Before revision:  There are two main criteria to assess the quality of the resulting visual summary: spatial quality -- how well does the 1D representation capture the structure of the data at each time step, and stability -- how coherent are the 1D representations over consecutive time steps or temporal ranges?
After revision:  There are two main criteria to assess the quality of the resulting visual summary: spatial quality -- how well does the ordering capture the structure of the data at each time step, and stability -- how coherent are the 1D representations over consecutive time steps or temporal ranges?