A Message from the Challenge Chairs
VAST Challenge 2014: The Kronos Incident
Mark Whiting, Kristin Cook, Georges Grinstein, Kristen Liggett, Michael Cooper, John Fallon, Marc Morin
Grand Challenge
Grand Challenge Honorable Mention: Effective Analytic Presentation
Using Visual Analytics to Support Decision Making to Solve the Kronos Incident (VAST Challenge 2014)
Fabian Fischer, Florian Stoffel, Sebastian Mittelstӓdt, Tobias Schreck, Daniel A. Keim
AnnotatedTimeTree, Dodeca-Rings Map & Smart: A Geo-Temporal Analysis of Criminal Events
Chen Guo, Jing Xia, Jun Yu, Jieqiong Zhao, Jiawei Zhang, Qiaoying Wang, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen, Chen Wang, David Ebert
VAST 2014: Summary on Grand Challenge Work
Yang Liu
Grand Challenge Award: Effective Analysis and Presentation
Safeguarding Abila through Multiple Data Prespectives
Parang Saraf, Patrick Butler, Naren Ramkrishnan
Mini-Challenge 1
Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Effective Timeline Visualization
The Kronos Incident (Mini-Challenge 1)
Pilar Ávila, Amalia Guaymás, Valeria Burgos
IPM - A Framework for Visual Sense Making VAST 2014 Mini-Challenge 1
Perakath Benjamin, Karthic Madanagopal, Belita Gopal, Kannan Swaminathan
VACI: Towards Visual Analytics for Criminal Investigation
Rahul Kamal Bhaskar, Julia Paredes, Zahra Shakeri, Zahra Sahaf, Haleh Alemasoom, Craig Anslow, Frank Mauer, Mario Costa Sousa, Faramarz Samavati
Mini-Challenge 1 Award: Outstanding Results Presentation Supported by Visualizations
VAST 2014 Mini-Challenge 1: MEAT - Multiview Event Analysis Tool of Diverse Data Sources
Zhuang Cai, Mengyao Chen, Hanqing Zhao, Ying Zhao, Fangfang Zhou, Kang Zhang
Visual analytics support for collecting and correlating evidence for intelligence analysis
Siming Chen, Zuchao Wang, Zipeng Liu, Zhenhuang Wang, Chenglong Wang, Zhengjie Miao, Xiaoru Yuan
Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Effective Use of Coordinated Visualizations
Multi-view Display Coordinated Visualization Design for Crime Solving Analysis
Ruimin Gao, Han Tao, Hui Chen, Wentao Wang, Jiawan Zhang
Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Novelty in Visualization (the "Chalkboard")
Summarising the structure of an organisation and reconstructing a chain of events
Rafael Henkin, Alexander Kachkaev, Aidan Slingsby
Integrated Visual Analytics Tool for Heterogenous Text Data
Jihyoun Park
Safeguarding Abila: Discovering Evolving Activist Networks VAST 2014 Mini Challenge 1: Unstructured Text and Network Data Analysis
Parang Saraf, Patrick Butler, Naren Ramkrishnan
VAST Challenge 2014: Mini-Challenge 1
Qiang Song, Rui Li, Peng Yin
Using a Knowledge Graph Data Structure to Analyze Text Documents (VAST Challenge 2014 MC1)
Florian Stoffel, Fabian Fischer
Event-Based Text Visual Analytics
Ji Wang, Lauren Bradel, Chris North
Mini-Challenge 1 Award: Excellent Detailed Analysis
Story Explorer: A Visual Analysis Tool for Heterogenous Text Data
Chenglong Wang, Zhengjie Miao, Siming Chen, Zipeng Liu, Zuchao Wang, Zhenhuang Wang, Xiaoru Yuan
AnnotatedTimeTree: Visualization and Annotation of News Text and Other Heterogeneous Document Collections
Jing Xia, Jieqiong Zhao, Isaac Sheeley, Joseph Christopher, Qiaoying Wang, Chen Guo, Jiawei Zhang, David S. Ebert, Yingjie Victor Chen, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian
VAST 2014 Mini-Challenge 1: Team Aptima
Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Adam Fouse, Gabriel Ganberg, Ryan Mullins, Stacy Pfautz
Mini-Challenge 2
Mini-Challenge 2 Award: Outstanding Scalable Analysis
Analysis of Mobility Behaviors in Geographic and Semantic Spaces
Natalie Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Georg Fuchs
Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mention: Effective Use of a Custom Tool
Patterns of Life Visual Analytics Suite for analyzing GPS movement patterns
Simon Attfield, Peter Passmore, Neesha Kodagoda, Pragya Paudyal, David Neilson, George Pagiatakis, Brian Joyce, Robert Wells, William Wong, Adrian Wagstaff, James Bullock, Adam Malin, Dougie Holmes, Graham Phillips, John Marshall, Stewart Bertram
Mini-Challenge 2 Award: Excellent Comprehensive Visual Analysis System
