Call for Papers SPIE 2015 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis February 8-12, 2015 Hilton San Francisco, Union Square San Francisco, CA http://vda-conference.org Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2014 (Extended Deadline) Notification: October 6, 2014 Final Manuscripts: December 1, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2015 covers all research and development and application aspects of data visualization and visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in 1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their work and share their experience every year. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research as full paper or a poster. Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including: · * biomedical visualization · * case studies and empirical studies · * cyber-security · * data mining · * exploratory data visualization and analysis · * geographic visualization · * high-performance computing and visualization · * image processing · * information visualization · * multivariate time series visualization · * scientific visualization · * sentiment analysis · * social media · * virtual and augmented reality · * human factors · * volume and flow visualization Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization. Questions regarding paper submission or conference participation should be directed to the conference chairs: * David L. Kao (david.l.kao@nasa.gov), NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao (ming_hao@hp.com), Hewlett-Packard Labs * Mark A. Livingston ( mark.livingston@nrl.navy.mil), U.S. Naval Research Labs * Thomas Wischgoll (thomas.wischgoll@wright.edu), Wright State University