Silvia Miksch

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Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Room
HG 01 15
Email
silvia.miksch@tuwien.ac.at
Phone
+43 (1) 58801 - 18824
ORCID
0000-0003-4427-5703
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CV / Current Position

I studied Information Systems (Economic Computer Science) at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology with concentration on Applied Statistics and Artificial Intelligence. I received my master of Social and Economic Science from the University of Vienna in 1987 and my Ph.D. in 1990. Afterwards I joined the Knowledge-Based Systems Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) , as scientific researcher. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Adaptive Intelligent Systems group of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory which in turn is part of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University CA, USA (August 1995 - August 1996, FWF-Erwin Schrödinger post-graduate fellowship). In October 1996, I joined the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS), Vienna University of Technology . From November 1999 to Febuary 2006, I was Associate University Professor. From 2006 to 2010 I was University Professor (Univ.Prof.) and head of the Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering at Danube University Krems, Austria. In April 2010 I moved back to the Institute at the Vienna University of Technology to establish the awarded Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise "CVAST - Center for Visual Analytics Science and Technology" funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth of the Republic of Austria. (This initiative programme, the only one of its kind in Europe, is committed to equal opportunities and to establishing a new research culture to carry out applied basic research in the natural sciences, engineering and technology). As of April 1, 2015 (no joke ;-) ), I am Full University Professor (Visual Analytics) at Vienna University of Technology

From April to September 2001 I was Visiting/Guest Professor at the Department of Simulation and Graphics, Faculty of Computer Science (FIN), Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. From October 2001 to January 2002 I was Visiting/Guest Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

From 1997 to 2006 I was chair of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI) and from 1998 to 2002 I was member (and vice-chair) of the board of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) .

Our work has been recognized through a variety of awards: Best Paper Award at VIS Workshop vis4dh, 2019, Best Poster Award at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2015, Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2012, third price winner at International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) Creative Topic Challenge 2018 and 2019, Recognition of Service Award, Eurographics:European Association for Computer Graphics, 2012.

 

Research Interests

  • Visualization & Visual Analytics
    • Information Visualization
    • Interaction Design
    • Data Analysis Methods: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    • Information Extraction and Integration
    • Knowledge Crystallization Processes
  • Temporal Representation and Reasoning
    • Time-Oriented Modelling
    • Temporal Data Abstraction
  • Plan Management (Continual Plan Modeling)
    • Data and Process Modeling
    • Workflow Systems
    • Planning, Plan Execution, Plan Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Task-oriented Design, Development, and Evaluation in Real-World Environments 
    • Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
    • Guideline- and Protocol-based Care: Design, Monitoring, and Therapy Planning
    • Medical Environments: (Neonatal) Intensive Care Units, Diabetes Management, Management of Hyperbilirubinemia/Jaundice
    • Business Intelligence
    • Market Analysis
    • Other disciplines of natural, social, and economic sciences

Teaching (partly in German)

Current Activities

Membership of Scientific Societies (Selection of the last 10 years)

2023                IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Award
2020                Inducted into The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy
2018 –  2027   Member of EuroVis Steering Committee; chair of EuroVis Steering Committee (2023–2027)
2015 –  2020   Member of VIS Executive Committee (VEC)
2014 –  2020   Member of VAST Steering Committee
2005 – 2013    Member of AIME Steering Committee
1997 – 2005    Chairperson of the ÖGAI - Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (“Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence”)
2006 – 2019    Vize-Chairperson of the ÖGAI - Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (“Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence”)
2006 – 2008    Danube University Krems representative in the Forum Neue Medien Austria (FNMA)

Reviewing Activities (Selection of the last 10 years)

