SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, invites contributions to the conference SIGRAD 2012 with the presentation of high-quality visualization and computer graphics research. Papers accepted for SIGRAD 2012 are published by Linköping University E-Press both in an electronic and printed proceedings. Submissions may be full research papers or short papers which may describe proven and tested solutions, novel ideas, work-in-progress or recent results. More information on how to submit a paper can be found here.

The selected theme of this year’s conference is “Interactive Visual Analysis of Data”. However, we also invite papers on other aspects of interactive computer graphics and visualization. Thus, topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization
• Visual Analytics, Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Large Data Visualization including Streaming Data, Temporal Data, Text and Documents, Networks, …
• Geo-spatial Data in Visualizations
• Visualization Taxonomies and Models
• Visualization Systems and Software Architectures
• Collaborative Visualization
• Human-Computer Interaction for Visualization and Computer Graphics
• Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Solutions and Algorithms for Virtual/Augmented Reality Applications
• Real-time Rendering
• Procedural Methods and Texture Synthesis
• Parallel Graphics Algorithms
• Evaluation and User Studies
• Training and Education
• Teaching Interaction, Computer Graphics and Visualization
• Applications Areas of Visualizations, such as Biology, Physical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business Analytics, Software Engineering, …

SIGRAD 2012 Co-Chairs

• Andreas Kerren (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
• Stefan Seipel (University of Gävle, Sweden)

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2012
• Author notification: October 10, 2012
• Camera-ready paper deadline: November 1, 2012

If you have any questions, please contact the conference organizers:
sigrad2012easychairorg

Many challenges remain to be addressed within the broad area of process visualization such as: scalability, human-computer interaction, cognitive aspects, applicability of different approaches, collaboration, process evolution, run-time requirements of process instances and applications, etc.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Visual Metaphors in Processes
• Visual Design and Aesthetics for Processes
• Visualization of Dynamic Data in Processes
• Change Visualization for Processes
• Interface and Interaction Techniques for Process Visualization
• Visualization Techniques for Collaboration and Distributed Processes
• Visualization of Large-scale Processes
• Cognition and Perception in Process Visualization
• Evaluation and User Studies of Process Visualization
• Visual Modeling Languages
• Analysis Techniques and Visualization for Processes
• Process Visualization of Large Screens
• Mobile Process Visualization
• Visualization Tools and Systems for Processes
• Visualization Techniques for Processes
• Process Visualization and Sonification
• Virtual World Process Visualization
• Immersive Process Modeling Approaches
• 3D Process Visualization Approaches

Format of the Workshop

The ½ day workshop will comprise accepted papers and tool presentations. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. There will be a single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the conference, there will be informal proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.

Important Dates

• Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 1 June 2012
• Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2012
• Camera-ready version: 30 July 2012
• Workshop: 3 September 2012

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Three types of submissions are possible:

• (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting mature research results
• (2) position papers reporting research that may be in preliminary stage that has not yet been evaluated
• (3) tool reports

Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages.

Only papers in English will be accepted and must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in the « LNBIP» format. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report).

All accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Hard copies of these proceedings will be shipped to all registered participants approximately four months after the workshops, while preliminary proceedings will be distributed during the workshop.

Submitted papers will be evaluated, in a double blind manner, on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their research contribution and the relation to the theory and application of process visualization.

Registration

Accepted papers imply that at least one of the authors will register for the «(BPM2012)» and present the paper at the TAProViz workshop.

http://i-know.tugraz.at/i-science/tava

TAVA 2012 addresses theoretical advances and practical applications of Visual Analytics. This is the seventh event in a series of special tracks on visualisation topics organized in conjunction with the annual i-KNOW conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Former events included the KIV (Knowledge and Information Visualisation) special tracks since i-KNOW ’03, the KVD (Knowledge Visualisation and Discovery) special tracks since i-KNOW ’06, and TAVA since i-KNOW’11. The focus of TAVA 2012 on Visual Analytics reflects the increasing scientific importance and the growing practical relevance of this exciting new discipline. The special track provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss theoretical and practical aspects of Visual Analytics.

