================================ BigNet2018: 1st International Workshop in Visual Analytics for Big Networks http://bignet2018.bdarg.org A Workshop of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018) December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA === Important Dates === 19th August, 2018 : Submission of papers 9th October, 2018 : Notification of acceptance 10 November 2018 : Camera-ready submission of accepted papers 10-13 December, 2018 : Conference; Workshop date TBA === Aim === Network visualization is one of the earliest branches of information visualization with a foundation in a more than three-decades long history of active research in the field of graph drawing. In recent years, large-scale networks, such as social, biological, and financial networks as well as networks representing software engineering processes, have become prominent generators of big data. The need and the opportunity to utilize the information in such networks better has raised a range of new research questions, such as, what constitutes an insightful visualization of a big network, how to visualize a big network efficiently without loss of information, how to scale-up existing graph drawing methods for dealing with huge datasets, etc. This workshop aims at bringing together the leading researchers in this field and showcase the latest results in big network visual analytics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Algorithmic frameworks for visualizing big networks • Quality and effectiveness of big-network visualization • Data management for efficient big-network visualization • Applications of visual analytics for big networks in the fields of o software engineering, o social science, o finances, o biology • Application of big-network visualization to complexity and complex systems • Sustainability aspects of big-network visualization == Paper submission == Papers (up to 6 pages in the two-column IEEE CPS Conference Style format or extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) must be electronically submitted using the submission system accessible on CyberChair via http://bignet2018.bdarg.org. === Publication === Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Big Data conference proceedings. Extended versions of these will be considered as a special issue in the International Journal of Information Security Science. === Workshop organizers === + Patrick Healy, University of Limerick, Ireland Tiziana Margaria, Lero, + University of Limerick, Ireland Nikola S. Nikolov, University of + Limerick, Ireland Alexander Wolff, Universität Würzburg, Germany