CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: VAST Papers
The IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST), founded in 2006 as the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, is the first international conference dedicated to advances in Visual Analytics Science and Technology. The scope of the conference, co-located with the annual IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference and the IEEE Information Visualization Conference, includes both fundamental research contributions within visual analytics as well as applications of visual analytics, including applications in science, engineering, medicine, health, media, business, social interaction, and security and investigative analysis. We invite you to participate in IEEE VAST 2013 by submitting your original research, application, or evaluation paper.
As a new feature for 2013, papers accepted to IEEE VAST will appear in a special issue (Dec 2013) of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). This special issue will be published online the first day of the conference. Papers (including supplemental material) will undergo a revision and review cycle after initial notification of review results in order to ensure that they are acceptable for publication and presentation in the journal. The paper and supplemental material will also appear in the IEEE Digital Library.
Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by highly interactive visual interfaces. People use visual analytics tools and techniques in all aspects of science, engineering, business, and government to synthesize information into knowledge; derive insight from massive, dynamic, and often conflicting data; detect the expected and discover the unexpected; provide timely, defensible, and understandable assessments; and communicate assessments effectively for action. The issues stimulating this body of research provide a grand challenge in science: turning information overload into the opportunity of the decade. Visual analytics requires interdisciplinary science, going beyond traditional scientific and information visualization to include statistics, mathematics, knowledge representation, management and discovery technologies, cognitive and perceptual sciences, decision sciences, and more. Your submission should help develop and/or apply Visual Analytics, clearly showing an interdisciplinary approach.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission (MANDATORY) | Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
Paper submission | Sunday, March 31, 2013 |
Notification of results of first review cycle | Thursday, June 6, 2013 |
Paper submission for second review cycle | Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
Final notification | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
Camera ready copy | Thurssday, August 1, 2013 |
All deadlines are at 5:00pm Pacific Time (PDT).
SUBMISSION
All three conferences appearing at IEEE VIS 2013 (VAST, InfoVis and SciVis) use the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle their submission and reviewing process. PCS is available at https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/. When submitting your manuscript please make sure that you submit it to your intended conference by clicking the appropriate conference header in the conference system landing page. If you are unsure which venue you should submit to, you can use the call for papers on this website, as well as last year's published proceedings as a guideline.
DETAILED SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
When preparing your submission, please make sure that you carefully read and adhere to the submission guidelines.
TOPICS
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
CHAIRS
Chris North, Virginia Tech
Giuseppe Santucci, University of Roma "La Sapienza"
Email: vast_papers(at)ieeevis.org.