This one-day special track is a programme item of i-KNOW 2012, the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies which takes place in Graz, Austria from September 5th to September 7nd 2012. i-KNOW 2012 brings together international researchers and practitioners from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies.

Objectives

Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual techniques. It integrates techniques from visualisation and computer graphics, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning and cognitive and perceptual sciences. Real-world applications in areas like business intelligence, media analysis or protection of intellectual property rights require efficient access and analysis of massive, heterogeneous, dynamic knowledge repositories which frequently contain ambiguous or conflicting evidence. Visual Analytics advocates a promising combination of automatic analysis and human pattern recognition abilities and domain knowledge to address this challenge.

TAVA 2012 addresses theoretical advances and practical applications of Visual Analytics. In the best tradition of the i-KNOW conference series, the objective of the special track is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field. TAVA 2012 will provide a forum for the promotion of research and developments in Visual Analytics with particular attention towards the application of Visual Analytics in Knowledge Technologies and Knowledge Management.

We encourage submission of original research papers reporting on theoretical advances, evaluation results or applications of Visual Analytics in relevant real-world scenarios. Submissions will be reviewed by a board of international experts with accepted papers to be published in the i-KNOW conference proceedings. The special track will be held in English.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Visual representations and interaction techniques
• Visualisation of knowledge, semantic information and Linked Data
• Visualisation of search results, text and multimedia corpora
• Visualisation of temporal, spatial and sensory data
• Visualisation of data quality and uncertainty in data
• Process and workflow visualisation
• Visual analysis methods for Big Data
• Visual data mining
• Visual support for reasoning and decision making
• Discourse and collaborative visualisation
• Human computer interfaces for visual analytics
• Design and aesthetics for visual analytics
• Cognitive and perceptual factors in Visual Analytics
• Empirical studies of Visual Analytics techniques
• Evaluation of Visual Analytics techniques
• Application reports, i.e. success stories and reports on failures
• Scalable projection and layouting algorithms
• Data structures, frameworks, and models underlying visualisation
• Surveys of related literature

Target Group

The topics mentioned above are addressed at researchers and developers as well as at practitioners and providers in the fields of Visual Analytics.

Important Dates

• Extended Submission Deadline: 14 May 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: 28 May 2012
• Camera Ready Version: 18 June 2012

Submission Procedure
Paper Submission: Click here

In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at tavaknow-centerat  (tavaknow-centerat)  .

Notification of Acceptance and Publishing

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 28 May 2012. Accepted papers will be published within the i-KNOW 2012 conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for i-KNOW 2012 before the deadline for camera ready versions (18 June 2012) in order to get the paper published in the conference proceedings.

Chairs of TAVA 2012

• Wolfgang Kienreich, Know-Center Graz (Austria)
• Vedran Sabol, Know-Center Graz (Austria)
• Christin Seifert, Know-Center Graz (Austria)

TAVA 2012 Scientific Keynote

• Prof. Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen (Norway)

Programme Committee

IEEE Network Magazine

Special Issue on Computer Network Visualization, Nov./Dec. 2012 issue

Background

Computer networks are dynamic, growing, and continually evolving. As complexity grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate to human decision-makers the results of methods and metrics for monitoring networks, classifying traffic, and identifying malicious or abnormal events. Network administrators and security analysts require tools that help them understand, reason about, and make decisions about the information their analytic systems produce. To this end, information visualization and visual analytics hold great promise for making the information accessible, usable, and actionable by taking advantage of the human perceptual abilities. Information visualization techniques help network administrators and security analysts to quickly recognize patterns and anomalies; visually integrate heterogeneous data sources; and provide context for critical events.

