(Apologies for cross postings) ----------------------------------------------------------- Information Technology Special Issue on Visual Analytics First call for papers Full papers due by July 18, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------- We invite submissions to a forthcoming special issue on Visual Analytics of the Information Technology journal published by de Gruyter Oldenbourg Scientific Publishing. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by highly interactive visual interfaces. Researchers in this fast growing field regularly consider the design, implementation, application and evaluation of methods that tightly integrate appropriate methods from data analysis and interactive data visualization, with the aim of solving real-world analysis problems. Innovative Visual Analytics approaches to date have been successfully applied in many domains where large amounts of complex data need to be explored and understood for effective decision making. Examples of the many challenging fields of application for Visual Analytics systems include, among others, problems in the natural and social sciences, the humanities, in business analytics, geospatial information systems, or multimedia analytics. Topics of interest for the special issue include but are not limited to: • Scalable visual analytics representations and interaction techniques • User steering of data analysis methods and parameter space analysis • Visual Analytics approaches for heterogeneous data analysis problems • Visual Analytics approaches for large text and video collections • Spatiotemporal data analytics and visualization • Big data analytics including very high-dimensional data • Scientific applications, e.g., in Bioinformatics and Public Health • Collaborative and distributed analysis processes support Important dates: • Abstracts due: July 11, 2014 • Submissions due: July 18, 2014 • Conditional notification: September 15, 2014 • Revised papers due: October 15, 2014 • Camera ready papers due: November 15, 2014 • Special issue publication: 1/2015 or 2/2015 it – Information Technology was founded in 1958 and is the longest established German journal in the field of information technology. The main focus of the scientific journal is the publication of methods and innovative applications of informatics and information technology which have been developed worldwide - with an emphasis on the German language area - and which are on the cusp of industrial application. It is published by de Gruyter Oldenbourg Scientific Publishing. An overview of previous special issues can be found at http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/ti/it/themenhefte/. Submission Information: Submissions to the special issue must comprise original and unpublished work on Visual Analytics and will undergo a peer review process for selection. Submissions can be up to 6 pages at about 5.000 characters less figures and tables. Please use the Stylefiles template available at http://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/752/fr-autoren-herausgeber for preparing submissions. Authors intending to submit a paper to the special issue are kindly asked to indicate their intent to do so by email to the guest editors. Prior to the full paper submission, we also ask for submission of an abstract by email to the guest editors until July 11, 2014. Full paper submissions need to be made through the it Editorial Manager submission site at http://www.editorialmanager.com/itit/. Guest Editors: • Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany. Email: daniel.keim@uni-konstanz.de • Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany. Email: tobias.schreck@uni-konstanz.de