Call for Prize Nomination

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing

Awarded by the Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication

Complexity (SIROCCO)

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.

The prize is presented at the annual meeting of the SIROCCO conference,

but may not necessarily be awarded every year.

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 2012, the Award Committee consists of:

Shay Kutten (Technion)- chair

Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton)

Boaz Patt-Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

Alexander A. Shvartsman (University of Connecticut)

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 2012 should be sent to the Steering Committee chair of

SIROCCO: kutten@ie.technion.ac.il by March 14, 2012. Please write

SIROCCO Prize Nomination in the subject line.