problems related to visual information over-plotting. Further, they must encourage user comprehension offering customization capabilities to different user-defined exploration scenarios and preferences according to the analysis needs. Overall, the challenge is to offer self-service visual analytics, i.e. enable data scientists and business analysts to visually gain value and insights out of the data as rapidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop. The BigVis workshop aims at addressing the above challenges and issues by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, exchange, and disseminate their work. BigVis attempts to attract attention from the research areas of Data Management & Mining, Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction and highlight novel works that bridge together these communities. Workshop Topics ------------------------------------ In the context of visual exploration and analytics, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, graph - Human -in -the -loop processing - Human -centered databases - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications - Interactive & human -centered machine learning - Interactive data mining - User -oriented visualization; e.g., recommendation, assistance, personalization - Visualization & knowledge; e.g., storytelling - Progressive analytics - In -situ visual exploration & analytics - Novel interface & interaction paradigms - Visual representation techniques; e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi -level, filtering - Scalable visual operations; e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing - Scientific visualization; e.g., volume visualization - Analytics in the fields of scholarly data, digital libraries, multimedia, scientific data, social data, etc. - Immersive visualization - Interactive computer graphics - Setting -oriented visualization; e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, visualization over networks - High performance, distributed & parallel techniques - Visualization hardware & acceleration techniques - Linked Data & ontologies visualization - Benchmarks for data visualization & analytics - Case & user studies - Systems & tools Submissions ------------------------------------ Regular/Short Research papers [up to 8/4 pages] Work-in-progress papers [up to 4 pages] Vision papers [up to 4 pages] System papers and Demos [up to 4 pages] Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 23, 2023 (AoE) => February 5, 2023 (AoE) [Extended] Notification: February 18, 2023 Camera-ready: February 25, 2023 Workshop: March 28, 2023 Special Issue ------------------------------------ TBD Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ Nikos Bikakis, HMU & ATHENA Reacher Center, Greece Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Steffen Frey, University of Groningen, Netherlands George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Reacher Center, Greece Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University, China Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers University, USA Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Michael Behrisch, Utrecht University, Netherlands Jürgen Bernard, University of Zurich, Switzerland Jacob Biehl, University of Pittsburgh, USA Yiru Chen, Columbia University, USA Eva Chondrodima, University of Piraeus, Greece Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Daniel Deutch, Tel Aviv University, Israel Katerina Doka, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz, Germany Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece Christoph Garth, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Parke Godfrey, York University, USA Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Ekaterini Ioannou, University of Tilburg, Netherlands Stefan Jänicke, Leipzig University, Germany Eser Kandogan, Megagon Labs James Klosowski, AT&T Labs Research Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Jie Li, Tianjin University, China Stavros Maroulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Suvodeep Mazumdar, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, Italy Kristin Potter, NREL, USA Sajjadur Rahman, Megagon Labs Alexander Rind, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Panagiotis Ritsos, Bangor University, United Kingdom Maria Riveiro, Jönköping University, Sweden Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus University, Denmark Michael Sedlmair, University of Stuttgart, Germany Tarique Siddiqui, Microsoft Research Dimitrios Skoutas, Athena Research Center, Creece Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Arjun Srinivasan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Manuel Stein, University Konstanz, Germany Christian Tominski, University of Rostock, Germany Natkamon Tovanich, École Polytechnique, France Katerina Tzompanaki, CY Cergy Paris University, France Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University, Sweden Sean Wang, Fudan University, China Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Jules Wulms, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jiazhi Xia, Central South University, China Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Dimitris Zissis, Marine Traffic -- Nikos Bikakis Information Management Systems Institute ATHENA Research Center Athens | Greece www.nbikakis.com

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Call for Papers - The 1st World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2023)
by Angelos Chatzimparmpas 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, Please find below the call for papers for the 1st International Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2023) (https://xaiworldconference.com/) with a special track on “Visual representations & analytics for xAI” (https://xaiworldconference.com/accepted-special-tracks/) We look forward to your submissions! ------------------------------------------------- 1st International Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2023) (26/28 July 2023, Lisbon, Portugal) https://xaiworldconference.com/call-for-papers/ Call for papers Artificial intelligence has seen a significant shift in focus towards designing and developing intelligent systems that are interpretable and explainable. This is due to the complexity of the models, built from data, and the legal requirements imposed by various national and international parliaments. This has echoed both in the research literature and in the press, attracting scholars from around the world and a lay audience. An emerging field with AI is eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), devoted to the production of intelligent systems that allow humans to understand their inferences, assessments, prediction, recommendation and decisions. Initially devoted to designing post-hoc methods for explainability, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) is rapidly expanding its boundaries to neuro-symbolic methods for producing self-interpretable models. Research has also shifted the focus on the structure of explanations and human-centred Artificial Intelligence since the ultimate users of interactive technologies are humans. The World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2023) is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers, academics, and professionals, promoting the sharing and discussion of knowledge, new perspectives, experiences, and innovations in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI). This event is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, bringing together academics and scholars of different disciplines, including Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Law and Social Science, to mention a few, and industry practitioners interested in the practical, social and ethical aspects of the explanation of the models emerging from the discipline of Artificial intelligence (AI). xAI 2023 encourages submissions related to eXplainable AI and contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches related to the explainability and interpretability of AI systems. Important dates *All dates are Anywhere on Heart time (AoE)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth> Article submission (main track) Abstracts registration deadline* (easy-chair): April 15, 2023 Article submission deadline* (easy-chair): April 20, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2023 Registration & camera ready: May 19, 2023 Publication (Springer CCIS series) August 2023 *full, short and extended abstract articlesDoctoral consortium (DC) submission DC Proposal registration deadline (easy-chair): April 16th 2023 DC Proposal submission deadline (easy-chair): April 30, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2023 Registration: May 19, 2023 Publication (planned with CEUR-WS.org<http://ceur-ws.org/>*) August 2023 *Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org<http://ceur-ws.org/> for online publicationLate-breaking work & demos Late-breaking work & demo registration (easy-chair): May 21, 2023 Late-breaking work & demo submission (easy-chair): May 28, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 06, 2023 Publication (planned with CEUR-WS.org<http://ceur-ws.org/>*) August 2023 *Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org<http://ceur-ws.org/> for online publicationSpecial track (or workshop) proposal Proposal submission (contact<https://xaiworldconference.com/contacts/>): Anytime before February 08, 2023 Panel discussion Panel Discussion proposals: May 21, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2023 Registration of Panel Discussions facilitators: June 06, 2023 Conference The World Conference on eXplainable AI 26-28 July 2023 Submission Submitted manuscripts must be novel and not substantially duplicate existing work. Manuscripts must be written using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in the format provided here<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Latex and word files are admitted: however, the former is preferred (word template<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192387…>, latex template<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…>, latex in overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…>). All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. The conference has a no dual submission policy, so submitted manuscripts should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Articles must be submitted using the easy-chair platform here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xai2023>. The contact author must provide the following information: paper title, all author names, affiliations, postal address, e-mail address, and at least three keywords. The conference will not require a strict page number, as we believe authors have different writing styles and would like to produce scientific material differently. However, the following types of articles are admitted: full articles between 12 and 24 pages (including references) short articles between 6 and 12 pages (including references) extended abstracts between 3 and 6 pages (including references) Full articles should report on original and substantial contributions of lasting value, and the work should concern the theory and/or practice of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI). Moreover, manuscripts showcasing the innovative use of xAI methods, techniques, and approaches and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying xAI-based technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Evaluations of proposed solutions and applications should be commensurate with the claims made in the article. Full articles should reflect more complex innovations or studies and have a more thorough discussion of related work. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented sufficiently to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. We recognise that user data may be proprietary or confidential, therefore we encourage sharing (anonymized, cleaned) data sets, data collection procedures, and code. Results and findings should be communicated clearly, and implications of the contributions for xAI as a field and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Shorter articles should generally report on advances that can be described, set into context, and evaluated concisely. These articles are not ‘work-in-progress’ reports but complete studies focused on smaller but complete research work, simple to describe. For these articles, the discussion of related work and contextualisation in the wider body of knowledge can be smaller than that of full articles. Extended abstracts are not simply long abstracts. It should contain the definition of a problem and the presentation of a solution, comparisons to related work, and other details expected in a research manuscript but not in an abstract. An extended abstract is a research article whose ideas and significance can be understood in less than an hour. Producing an extended abstract can be more demanding than producing a full or short research article. Some things that can be omitted from an extended abstract, such as future work, details of proofs or implementation that should seem plausible to reviewers, and ramifications not relevant to the key ideas of the abstract. It should also contain enough bibliographic references to follow the main argument of the proposed research. Anonymity for review The submitted article (a .pdf) must be anonymous, given that the conference uses a double-blind<http://xaiworldconference.org/review-process/> review process. Therefore, authors must omit their names and affiliations in the submitted .pdf file and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the author’s prior work should be made in the third person. Failure to anonymize your submission could result in desk rejection. Ethical & Human Subjects Considerations The conference organisers expect authors to discuss the ethical considerations and the impact of the presented work and/or its intended application, where appropriate. Additionally, all authors must comply with ethical standards and regulatory guidelines associated with human subjects research, including using personally identifiable data and research involving human participants. Manuscripts reporting on human subjects research must include a statement identifying any regulatory review the research is subject to (and identifying the form of approval provided) or explaining the lack of required review. Further style instructions We ask the authors to start the reference section on a new page. Appendices count toward the page limit. Supplementary material, if any, should be linked to an external source using an anonymized URL. Review process All articles submitted within the deadlines and according to the guidelines will be subjected to a double-blind review. Papers that are out of scope, incomplete, or lack sufficient evidence to support the basic claims may be rejected without full review. Furthermore, reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for the contribution. Each of the submitted articles will be reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee. After completion of the review process, the authors will be informed about the acceptance or rejection of the submitted work. The reviewers’ comments will be available to the authors in both cases. In case of acceptance, authors must meet the recommendations for improvement and prepare and submit the definitive version of the work up to the camera-ready paper submission deadline. In case of failure to consider the recommendations made by the reviewers, the organizing committee and the editors reserve the right not to include these works in the conference proceedings. The article’s final version must follow the appropriate style guide and contain the authors’ data (names, institutions and emails) and the ORCID details. Submitted articles will be evaluated according to their originality, technical soundness, significance of findings, contribution to knowledge, and clarity of exposition and organisation. Code of Ethics Inspired by the code of ethics put forward by the Association of Computing Machinery, the programme committee, supervised by the general conference chairs and organisers, have the right to desk-reject manuscripts that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes or implications that disadvantage minoritized communities. Further, reviewers of the scientific committee will be explicitly asked to consider whether the research was conducted in compliance with professional, ethical standards and applicable regulatory guidelines. Failure to do so could lead to a desk-rejection. Publication Each accepted and presented full, short and extended abstract manuscript will be included in the conference proceedings by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science<https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. At least one author must register for the conference by the early registration deadline. The official publication date is when the publisher makes the proceedings available online. This date will be after the conference and can take a number of weeks.

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faculty positions at NYU
by Claudio Silva 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hi, We have 2 tenure-track positions and are looking for candidates in a number of areas, including visualization and data management. Here's a link to the job description: https://apply.interfolio.com/119179 Please contact me if you have any questions. Claudio.

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