MovementFinder: A Multi-filter Visual Analytics Design for Movement
Siming Chen, Zuchao Wang, Zipeng Liu, Zhenhuang Wang, Chenglong Wang, Zhengjie Miao, Xiaoru Yuan
Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mention: Effective Detailed Analysis
Exploring Anomalies in GAStech VAST 2014 Mini Challenge 1 and 2
Jaegul Choo, Yi Han, Mengdie Hu, Hannah Kim, James Nugent, Francesco Poggi, Haesun Park, John Stasko
A Three Step Process to Design Visualisations for GeoTemporal Analysis (VAST 2014 Mini Challenge 2)
Alvin Chua, Ryo Sakai, Jan Aerts, Andrew Vande Moere
UCD-Griffin-MC2 Submission Summary
Kevin S. Griffin
Mini-Challenge 2 Award: Sponsor's Award for Novel Visualization
Dodeca-Rings Map: Interactively Finding Patterns and Events in Large Geo-temporal Data
Chen Guo, Shang Xu, Jun Yu, Hanxing Zhang, Qian Wang, Jing Xia, Jiawei Zhang, Yingjie Victor Chen, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Chen Wang, David Ebert
Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mention: Effective Data Manipulation
Visual Analytics for Detecting Behavior Patterns in Geo-Temporal Data
Michael Hundt, Natascha M. Siirak, Manuel Wildner
Detecting Suspicious Behavior Using a Graph-Based Approach
Lenin Mookiah, William Eberle, Lawrence Holder
Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mention: Effective Presentation
Safeguarding Abila: Spatio-Temporal Activity Modeling
Parang Saraf, Patrick Butler, Naren Ramkrishnan
Data Mining Driven Visual Pattern Discovery RBEI-IYER-MC2
Manik Singhal, Prakash Lekkala, Shivashankar M R, Parameshwaran S Iyer
VAST 2014: Summary on Mini Challenge 2
Carlos K.F. Tse, Yang Liu
Making Sense of Daily Life Data: From Commonalities to Anomalies
Ji Wang, Lauren Bradel, Chris North
Visual analytics of GPS tracks: From location to place to behavior
Jo Wood
Regular and Unusual Data Visualization IIIT-H
P Yashaswi, Yarrabelly Navya, Veera Raghavendra Chikka
Mini-Challenge 2 Award: Outstanding Visualization and Analysis
A Collaborative Visual Analytics of Trajectory and Transaction Data for Digital Forensics
Ying Zhao, Yanni Peng, Wei Huang, Yong Li, Fangfang Zhou, Zhifang Liao, Kang Zhang
Mini-Challenge 3
Mini-Challenge 3 Award: Outstanding Comprehensive Mini-Challenge 3 Submission
NStreamAware: Real-Time Visual Analytics for Data Streams (VAST Challenge 2014 MC3)
Fabian Fischer, Florian Stoffel
Mini-Challenge 3 Award: Effective Collaborative Streaming Analysis
A Platform For Collaborative Visual Analysis on Streaming Messages
Zipeng Liu, Zhenhuang Wang, Siming Chen, Zuchao Wang, Zhengjie Miao, Xiaoru Yuan
VAST 2014: Summary on Mini Challenge 3 Work
Minjing Mao
VAST Challenge MC1: An Off the Shelf Approach to Messy Data
Fintan McGee, Bertjan Broeksema, Benoît Otjacques
Visual Analytics of Text Streams Through Multiple Dynamic Frequency Matrices
Nicolas Médoc, Mickaël Stefas, Mohammad Ghoniem, Mohamed Nadif
Mini-Challenge 3 Honorable Mention: Detailed Discovery (Where's Rachel?)
VAST Challenge 2014 - The Kronos Incident - Mini-Challenge 3
Andrei Rukavina, Mariana Landoni, Paulina Verasay, Maria L. Traveso
Safeguarding Abila: Real-Time Streaming Analysis VAST 2014 Mini Challenge 3: Streaming Text Analysis
Parang Saraf, Patrick Butler, Naren Ramkrishnan
Mini-Challenge 3 Honorable Mention: Good support for situation awareness
ScatterScopes: Understanding Events in Real-time through Spatiotemporal Indication and Hierarchical Drilldown
Dennis Thom, Michael Wörner, Steffen Koch
Mini-Challenge 3 Honorable Mention: Effective support for analytic sensemaking
Visual Analysis of Streaming Data with SAVI and SenseMAP
Kai Xu, Phong H. Nguyen, Bob Fields
Mini-Challenge 3 Honorable Mention: Good support for streaming and forensic analysis
ClueMiner: A real-time multi-dimensional visualization system
Siqi Yang, Xinyi Jiang, Jiawan Zhang
Real-time Identification and Monitoring of Abnormal Events Based on Microblog and Emergency Call Data Using SMART
Jiawei Zhang, Shehzad Afzal, Dallas Breunig, Jing Xia, Jieqiong Zhao, Isaac Sheeley, Joseph Christopher, David S. Ebert, Chen Guo, Shang Xu, Jun Yu, Qiaoying Wang, Chen Wang, Zhenyu Qian, Yingjie Chen