Organising Committee
Honorary Chair:
Professor Farzad Khosrow-shahi, Victoria University, Melbourne, AU
General Co-Chairs:
Prof. Ebad Banissi, LSBU, UK
General Co-Chairs – Symposium Theme
Organising & Liaison Committee of Symposium
Publication Chairs:
Dr. Rita Francese, University of Salerno, IT
Prof. Joao Moura Pires, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PT (publicity chair)
Prof. Nuno Datia, ISEL-Inst. Politecnico de Lisboa, PT (web chair)
Dr Ana Figueiras, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PT (media chair)
Prof. Kawa Nazemi, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Steering Committee Chair:
to be announced
Local – ONLINE – coordinator:
GraphicsLink, UK
Overall Conference Coordinator:
GraphicsLink, UK
Programme Committee
- Abdellatif BETTAYEB, SA
- Ahmad Aljamali, KW
- Ahmad Khurshid, IE
- Alejandro Garcia-Alonso, ES
- Alexander Mikroyannidis, UK
- Alfred Inselberg, IL
- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, IT
- Alma Leora Culén, NO
- Ana Figueiras, PT
- Ana Paula Afonso, PT
- Ana Paula Cláudio, PT
- Andre Skupin, US
- Andrea Sterbini, IT
- Andrew Fish, UK
- Andrew Agapiou, UK
- Anna Ursyn, US
- Antonio Fernandez Anta, ES
- Arzu Çöltekin, CH
- Blaz Zupan, SI
- Bruno Martins, PT
- Camilla Forsell, SE
- Carla Limongelli, IT
- Carla M.D.S Freitas, BR
- Chen Zhong, UK
- Cheng-Chieh Chiang, TW
- Chris Walshaw, UK
- Christin Seifert, NL
- Christine Judith Nicholls, AU
- Chun-Cheng Lin, TW
- Clark Cory, US
- Damiano Distante, IT
- Daniel C Howe, HK
- Daniel Gonçalves, PT
- Daniela Sirbu, CA
- Davide Taibi, IT
- Delfina Malandrino, IT
- Donato Pirozzi, IT
- Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen, SG
- Ebad Banissi, UK
- Elena Railean, MD
- Elvira Popescu, RO
- Fabio Gasparetti, IT
- Fatma Bouali, FR
- Fatma Zohra Nouri, DZ
- Fernando A. Costa, PT
- Fernando Birra, PT
- Filippo Sciarrone, IT
- Fragkiskos Papadopoulo, CY
- Francesco Bianconi, IT
- Gearoid Patrick Lydon, CH
- Gehan Nagy, EG
- Gennady Andrienko, DE
- Gennaro Costagliola, IT
- Gilles Venturini, FR
- Giovanni Issini, IT
- Giuseppe Desolda, IT
- Giuseppe Polese, IT
- Haifeng Shen, AU
- Harri Siirtola, FI
- Hascoët Mountaz, FR
- Hideki Aoyama, JP
- Hovhannes Harutyunyan, CA
- Hsu-Chun Yen, TW
- Hussein Karam Abd-Elsattar, EG
- Ivana Marenzi, DE
- James Faure Walker, UK
- Janet Wesson, ZA
- Javier Diaz-Martinez, AU
- Jian J Zhang, UK
- João Moura Pires, PT
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, FR
