CFP

A tale of Alderwood

www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest06

The VAST Contest is a participation category of the IEEE VAST 2006 Symposium http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2006/. It continues in the footsteps of the InfoVis contests with its purpose to promote the development of benchmarks for visual analytics and establish a forum to advance evaluation methods.

The dataset consists mostly of news stories from Alderwood's city newspaper, along with some multimedia materials and background information. The goal is to determine if inappropriate activities are taking place and to provide evidence based hypotheses and conclusions.

Participants will have several months to prepare their submissions. Selected entries will present at the conference, and some teams will be invited to participate in a special workshop before the conference, during which professional analysts will interact with the winners' systems and provide personal feedback.

Important dates
February 15th Release of dataset
July 15th Deadline for submission
August 14th Acceptance notification
Oct 31st - Nov 2nd IEEE VAST Symposium in Baltimore, MD

Contest Chairs

Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland
Jean Scholtz, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory