IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation: Workshop on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics in Business http://entsci.gatech.edu/businessvis14/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 2014, Paris, France (half day, part of IEEE VIS 2014) OVERVIEW Enterprises across all industries are inundated by an accelerating tsunami of business data. Converting these data and insights into better business outcomes is a pressing and strategic challenge for many managers, decision makers, and executives. While there is a growing interest in business analytics, advanced information visualization and visual analytic tools have lagged behind. This is in part explained by the plethora and complexity of design and implementation challenges presented by diverse business users, data, and contexts. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in in presenting, exploring, and understanding complex business issues through visualization and visual analytics. We will welcome submissions on a variety of topics, including: - Real-world experiences with designing, building, deploying and evaluating new information visualization and visual analytic systems - Case studies describing success (and failure) of applying visualization to business contexts - Domain-specific enterprise applications of visualization and visual analytics (i.e. healthcare, manufacturing, energy, media, transportation, finance, etc.) - Review and evaluative papers discussing or comparing current tools and toolchains; integration with other enterprise support tools (i.e. modeling, simulation, etc.) WORKSHOP FORMAT We encourage submissions of short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and promising (preliminary) results. Papers must conform with a "double-blind review" process, such that authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the names of the authors. Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors. The following templates are meant to aid you in preparing a draft of your submission: LaTeX (TAR) <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/templates/ieeetran-final_sub.tar>| LaTeX (ZIP) <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/templates/ieeetran-final_sub.zip>| Word (ZIP) <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/templates/Trans_final_submission.zip> IMPORTANT DATES - Submissions Due: 15 Sep 2014 - Notification: 1 Oct 2014 - Workshop: half day during 9 -- 11 Nov 2014 (TBC) SUBMISSION - Short papers - up to 4 pages - Submission through PCS: https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ <https://precisionconference.com/%7Evgtc/> ORGANIZERS Rahul C. Basole, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research, USA Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Jack van Wijk, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Please contact businessvis14@gmail.com for any questions.