<div dir="ltr"><span id="m_457878402977725734gmail-docs-internal-guid-58dcfcad-22d1-2a28-b4ed-252779fa7329"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EuroVA 2018 Workshop</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.eurova.org" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.eurova.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EuroVA 2018 is the ninth international EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It will take place on Monday, June 4, 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual Analytics is a problem-solving and sense-making technology that integrates analytical computations, visual representations, and interaction. It includes the analysis of complex (massive, dynamic, ambiguous, conflicting, …) data and information for gaining understanding, building knowledge, and inferring insight. Visual Analytics aims at a synergistic collaboration of humans and computers mediated through interactive visual interfaces. As such, Visual Analytics is an interdisciplinary field of research, including aspects of visualization, human-computer interaction, statistics and mathematics, data management and knowledge representation, data analysis and machine learning, cognitive and perceptual sciences, and more.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EuroVA 2018 is the best place to present and discuss ideas of new methods and theories, interesting applications, designs, and studies of the use of Visual Analytics methods and systems. The workshop will accept a range of paper types, including technique, system, application, evaluation and theory papers in the area of Visual Analytics.</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Submissions</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop seeks to attract innovative, fresh and creative ideas with a high potential of becoming significant contributions to the Visual Analytics community. We welcome </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">research papers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> that introduce new Visual Analytics concepts, methods, or techniques,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="m_457878402977725734gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">application papers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> that describe success stories of Visual Analytics in practice, and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="m_457878402977725734gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">position papers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> expressing novel and potentially controversial viewpoints on Visual Analytics.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop covers a broad range of topics in the area of Visual Analytics:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual representations of complex data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interaction techniques for data analysis</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Computational methods to support analysis tasks</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theoretical foundations of Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cognitive and perceptual aspects</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Infrastructures and architectures for Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data management, data provenance, and data uncertainty</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evaluation of Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual Analytics applications</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hot Topics</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We especially encourage submissions reporting late-breaking results in the upstream topics:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sports Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Progressive Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Immersive Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Big Data Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual Analytics and deep learning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Decision making and analytical workflows using Visual Analytics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual Analytics of streaming data</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission: February 23, 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification: March 23, 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready: April 20, 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:18pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop: June 4, 2018 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(New this year: EuroVA will be only on Monday!)</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Guidelines</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Papers, 4 pages in length + 1 extra page for references (maximum) must be prepared using the EuroVA LaTeX template, which can be downloaded here: </span><a href="http://www.eurova.org/wp-content/uploads/egPublStyle-EuroVA2018.zip" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">egPublStyle-EuroVA2018</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Papers are to be submitted via </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the new</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> PCS at: </span><a href="https://new.precisionconference.com/eurova18a/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://new.<wbr>precisionconference.com/<wbr>eurova18a/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop to present the accepted work. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The EuroVA 2018 Workshop Proceedings will be published by the </span><a href="https://www.eg.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eurographics Association</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and be stored on the </span><a href="https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/982" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eurographics Digital Library</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers</span></h1><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program chairs</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christian Tominski, University of Rostock</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tatiana von Landesberger, Technische Universität Darmstadt</span></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Publicity chair</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Behrisch, Harvard University</span></p><br><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-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