- John Trobaugh, US
- Jorge Delgado, ES
- Joske Houtkamp, NL
- Katherine Liapi, GR
- Katja Wengler, DE
- Kawa Nazemi, DE
- Kok Why Ng, MY
- Laurent Moccozet, CH
- Maiga Chang, CA
- Malinka Ivanova, BG
- Mao Lin Huang, AU
- Marco Temperini, IT
- Maria Beatriz Carmo, PT
- Maria Caulo, IT
- Maria De Marsico, IT
- Mark Apperley, NZ
- Mark Bannatyne, US
- Maya Dimitrova, BG
- Md Mizanur Rahman, UK
- Michael Zeiller, AT
- Michele Risi, IT
- Michela Bertolotto, IE
- Milos Kravcik, DE
- Minoru Nakayama, JP
- Min-Yuh Day, TW
- Mohamed Salah HAMDI, QA
- Muhammad Hussain, SA
- Muhammad Sarfraz, KW
- Nacéra Benamrane, DZ
- Natasha Dejdumrong, TH
- Nicholas Diakopoulos, US
- Nicola Villa, IT
- Nuno Datia, PT
- Paloma Diaz, ES
- Pär-Anders Albinsson, SE
- Paul Cairns, UK
- Paul Sant, UK
- Pedro Miguel Cruz, US
- Peter James Rodgers, UK
- Peter Y Wu, US
- Philip Rhodes, US
- R. Brian Stone, US
- Rachid Anane, UK
- Rafael Santos, BR
- Ralf Klamma, DE
- Randolph George Goebel, CA
- Remo Burkhard, CH
- Ricardo Queiros, PT
- Richard Back, AU
- Richard Brath, CA
- Richard Laing, UK
- Rita Francese, IT
- Roberto De Prisco, IT
- Rocco Zaccagnino, IT
- Roman Durikovic, SK
- Rosane Minghim, BR
- Ryan Flynn, UK
- Sabrina Bresciani, CH
- Sarah Kenderdine, AU
- Sebastian Kernbach, CH
- Sergio Di Martino, IT
- Stefan Bertschi, UK
- Stefan Müller Arisona, SG
- Stefan Seipel, SE
- Steven A Conrad, US
- Stewart von Itzstein, AU
- Tania Di Mascio, IT
- Tatiana von Landesberger, DE
- Teng-Wen Chang, TW
- Teresa Romão, PT
- Teresa Roselli, IT
- Theodor Wyeld, AU
- Theresa-Marie Rhyne, US
- Timothy Cribbin, UK
- Ting-Ting Wu, TW
- Tom Arbuckle, IE
- Tony Ackroyd, UK
- Tully Barnett, AU
- Tumasch Reichenbacher, CH
- Ugo Erra, IT
- Umberto Nanni, IT
- Valery Adzhiev, UK
- Veronica Rossano, IT
- Vincenzo Del Fatto, IT
- Vincenzo Deufemia, IT
- Vittorio Fuccella, IT
- Volker Coors, DE
- Wei Zeng, SG
- Wibke Weber, CH
- Wolfgang Mueller, DE
- Yoshihiro Okada, JP
- Zulfiqar Habib, PK
- Zuzana Kubincova, SK
Organising & Liaison Committee of Symposium
InfVis – Information Visualisation Theory & Practice
- Ebad Banissi, VGRU, London South Bank University, UK
- Mao Lin Huang, University of Technology, Sydney, AU
IV-App – Applications of Information Visualization
- Fatma Bouali, University of Lille, FR
- Gilles Venturini, University of Tours, FR
Glyphs – Glyphs: Shapes, Icons, Text and Imagery in Visualization
- Ebad Banissi, London South Bank University, UK.
