III: "Visualizing Network Dynamics" -- Competition at the International Conference on Network Science 2007

该奖项支持将在2007年5月20-25日在纽约科学馆举行的2007国际网络科学研讨会和会议(NetScience 07)上展出的“可视化网络动力学”竞赛，该竞赛旨在吸引来自人类学、社会学、历史学、社会心理学、政治学、人文地理学、生物学、经济学、传播学以及艺术和设计等不同学科的研究人员、从业者和教育工作者提交不断演变的网络可视化、网络上的活动模式或两者的组合的最佳可视化结果。竞赛申请包括大分辨率静态图像或视频片段，以及对所使用的数据集、所应用的分析或建模技术以及可视化设计的详细说明。申请者还被要求列出并解释所获得的主要见解，并讨论可视化可能对教育目的具有的价值。比赛计划以支持洞察力和决策网络动态可视化的获奖作品为特色(而不是纯粹具有艺术吸引力的图像或视频)。此外，它的目的是提高用于生成这些可视化的过程的文档和交流的标准，并使人们意识到可视化对教育的重要性。获奖作品将被认可，所有有效的作品将通过NetScience 07网站(http://www.nd.edu/%7Enetsci/)作为一个通用的免费资源)在线提供，供任何对动态网络的研究或交流感兴趣的人使用。网上传播预计将改善与网络科学有关的各种科学、工程和/或教育活动。

This award supports the "Visualizing Network Dynamics" Competition intended to cull some of the world's best dynamic network visualization results to be exhibited at the 2007 International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci07), held in the New York Hall of Science, May 20 - 25, 2007.The competition is designed to attract researchers, practitioners, and educators from such diverse disciplines as anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science but also art and design to submit the best-of visualizations of evolving networks, activity patterns over networks or combinations of the two. Competition applications comprise of large resolution static images or video footage together with a detailed explanation of datasets used, analysis or modeling techniques applied, and the visualization design. Applicants are also asked to list and explain major insights gained and to discuss the value the visualization may have for educational purposes.The competition plans to feature the winning entries that support insight and decision making network dynamics visualizations (as opposed to purely artistically appealing images or videos). In addition, it aims to raise the bar for the documentation and communication of the process applied to generate those visualizations, and to sensitize people to the importance of visualization for education.The winning entries will be recognized and all valid entries will be made available online via the NetSci07 Web site (http://www.nd.edu/%7Enetsci/) as a general, free resource for anybody interested in the study or communication of dynamic networks. Online dissemination is expected to improve diverse network science related scientific, engineering and/or educational activities.