CSE Professor John Riedl and his student, Michael D. Ekstrand, received a best paper award for their work "rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History" at WikiSym 2009, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, in Orlando, Florida. Forty-five papers were submitted, of which 16 were accepted (36%), and one named Best Paper.

CSE Associate Professor Jon Weissman and his colleagues received a best paper award at the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009) in Banff, Alberta, for their paper "Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale Distributed Applications and Production Grids."  The acceptance rate for the conference was 24%

CSE Assistant Professor Abhishek Chandra and his student Dave Boutcher received a best paper award for their paper "Does Virtualization Make Disk Scheduling Passé?" at HotStorage'09: SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems in Big Sky, MT. The paper was one of three best papers at the workshop, for which the acceptance rate was 21%.

CSE Ph.D. student Esha Nerurkar was one of the 3 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09) in Kobe, Japan. ICRA is the main international conference on robotics and automation. This year there were 1624 submissions and 699 papers were selected for publication. Nerurkar’s advisor is Stergios Roumeliotis.

CSE Professor Ravi Janardan and his graduate student Vijay Rajagopal received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 24^th Annual Meeting of the Engineering & Urology Society (EUS 2009) for their paper "Modeling and Simulation in Flexible Ureteroscopy".

The paper, which was also co-authored by members of the Department of Urological Surgery at the University of Minnesota, was ranked as a "Top-10" submission from 127 peer-reviewed abstracts, each of which received between 18 and 20 reviews. A poster based on this work was narrated at the meeting and the authors were presented with a certificate and plaque.

CSE Professor John Riedl recieved a Best Paper Award at ACM's Intelligent User Interface Conference. His paper, "Tagsplanations: Explaining Recommendations Using Tags" was one of nearly 200 submissions this year. Thirty-five papers were accepted as long papers, and Riedl's paper was the only one to be declared best paper.

The paper introduces tagsplanations, which are explanations based on community tags. Tagsplanations have two key components: tag relevance, the degree to which a tag describes an item, and tag preference, the user's sentiment toward a tag.

"Tagsplanations: Explaining Recommendations Using Tags" was written by Professor Riedl, with CSE graduate students Jesse Vig and Shilad Sen.

Their paper was titled "Efficiency of Thread-Level Speculation in SMT and CMP Architectures - Performance, Power and Thermal Perspective." The conference was held at Lake Tahoe, CA on October 12-15, 2008.

IEEE MASS had a 13% acceptance rate for regular papers this year. Guo’s paper was selected from over 250 submitted. She was presented with a plaque and $500.

CSE professors John Collins and Maria Gini, along with CSE alumnus Wolf Ketter (P.h.D. ‘07) at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, received a Best Paper Award for the paper entitled, "Flexible Decision Support in a Dynamic Business Network," at the Smart Business Network conference last week in Beijing, China. The conference focused on issues surrounding the development of smart business networks.

In the paper, Collins, Gini, and Ketter describe the design of a service oriented architecture that facilitates flexible managerial decision making in dynamic business networks. They have tested this architecture in the MinneTAC trading agent, designed to compete in the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition.

For more information about the conference, visit Smart Business Network Initiative.