Scope

This special issue seeks original articles examining the state of the art, open issues, research results, evaluations of visualization and visual analytic tools, and future research directions in computer network visualization and visual analytics. All submissions should be written to be understandable and appealing to a general audience. Research papers should contain a substantial amount of tutorial content and minimal mathematics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Uses of visualization for network status monitoring and situational awareness
• Visualization methods employed in the classification of network traffic and its analysis
• Visualization methods enhancing network intrusion detection and anomaly detection
• Visualization methods for the analysis of network threats (e.g. botnets)
• Visualization methods for the analysis of network routing
• Methods for integrating analytics and visualization together for network analysis tasks
• Methods for visually integrating heterogeneous data sources to support network analysis tasks
• Case studies of open source visualization tools in network analysis tasks
• Evaluations of network visualization tools in situ

Manuscript Submission

Articles should be written in a style comprehensible and appealing to readers outside the speciality of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the “Guidelines for manuscripts” at the IEEE Network Magazine web site. Submitted papers must be original work and must not be under consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit their manuscripts in PDF through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose this special issue from the drop down menu on the submission page. Authors uncertain about the relevance of their paper to this special issue should inquire with the guest editors before submission.

Schedule

• Submissions: April 1, 2012
• Author notifications: July 1, 2012
• Final papers: September 1, 2012
• Publication: November 2012

Guest Editors

John Goodall
Oak Ridge National Lab
jgoodallornlgov

John Gerth
Stanford University
gerthgraphicsstanfordedu

Florian Mansmann
University of Konstanz
FlorianMansmannuni-konstanzde

Computer networks are dynamic, growing, and continually evolving. As complexity grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate to human decision-makers the results of methods and metrics for monitoring networks, classifying traffic, and identifying malicious or abnormal events. Network administrators and security analysts require tools that help them understand, reason about, and make decisions about the information their analytic systems produce. To this end, information visualization and visual analytics hold great promise for making the information accessible, usable, and actionable by taking advantage of the human perceptual abilities. Information visualization techniques help network administrators and security analysts to quickly recognize patterns and anomalies; visually integrate heterogeneous data sources; and provide context for critical events.

The primary sources for this book are the final reports of the thematic working groups set up by the consortium. Each group focused on a particular aspect of visual analytics and brought together interested parties from a wide range of disciplines to collaborate on this task. The main authors of each chapter are given on each page, however there were contributions from many of the full, secondary and community partners as well as helpful comments and suggestions from external reviewers.

The first chapter introduces the problem space in terms of making sense of very large, complex datasets and outlines the vision for visual analytics. The second chapter looks at some application areas for visual analytics and then defines visual analytics in terms of the knowledge discovery process and considers the many scientific disciplines that contribute towards visual analytics. Chapters 3 to 8 present the work of the specialised working groups within the VisMaster consortium. Each of these chapters starts by giving an outline of the problem area and some relevant background information. An overview of the state of the art in the particular domain is then presented, with reference to visual analytics; challenges and opportunities are then identified; and finally, suggestions that are pertinent to the subject of the chapter, are put forward for discussion. The higher-level recommendations for the direction for future research in visual analytics, as put forward by every chapter authors are collectively summarised and categorised in the final chapter.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the partners of VisMaster (including community partners) who have contributed to creating this book. Whilst some have produced chapters, others have been involved with the reviewing process and/or coordinating their work groups. Special thanks goes to Bob Spence and Devina Ramduny-Ellis for their most helpful comments and contributions.

We are appreciative of the excellent technical and creative support given by Florian Stoffel, Juri Buchmüller and Michael Regenscheit. We are truly grateful once more for the excellent support of Eurographics, and in particular Stefanie Behnke, for publishing this work. Last but not least, we are indebted to the European Commission, and especially, the project officer of VisMaster CA, Dr. Teresa de Martino, for supporting us throughout; her efforts have contributed appreciably to the success of this project.

