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Call for Papers
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Special Issue "Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics"
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Big Data Research Journal, Elsevier (Impact Factor: 2.95)
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Information Visualization is nowadays one of the cornerstones of
Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced
through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big
Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that
are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a
data-curious user into someone who can access and analyze that
data is even more burdensome now for a great number of users with
little or no support and expertise on the data processing part.
Thus, the area of data visualization, visual exploration and
analysis has gained
great attention recently, calling for joint action from different research areas from the HCI, Computer graphics and Data management and mining communities.<br>
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In this respect, several traditional problems from these
communities such as efficient data storage, querying &
indexing for enabling visual analytics, new ways for visual
presentation of massive data, efficient interaction and
personalization techniques that can fit to different user needs
are revisited. The modern exploration and visualization systems
should nowadays offer scalable techniques to efficiently handle
billion objects datasets, limiting the visual response in a few
milliseconds along with mechanisms for information abstraction,
sampling and summarization for addressing problems related to
visual information overplotting. Further, they must encourage user
comprehension offering customization capabilities to different
user-defined exploration scenarios and preferences according to
the analysis needs. Overall, the challenge is to offer
self-service visual analytics, i.e. enable data scientists and
business analysts to visually gain value and insights out
of the data as rapidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop.<br>
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This special issue aims to publish work on multidisciplinary research areas spanning from Data Management and Mining to Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction.
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Topics for the Special Issue
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, high-dimensional, graph
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- Human-in-the-loop processing
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- Human-centered databases
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- Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications
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- Interactive machine learning
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- Interactive data mining
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- User-oriented visualization; e.g., recommendation, assistance, personalization
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- Visualization & knowledge; e.g., storytelling
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- Progressive analytics
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- In-situ visual exploration & analytics
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- Novel interface & interaction paradigms
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- Visual representation techniques; e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi-level, filtering
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- Scalable visual operations; e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing
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- Scientific visualization; e.g., volume visualization
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- Analytics in the fields of scholarly data, digital libraries, multimedia, scientific data, social data, etc.
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- Immersive visualization
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- Interactive computer graphics
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- Setting-oriented visualization; e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, visualization over networks
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- High performance, distributed & parallel techniques
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- Visualization hardware & acceleration techniques
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- Linked Data & ontologies visualization
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- Benchmarks for data visualization & analytics
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- Case & user studies
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- Systems & tools
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: October 1, 2020
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Author Notification: December 1, 2020
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Revised Manuscript Due: January 15, 2021
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Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2021
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Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2020
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Tentative Publication Date: May, 2021
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Guest Editors
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David Auber, University Bordeaux, France
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Nikos Bikakis, ATHENA Research Center, Greece
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Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece
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Mohamed Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
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