2014 – 2017     Member in Advisory Board of EU Project VALCRI
2014 – 2018     Member in Advisory Board of FWF Project KAVA-Time
2015 – 2018     Member in Advisory Board of FIT Project Visual Analytics in Data-driven Journalism (VALID), FFG ICT of the Future
2013 – 2020     Panel Member of European Research Council (ERC): Consolidator Grant, Computer Science and Informatics (PE6): 4 times
2017 – 2026     Scientific Reporter of Austrian Research Fund (FwF)
2021 – 2024     Advisory Board Member of Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
2013                 Panel Member of ZIT / Wirtschaftsagentur Wien: Call Science to Products
2014                 Panel Member of ZIT / Wirtschaftsagentur Wien: Innovations (Urban Solutions)
2011 – 2015     Associate Editor of Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE)
2011 – 2015     Book Review Editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM-J, Elsevier)
2012 – 2020    Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI, Elsevier)
2017 – 2020     Member of Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum (CGF, Wiley)
2021 – 2023     Member of Editorial Board of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Taylor and Francis)

Chairpersons (selected)

  • VIS Overall Papers Chair (IEEE VIS 2021)
  • Paper Co-Chair of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2020)
  • Paper Co-Chair of Eurographics/IEEE Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2012)
  • Paper Co-Chair of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2010 and IEEE VAST 2011)
  • Paper Co-Chair of the Second International Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA 2011)
  • Paper Co-Chair of International Workshop Series on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC)

Institutional Responsibilities (Selection of the last 10 years)

2016 – 2018     Member of the Curricular Committees of Computer Science, TU Wien, Austria
2016 – 2025     Member of the Academic Senate, TU Wien, Austria (2016-2017 substitute member) 
2016 – 2023     Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria
2018 –              Coordinator of the Research Focus Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, TU Wien, Austria
2010 – 2016     Member of the Senate at Danube University Krems
1999 –               Member of several Habilitation Committees
2011 –               Member of several Selection Committees of Professors (TU Wien, Austria; Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Computer and Information Science - Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU), Trondheim, Norwegen)

Further Information

Research profile

Short Bio

Visualization (Information Visualization, Visual Analytics), Interaction Design, Process Engineering, time-oriented data

Research Keywords

  • Visual Computing
  • Time-oriented Data
  • Information and Knowledge Engineering
  • Information Visualization
  • Information Design
  • Process Engineering
  • Plan Management
  • Medical Informatics
  • Visual Analytics

Awards

  • Bridging the Gap between Visual Analytics and Digital Humanities: Beyond the Data-Users-Tasks Design Triangle
    2019 / Best Paper Award / United States of America / Website
  • The Fabric of Heroes: an Infographic about Marvel Cinematic Universe
    2019 / International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) Creative Topic Challenge / Czech Republic / Website
  • The Circle Of Thrones: Conveying the Story of Game of Thrones Using Radial Infographics
    2018 / International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) Creative Topic Challenge / Spain / Website
  • Visually and Statistically Guided Imputation of Missing Values in Univariate Seasonal Time Series
    2015 / IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) / United States of America
  • Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2012
    2011 / IEEE Computer Society Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) / United States of America
  • Recognition of Service Award
    2011 / Eurographics: European Association for Computer Graphics / *
  • Top Cited Article 2005-2010 in Computers and Graphics
    2009 / Pergamon/Elsevier / Netherlands
  • Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "VisuExplore"
    2009 / Land Niederösterreich
  • Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "DisCo"
    2007 / Land Niederösterreich

Open Student Topics

Title Scope Area
Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics (KnoVA) SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Process Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Provenance Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Semi-Automated Data Cleansing of Multivariate Time Series SE, BA, PR, MA Data Quality, Visual Analytics (VA)
Task-Oriented Guidance for Information Visualization Recommendation SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
The Role of Visualization in Machine Learning SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
find more open student topics here.

