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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>SPIE 2014 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>February 3-5, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Hilton San Francisco, Union Square<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>San Francisco, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><a href="http://vda-conference.org">http://vda-conference.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>===============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Paper Submission Deadline: July 23, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Notification: October 7, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Final Manuscripts: November 25, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2014 covers all <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>research and development and application aspects of data visualization and, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>more recently, visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>their work and share their experience every year. We invite you to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>participate by submitting your original research as full paper or a poster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. The paper acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>rate at VDA 2012 was 48%. Papers presented at this conference will be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Papers and posters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Internet imaging, medical imaging, image processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Biomedical visualization and applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Internet, web, and security visualizations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Analysis techniques and data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Data exploration using classical and novel approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Databases and visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * High-performance computing and parallel rendering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Tools and applications exemplified by case studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Virtual environments and data visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Information and scientific visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Volume and flow visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Interaction paradigms and human factors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Big data visualization and analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Questions regarding paper submission or conference participation should be <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>directed to the conference chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Pak Chung Wong (<a href="mailto:pak.wong@pnnl.gov">pak.wong@pnnl.gov</a>), Pacific Northwest National Lab<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * David L. Kao (<a href="mailto:david.l.kao@nasa.gov">david.l.kao@nasa.gov</a>), NASA Ames Research Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Ming C. Hao (<a href="mailto:ming_hao@hp.com">ming_hao@hp.com</a>), Hewlett-Packard Labs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Chaomei Chen (<a href="mailto:Chaomei.Chen@cis.drexel.edu">Chaomei.Chen@cis.drexel.edu</a>), Drexel University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Conference Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>=================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Ming C. Hao, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Chaomei Chen, Drexel University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Conference Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>====================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Christoper G. Healey, North Carolina State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Mark A. Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Ian Roberts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>==================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Robert Erbacher, Northwest Security Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>=================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Aidong Lu, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Alark Joshi, Boise State Univ. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Barry Becker, Pros <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Bob Lewis, Washington State Univ. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Brown University <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Chad A. Steed, Oak Ridge National Lab. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Chaoli Wang, Michigan Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Christoph Garth, University of Kaiserslautern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Daniel Cernea, Univ. of Kaiserslautern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Donald A. Pellegrino, Dow Chemical <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Guoning Chen, The Univ. of Utah <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Guo-Shi Li, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Halldor Janetzko, Univ. Konstanz, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Hank Childs, University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Harald Obermaier, University of California, Davis <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Jaegul Choo, Georgia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * John Gerth, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Kalpathi R. Subramanian, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Lars Linsen, Jacobs Univ. Bremen gGmbH, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Madjid Allili, Bishop's Univ., Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Matti T. Gröhn, Ctr. for Scientific Computing, Finland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Ming-Hsuan Yang, UC Merced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Remco Chang, Tufts University <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Lab. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Shigeo Takahashi, University of Tokyo <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Sussan Einakian, The Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Computer Graphics and E-Learning <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Tobias Schreck, Univ. Konstanz, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Yi-Jen Chiang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'> * Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>