Silvia Miksch

Function
Head
Address

Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Room
HG 01 15
Phone
+43 (1) 58801 - 18824
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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

Open Student Topics

Title Scope Area
Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics (KnoVA) SE Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
The Role of Visualization in Machine Learning SE, BA, PR, MA Visual Analytics (VA)
Provenance Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV)
Task-Oriented Guidance for Information Visualization Recommendation SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV)
Semi-Automated Data Cleansing of Multivariate Time Series SE, BA, PR, MA Data Quality
Process Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Visual Analytics (VA)
Visual Recommender Systems & Complex (Big) Data BA, MA Visual Analytics (VA)
Supporting users to understand the data transformation and analytical methods verbally and visually SE, BA, PR, MA Visual Analytics (VA)

Publications

David Riano, Richard Lenz, Silvia Miksch, Mor Peleg, Manfred Reichert, Annette Teije, "Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 159, 2013. paper
Peter Bodesinsky, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Analysis of Compliance with Clinical Guidelines", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (i-KNOW), pp. 12:1–12:8, 2013. paper
Richard Lenz, Silvia Miksch, Mor Peleg, Manfred Reichert, David Riano, Annette Teije, "Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care: BPM 2012 Joint Workshop, ProHealth 2012/KR4HC 2012", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2013. paper
Silvana Quaglini, Yuval Shahar, Mor Peleg, Silvia Miksch, Carlo Napolitano, Mercedes Rigla, Angels Pallàs, Enea Parimbelli, Lucia Sacchi, "Supporting Shared Decision Making within the MobiGuide Project", Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium, pp. 1175-1184, 2013. paper
Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Interactive Visual Transformation for Symbolic Representation of Time-oriented Data", Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing & Informatics (SouthCHI 2013), vol. 7947, pp. 400-419, 2013. paper
Alexander Rind, Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "TimeBench: A Data Model and Software Library for Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Special Issue "VIS 2013", vol. 19, pp. 2247-2256, 2013. paper Project page Introduction and Basic Features
Bilal Alsallakh, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Helwig Hauser, "Radial Sets: Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Overlapping Sets", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis), vol. 19, pp. 2496-2505, 2013. paper More details and online demos The visual and interaction metaphors
Markus Bögl, Wolfgang Aigner, Peter Filzmoser, Tim Lammarsch, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Visual Analytics for Model Selection in Time Series Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Special Issue "VIS 2013", vol. 19, pp. 2237 - 2246, 2013. paper Video Introduction with audio narration
Wolfgang Aigner, Paolo Federico, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Challenges of Time-oriented Data in Visual Analytics for Healthcare", IEEE VisWeek Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare , pp. 4, 2012. paper
Margit Pohl, Silvia Wiltner, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alexander Rind, "Analysing Interactivity in Information Visualisation", KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 26, pp. 151-159, 2012. paper
Paolo Federico, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Florian Windhager, Michael Smuc, "Vertigo Zoom: Combining Relational and Temporal Perspectives on Dynamic Networks", Proceedings of the 11th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2012), pp. 437-440, 2012. paper
Bilal Alsallakh, Peter Bodesinsky, Silvia Miksch, Dorna Nasseri, "Visualizing Arrays in the Eclipse Java IDE", 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 541-544, 2012. paper http://youtu.be/7gTv9yUtFBc
Bilal Alsallakh, Peter Bodesinsky, Alexander Gruber, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Tracing for the Eclipse Java Debugger", 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 545-548, 2012. paper Screencast
David Riano, Annette Teije, Silvia Miksch, "Knowledge Representation for Health-Care: AIME 2011 Workshop KR4HC 2011: Revised Selected Papers", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6924, pp. 171, 2012. paper
Alexander Rind, Barbara Neubauer, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "Static and Dynamic Visual Mappings to Explore Bivariate Data Across Time", EuroVA 2012 Poster Proceedings, pp. 3, 2012. paper
Paolo Federico, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Jürgen Pfeffer, Michael Smuc, Florian Windhager, Lukas Zenk, "ViENA: Visual Enterprise Network Analytics", Poster Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 12, 2012. paper
Paolo Federico, Jürgen Pfeffer, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Lukas Zenk, "Visual Analysis of Dynamic Networks using Change Centrality", Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), pp. 179 - 183, 2012. paper
Florian Windhager, Michael Smuc, Lukas Zenk, Paolo Federico, Jürgen Pfeffer, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Knowledge Networks Analytics", Knowledge Management Handbook, pp. 187–206, 2012. paper
Bilal Alsallakh, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Eduard Gröller, "Reinventing the Contingency Wheel: Scalable Visual Analytics of Large Categorical Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2012), vol. 18, pp. 2849-2858, 2012. paper Visual and interaction metaphors of Contingency Wheel++ (5 min)
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. paper
Alan MacEachren, Silvia Miksch, "Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 18, pp. 660–661, 2012. paper
Brian Fisher, Silvia Miksch, "Guest Editors' Introduction to the Vast 2010 Special Issue-Special Issue of best papers of Visual Aanlytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2010", Information Visualization, vol. 11, pp. 188–189, 2012. paper
Andreas Seyfang, Katharina Kaiser, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Visualizing Complex Process Hierarchies During the Modeling Process", First International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TAProViz'12), 2012. paper
Tim Lammarsch, Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "Developing an Extended Task Framework for Exploratory Data Analysis Along the Structure of Time", Proceedings of the EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics in Vienna, Austria (EuroVA 2012), pp. 31-35, 2012. paper
Simone Kriglstein, Florian Scholz, Margit Pohl, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "Evaluating the Dot-Based Contingency Wheel: Results from an Interview Study", Technical Report, pp. 10, 2012.