10th Doctoral Research Workshop

Information Visualisation

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Information Visualisation Conference

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The Information Visualisation Conference (iV) is an international conference that aims to provide a foundation for integrating the human-centred, technological and strategic aspects of information visualisation in order to promote international exchange, cooperation and development. Building upon the reported success of last year workshop, IVS is pleased to announce the 10th Doctoral Research Workshop which will run as part of the 20th International Conference on Information Visualisation (iV2016).

 

Doctoral Research workshop

This workshop focuses on the issues that doctoral students face during their studies and includes following interactive sessions the theme for this year workshop:

Tutorial session with Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets

Impact Design for your research

 

 

Tuesday 19 July 2016

09:00

< Universidade NOVA de Lisboa   R-Atrium >

Registration

10:00

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13:00

< Universidade NOVA de Lisboa   SBE-217 >

Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets

Alfred Inselberg

School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

A dataset with M items has 2M subsets anyone of which may be the one fullfiling our objectives. With a good data display and interactivity our fantastic pattern-recognition can not only cut great swaths searching through this combinatorial explosion, but also extract insights from the visual patterns. These are the core reasons for data visualization. With parallel coordinates (abbr. k-cs) the search for relations in multivariate datasets is transformed into a 2-D pattern recognition problem. The foundations are developed interlaced with applications. Guidelines and strategies for knowledge discovery are illustrated on several real datasets (financial, process control, credit-score, intrusion-detection etc) one with hundreds of variables. A geometric classification algorithm is presented and applied to complex datasets. It has low computational complexity providing the classification rule explicitly and visually. The minimal set of variables required to state the rule (features) is found and ordered by their predictive value. Multivariate relations can be modeled as hypersurfaces and used for decision support. A model of a (real) country economy reveals sensitivies, impact of constraints, trade-offs and economic sectors unknowingly competing for the same resources. An overview of the methodology provides foundational understanding; learning the patterns corresponding to various multivariate relations. These patterns are robust in the presence of errors and that is good news for the applications. We stand at the threshold of breaching the gridlock of multidimensional visualization. The parallel coordinates methodology has been applied to collision avoidance and conflict resolution algorithms for air traffic control (3 USA patents), computer vision (1 USA patent), data mining (1 USA patent), optimization, decision support and elsewhere.

KEYWORDS: Exploratory Data Analysis , Classification for Data Mining , Multidimensional Visualization , Parallel Coordinates , Multidimensional/Multivariate Applications

 

Further Details: Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets

13:00

< Universidade NOVA de Lisboa ● R-Atrium >

Lunch Break

14:00

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17:00

< Universidade NOVA de Lisboa ● SBE-217 >

Doctoral Research Workshop

14.00 Internet of Thing (IoT) in Healthcare, Pei Ling Lai of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology

14:15 Designing Research Impact

15:10 Set impact goals for a specific research project and devise strategies to achieve these

15:30 Break

16:00  Generate number of action points for generating impact from your research

Able to explain how to measure impact

Make Impact a key section of your Research

16:45 Group Discussion

17:00 Close

 


 

Contributors:

 

Bio-sketch

Text Box:  Alfred Inselberg received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) and was Research Professor there until 1966. He held research positions at IBM, where he developed a Mathematical Model of Ear (TIME Nov. 74), concurrently having joint appointments at UCLA, USC and later at the Technion and Ben Gurion University. Since 1995 he is Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He was elected Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputing Center in 1996, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Korea University in 2008 and DistinguishedVisiting Professor at National University of Singapore in 2011. Alfred invented and developed the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates for which he received numerous awards and patents (on Air Traffic Control, Collision-Avoidance, Computer Vision, Data Mining). The textbook Parallel Coordinates: VISUAL Multidimensional Geometry and its Applications, Springer (October) 2009, has a ful chapter on Data Mining and was acclaimed, among others, by Stephen Hawking.

 

 

Text Box:  Pei Ling Lai received a PhD from W. Scotland University in the UK. Her research interests include: Machine Learning and Visualization. Currently, she is a professor at the department of Electronics Engineering of southern Taiwan University and Science and Technology in Taiwan http://w3.eecs.stust.edu.tw/index.php?inner=teachers&list=4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timos Kipouros is a Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre of the University of Cambridge. He is also a Research Fellow at the Propulsion Engineering Centre in Cranfield University. He received his PhD in computational engineering design from the University of Cambridge and his first degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. Timos has research interests in interactive engineering design methodologies and the visualization and management of high-dimensional engineering data.

 

In this tutorial, Timos will emphasize the importance of visualization in engineering decision making, and in particular on how interactive parallel coordinates visualization is a key methodology to extract understanding from computational engineering design studies. Real world examples will also reveal how to link high level expectations and requirements of programs to key engineering performance characteristics and in extend to technical engineering design properties establishing communication between stakeholders and domain experts.