This project was funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission, under FET-Open grant number: 225924.

We hope that the content of this book will inspire you to apply current visual analytics technology to solve your real-world data problems, and to engage in the community effort to define and develop visual analytics technologies to meet future challenges.

The editors:

Daniel Keim (Scientific Coordinator of VisMaster), Jörn Kohlhammer (Coordinator of VisMaster), Geoffrey Ellis and Florian Mansmann

VisMaster Book (25MB) [note that the images are lower resolution to reduce the file size]

EuroVA 2012 – EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics in Vienna, Austria
June 4th – 5th, 2012 – conference website

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 2nd, 2012

• Short paper submissions, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page of references (maximum), are solicited.
• Submitted short papers should clearly relate to visual analytics and show the integration of computational data analysis and interactive visualization.
• Short papers should address either focused mature and concise contributions or interesting preliminary results of work in progress.
• The EuroVA 2012 Conference Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association.

EuroVA 2012 is the third international Eurovis workshop on visual analytics held in Europe and aims at continuing the success of the previous editions, held in Bordeaux, France, on June 8th, 2010, and in Bergen, Norway, on May 31st, 2011. Also this year the goal of the workshop is to promote and advance the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for the purpose of problem solving in a variety of application domains including engineering, business, public policy, medicine, security, etc. EuroVA will be held on June 4th-5th, 2012, in Vienna, Austria, as a workshop of the annual EuroVis 2012 Conference.

The EuroVA 2012 program will include a two keynote talks, from Jean-Daniel Fekete and Helwig Hauser, and short paper presentations. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual techniques, which requires interdisciplinary science integrating techniques from visualization and computer graphics, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more.

TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:

• Visual representations and interaction techniques
• Data management and knowledge representation
• Data analysis and machine learning
• Cognitive and perceptual aspects
• Infrastructure and Evaluation
• Applications, as far as they are strictly related to visual analytics.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Short Paper submission deadline: March 2nd, 2012
• Notification of acceptance: April 2nd, 2012
• Camera-ready papers due: April 17th, 2012
• EuroVA Workshop: June 4th – 5th, 2012

SHORT PAPERS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Short papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum), must be prepared using the formatting guidelines (size of fonts, illustrations,…) which can be found at http://www.eurova.org/wp-content/uploads/egPublStyle-EuroVA2012.rar. Authors of accepted short papers will give an oral presentation. Submission site: TBA

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

• Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Forschungs-GmbH, Austria
• Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Aigner Wolfgang – Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Austria
• Andrienko Natalia – Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
• Bak Peter – IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
• Baudel Thomas – ILOG-IBM, France
• Bertini Enrico – University of Konstanz, Germany
• Chang Remco – Tufts University, USA
• Chen Min – University of Oxford, England
• Ebert David – Purdue University, USA
• Ertl Thomas – Stuttgart University, Germany
• Fekete Jean-Daniel – INRIA, France
• Fisher Brian – Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Hauser Helwig – University of Bergen, Norway
• Isenberg Petra – INRIA, France
• Johansson Jimmy – Linkoping University, Sweden
• Keim Daniel – University of Konstanz, Germany
• Kienreich Wolfgang – Know Center in Graz, Austria
• Kohlhammer Jorn – Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
• Miksch Silvia – Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Pike Bill – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
• Pohl Margit – Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Ribarsky Bill – UNC Charlotte, USA
• Roberts Jonathan – Bangor University
• Scholtz Jean – National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
• Schumann Heidrun – University of Rostock, Germany
• Telea Alexandru – University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Tominski Christian – University of Rostock, Germany
• Van Wijk Jarke – Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Ward Matt – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Weaver Chris – University of Oklahoma, USA
• Weiskopf Daniel – University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Wittenburg Kent – MERL, USA
• Wong Pak – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
• Wrobel Stefan – University of Bonn, Germany

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies. The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.

