<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Paper deadline extended to Friday June 30th.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">-----------------</span></div><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div>3rd International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) Call for Papers</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Technical Sponsor: IEEE South Australia Branch</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">7-10th November 2017, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://bdva.net/" class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">http://bdva.net/</a><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">In the last decade, Big Data Analytics has become a major decision support</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">factor in industry and government organisations. Visual Analytics is the</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">enabling science for effective exploration of big data through meaningful</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">visualisations and interactive user interfaces. Understanding the</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">multidisciplinary nature, including user querying, powerful analytics,</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">machine learning, visualisation, human-computer interaction, perception and</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">cognition, is critical for Visual Analytics to be effectively deployed.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">The BDVA'17 Symposium will be held at the University of South Australia (UniSA)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">on 7-10th November 2017. BDVA'17 will host an exciting programme with</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">internationally renowned keynote speakers, special sessions, and a day of</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">complimentary hands-on workshops. BDVA'17 aims to</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* bring together leading experts from all relevant scientific domains to</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"> advance the understanding of visual analytics of complex, big, and</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"> dynamic data;</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* provide an exciting venue for researchers to network and establish</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"> national and international collaborations; and</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* provide early career scientists with an inspiring event allowing them to</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"> connect to relevant experts in the field.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">SCOPE</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">The symposium will accept a range of manuscript types, including methods,</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">systems, applications, evaluation techniques and theoretical work in</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Visual Analytics. The scientific scope of the symposium includes, but is</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">not limited to:</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Visual Analytics of High-dimensional and Spatio-temporal Data</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Scientific and Information Visualisation</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Machine Learning and Data Mining for Big Data Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Visual Representation and Interaction</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Perception and Cognition of Visual Information</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Context-driven User Querying</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Semantics-driven Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Evaluation Methods for Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* High Performance Graphics for Visualisation</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Advanced Technologies and Applications for Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Virtual and Augmented Reality for Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Art and Science for Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Big Data Management, Transformation, and Presentation</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Visual Analytics Processes and Workflows</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Simulation for Visual Analytics</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">SUBMISSION INFORMATION</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Regular papers</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished regular papers of</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">5-8 pages that report novel and mature work. Paper quality versus length</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">will be assessed based on a contribution-per-page judgment. Guidelines for</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">paper formatting and submission instructions are available on the</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">BDVA website </span><a href="http://bdva.net" class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">http://bdva.net</a><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">It is a condition of publication that accepted papers are presented by one</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">of the authors. Presenters of accepted papers must register before the</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the conference proceedings</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">and programme.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Poster and Demonstration Papers</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Authors are invited to submit poster papers that report work in progress and</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">demonstration papers of up to 6 pages. Poster and demonstration papers are</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">not archival publications and will be distributed to the conference attendees</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">on an USB flash drive. Guidelines for paper formatting and submission</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">instructions are available on the BDVA website </span><a href="http://bdva.net" class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">http://bdva.net</a><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Presenters of accepted poster- and demonstration papers must register before</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">the camera-ready deadline to avoid withdrawal from the conference programme.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Submission of regular papers closes: ** 30th June 2017 **</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Notification of regular paper acceptance: 11th August 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Submission of poster/demo papers closes: 18th August 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Submission of camera ready regular papers closes: 1st September 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Notification of poster/demo paper acceptance: 15th September 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Early bird registration closes: 23rd September 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Submission of camera ready poster/demo papers: 29th September 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">BDVA'17 Symposium: 7-10th November 2017</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">COMMITTEE</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">General Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Technical Programme Chairs</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Michael Wybrow (Monash University, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Wolfgang Mayer (University of South Australia, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Local Arrangements Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Stewart von Itzstein (University of South Australia, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Publicity Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Hongbo Xie (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Finance Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Thomasz Bednarz (Data61, CSIRO, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Publication Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Ulrich Engelke (Data61, CSIRO, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Poster & Demonstrations Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Tobias Czauderna (Monash University, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Workshops Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Huyen Nguyen (Data61, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Web Chair</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">James Baumeister (University of South Australia, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Steering Committee</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Tomasz Bednarz (Data61, CSIRO, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Ulrich Engelke (Data61, CSIRO, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Julian Heinrich (University of Tübingen, Germany)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Karsten Klein (University of Konstanz, Germany)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">Quang Vinh Nguyen (Western Sydney University, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">CONTACT</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">BDVA 2017 Program Co-Chairs:</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><a href="mailto:info@bdva.net" class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">info@bdva.net</a><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Michael Wybrow (Monash University, Australia)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;">* Wolfgang Mayer (University of South Australia, Australia)</span></body></html>