<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Call for Papers<br><br>IEEE Network Magazine<br><br>Special Issue on Computer Network Visualization, Nov./Dec. 2012 issue<br><br><br><br>Background<br><br>Computer networks are dynamic, growing, and continually evolving. As<br>complexity grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate to<br>human decision-makers the results of methods and metrics for<br>monitoring networks, classifying traffic, and identifying malicious or<br>abnormal events. Network administrators and security analysts require<br>tools that help them understand, reason about, and make decisions<br>about the information their analytic systems produce. To this end,<br>information visualization and visual analytics hold great promise for<br>making the information accessible, usable, and actionable by taking<br>advantage of the human perceptual abilities. Information visualization<br>techniques help network administrators and security analysts to<br>quickly recognize patterns and anomalies; visually integrate<br>heterogeneous data sources; and provide context for critical events.<br><br><br>Scope<br><br>This special issue seeks original articles examining the state of the<br>art, open issues, research results, evaluations of visualization and<br>visual analytic tools, and future research directions in computer<br>network visualization and visual analytics. All submissions should be<br>written to be understandable and appealing to a general audience.<br>Research papers should contain a substantial amount of tutorial<br>content and minimal mathematics. Topics of interest include, but are<br>not limited to:<br><br>* Uses of visualization for network status monitoring and situational<br>awareness<br>* Visualization methods employed in the classification of network<br>traffic and its analysis<br>* Visualization methods enhancing network intrusion detection and<br>anomaly detection<br>* Visualization methods for the analysis of network threats (e.g. botnets)<br>* Visualization methods for the analysis of network routing<br>* Methods for integrating analytics and visualization together for<br>network analysis tasks<br>* Methods for visually integrating heterogeneous data sources to<br>support network analysis tasks<br>* Case studies of open source visualization tools in network analysis tasks<br>* Evaluations of network visualization tools in situ<br><br><br>Manuscript Submission<br><br>Articles should be written in a style comprehensible and appealing to<br>readers outside the speciality of the article. Authors must follow the<br>IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its<br>format. For details, please refer to the "Guidelines for manuscripts"<br>at the IEEE Network Magazine web site at<br><a href="http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html">http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html</a>. Submitted papers<br>must be original work and must not be under consideration for<br>publication in other venues. Authors should submit their manuscripts<br>in PDF through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose this<br>special issue from the drop down menu on the submission page. Authors<br>uncertain about the relevance of their paper to this special issue<br>should inquire with the guest editors before submission.<br><br><br>Schedule<br>Submissions: April 1, 2012<br>Author notifications: July 1, 2012<br>Final papers: September 1, 2012<br>Publication: November 2012<br><br><br>Guest Editors<br><br>John Goodall<br>Oak Ridge National Lab<br><a href="mailto:jgoodall@ornl.gov">jgoodall@ornl.gov</a><br><br>John Gerth<br>Stanford University<br><a href="mailto:gerth@graphics.stanford.edu">gerth@graphics.stanford.edu</a><br><br>Florian Mansmann<br>University of Konstanz<br><a href="mailto:Florian.Mansmann@uni-konstanz.de">Florian.Mansmann@uni-konstanz.de<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></a></body></html>