<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman"">My apologies for any cross postings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)">---</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman";color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman";color:black"><font size="4">Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)</font></span></b><span style="font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Limassol, Cyprus, March 13, 2017<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/esida2017/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr>esida2017/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Hosted by IUI 2017, March 13-16, 2017<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="http://iui.acm.org/2017/" target="_blank">http://iui.acm.org/2017/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black"> <br><br><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Workshop Topic and Description</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">In recent years, retrieval techniques operating on text or semantic annotations, have become the industry standard for retrieval from large data collections, such as documents, images, videos, music, medical data. This approach works well with sufficient high-quality meta-data or tagging. However, with the explosive growth of big data collections, it has become apparent that tagging new data quickly and efficiently is not always possible. Secondly, even if instantaneous high quality data tagging were possible, there would still be many instances, where search by keyword query is problematic. For example, in the case of image retrieval it might be easier for a user to define their query if they are looking for an image of a cat, but how would they specify that the cat should be of a particular shade of ginger with sad looking eyes? A solution to these problems is active engagement of the user in the information retrieval loop, thus enabling the user to not only explore a given dataset more easily but also gradually direct their search to a more specific area of the search space.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">The aim of this workshop is to explore new methods and interface/system design for interactive data analytics and management in various domains, including specialised text collections (e.g. legal, medical, scientific), multimedia, and bioinformatics, as well as for various tasks, such as semantic information retrieval, conceptual organization and clustering of data collections for sense making, semantic expert profiling, and document/multimedia recommender systems. The primary audience of the workshop are researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive and personalised system design as well as interactive machine learning both from academia and industry. IUI, with its focus on the intersection of HCI and AI, is a perfect venue where researchers from system/interface design community and the machine learning community can meet.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Workshop Target Areas</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">The workshop aims to solicit submissions in all areas of interactive data analytics and exploratory search including:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- design, testing and assessment of interactive systems for data analytics</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- interactive data visualisation for exploratory and investigative analysis</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- interactive classification and clustering of data</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- user assisted curation and validation of the analysis process, and generation of data visualisations</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- user engagement in the semantic analysis process via suitable annotation and correction tools</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- study of the trade-off between accuracy of the results and user effort</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- personalisation and user modelling related to interactive system design</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Submissions aimed at solving practical problems in specific application domains are especially welcome, including:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- digital libraries</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- legal document management</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- personalized online learning systems</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- news media</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- biomedical data</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- multimedia collections</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- specialised image and video collections, e.g. medical images.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- full papers (up to 8 pages in the ACM format), which will presented either as contributed talks or posters<br>- extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in ACM format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Submission information: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Submissions to the workshop will be through EasyChair, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2017" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>easychair.org/conferences/?<wbr>conf=esida2017</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:red"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">The accepted workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">In addition, a special issue with the title<b> </b>“Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)” will be proposed to an appropriate journal based on the contents of the accepted papers, for example the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="http://tiis.acm.org/" target="_blank">http://tiis.acm.org/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">. The special issue will involve an open call, to which workshop authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Important dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Submission deadline: December 16th, 2016 (midnight Hawaii time)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Acceptance notification: January 8th, 2017</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Final manuscript due: January 13th, 2017</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Workshop date:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">March 13th, 2017</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Workshop location:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus - </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="http://iui.acm.org/2017/venue.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">http://iui.acm.org/2017/<wbr>venue.html</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Organizers:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- Dorota Glowacka</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="mailto:glowacka@cs.helsinki.fi" target="_blank">glowacka@cs.<wbr>helsinki.fi</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- Evangelos Milios, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="mailto:eem@cs.dal.ca" target="_blank">eem@cs.dal.ca</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">    </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- Axel J. Soto</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="mailto:axel.soto@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank">axel.soto@<wbr>manchester.ac.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">- Fernando V. Paulovich</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black">, University of Sao Paulo, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"><a href="mailto:paulovic@icmc.usp.br" target="_blank">paulovic@icmc.usp.br</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:black"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(97,97,97)"></span></p><p c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