International Workshop on
Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm
Mérida, Spain, October 26, 2006
I International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006
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Organizer
Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA
Email: chaomei.chen@cis.drexel.edu
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: May 15th
Full paper Submission: June 30th
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Motivations Keeping abreast the advances of science and technology poses a variety of challenges for scientists and practitioners. Understanding the dynamics and complexity of large-scale scientific and technological information intuitively and accurately requires persistent and integrative multidisciplinary and multi-perspective efforts.
Description The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different but potentially interrelated research arenas to identify theoretical and practical challenges and the potential of enabling techniques and promising approaches to advancing our ability to understand and keep track of the big picture of science and technology. Our ultimate goal is to meet identified challenges with easy to understand and easy to communicate visual analytics tools. We invite contributions from a number of relevant research areas to develop a joint research agenda and promote a wide range of exemplars for further studies.
Target Audience Researchers and practitioners who are interested in structural, temporal, and semantic dynamics of science and technology in general and any of the topics of interest listed below should participate and contribute to the workshop. Researchers in topic detection and tracking, social network analysis, text mining, natural language processing, information visualization and visual analytics are particularly welcome. We also extend our invitation to innovative contributions from other areas.
Topics of Interest Science and technology indicators Quantitative studies of science and technology Structural and temporal dynamics of science and technology Social networks in science and technology Topic detection and tracking Text mining and natural language processing Geospatial studies of information diffusion Progressive knowledge domain visualization Visual analytics in science and technology Network analysis and link analysis Bibliometrics, informetrics, and webometrics Trends in science and technology
Submission Submissions should be made as follows. A two-page extended abstract should be submitted to the workshop committee for review. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited for a full submission for the workshop.
Publications Best papers related to information visualization will be selected and invited to contribute to a special issue of Information Visualization. An edited volume containing all workshop papers is also being considered.
Program Committee Félix de Moya Anegón, Spain Jin Bihui, China Vicente Guerrero Bote, Spain Hsinchun Chen, USA Ata Kaban, UK Xia Lin, USA Juha Makkonen, Finland Ronald Rousseau, Belgium Fidelia Ibekwe SanJuan, France Henry Small, USA Mike Thelwall, UK Liwen Vaughan, Canada Pak Chung Wong, USA
Contact Info Inquires and submissions should be emailed to chaomei.chen@cis.drexel.edu.
Submission Details http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm
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