Publications

E Egger, Silvia Miksch, "'Didaktik der Informatik' - Mädchen und Informatik: Wie können LehrerInnen darauf sensibilisiert werden?", Journal der GI-Fachgruppe 8 'Frauenarbeit und Informatik', 1989.
Paolo Federico, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Florian Windhager, Lukas Zenk, "A Case Study on Visual Analytics of Dynamic Networks", The Third International UKVAC Workshop on Visual Analytics (VAW 2011), 2011.
Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Johannes Gärtner, Silvia Miksch, Thomas Turic, "A Comparison of Programming Platforms for Interactive Visualization in Web Browser Based Applications", Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV08), pp. 194–199, 2008.
Silvia Miksch, Werner Horn, Christian Popow, F Paky, "A Computer System for Ventilation, Monitoring and Therapy Planning of Newborn Infants", Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Ärzte, 1993.
Florian Windhager, Albert Amor-Amorós, Michael Smuc, Paolo Federico, Lukas Zenk, Silvia Miksch, "A concept for the exploratory visualization of patent network dynamics", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, 2015.
Davide Ceneda, Christopher Collins, Mennatallah El-Assady, Silvia Miksch, Christian Tominski, Alessio Arleo, "A heuristic approach for dual expert/end-user evaluation of guidance in visual analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, pp. 997-1007, 2024.
Antonie Geissbuhler, Elske Ammenwerth, Nancy Lorenzi, Silvia Miksch, "A Life for Health Informatics: Jan van Bemmel is the second recipient of the IMIA/UMIT Medical Informatics Award of Excellence", IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, pp. 181–182, 2008.
Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner, "A Matter of Time: Applying a Data-Users-Tasks Design Triangle to Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data", Computers & Graphics, Special Section on Visual Analytics, vol. 38, pp. 286-290, 2014.
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, Patrick Martini, Alime Oeztuerk, "A Meta Schema for Evidence Information in Clinical Practice Guidelines as a Basis for Decision-Making", 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics (Medinfo'2007), pp. 925–929, 2007.
teaser image Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Silvia Miksch, "A Methodology for Task-Driven Guidance Design", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 6, 2023. paper
Alessio Arleo, Silvia Miksch, Daniel Archambault, "A Multilevel Approach for Event-Based Dynamic Graph Drawing", EuroVIS 2021 - Short Papers, 2021. paper GitHub page Supplemental Video
Paolo Federico, Albert Amor-Amorós, Silvia Miksch, "A Nested Workflow Model for Visual Analytics Design and Validation", Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualisation (BELIV '16), 2016. Presentation on Vimeo
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "A review of guidance approaches in visual data analysis: A multifocal perspective", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 38, pp. 861-879, 2019.
Paolo Federico, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Silvia Miksch, "A Survey on Visual Approaches for Analyzing Scientific Literature and Patents", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, pp. 2179 – 2198, 2017. Video Teaser
Yuval Shahar, Silvia Miksch, Peter Johnson, "A Task-Specific Ontology for Design and Execution of Time-Oriented Skeletal Plans", Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, 1996.
Yuval Shahar, Silvia Miksch, Peter Johnson, "A Task-Specific Ontology for the Application and Critiquing of Time-Oriented Clinical Guidelines", Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME-97), pp. 51–61, 1997.
Theresia Gschwandtner, Johannes Gärtner, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "A Taxonomy of Dirty Time-Oriented Data", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 7465): Multidisciplinary Research and Practice for Information Systems (Proceedings of the CD-ARES 2012), pp. 58 -- 72, 2012.
Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Silvia Miksch, Heidrun Schumann, Stefan Wrobel, "A Theoretical Model for Pattern Discovery in Visual Analytics", Visual Informatics, vol. 5, pp. 20, 2021.
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Mennatallah El-Assady, Silvia Miksch, Fabian Sperrle, "A Typology of Guidance Tasks in Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics Environments", , vol. 41, pp. 465-476, 2022. paper
Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, "A User Interface for Executing Asbru Plans", Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2001), pp. 136–139, 2001.
Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, "A User Interface for Executing Asbru Plans", , 2002.
Paolo Federico, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Florian Windhager, Lukas Zenk, "A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Social Networks", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (i-KNOW), Special Track on Theory and Applications of Visual Analytics (TAVA), pp. 47:1–47:8, 2011.
Bilal Alsallakh, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Bilal Esmael, Arghad Arnaout, Gerhard Thonhauser, Philipp Zöllner, "A Visual Analytics Approach to Segmenting and Labeling Multivariate Time Series Data", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 31-35, 2014.
Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, "A Visualization of Medical Therapy Plans compared to Gantt and PERT Charts", Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME-2000), pp. 173–181, 2000.
Klaus Hammermueller, Silvia Miksch, "A Workflow Model for the Asgaard Project: A Time-Oriented, Skeletal Planning Workbench in Medicine", The First Workshop on Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care: Knowledge-Based Information Management in conjunction with the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM'99), 1999.

Advised Publications

Markus Bögl, " Visual analytics for time series analysis", , 2013.
Velitchko Filipov, ""Networks in Time and Space, Visual Analytics of Dynamic Network Representations"", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 197, 2024.
Barbara Neubauer, "A comparison of static and dynamic visualizations for time-oriented data", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 131, 2012.
Thomas Schneider, "A cooperative resource scheduling tool with automated planning", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 102, 2011.
Eva Maria Wohlfart, "A detailed comparison of information visualization tools using a reference data set", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 98, 2007.
Andreas Böhme, "A generic software template to support learning on mobile devices", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 90, 2007.
Till Weißer, "A highly expressive, visually supported graph traversal environment", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 88, 2019.
Alessio Bertone, "A Matter of Time: Multi-time Interval Pattern Discovery to Preserve the Temporal Information in between", , 2009.
teaser image Ignacio Baltazar Pérez Messina, Davide Ceneda, Silvia Miksch, "A Methodology for Task-Driven Guidance Design", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 6, 2023. paper
Martin Wortschack, "A scalable visualization of set-typed data", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 89, 2016.
Thomas Ziegelbecker, "A Visual Approach for Exploring Quality Problems of Multivariate and Time-Oriented Data", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 101, 2016.
Erich Christoph Gstrein, "Adaptive personalization : a multi view personalization approach incorporating contextual information", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 210, 2009.
Andreas Seyfang, "An integrated system for temporal data abstraction to facilitate guideline execution", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 212, 2011.
Bernhard Pointner, "An Interactive Visualization Approach to Tackle Design Constraints in a Rule-Based Recommendation System", , pp. 102, 2022. paper
Christian Fuchsberger, "Applied bioinformatical visual analytics", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 93, 2009.
Martin Eller, "Applying information visualization techniques to explore complex irradiation schemes and decay chains", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 79, 2004.
Thomas Braunsberger, "Automatic Cleansing Operations of Time-Oriented Data", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 111, 2016.
David Schnitzhofer, "Casual information visualization on mobile devices considering the museum context", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 79, 2018.
Ha Trieu Hue Liu, "Computer aided training of executive functions for elementary school-aged children", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 84, 2011.
Marco Romauch, "Coreference resolution in clinical practice guidelines focusing on hypernym/hyponym relations", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 71, 2009.
Roger Leite, Victor Schetinger, Davide Ceneda, Bernardo Henz, Silvia Miksch, "COVIs: Supporting Temporal Visual Analysis of Covid-19 Events Usable in Data-Driven Journalism", IEEE VIS 2020, short paper, 2020.
Cem Akkaya, "CPGPro - Extracting process information from clinical practice guidelines", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 71, 2005. paper
Sanja Bonic, "CV 2.0 - Global Resume", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 90, 2017.
Rui Ma, "Designing interactive visualization methods for comparing multivariate stock market data over time", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 118, 2009.
Luca Rauchenberger, "Dynamic Network Analysis with Centrality Measures", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 104, 2024.