IEEE VAST 2008 Challenge

2008 Awards

	TEAM	AWARD
	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Qi Ye, Tian Zhu, Deyong Hu, Bin Wu, Nan Du, Bai Wang, Exploring Temporal Communication in Mobile Call Graphs	Social Network Accuracy (Cell Phone mini challenge)
	Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Analysis of Movements with Geospatial Visual Analytics Toolkit	Tool Integration (Evacuation Traces mini challenge)
	Oculus Info Inc., Canada Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, Pascale Proulx, Adeel Khamisa, William Wright, Visual Analysis with nSpace2 and GeoTime	Support for Diverse Analytic Techniques (Grand Challenge)
	Palantir Technologies, USA Jason Payne, Jake Solomon, Ravi Sankar, Bob McGrew, The Future of Analysis	Interactive Visual Analytic Environment (Grand Challenge)
	Drexel University and Pennsylvania State University, USA Donald Pellegrino, Chi-Chun Pan, Anthony Robinson, Michael Stryker, Junyan Luo, Chris Weaver, Prasenjit Mitra, Chaomei Chen, Ian Turton, Alan MacEachren, Visualization and Collaboration in the VAST 2008 Challenge	Data Integration (Grand Challenge)
	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA Dennis Bouvier, Britian Oates, Staining for Information Discovery	Innovative Trace Visualization (Evacuation Traces mini challenge)
	SPADAC Inc., USA Benjamin Holland, Lisa Kuchy, Jason Dalton, A Geo-Temporal Analysis of the Migrant Boat Dataset	Analysis Summary (Migrant Boat mini challenge)
	University of Bari, Italy Adalberto Simeone, Paolo Buono, Discovering the terrorist	User Testing to Obtain Consensus (Evacuation Traces mini challenge)
	University of California, Davis, USA Carlos D. Correa, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Christopher Muelder, Ryan Armstrong, James Shearer, Kwan-Liu Ma, Visual Analytics of Cell Phone Data using MobiVis and OntoVis	Intuitive Social Network Graphs (Cell Phone mini challenge)
	University College Dublin, Ireland Michael Farrugia, Aaron Quigley, Animating Multivariate Dynamic Social Networks	Node-Link Animation (Cell Phone mini challenge)
	University of Maryland, USA Adam Perer, Using Social Action to Uncover Hidden Structure in Social Networks over Time	Time Visualizations of Cell Phone Activity (Cell Phone mini challenge)
	University of Zagreb, Croatia, VRVis Research Center and Virginia Tech, USA Ranko Miklin, Tomislav Lipic, Mario Beric, Zoltan Konyha, Wolfgang Freiler, Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin, Geo-Temporal Analysis of Migrant Boats	Simple and Effective Integrated Display (Migrant Boat mini challenge)
	Vision Systems & Technology, Inc., USA Edward Swing, Solving the Cell Phone Calls Challenge with the Prajna Project	Effective Toolkit Integration (Cell Phone mini challenge)

And the committee and students picture:

Submissions who received an award have a 2 page summary in the VAST proceedings. All submitted materials will be also published online after the symposium.

In addition 3 Grand Challenge entry teams were selected to participate in the interactive session during VisWeek 2008 to work on a new smaller problem with professional analysts:

· Oculus Info. Inc.

· Palantir Technologies

· Pennsylvania State University – Northeastern Visualization and Analytics Center (NEVAC) Team.

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