IVE – Information Visualization Evaluation
- Prof. Michele Risi, University of Salerno, IT
- Prof. Ugo Erra, University of Basilicata, IT
AI & Application – Artificial Intelligence and Application
- Boris Kovalerchuk, http://www.cwu.edu/~borisk
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, http://www.aurumahmad.com
Razvan Andonie, https://www.cwu.edu/faculty/andonie
Evgenii Vityaev, http://math.nsc.ru/AP/ScientificDiscovery/E.Vityaev/index.html
VA – Visual Analytics
- Prof. Ralf Dörner, Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Prof. Kawa Nazemi, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Dr Loredana Caruccio, University of Salerno, Italy
- Dr Autilia Vitiello, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
GVA – GeoVisual Analytics
- Joao Moura Pires, NOVA LINCS Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PT
- Nuno Miguel Soares Datia, NOVA LINCS and ISEL-Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, PT
KV – Knowledge Visualization and Visual Thinking
- Sebastian Kernbach & Martin J. Eppler, University of St.Gallen, Sankt Gallen, CH
- Remo Burkhard, ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
- Advisory Committee
- Sabrina Bresciani, University of St Gallen, http://www.sabrinabresciani.com
- Dominique Brodbeck, Macrofocus GmbH, http://www.macrofocus.com
- Tom Crawford, Visualization Network, http://www.viznetwork.com
- Serge Gebhardt, Jan Halatsch, Antje Kunze, Stefan Muller Arisona, Lukas Treyer, ETH Zurich, http://www.ia.arch.ethz.ch
- Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, http://www.cs.ualberta.ca
- Michael Granitzer, Wolfgang Kienreich, Vedran Sabol, Christin Seifert, Mario Zechner, Know-Center, http://www.know-center.at
- Michael Meier, vasp datatecture GmbH, http://www.vasp.ch
- Jeanne Mengis, University of Lugano (USI), http://www.usi.ch
- Roland Pfister, University of St. Gallen, http://www.mcm.unisg.ch
- Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven, http://www.asro.kuleuven.be
- Wibke Weber, Stuttgart Media University (HdM), http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de
- Chen Zhong, ETH Future Cities Laboratory Singapore
- Wei Zeng, ETH Future Cities Laboratory Singapore and NTU
- Advisory Committee
AIVDC – Advances in Interactive and Visual Data Clustering
- Hanane Azzag & Mustapha Lebbah, University of Paris 13, FR
- Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University, DE
VBI_OD – Visualisation in Business Intelligence and Open Data
- Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, IT
- Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno, IT
HCI – Human-Computer Interaction for Information Visualization
- Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, AUS
- Mountaz Hascoet, Universite Montpellier, FR
- Minoru Nakayama, Information and Communications Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
AGT – Applications of Graph Theory
- Carsten Maple & Dr Paul Sant, University of Bedforshire, UK
- Adrian Rusu, Department of Computer Science, Rowan University, USA
DHKV – Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation
- Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, AUS
- Sarah Kenderdine, National Institute of Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, AUS
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
- Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, AUS
- Sarah Kenderdine, Museum Victoria, AUS
- Ekaterina Prasolova-Forland, NTNU, Trondheim, NOR
- Teng-Wen Chang, NYUST, TWN
- Brett Leavy (CyberDreaming, AUS)
- Malcolm Pumpa, QUT, AUS
- Marinos Ioannides, CUT, CY
- Giovanni Issini, DFI, IT
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
LA – Learning Analytics
- Tania Di Mascio, University of L’Aquila, IT
- Marco Temperini, Sapienza University, Rome, IT
- Filippo Sciarrone, Sapienza University, Rome, IT
- Minoru NAKAYAMA, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Information and Communications Engineering, Japan- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
- Andrea Sterbini, Sapienza University, Rome, IT
- Carla Limongelli, RomaTre University, Rome, IT
- Davide Taibi, Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, CNR, Palermo, IT
- Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, RO
- Fabio Gasparetti, RomaTre University, Rome, IT
- Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, Hannover, DE
- Malinka Ivanova, TU Sofia, Bulgaria
- Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
- Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, DE
- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, DE
- Ting-Ting Wu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, TW
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
SSNN – Social Issues Analysis and Visualisation
- Paloma Díaz. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
- Fragkiskos Papadopoulos. Cyprus University of Technology, CY
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
- Antonio Fernandez Anta. IMDEA Networks Institute
