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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-CN link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS – IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems Special Issue on Visual Analysis for ITS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sensing technologies, social media and large-scale computing infrastructures have produced a variety of traffic and transportation data, e.g., human mobility, mobile trajectories, mobile phone calls, traffic, and geographical data. Despite the wealth of research on intelligent transportation systems, contemporary analytical tools are often inadequate in regards to handling the large volume, sparseness and heterogeneity of data, let alone in supporting interactive visual analysis for data-intensive applications. Consequently, how to connect the data management technologies, analytics models and the experience of domain experts is the key to developing effective analysis schemes for transportation data. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The goal of visual analysis for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is to develop methods and tools that can help analysts understand and utilize traffic and transportation data in an inter-connected and relation-aware perspective Such tools and methods must couple visual representation, querying and reasoning via interactive displays in order to help manage ITS demands of the future. By employing visual channels to represent datasets and transforming various types of data into appropriate visual components, visualization can enhance a user’s understanding and analysis. Then, by coupling these visual representations with interactive queries, analysts can investigate and directly access selected data points or features, discovering interesting patterns or events. By interactively investigating data, analysts can engage in visual reasoning which allows users to derive insights, e.g., it is desirable to show only the most relevant portions of a dataset while suggesting directions for potential exploration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The special issue on “Visual Analysis for ITS” of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems aims to address issues related to the representation, visual design, visual mapping, interaction, analysis and applications of multi-variate and time-varying data collected in traffic and transportation systems. We solicit papers describing frameworks, theories, approaches, and techniques from visualization, visual data mining and visual analysis for designing, building and managing intelligent transportation systems. The topics include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. Visual representations, visual design, visual query, visual interaction, visual reasoning, visual decision-making for ITS;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. Visualization theories and visual analysis models for ITS;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. Descriptive and predictive visual analytics for ITS, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. Applications, Surveys, and Evaluation approaches of visual-assisted ITS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The tentative schedule for the Special Issue is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>First submission deadline: July 31th, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification of first decision: September 30th 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>First revision submission deadline: November 31th 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification of final decision: March 31th 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Final manuscript (camera ready) submission deadline: April 30th 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Issue of Publication: July 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Manuscripts must be submitted electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-its<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Guest Editors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gennady Andrienko (gennady.andrienko@iais.fraunhofer.de), Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany and City University London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Natalia Andrienko (natalia.andrienko@iais.fraunhofer.de), Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany and City University London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Wei Chen (chenwei@cad.zju.edu.cn), Zhejiang University, CHINA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ross Maciejewski (rmacieje@asu.edu), Arizona State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ye Zhao (zhao@cs.kent.edu), Kent University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>