Call for WVIS 2014 - 5th Workshop on Visual Analytics, Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization

Motivated by the increasing attention worldwide on visualization techniques, it took place during SIBGRAPI 2007, SIBGRAPI 2010, SIBGRAPI 2012, and at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2013, the first four workshops on "Interactive Visualization" (WiVis). As this area matures worldwide, and the link between visualization techniques and analytics tools gets stronger, we renamed the workshop to WVIS (Workshop on Visual Analytics, Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization). In this edition of the workshop, we aim at providing a forum for the dissemination of current work in the field, while fostering new research and collaborations. The workshop will be comprised of a poster session to promote discussions with the authors, and two invited talks by well-known researchers in the field.

A list of suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

  • Visual representations and interaction techniques: focus+context, brushing and linking, coordinate multiple views, zooming, navigation, etc.
  • Time-series analysis and visualization, streaming techniques for visualization, time-varying data analysis and visualization.
  • High-dimensional data and dimensionality reduction applied to visualization problems.
  • Mathematical foundations and algorithms for data transformations to allow interactive visual analysis.
  • Layout arrangement: graph drawing, overlap removal methods, and small multiples visualization.
  • Big data visualization: urban data, environmental data, etc.
  • Visualization, rendering and manipulation of spatial data: scalar, vector and tensor fields, flow fields, regular and unstructured grids, etc.

Invited Talks

WVIS 2014 will have 2 invited talks by well-known researchers in the field. We are finishing arrangements with the invited speakers, and notification of the names, titles and abstract of the talks will be announced as soon as possible.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: July 7th, 2014
  • Notification of acceptance: July 17, 2014
  • Final title and abstract due: July 24, 2014

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE standard (the same of the main conference). The papers should be submitted through the SBC system. We welcome short papers of 2-4 pages, including bibliography and illustrations. Since the goal of this edition of the workshop is to promote the area of visual analytics, information visualization and scientific visualization, we strongly encourage the submission of promising unpublished work, as well as high-quality published work in the area. We strongly believe that the dissemination and discussion of ideas will foster new collaborations and boost research in the area.

Reviewing Process

All papers will be reviewed by the four chairs organizing WVIS 2014. We will be looking for promising and novel ideas in unpublished work, or high-quality published work. The chairs will prepare a short summary of the evaluation for all papers submitted, and eventually suggest minor corrections for accepted submissions. Since we are considering unpublished and published work, in this edition of WVIS the accepted submissions will not have a formal publication, but instead will have have their paper title and abstract published in the web-page of the event. The authors of accepted papers will present their work in a fast forward session (1-2 mins), and a poster presentation session (1 hour). Instructions for the fast-forward session, as well as poster guidelines, will be given upon the notification of accepted papers.

Preliminary Agenda

The workshop will be held on Saturday, August 30th, with a fast-forward session on Friday, August 29th.

  • Friday, August 29, 2014

    • 18:00 – 18:30 Fast-forward session with oral presentations of 1-2 minutes for each work.

  • Saturday, August 30, 2014

    • 08:30 – 10:00 Invited Talk 1 (to be announced)
    • 10:00 – 11:00 Poster session (held adjacent to the coffee-break location)
    • 11:00 – 12:30 Invited Talk 2 (to be announced)
    • 12:30 – 12:35 Closing session

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