13 - 18 OCTOBER 2013, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

VAST Challenge Presentations

At this workshop that recaps the 2013 VAST Challenge, challenge organizers, participants, and conference attendees come together to discuss their work on this year’s Challenge. The workshop will feature sessions dedicated to each of the three mini-challenges. All of the 2013 honorees will present their winning submissions. In addition, the meeting will feature a poster session, a participant feedback session, and a look forward to the 2014 competition. This workshop is open to all IEEE VIS attendees.

The detailed agenda can be found at http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2013+Workshop+Information

Introduction

VAST Challenge 2013: Situation Awareness and Prospective Analysis
Mark Whiting, Kristin Cook, Celeste Lyn Paul, Kirsten Whitley, Georges Grinstein, Bohdan Nebesh, Kristen Liggett, Michael Cooper, John Fallon

Mini-Challenge 1

Box Office Prediction using Nearest Neighbor Approach
Megha Agrawal, Nishtha Madan, Kamalakar Karlapalem

Award: Effective Visual Design
Similarity-Driven Visual-Interactive Prediction of Movie Ratings and Box Office Results
Feeras Al-Masoudi, Daniel Seebacher, Mario Schreiner, Manuel Stein, Christian Rohrdantz, Fabian Fischer, Svenja Simon, Tobias Schreck, Daniel Keim

Award: Excellent Interactive Analysis
Visual Analytics for the Prediction of Movie Rating and Box Office Performance
Mennatallah el Assady, Daniel Hafner, Michael Hund, Alexander Jӓger, Wolfgang Jentner, Christian Rohrdantz, Fabian Fischer, Svenja Simon, Tobias Schrek, Daniel A. Keim

Open Weekend and Rating Prediction Based on Visualization Techniques
Elverton Fazzion, Pedro Las Casas, Glauber Gonҫalves, Raquel Melo-Minardi, Wagner Meira Jr.

Award: Honorable Mention: In Depth Visual Exploration of Features
Prolix - Visual Prediction Analysis for Box Office Success
Robert Krueger, Harald Bosch, Dennis Thom, Edwin Puettmann, Qi Han, Steffen Koch, Florian Heimerl, Thomas Ertl

Excellent Visual Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data
VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 1: Box Office VAST - Team VADER
Yafeng Lu, Feng Wang, Ross Maciejewski

Integrating Analytical and Visual Methods for Predicting Movie Success
Philipp Omenitsch, Bilal Alsallakh, Markus Bӧgl

CinemAviz
Charles Perin

Mini-Challenge 2

Award: Honorable Mention: Interesting Visualization Technique
NOCturne: A Scalable Large Format Visualization for Network Operations
Jordan Riley Benson, Rajiv Ramarajan

Award: Honorable Mention: Visualization of Event Relationships
A novel display for situational awareness at a network operations center
Andrea Brennen, David Danico, Raul Harnasch, Maureen Hunter, Richard Larkin, Jeremy Mineweaser, Kevin Nam, David O'Gwynn, Harry Phan, Alexia Schulz, Michael Snyder, Diane Staheli, Tamara Yu

Award: Outstanding Creative Design
SolarWheels: An Interactive Situation Awareness Visual Display for Large-Scale Computer Networks
Jack Shen-Kuen Chang, Weiran (Tyki) Lei, Shuang Wei, Marlen Promann, Yue (Aaron) Ma, Yingjie Victor Chen, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian

Middlesex-CALME-MC2
Sharmin (Tinni) Choudhury, Neesha Kodagoda, Ashley Wheat, Puja Varsani, William Wong, Simon Attfield, Glenford Mapp, Louis Slabbert, Mahdi Aiash, Chris Rooney

Award: Honorable Mention: Interesting Visualization Technique
Adaptive User-Aware Dashboard Design
Fabian Fischer, Dominik Jӓckle, Dominik Sacha, Florian Stoffel, Daniel A. Keim

The Network Operations Management Overview (NOMO)
Patrick O'Connor-Read, Ivo Federspiel

Award: Outstanding Creative Design
SpringRain: An Ambient Information Display
Marlen Promann, Yue (Aaron) Ma, Shuang Wei, Weiran (Tyki) Lei, Jack Shen-Kuen Chang, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen

A Novel Multi-scale Multi-view Display for Network Security Situation Awareness
Ying Zhao, Fangfang Zhou, Xing Liang, Yezi Huang, Ronghua Shi

Mini-Challenge 3

Award: Outstanding situation awareness
VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 3: AnNetTe - Collaboration oriented visualization of network data
Siming Chen, Fabian Merkle, Hanna Schaefer, Cong Guo, Hongwei Ai, Xiaoru Yuan, Thomas Ertl

Award: Honorable Mention: Intriguing Visualization
VACS: Visual Analytics Suite for Cyber Security - Visual Exploration of Cyber Security Datasets
Fabian Fischer, Daniel A. Keim

A Visual Analysis System for Event Detection from Network Log Data
Fangzhou Guo, Jing Xia, Xiahong Ma, Yumeng Hou, Feiran Wu, Wei Chen

AVIST: A GPU Based Animated Visualization Toolkit for Network Security Analysis
Peng Mi, Yong Cao

Award: Honorable Mention: Intriguing Visualization
Galaxy: Link Space Visualization and Analysis of Network Traffic
Elisha Peterson, Ryan Mukherjee, Saurabh Vyas, Duane Cornish

4 Steps to Visual Analytics for Cyber Security
Clifton Phua, Jun Yao Ji, Kelvin Chng, Yi Chin Lee

BIG MARKETING: The simple way of browsing system logs to detect Network Events
Jorge Kuday Picoaga, Diego Martin Cesario

A Real-Time Network Hosts Visualization System
Weijie Wang, Marlen Promann, Baijian Yang, Victor Yingjie Chen

Generic Anomaly Visualization for Daily Network Security Administration
Tao Zhang, Qi Liao, Lei Shi

Award: Outstanding comprehensive solution
MVSec: A Novel Multi-view Visualization System for Network Security
Ying Zhao, Xing Liang, Yiwen Wang, Mengjie Yang, Fangfang Zhou, Xiaoping Fan

Award: Honorable Mention: Noteworthy Collaborative Analysis Strategy
Towards Agile Cyber Analysis: Leveraging Visualizations as Functions in Collaborative Visual Analytics
Chen Zhong, Mingyi Zhao, Gaoyao Xiao, Jun Xu