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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Please find below the 2nd call for papers for a special issue of<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">ACM
Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (<span style="margin: 0px">TiiS</span>)<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">(</span><a href="https://tiis.acm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline">https://<span style="margin: 0px">tiis</span>.acm.org</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">)
on “</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Interactive Visual Analytics for Making Explainable and Accountable Decisions</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">”
as a follow-on from this year’s EuroVA & MLVis workshops at EuroVis 2019. <br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Cagatay Turkay, Tatiana von Landesberger, Remco Chang, Shixia Liu, Daniel Archambault</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (<span style="margin: 0px">TiiS</span>)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Special Issue on Interactive Visual Analytics for Making Explainable and Accountable
Decisions</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Background</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Due to recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, complex and advanced machine learning
models have been developed and used increasingly in making data-driven decisions that have significant impact on science, business, and the wider society. Although effective, the complexity of these models can often make the results difficult to understand,
explain, evaluate, and scrutinize. There is therefore a significant demand from governments, businesses, and the wider society for interpretable, explainable and accountable decision-making models and systems.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Interactive visual analytics offer great potential in this space by marrying human intelligence
with machine power, through, including but not limited to, visual representations of data and interaction techniques, to aid humans in better generating, interpreting, evaluating, and deploying statistical and machine learning models. In this special issue,
we will feature cutting-edge research where interactive visual analytics methods are applied together with complex computational methods for making explainable and accountable decisions informed by data.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Scope, Description, and More Information</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">This special issue invites submissions that feature original research on designing, developing
and evaluating interactive visual analytics methods that empower their users to make explainable and accountable inferences and decisions based on massive amounts of data. A suitable submission must also demonstrate its relevance to<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px">TiiS</span>,
the premier journal featuring interactive intelligent systems with two distinct characteristics:<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">intelligence</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>and<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">interactivity</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">.
In particular, a suitable submission must exhibit or discuss how the resulting approaches, techniques, or systems advance an interactive intelligent system. Interdisciplinary and applied research is especially encouraged.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Role of interactive visualization in interpretable and explainable machine learning</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Human factors in making decisions with machine learning models</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Facilitating algorithmic transparency and accountability through visual analytics</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Interactive visualization for supporting non-experts in creating and interpreting complex
analysis results</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Visual analytics for interactive, informed machine-learning model building</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Uncertainty-aware visual analytics for the consideration of inherent uncertainty in data
and models</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Interactive visual analytics for addressing biases in the data and machine learning models </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Schedule</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Full paper submission deadline: November 17th, 2019</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">First author notification: Feb 14th, 2020</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Revised paper due: April 20th, 2020</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Final author notification: May 15th, 2020 </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Expected publication: Summer 2020</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Guest Editors </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Dr. Cagatay Turkay,<span style="margin: 0px">
</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">University
of Warwick<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(32, 33, 36)">Prof. Tatiana von Landesberger,<span style="margin: 0px">
</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(32, 33, 36)"><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(32, 33, 36)"><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(32, 33, 36)">Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Dr. Remco Chang,<span style="margin: 0px">
</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Tufts
University</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.2"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Dr. Shixia Liu</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px">,
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Tsinghua
University</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Swansea
University</span></p>
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author information and submission details.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman""><br>
</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">For further information, please contact<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><a href="mailto:vaxad_acm_tiis@googlegroups.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline">vaxad_acm_tiis@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"">Online version of the CFP can be found on<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><a href="https://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.cfm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline">https://<span style="margin: 0px">tiis</span>.acm.org/special-issues.cfm</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span></b><br>
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