- Andres Abeliuk, University of Southern California, USA
- Sotirios Chatzis, Cyprus University of Technology, CY
- Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, CY
- Kaj Kolja Kleineberg, ETH, Zurich, CH
- Steffen Lohmann . Fraunhofer IAIS / Universität Bonn (EIS), DE
- Alan MacEachren. Penn State University, USA
- Teresa Onorati. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
- Anxo Sánchez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
- Monica Sebillo. Università degli Studi di Salerno, IT
- Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
- Giuliana Vitiello. Università degli Studi di Salerno, IT
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
BiWA – Big data Visualization and Visual Analytics
- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, IT
VIS – Visualization
- Haim Levkowitz, Institute for Visualization and Perception Research And Graphics Research Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
VAD – Visualization, Art, & Design
- Sarah Kenderdine, National Institute of Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, AUS
- Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, AUS
- Ingo Gunther, USA
- Vibeke Sorensen, Nanyang Technological University, SGP
D-ART – Symposium of Digital Art and Gallery
- Anna Ursyn, Chair, University of Northern Colorado, USA
- D-Art 2018 Symposium and Online Gallery of Digital Art Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
- Dena Eber, Bowling Green State University, USA
- Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology, Sydney, AUS
- Marla Schweppe, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Daniela Sirbu, University of Lethbridge, CAN
- LiQuin Tan, Rutgers University, USA
- Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
- James Faure Walker, CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts, UK
- D-Art 2018 Symposium and Online Gallery of Digital Art Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
ARVA – Augmented Reality Visualization and Art
- Vladimir Geroimenko, The British University in Egypt, EGY
CAivDE – Computer Animation, Information Visualisation, and Digital Effects
- Mark W. McK.Bannatyne, Purdue University, USA
- Jian J Zhang, National Centre for Computer Animation
The Media School, Bournemouth University, UK
Multimedia – Multimedia and E-learning
- Rita Francese, Università degli Studi di Salerno | UNISA, IT
- Veronica Rossano, Technology Enhanced Learning Lab, University of Bari, IT
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
- Maria Caulo, University of Basilicata, IT
- Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno, IT
- Vincenzo del Fatto, Università di Bolzano, IT
- Giuseppe Desolda, Università di Bari, IT
- Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno, IT
- Rosa Lanzillotti, Università di Bari, IT
- Tommaso Minerva, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT
- Teresa Roselli, Università di Bari, IT
- Nicola Villa, Università di Trento, IT
- Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
Animate – Computer Animation & Especial Effects Show
- Mark W. McK. Bannatyne, Purdue University, USA
- Jian J Zhang, Bournemouth University, UK
- Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia
DE – Digital Entertainment
- Jian J Zhang, National Centre for Computer Animation, UK
- Fotis Liarokapis, Director of Interactive Worlds Applied Research Group, UK
MuVis – Musical Visualization
- Delfina Malandrino , Università di Salerno, IT
- Rocco Zaccagnino, Università di Salerno, IT
IVBI – BioMedical Visualization
- Urska Cvek, Sc.D., Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA
- Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA
- Heimo Mueller, Ph.D., Medical University Graz (MUG), AU
GMAI – Geometric Modelling and Imaging
- Muhammad Sarfraz, Department of Information Science, Kuwait University, KW
- Programme and reviewing committe:
- Jorge Delgado, Universidad de Zaragoza, ES
- Malik Zawwar Hussain, Punjab University, PK
- Natasha Dejdumrong, King Mongkuts University of Technology Thonburi, THA
- Zulfiqar Habib, FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, PK
- Okada, Yoshihiro, Kyushu-U, JP
- Foufou, Sebti, Univ. de Bourgogne, FR
- A. Zidouri, KFUPM, SA
- Jarosław Miszczak, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
- Nouri, Fatma Zohra, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Appliquees, Universite Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, DZ
- Mohamed Salah Hamdi,. Fachbereich Informatik, Universitaet Hamburg, DE
- Nacera Benamrane, University of Sciences and Technology of Oran, Algeria
- Maple, Carsten, University of Bedfordshire, UK
- Nasri, Ahmad, American University of Beirut, LB
- Noble, Robert, The Robert Gordon University, UK
- Unsworth, Keith, Lincoln University, NZ
- Programme and reviewing committe:
BuiltViz – Visualisation in Built and Rural Environments
- Dr Andrew Agapiou, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK
- Dr Gehan Nagy, BUE – British university in Egypt, Cario, Egypt