CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty Fourth International DMS Conference on Visualization and Visual Languages (DMSVIVA2018) will be held at Hotel Pullman, Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, USA from June 29 to 30, 2018. The theme of the conference is soft computing in visualization and visual languages. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/dmsviva18.html The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing any novel aspect of sentient multimedia systems that significantly benefits from the incorporation/integration of multimedia data (e.g., visual, audio, pen, voice, image, etc.), especially in visual languages and distance education technologies, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings of DMSVIVA2018. Both research and case study papers or demonstrations describing results in research area as well as industrial development cases and experiences are solicited. The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged. SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNALS: Selected Papers from DMSVIVA2018 will be published as special issues of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) and the Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems (VLSS). PLENARY TALK: Reasoning with Diagrams: Observation, Inference and Overspecificity by Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK SPECIAL SESSIONS: Big Data Analytics in Urban Computing and Smart Cities organized by Dr. Zhi Li (zhili18888@163.com) Computational Intelligent Technologies for Big Data and Social Media Analysis organized by Dr. Flora Amato (flora.amato@unina.it) CO-LOCATED CONFERENCE: The Int'l Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE2018 (ksiresearchorg.ipage.com/seke/seke18.html) will be held at the same hotel from July 1 to July 3, 2018. Authors are welcome to contribute papers and attend both conferences. CONFERENCE HOTEL: The hotel has made available for these limited dates (6/29 - 7/3/2018) to DMSVIVA 2018 attendees a discount rate of $109 US dollars per room, per night, single/double occupancy, including free WiFi in hotel room and discounted parking, not including sales tax. For other days prior to or after the conference period, the hotel will provide best available rate. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmsviva2018. When submitting, select the main conference DMSVIVA2018 or one of the special tracks. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 8 pages of double column text (including figures and references). All submissions must not be published or under consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarify of exposition. Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as regular paper (10 pages), short paper (7 pages) or technical notes (1 page and demo/poster presentation). CONTACT INFORMATION: DMSVIVA2018 Conference Secretariat KSI Research 156 Park Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, USA E-mail: dmsviva2018@easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due: March 23, 2018 (extended hard deadline) Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2018 Early registration deadline: May 10, 2018 Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2018