October 2017

National conference on Big Data and more

2017-10-30

We would like to recommend you to go to the SSF – Vinnova third joint conference on Software for Competitiveness: Big Data and Other Frontiers held on November 14th in Stockholm.

Key note speakers

Inger Danilda, Quadruple Learning AB,
Irene Ek, Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis,
Seif Haridi, KTH & RISE SICS

This is also a great opportunity to meet and hear all about SSF and Vinnova projects within the area.

For more information and registration see the conference website.

/Diana

Invitation and sign up for the 3rd Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University

2017-10-26

Welcome to our 3rd annual Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University.

The conference this year’s host for the conference is Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA). We have invited researchers from our own Centre to present some of the work that has taken place within DISA this past year and Keynote and invited talks from other universities and partners.

When? Friday December 1st 2017 9.30-16.15

Where? Linnaeus University, Building: N, Room: IKEA, Växjö

During the day longer talks with an academic focus will be mixed with poster mingles during meals. We invite everyone that has an interest in Big Data and data intensive applications so please spread the invitation and information about the conference in your networks. Students are welcome to attend too. The presentations during the conference will be held in English.

The conference is free of charge, but if you register and don’t show up you will be charged a fee that covers food etc.

You can now register for the conference by clicking on the registration link below. Register here.

For program and more information see the conference website

Welcome!

Call for Submissions

2017-10-25

The 3rd Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University Växjö, December 1st, 2017

Submission deadline: Nov 13, 2017

Welcome to our 3rd annual Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University hosted by the Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA). Detailed information on the conference can be found on the following web page:

For the special session on initial research findings of the LNUC DISA, we invite submissions from DISA researchers to present their academically outstanding, previously published work at the Big Data Conference 2017.

Acceptance requirements:
(i) The underlying paper has been published in an excellent journal or conference proceedings not longer than two years before the conference.
(ii) The topic of the work is clearly related to data-intensive sciences and applications.
(iii) At least one of the authors is a DISA researcher.
(iv) At least one of the authors registers for the conference and attends the conference to give a presentation about the paper.Läs resten av detta inlägg»

Visualization focus in Phoenix, Arizona

2017-10-17

During October 1-6, 2017 Andreas Kerren, professor and Rafael Martins, Post-doc in Computer Science at Linnaeus University attended the IEEE VIS Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. IEEE VIS is the absolute top-level conference in the area of Visualization and this year they had, state-of-the-art presentations from the biggest names in the field.

During the conference Rafael Martins presented a paper at a co-located workshop, the 2nd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH). The purpose of the workshop was to propose new research directions in visualization for the digital humanities, to familiarize the visualization research community with the problems faced by digital humanities researchers, and to foster future collaboration between visualization and digital humanities research.The paper presented by Rafael Martin is entitled StanceXplore Visualization for the Interactive Exploration of Stance in Social Media

The conference had a very strong focus on the combination of Machine Learning (ML) and Visualization, both from the perspective of interactive steering of ML techniques and also explaining the inner workings of complex techniques such as Deep Learning. There was also a lot of discussion about Visualization literacy, meaning, how people understand Visualization and how to improve on this.

Overall the conference was productive and full of interesting and diverse work and we are looking forward to see how the new insights can become valuable in from a DISA-perspective.

Last chances for H2020-funding coming up

2017-10-10

In order to be well prepared for the last chances for H2020-funding its good to get a hold of the official documents and prepublications as soon as possible. Official publication of work programmes for the last period of H2020 is getting closer and prepublications are staring to be published. The final documents will be available from October 27 from the Participant Portal, find calls here. The prepublication of the main ICT part of the programme is now available.

Remember that minor changes can still be done.

More prepublications, for other parts of H2020, will follow during the coming weeks

Good luck!