This iVAC Newsletter features:

• 2nd Annual Maritime Risk Symposium
• CCICADA Student Conference on Discrete Math
• Flood Mitigation on the Raritan River
• IN-SPIRE Tool Transitioned to DHS ICE
• Morgan State Students Visit VACCINE
• SensePlace2: Acknowledged for Enabling Social Media Analysis
• VACCINE Intern Wins SURF Poster Award
• VACCINE Receives Excellence Award for Work with US Coast Guard
• VACCINE Utilizing Latest Technology with Liferay
• VACCINE Working with Police on Gang-Graffiti, Hazmat Tools
• VAST: a IEEE Conference for First Time

Read the newsletter here:

iVAC Newsletter December 2011

Call for Participation – Registration deadline: 30 September 2011

PROMISE Winter School 2012 on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization

Zinal, Valais – Switzerland
23 – 27 January 2012

Website

AIM AND SCOPE

The aim of the Promise Winter School on information retrieval and information visualization is to give participants a grounding in the core topics that constitute the multidisciplinary area of multilingual and multimedia information retrieval. Other topics of the school will include usability of systems, system evaluation, social media and several other related fields.

The school is a week-long event consisting of guest lectures from invited speakers who are recognized experts in the field of information retrieval and information visulization.

The school mainly targets PhD and Master students but all other researchers or participation from industry is welcome. Some scholarships are available and prices are kept reasonable to allow for a wide participation.

Time is also foreseen to get in contact with the experts and the participants are encouraged to prepare a poster on their personal research project for a general poster session during the first day.

LECTURES

• Introduction to Information Retrieval (Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
• Introduction to Information Visualization (Robert Spence, Imperial College London, UK)
• Human Computer Interaction Principles (Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy)
• Human Computer Interaction View of Information Retrieval Evaluation (Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
• User-oriented Information Retrieval (Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Information and Library Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Evaluating User-oriented Information Retrieval (Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland)
• Multilingual Information Retrieval (Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland)
• Multimedia Information Retrieval (Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• TREC Style Evaluation (Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA)
• Metrics, Statistics, Tests (Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
• Number Visualization (Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
• Visual Analytics (Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
• Web Personalisation (Vincent P. Wade, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Log File Analysis (Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Crowdsourcing (Gareth Jones, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland)
• Retrieval from Social Media (Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

IMPORTANT DATES

• Registration deadline: 30 September 2011
• Notification: Mid October 2011
• Winter School: 23 – 27 January 2012

ORGANIZATION

General Chair

• Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Program Commitee

• Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
• Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
• Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
• Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Publicity Chair

• Centre for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Italy
• Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France

Local Organization

• Alexandre Cotting, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
• Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

CONTACT

For any information please contact:

winter-school[at]promise-noe.eu

or visit the Winter School Website.

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies. The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.

This iVAC Newsletter features:

• The PIE Research Roadmap
• Emergency Management Gap Analysis
• Activity Awareness Dashboard
• PIE Recommender Systems
• LiveWall
• PIE Stakeholder Advisory Group

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iVAC Newsletter August 2011

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies. The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.

This iVAC Newsletter features:

• Enterprise Resiliency Experiment – a technology experiment with end users in the Northwest Region of Canada and the U.S.
• Health Emergency Situational Awareness on Smart Phones – work underway at CCICADA through a grant from the New Jersey Department of Health
• Multimedia Analytics – the Canopy Suite being developed by PNNL
• UKVAC Kick-off Meeting – Phase II of the UKVAC begins!
• Datasets for Visual Analytics Research – made available by the UKVAC
• An AWSM Experiment! – CCICADA conducts a social media experiment on the campus of Rutgers University
• IEEE 2011 VisWeek Discovery Exhibition – learn how Visual Analytics is impacting users!
• Proceedings Published for 2011 DHS S&T University Summit – 37 white papers from the Summit are now available in a special on-line edition of the Journal of Homeland Security

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iVAC Newsletter June 2011