Developing effective visual analytics systems demands care in characterization of domain
problems and integration of visualization techniques and computational models. Urban …

With the ever-increasing amount of data, the world has stepped into the era of “Big Data”.
Presently, the analysis of massive and complex data and the extraction of relevant …

Maritime transportation plays an essential role in global trade. Due to the huge number of
vessels worldwide, there is also a non-negligible volume of Maritime incidents such as …

Maritime transports play a critical role in international trade and commerce. Massive vessels
sailing around the world continuously generate vessel trajectory data that contain rich …

Maritime search and rescue (SAR) decisions are the most important part of maritime SAR
operations. In the process of making maritime SAR decisions, a key factor affecting efficiency …

Geographic visualization research has focused on a variety of techniques to represent and
explore spatiotemporal data. The goal of those techniques is to enable users to explore …

Information deluge is still an issue in the maritime environment, creating situations where
data are sometimes underutilized or in more extreme cases, not utilized, in the decision …

Initiatives have been designed to attract novice athletes and to enable transfer for
experienced athletes. However, the authors have very little knowledge of the effectiveness of …

With the pervasive use of information technologies, the increasing availability of data
provides new opportunities for understanding user behaviors. Unearthing anomalies in user …

Issues about city utility services reported by citizens can provide unprecedented insights into
the various aspects of such services. Analysis of these issues can improve living quality …