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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science and Technology Organization (STO) is holding a symposium and workshop on visual analytics at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Swindon, Wiltshire in the United Kingdom. They will be held on October 28 - 31, 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Example topics in visual analytics include but are not limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Analytical reasoning <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Cognitive processes <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Counter IED operations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Cyber operations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Networks <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Health safety and health services delivery <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Bio-terrorism <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>All-source intelligence <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Humanitarian operations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>User-selectable complexity <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Information trails <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Information abstraction <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Display characteristics affecting visual analytics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Experimental measures <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>System safety and monitoring <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Evaluation and use cases <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Spatio-temporal techniques <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Mathematical foundations of data transformations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Uncertainty <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>For those wishing to submit a paper, a mandatory maximum two-page extended abstract of proposed papers are </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:windowtext'>due June </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>1, 2013. For authors from the United States the abstracts are </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:windowtext'>due May 21, 2013</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>. All information on the symposium and submission process can be found in the full CFP at <a href="http://www.vacommunity.org/NATO-VA-Symposium_2013">http://www.vacommunity.org/NATO-VA-Symposium_2013</a>. All presented papers will be published as part of the official NATO proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Immediately following-on from this Symposium, there will be a Workshop which will consist of focused discussions to augment and refine understanding of themes derived from the work of this Symposium. Most workshop participants will have attended the Symposium but there is a separate workshop enrolment form and CFP at <a href="http://www.vacommunity.org/NATO-VA-Workshop_2013">http://www.vacommunity.org/NATO-VA-Workshop_2013</a>. Attendance to the workshop is conditional upon provision of a short note (a maximum of 500 words) of technical interests and/or problems for working group discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Registration is Free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>If there are any questions concerning the symposium or workshop please contact Margaret Varga (</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:mjvarga@robots.ox.ac.uk">mjvarga@robots.ox.ac.uk</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>) or Richard May (<a href="mailto:richard.may@pnnl.gov">richard.may@pnnl.gov</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>