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VAST 2010 Challenge
Grand Challenge: Arms Dealing and Pandemic

Authors and Affiliations:

e.g. Tom Jones, University of Maryland, Jones@cs.umd.edu  [PRIMARY contact]
       Mary Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, [email]
      Paul White, University of Maryland [Faculty advisor], [email]
      (NOTE: the PRIMARY contact needs to be joinable by email for a week after submission and again before the Sept. 1^st deadline for camera ready materials)

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GC: Investigate any possible linkage between the illegal arms dealing and the pandemic outbreak.

In particular, you need to address the following:

1. Briefly describe your hypothesized linkage between the arms dealing activity and the pandemic outbreak.

2. Where did the disease originate (as far as you can tell with the data)? Provide a time-based tracing of its spread among countries. If you have established linkages between arms dealers in certain countries and the pandemic, please indicate this.

3. We had countries with arms dealers identified in MC 1 that did not suffer pandemic outbreaks in MC 2. Provide a hypothesis as to why some countries that may have been involved with arms dealers did not suffer an outbreak?

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