Program 2012

June 4th
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Opening

  • 13:30-13:45 Krešimir Matković and Giuseppe Santucci

Keynote (Session chair : Krešimir Matković)

  • 13:45-14:45 Jean-Daniel Fekete : Infrastructures for Visual Analytics: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike!

Abstract: When designing visual analytics systems, we lack support from existing software and hardware infrastructures. The wide diversity of systems components available nowadays increases the confusion by providing more possible architectures, each slightly different and none designed with visual analytics requirements in mind. This is the case for Cloud infrastructures, Grids, GPGPUs, Web services, NoSQL databases, to name a few. In this talk, I will present an organized landscape of existing architectures at the three levels of the visual analytics pipeline: data management, analysis, and visualization. I will then propose some high-level principles and requirements for visual analytics infrastructures to find our way in the maze of choices.

Papers – Visual Analytics Frameworks and Tools (Session chair : Krešimir Matković)

  • 14:45-15:05 Supporting Visual Analysis in Smart Meeting Rooms
    Axel Radloff, Georg Fuchs, Heidrun Schumann
  • 15:05-15:25 PCDC – On the Highway to Data – A Tool for the Fast Generation of Large Synthetic Data Sets
    Sebastian Bremm, Martin Heß , Tatiana von Landesberger, Dieter Fellner

Break

  • 15:25-15:50 Coffee break

Papers – Visual Analytics Theory (Session chair : Thorsten May)

  • 15:50-16:10 Visual Analytics for Dynamic Evacuation Planning
    Rajesh Reddy, Markus Höferlin, Michael Dambier, Daniel Weiskopf
  • 16:10-16:30 Scalable Cluster Analysis of Spatial Events
    Iulian Peca, Georg Fuchs, Katerina Vrotsou, Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko
  • 16:30-16:50 A System for Query Based Analysis and Visualization
    Allen Sanderson, Brad Whitlock, Oliver Rübel, Hank Childs, Gunther Weber, Mr Prabhat, Kenseng Wu
  • 16:50-17:10 Developing an Extended Task Framework for Exploratory Data Analysis Along the Structure of Time
    Tim Lammarsch, Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch
  • 17:10-17:30 Visual Exploration of Feature-Class Matrices for Classification Problems
    Wolfgang Kienreich, Christin Seifer

Break

  • 17:30-17:55 Coffee break

Papers – Visual Analytics Methodologies (Session chair : Silvia Miksch)

  • 17:55-18:15 Visual Text Analytics using Semantic Networks and Interactive 3D Visualization
    Philipp Drieger
  • 18:15-18:35 Visual Analysis of Explicit Opinion and News Bias in German Soccer Articles
    Daniela Oelke, Benno Geißelmann, Daniel A. Keim
  • 18:35-18:55 Visual Analytics of Microblog data for pandemic and crisis analysis
    Iwan Pritchard, Rick Walker, Jonathan Roberts
  • 18:55-19:15 The News Auditor: Visual Exploration of Clusters of Stories
    Michael Behrisch, Milos Krstajic, Tobias Schreck, Daniel Keim

Poster fast forward  (Session chair : Johannes Kehrer)

  • 19:15-19:35 Poster fast forward

Poster Exhibition and Welcome Reception

  • 19:35-21:35 Poster Exhibition and Welcome Reception

June 5th
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Opening

  • 08:50 -09:00 Kresimir Matkovic and Giuseppe Santucci

Papers – Visual Analytics Applications (Session chair: Wolfgang Kienreich)

  • 09:00-09:20 MultiNode-Explorer: A Visual Analytics Framework for Generating Web-based Multimodal Graph Visualizations
    Sohaib Ghani, Niklas Elmqvist, David Ebert
  • 09:20-09:40 AMPLIO VQA – A Web Based Visual Query Analysis System for Micro Grid Energy Mix Planning
    Andreas Stoffel, Leishi Zhang, Stefan Hagen Weber, Daniel Keim
  • 09:40-10:00 Visual Analysis of Public Transport Vehicle Movement
    Michael Wörner, Thomas Ertl
  • 10:00-10:20 Interactive Visual Analysis of Ethological Studies: Getting Insight from Large Animals’ Paths Ensembles
    Kresimir Matkovic, Christiana Winding, Rainer Splechtna, Michael Balka

Break

  • 10:20-10:45 Coffee break

Papers – Visual Analytics for Graph Visualization (Session chair : Giuseppe Santucci)

  • 10:45-11:05 Ontology visualization: one size does not fit all
    Isabel da Silva, Giuseppe Santucci, Carla del Sasso Freitas
  • 11:05-11:25 Graph Visualization Using Hierarchical Edge Routing and Bundling
    Wolfgang Kienreich, Ralph Wozelka, Vedran Sabol, Christin Seifert

Keynote (Session chair : Giuseppe Santucci)

  • 11:25-12:25 Helwig Hauser: The Iterative Process of Interactive Visual Analysis

Abstract: One central characteristic of our information age is that increasingly often we should ex­ploit the wealth of available data for the sake of learning, decision making, as well as other tasks.  A promising approach – not at the least also targeted by visual analytics – is to integrate the strengths of computers (fast computation, efficient handling of large datasets, comparably low costs, etc.) with the strengths of the users (perceptual capabilities, considering domain know­ledge, detecting the unexpected, etc.).  In this talk, we look at one possible solution, i.e., the concept of interactive visual analysis, and describe it as an iterative process, enabling the integration of computational and interactive means for data exploration and analysis.  We consider a data scenario that opposes dependent and independent data dimensions (like in a table), general enough to match many different application cases.  We focus on the case of multivariate data, but also address the case of high-dimensional data and opportunities for exploring and analyzing such data.  After all, we think of interactive visual analysis as an iterative process, where each step is performed on the basis of a toolbox with computational and interactive visual solutions.

Closing

  • 12:25 -12:35 Kresimir Matkovic and Giuseppe Santucci