[Ieee_vis] CfP: WOIV'19: 4th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization

[Thomas Theussl]

Call For Papers
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WOIV 2019: 4th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization
http://www.woiv.org
https://easychair.org/cfp/WOIV19
 
When 	June 20, 2019
Where 	Frankfurt, Germany

*** Submissions due April 19, 2019 ***

Held in conjunction with ISC High Performance 2019: The Event for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage
http://www.isc-hpc.com/
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### Scope

Large-scale HPC simulations with their inherent I/O bottleneck have made in
situ visualization an essential approach for big data analysis. The
International Workshop on In Situ Visualization (WOIV) provides a venue for
speakers to share and exchange practical expertise and experience with methods,
workflows and applications.

For this 4th edition of the workshop, submissions are encouraged on
approaches that did not deliver the anticipated results or did not live up to their
expectations. Here, a focus is expected to be on first-hand reports on lessons learned,
discussing potential reasons why the approach did not work out as originally intended.
In general, speakers should detail if and how the application drove abstractions or other
kinds of data reductions and how these interacted with the expressiveness and
flexibility of the visualization for exploratory analysis.

The workshop brings together a wide-ranging audience of visualization scientists,
computational scientists, and simulation developers, who are involved in the development,
deployment, or maintenance of in situ visualization approaches on HPC
infrastructures. The main focus of the workshop is to provide practical insights
that serve as inspiration for attendees to develop, refine and avoid pitfalls in
their own HPC environments. In addition, submissions are encouraged that present
currently open practical challenges in big data analysis and discuss potential solution approaches.

Areas of interest for WOIV include, but are not limited to:

    In situ infrastructures

       * Current Systems: production quality and research prototypes
       * Successful and unsuccessful approaches, dead ends
       * Opportunities / Gaps

    Methods/algorithms/applications/Case studies

       * Best practices
       * Analysis: feature detection, statistical methods, temporal methods,
	 geometric methods
       * Visualization: information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics
       * Learning-based approaches
       * Data reduction / compression
       * Examples/case studies of solving a specific scientific challenge with
         in situ methods / infrastructures

    Simulation

       * Integration: data modeling, software-engineering
       * Resilience: error detection, fault recovery
       * Workflows for supporting complex in situ processing pipelines

    System resources, hardware, and emerging architectures

       * Enabling Hardware
       * Hardware and architectures that provide opportunities for in situ
	 processing, such as burst buffers, staging computations on I/O nodes,
	 sharing cores within a node for both simulation and in situ processing

    Requirements

       * Preservation of important elements
       * Significant reduction of the data size
       * Flexibility for post-processing exploration

### Review Process

All submissions will undergo a peer-review process by experts in the field, and
will be evaluated according to relevance to the workshop theme, technical
soundness, thoroughness of success/failure comparison, and impactfulness of
method/results.

### Submission and Publication Instructions

We accept submissions of papers with at most 12 pages (excluding references) in
Springer single column LNCS style, see LaTeX and Word templates at

	http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

The review process is single or double blind, we leave it to the discretion of
the authors whether they want to disclose their identity in their submissions.
Submissions are exclusively handled via EasyChair:

	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=woiv19

The reviewing process will proceed in two stages. First, authors will receive
a notification for presentation of their paper at this year's WOIV'19 Workshop
on In Situ Visualization. After submission of a workshop-ready version, the
paper will undergo another review cycle, which will include notes and comments
from the presentation. Accepted papers will appear as post-conference workshop
proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Preliminary (workshop-ready) versions will be made available to workshop
participants during ISC.

### Important Dates

- Submission deadline: April 19, 2019, anywhere on earth
  --- First review cycle ---
- Notification for presentation at workshop: June 3, 2019
- Worshop-ready deadline: June 17, 2019
- Workshop: June 20, 2019
  --- Second review cycle ---
- Notification for inclusion in proceedings: July 7, 2019
- Camera-ready deadline: July 21, 2019

### Committee

- Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart
- Peter Messmer, NVidia
- Thomas Theussl, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

### Website, Venue, Registration

- Website: http://woiv.org
- Submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=woiv19
- Venue: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/fradt-frankfurt-marriott-hotel/
- Workshop registration: http://www.isc-hpc.com/registration.html