SIGKDD

Upcoming Issue

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: October 2, 2007
Acceptance notice: November 2, 2007
Camera-ready due: November 15, 2007
Publication: December 2007 issue

DESCRIPTION

ACM SIGKDD Explorations seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Visual Analytics, scheduled to appear in December 2007.

Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by the highly interactive visual interface. People use visual analytics tools and techniques to synthesize information; 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 beyond traditional data mining and visualization research to include statistics, mathematics, knowledge representation, data management, cognitive and perceptual sciences, decision sciences, and more.

Contributions to the special issue should help develop and/or apply the science of Visual Analytics. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Novel Visual Analytics techniques combining state-of-the-art knowledge discovery techniques with interactive visualization techniques.
• Science of analytical reasoning including the human analytic discourse, sense making methods, perception and cognition, and collaborative visual analytics.
• Data representation and transformations including scalable data signatures through statistical and semantic approaches for information (text, imagery, video, Web, ), synthesis of diverse information and data signatures within a high dimensional information space(s) for discovery of relationships, and mixed initiative systems.
• Visual Analytics applications and systems (Security, Telecommunication, Network management, Fraud prevention, Geoinformatics, Bioinformatics,...)
• Methods/tools for evaluation, security & privacy, interoperability, and technology insertion practice/experience.

Papers for this special issue will be chosen from the submissions whether they are unpublished results or previously included in conference publications. Extended versions of previous conference publications should contain at least 30% new material.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions should be made to the Guest editors Dr. Daniel A. Keim (keim at inf.uni-konstanz.de) and Dr. Joern Schneidewind (schneide at inf.uni-konstanz.de) preferably in PDF format and should not exceed 8 pages. In addition, please email the abstract in text-format.

Detailed formatting instructions and templates are available from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/submissions.php
Submissions will be reviewed externally.

Please address the correspondence regarding this special issue to the Guest Editors:

Daniel Keim University of Konstanz keim at inf.uni-konstanz.de

Joern Schneidewind University of Konstanz schneide at inf.uni-konstanz.de

ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS

Please address the correspondence regarding this special issue to the Guest Editor: keim at inf.uni-konstanz.de

We also invite articles of general interest to the SIGKDD community that might fall outside the special issue theme. Submissions can be made in any one of the following categories.

• survey/tutorial articles (short) on important topics not exceeding 15 pages
• topical articles on problems and challenges
• well-articulated position papers
• technical articles not exceeding 15 pages.
• news items on the order of 1-3 paragraphs
• Brief announcements not exceeding 5 lines in length.
• review articles of products and methodologies not exceeding 20 pages
• reviews/summaries from conferences, panels and special meetings.
• reports on relevant meetings and committees related to the field
• for-pay advertisements