[DMANET] Call for Prize Nomination: Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing

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Call for Prize Nomination
Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing

Awarded by the Colloquium on Structural Information and
Communication Complexity (SIROCCO)

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The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing was established to
recognize individuals whose research contributions expanded the collective
investigative horizon in SIROCCO's area of interest. That is, they formulated
new problems, or identified new research areas, that were at the time of
their introduction unorthodox and outside the mainstream, but later attracted
the interest of SIROCCO's community.

This community is interested in the relationships between information and
efficiency in decentralized computing. The prize recognizes originality,
innovation, and creativity -- the qualities that reflect the spirit of the
SIROCCO conference.

(SIROCCO 2013 is going to be held on July 1–3, 2013, Ischia, Italy; papers
submission deadline is April 21st).

The prize is presented at the annual meeting of the SIROCCO conference, but
may not necessarily be awarded every year.

Passed prize winners are Nicola Santoro, Jean-Claude Bermond, David Peleg,
and Roger Wattenhofer.

Eligibility

The following conditions must be met by the nominees to be eligible for the
prize.

(1) The original innovative contribution was introduced by the nominee(s) for
the first time in a publication at least five years before the nomination
deadline, and the publication must have appeared in a conference proceedings
or a scientific journal.

(2) At least one paper (co)authored by the nominee(s), either the original
paper, or a paper directly related to the innovative contribution, must have
appeared in SIROCCO proceedings.

Past SIROCCO papers and authors can be found at indexing sites, e.g. Google
Scholar or
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sirocco/index.html.

Selection process

The prize winners are selected by the Award Committee composed of the current
Steering Committee (SC) Chair of the SIROCCO conference, the PC chairs,
including co-chairs, of the three SIROCCO conferences immediately preceding
the nominations deadline, plus one additional member of the Advisory Board,
selected by the Steering Committee for the current year.

In 2013, the Award Committee consists of: Shay Kutten (Technion)- chair Guy
Even (Tel Aviv University) David Peleg (Weizmann) Boaz Patt-Shamir (Tel Aviv
University) Masafumi Yamashita (Kyushu University)

A call for nomination is disseminated every year in the main mailing lists of
the Distributed Computing community, at least four months prior to the date
of that year's SIROCCO meeting.


Nominations can be made by any member of the scientific community. Each
nomination must identify the person(s) being nominated, and justify the
nomination by a short text including:

(a) a brief description of the innovative contribution in Distributed
Computing to be recognized by the award, and an explanation of its
originality and significance,

(b) the paper(s) of the nominee(s) that establish their eligibility as
described in the Eligibility section above items (1) and (2).

Nominations for 2013 should be sent to the Steering Committee chair of
SIROCCO: kutten@ie.technion.ac.il by April 23rd, 2013. Please write SIROCCO
Prize Nomination in the subject line.

Kind Regards,

Gennaro Cordasco
Seconda Universita' degli Studi di Napoli
Viale Ellittico, 81100 Caserta ITALY
e-mail: gennaro.cordasco[@]unina2.it
https://sites.google.com/site/cordasco/
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