5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - IVAPP 2014
5-8 January, 2014
Lisbon, Portugal

(sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication)

Important Dates

Regular Papers
- Paper Submission: June 25, 2013
- Authors Notification: September 19, 2013
- Camera Ready and Registration: October 2, 2013

Position Papers
- Paper Submission: September 11, 2013
- Authors Notification: October 22, 2013
- Camera Ready and Registration: November 6, 2013

SCOPE

The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Information Visualization. The conference will be structured along several topics related to Information Visualization.
We welcome papers describing original work in any of the topics listed below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. ABSTRACT DATA VISUALIZATION
2. GENERAL DATA VISUALIZATION
3. SPATIAL DATA VISUALIZATION


AREA 1: ABSTRACT DATA VISUALIZATION

Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
Visual Representation and Interaction
Data Management and Knowledge Representation
Mathematical Foundations of Interactive Visual Analysis
Display and Interaction Technology
Databases and visualization, Visual Data Mining
Graph Visualization
Interface and Interaction Techniques for Visualization
Internet, Web and Security Visualization
Software Visualization
Information Visualization
Visual Analytical Reasoning
Hardware-Assisted Visualization
High-dimensional Data and Dimensionality Reduction
Text and Document Visualization

AREA 2: GENERAL DATA VISUALIZATION

Interactive Visual Interfaces for Visualization
Interpretation and Evaluation Methods
Knowledge-assisted Visualization
Large Data Visualization
Perception and Cognition in Visualization
Visualization Applications
Visualization Taxonomies and Models
Visualization Algorithms and Technologies
Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling
Time-dependent Visualization
Usability Studies and Visualization
Glyph-based Visualization
Collaborative Visualization
Coordinated and Multiple Views

AREA 3: SPATIAL DATA VISUALIZATION

Biomedical Visualization and Applications
Flow Visualization
GPU-based Visualization
Image/Video Summarization and Visualization
Multi-field Visualization
Parallel Visualization
Uncertainty Visualization
Vector/Tensor Field Visualization
Virtual Environments and Data Visualization
Volume Visualization
Scientific Visualization

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

IVAPP 2014 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

SECRETARIAT

IVAPP Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: ivapp.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/

VENUE

The Sana Lisbon Hotel is situated in the Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo (close to Marquês de Pombal), within walking distance of Lisbon historical center and easily reached from Lisbon International Airport or Santa Apolónia and Gare do Oriente Train Stations.

The hotel has eleven meeting rooms which are easily transformed for either small meetings or conferences for up to 900 people.

The modern and elegant decoration of all areas of the hotel have been conceived to create an atmosphere of comfort and tranquility to all guests.

Sana Lisbon Hotel's central location and good access routes are ideal for conferences, business meetings, social events and to explore the best that Lisbon has to offer.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

José Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Wolfgang Aigner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rita Borgo, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Maria Beatriz Carmo, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Remco Chang, Tufts University, United States
Guoning Chen, University of Houston, United States
Chi-Wing Fu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhao Geng, Swansea University, United Kingdom
David Gotz , IBM Research, United States
Charles Hansen , University of Utah, United States
Seokhee Hong , University of Sydney, Australia
Weidong Huang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Philip J Rhodes, University of Mississippi, United States
Jessie Kennedy , Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Martin Kraus, Aalborg University, Denmark
Simone Kriglstein, SBA Research, Austria
Denis Lalanne, University of Fribourg , Switzerland
Chun-Cheng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University, United States
Krešimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center, Austria
Luis Gustavo Nonato, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Steffen Oeltze, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Benoît Otjacques, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg
Alex Pang, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
Edmond Prakash, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Adrian Rusu, Rowan University , United States
Filip Sadlo, VISUS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock, Germany
Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Kitware Inc., United States
Sidharth Thakur, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), United States
Huy T. Vo, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, United States
Mark W Jones, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Chaoli Wang , Michigan Technological University, United States
Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University , Taiwan