Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting your best work to our GIScience workshop GeoVA(T): GeoVisual Analytics: Time to Focus on Time The deadline is Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Submission format: PDF, up to 4 pages in IEEE VisWeek format We shall arrange and announce the conference management system soon. Best regards, Gennady Andrienko, on behalf of the workshop organizers ____________________________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R370BREAAAAJ ____________________________________________________________ ---------------------- Call for papers ------------------------------- GeoVisual Analytics, Time to Focus on Time Workshop @ GIScience (18 September 2012, Columbus OH, USA) & Special issue of Information Visualization (early 2013) http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2012 The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on - Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference, - Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008, and - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008. - GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time at AGILE'2010. Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers, were published as special issues of - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2007, v.21(8) - Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4), and - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2009, v.36 (3) - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, v.24(10) Geospatial visual analytics has a tendency to emphasize the spatial components of geographic information. At this workshop we encourage approaches that utilize and emphasize the temporal characteristics of geographic information in rich, novel and useful ways - it's time to focus on time. The theme for the workshop and this special issue of the Information Visualization journal is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing. 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 selected participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in a refereed journal. Papers will be selected for consideration for the spacial issue according to the quality, maturity and likely impact of the work in addition to its fit with the theme. 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 - visualization and analysis of multi-scale and multi-temporal data - large high-dimensional data sets in space and time - streams of spatio-temporal data as well as - models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics - knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes - application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems Organizers and Guest Editors: - Gennady and Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS), - Jason Dykes (City University), - Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC), - Heidrun Schumann (University of Rostock) ICA Commission on GeoVisualization: http://geoanalytics.net/ica Supported by: - SPP VA - Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis Systems of Complex Information Spaces (DFG Priority Research Program) - MODAP - Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy (FET-Open Coordination Action) - MOVE - Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (COST-Action IC0903) Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko: Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2012 Submission and selection procedure & deadlines end-October, 2011 preliminary CFP announced February 23, 2012 final CFP announced May 1, 2012 Authors should submit extended abstracts (PDF, up to 4 pages in IEEE TVCG format, see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html for formatting details) via the conference management system (to be announced) Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome, they should be included to the PDF. Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the abstract into a full paper for the special issue June 1, 2012 Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors. Short abstracts of accepted presentations will be published online at the workshop web site. September 1, 2012 Full papers for the special issue(s) are submitted September 18, 2012, Columbus, Ohio, USA Authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion October 1, 2012 Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue November 1, 2012 Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer’s comments. December 1, 2012 Final notifications early 2013 IVS special issue published ________________________________________________________________________