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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">The Event Event: IEEE VIS Workshop on Temporal and Sequential Event Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">(In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2016, Oct 23th or 24th, Baltimore, MD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Website: http://eventevent.github.io<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">CALL FOR PAPERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">—————-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">As visualization researchers, our ongoing challenge is often to leverage the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">voluminous data that is being captured to drive decision making and insights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Common to such data are temporal events, data points with both a timestamp and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">event type, so understanding patterns of temporal event sequences is an<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">important problem to many domains. For example, medical researchers may wish to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">leverage the data captured by electronic health records to determine if certain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">sequences of medical events correlate with positive outcomes. Similarly, city<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">government officials may wish to leverage the temporal data collected from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">their transportation systems, call centers, and law enforcement agencies to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">improve their cities’ services. Engineers might analyze temporal events from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">system logs to manage large-scale distributed system performance. Consumer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">services analysts might seek to understand social media and shopping patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Recently, there has been an increasing amount of visualization research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">focusing on temporal events. Papers on this topic have appeared at IEEE VIS,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">other visualization conferences, and at many domain-specific venues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">The main question behind the proposed workshop is: How can we unify and advance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">the role of visualization in temporal event analysis? The workshop will gather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">visualization researchers together to discuss the interesting opportunities and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">challenges visualization may face with temporal events. It aims to both gather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">the existing literature on the subject and build a research agenda for future<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">In order to encourage collaboration and comparison, we will distribute 1-2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">sample datasets before the workshop. We will encourage, but not require,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">presenters of papers and demos to show how their system performs on these<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">sample datasets; this will better allow us all to discuss the tradeoffs of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">different designs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">TOPICS AND SCOPE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">——————<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">This workshop aims to increase awareness about this interesting opportunity for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">visualization research, collect and compare examples of existing and ongoing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">research in this area, and to create a preliminary temporal event analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">research agenda for visualization researchers. The workshop will allow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">participants to showcase their existing research and ideas, and to learn and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">reflect on the latest advances in visualization of temporal events. Therefore,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">work which addresses any of the following questions would be highly relevant:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How can visualization help data scientists make sense of temporal events?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How can end users be sure the visualizations are made of temporal-relevant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> features?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How can visual analytics help researchers include their domain knowledge into<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> the temporal event analysis process?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How do we build benchmark datasets and ground truth to objectively compare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> different temporal event visualizations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ What are good and suitable processes to ensure usefulness of event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> visualizations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How can we use visual analytics to “explain” patterns derived from frequent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> sequence data mining algorithms?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How can visualization help sequence visualizers gain trust into their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> results?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ How can we compare and evaluate extant methods for temporal event analysis?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ What techniques are good for what situations (many different event types vs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> few event types; many users vs. few users; long streams vs. short streams?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Can we gather some sample datasets to help compare and contrast existing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> techniques?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Visualization techniques for temporal event analysis,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Real and synthetic data sets and benchmarks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Taxonomies of temporal event analysis tasks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Case studies, user Challenges, and user Stories of temporal event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> visualizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Theory and algorithms for event analysis (e.g., data structures, models,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> taxonomies, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS, FORMAT GUIDELINES, AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">—————————————<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">SUBMISSION TYPES:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">We solicit a wide range of submissions which fall within the scope outlined<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">above. Authors are invited to submit to any of three tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Research papers (3-4 pages) should present new work or a novel synthesis of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">already published research contributions. Articles describing emerging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">research or works-in-progress are welcome. Submissions will be peer-reviewed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">by the organizers and accepted manuscripts will be made available on the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">workshop website. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to orally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">present their work during the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Position papers (1-2 pages) are short statements describing ideas to discuss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">during the workshop. They will be peer-reviewed by the organizers, and accepted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">papers will be made available on the workshop website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">▪ Poster or Interactive Demonstration abstracts (1-2 pages). Submissions will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">be peer-reviewed by the organizers, and accepted abstracts will be made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">available on the workshop website. Authors of accepted papers will have the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">opportunity to showcase their work during a poster/demo session at the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">FORMAT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">All submissions, regardless of track, should follow the IEEE VIS format<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">guidelines as outlined on this website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">All submissions should be made via the electronic submission system:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=event2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">—————-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Deadline for submission: August 22, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Workshop date: October 23th or 24th, 2016 (exact date to be determined)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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