Congratulations to Mr Michael Cahill from The University of Sydney, who has received a "best paper" award from SIGMOD 2008:

Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases
Michael Cahill, Uwe Röhm, Alan Fekete

Michael is also a recipient of the EII Publication Prize for RHD students.

Outstanding achievement, Michael!!!

May 2008: The EII $1000 Publication Prize is now closed.

Eligibility:

·         Research higher degree students from EII member universities

·         You must be a co-author, and preferably the "first" or sole author of the accepted paper

·         The accepted paper must be a full paper

·         Conferences: VLDB, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, ICDE, ICDM & ICIS only

·         Paper submission date must be before 31 December 2007

The EII PhD School in October 2005, launched a $1000 Publication Prize for delegates towards travel expenses to present a paper accepted by any of three major international meetings: VLDB, ACM SIGMOD/PODS and ICDE 2007. The objective was to encourage publication in high quality conferences in our field. To win, the student had to be a co-author or preferably the sole author of the accepted paper.

In October 2006, EII was very pleased to announce two winners of this prize:

Mr Ying Zhang, from The University of New South Wales, had a full paper accepted for publication in ICDE 2007: Selecting Stars: the k Most Representative Skyline Operator, X. LIN, Y. Yuan, Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang

Mr Ke [Ken] Deng, from The University of Queensland, also had a full paper accepted for publication in ICDE 2007: Multi-source Skyline Query Processing in Road Networks, K. Deng, X. Zhou and H.T. Shen

Similarly the PhD School in 2006 also offered a $1000 Publication Prize to delegates, adding one more major international conference to the list, ICDM2007, and in January 2007, EII's Steering Committee included a fifth conference: ICIS2007.

In April 2007, EII announced the third winner of this prize: Ms Yi Luo, The University of New South Wales, had a full paper accepted for publication in SIGMOD 2007: SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases, Yi Luo, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang, Xiaofang Zhou

In August 2007, EII announced the fourth prize winner: Mr Shahriar Tanvir Hasan Murshed, The University of Sydney, had a full paper accepted for publication in ICIS 2007: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND ORGANIZATION DISINTEGRATION: THE CASE OF ENRON CORPORATION, Shahriar Hasan Murshed, Joseph Davis, and Liaquat Hossian

In October 2007, three students had papers accepted by ICDE 2008! ICDE is a tier 1 conference - one of the most prestigious international databases and data management conferences. For this conference, the paper acceptance ratio for full papers is 19, and for poster papers it's 11.8%. There were total of 617 submissions (a record number for ICDE).

Mr Mohammed Eunus Ali from The University of Melbourne has had a full paper accepted by ICDE 2008:

A Motion-Aware Approach to Continuous Retrieval of 3D Objects
Mohammed Eunus Ali, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik

Mr Mohammad Alomari from The University of Sydney has had a full paper accepted by ICDE 2008:

The Cost of Serializability on Platforms That Use Snapshot
Mohammad Alomari, Michael Cahill, Alan Fekete, Uwe Roehm

Mr Hoyoung Jeung from The University of Queensland has had two papers accepted by ICDE 2008!
Full paper: A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects
Hoyoung Jeung, Qing Liu, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou

Poster paper: Convoy Queries in Spatio-Temporal Databases
Hoyoung Jeung, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou