Special issue on Information Visualization in Machine Learning and Applications
This special issue of Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) focuses on Information Visualization in Machine Learning and Applications. Information visualization is concerned with the development of algorithms, methods and tools to assist the human user in the visual exploration and processing of large volumes of often very high dimensional, complex data. This special issue is intended to highlight the interplay between information visualization and machine learning from two fronts: (1) machine learning algorithms, methods and models for the purpose of the visual representation of such complex data, and (2) information visualization algorithms, methods and models for the purpose of the visual exploration and processing of such complex data and their potential applications. Of particular interest are the benefits of the interplay between information visualization and machine learning in, and the lessons learnt from, those applications. This special issue is based on the selected and extended versions of the papers presented at a Special Session on Information Visualization in Machine Learning and Applications, of The 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2012) The conference was held during December 12 15 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. The first ICMLA conference was launched in Las Vegas, Nevada, in June 2002 and has been held annually ever since. The ICMLA conference series aims at bringing both researchers and practitioners of machine learning together with its special focus on the applications of machine learning such as medicine, biology, business and industry, manufacturing, security, education, and virtual environments. Therefore the special session on Information Visualization in Machine Learning and Applications was closely aligned with the special focus of the conference. The special session papers were refereed by two to three experts and five papers were eventually accepted for presentation. After the conference, the authors of a few selected papers were invited to submit the revised and extended versions of their special session papers to the special issue of JVLC. Each submission was reviewed to the journal standards and three high quality papers were
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