Best Paper Awards Archive

2023 Best Paper Awards

Winners

Computer: David Fernández-Llorca, Emilia Gómez, “Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Requirements in the Autonomous Driving Domain” in Computer, vol. 56, no. 02, pp. 29-39, 2023.

Computer Graphics and Applications: Zhenpeng Zhao, Niklas Elmqvist, “The Stories We Tell About Data: Surveying Data-Driven Storytelling Using Visualization,” in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 97-110, July – August 2023.

Intelligent Systems: Lyuchao Liao, Ben Li, Fumin Zou, Dejuan Huang, “MFGCN: A Multimodal Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Online Car-Hailing Demand Prediction” in IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 38, no. 03, pp. 21-30, 2023.

Internet Computing: Panos Patros, Melanie Ooi, Victoria Huang, Michael Mayo, Chris Anderson, Stephen Burroughs, Matt Baughman, Osama Almurshed, Omer Rana, Ryan Chard, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, “Rural AI: Serverless-Powered Federated Learning for Remote Applications,” in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 28-34, March – April 2023.

Micro: Emil Talpes, Debjit Das Sarma, Doug Williams, Sahil Arora, Thomas Kunjan, Benjamin Floering, Ankit Jalote, Christopher Hsiong, Chandrasekhar Poorna, Vaidehi Samant, John Sicilia, Anantha Kumar Nivarti, Raghuvir Ramachandran, Tim Fischer, Ben Herzberg, Bill McGee, Ganesh Venkataramanan, Pete Banon, “The Microarchitecture of DOJO, Tesla’s Exa-Scale Computer,” in IEEE Micro, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 31-39, May – June 2023.

MultiMedia: Irene Viola, Jack Jansen, Shishir Subramanyam, Ignacio Reimat, Pablo Cesar, “VR2Gather: A Collaborative, Social Virtual Reality System for Adaptive, Multiparty Real-Time Communication,” in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 48-59, April – June 2023.

Pervasive Computing: Ariel Ekblaw, Juliana Cherston, Fangzheng Liu, Irmandy Wicaksono, Don Derek Haddad, Valentina Sumini, Joseph A. Paradiso, “From UbiComp to Universe—Moving Pervasive Computing Research Into Space Applications,” in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 27-42, April – June 2023.

Security & Privacy: Derin Cayir, Abbas Acar, Riccardo Lazzeretti, Marco Angelini, Mauro Conti, Selcuk Uluagac, “Augmenting Security and Privacy in the Virtual Realm: An Analysis of Extended Reality Devices,” in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 10-23, January – February 2024.

Software: Juncal Alonso, Radosław Piliszek, Matija Cankar, “Embracing IaC Through the DevSecOps Philosophy: Concepts, Challenges, and a Reference Framework,” in IEEE Software, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 56-62, January – February 2023.

Computer Architecture Letters: Jaewan Choi, Jaehyun Park, Kwanhee Kyung, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn, “Unleashing the Potential of PIM: Accelerating Large Batched Inference of Transformer-Based Generative Models” in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 22, no. 02, pp. 113-116, 2023.

Open Journal of the Computer Society: Yijing Lin, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiangtian Nie, Jiayi Zhang, Yanyu Cheng, Zhaohui Yang, “Blockchain-Aided Secure Semantic Communication for AI-Generated Content in Metaverse,” in IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 4, pp. 72-83, March 2023.

Transactions on Affective Computing: Rui Mao, Qian Liu, Kai He, Wei Li, Erik Cambria, “The Biases of Pre-Trained Language Models: An Empirical Study on Prompt-Based Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1743-1753, July – September 2023.

Transactions on Big Data: Xin Liang, Kai Zhao, Sheng Di, Sihuan Li, Robert Underwood, Ali M. Gok, Jiannan Tian, Junjing Deng, Jon C. Calhoun, Dingwen Tao, Zizhong Chen, Franck Cappello,“SZ3: A Modular Framework for Composing Prediction-Based Error-Bounded Lossy Compressors” in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 9, no. 02, pp. 485-498, 2023.

Transactions on Cloud Computing: Shenglai Zeng, Zonghang Li, Hongfang Yu, Zhihao Zhang, Long Luo, Bo Li, and Dusit Niyato, “HFedMS: Heterogeneous Federated Learning With Memorable Data Semantics in Industrial Metaverse,” in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 3055-3069, July – September 2023.

Transactions on Computers: Kevin Kiningham, Philip Levis and Christopher Ré, “GRIP: A Graph Neural Network Accelerator Architecture,” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 914-925, April 2023.

Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing: Orian Leitersdorf, Dean Leitersdorf, Jonathan Gal, Mor Dahan, Ronny Ronen, Shahar Kvatinsky, “AritPIM: High-Throughput In-Memory Arithmetic,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 11, no. 03, pp. 720-735, 2023.

Transactions on Mobile Computing: Sohei Itahara, Takayuki Nishio, Yusuke Koda, Masahiro Morikura, Koji Yamamoto, “Distillation-Based Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Training with Non-IID Private Data,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 191-205, January 2023.

Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Hai Jin, Dongshan Bai, Dezhong Yao, Yutong Dai, Lin Gu, Chen Yu, Lichao Sun “Personalized Edge Intelligence via Federated Self-Knowledge Distillation,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 567-580, February 2023.

Transactions on Services Computing: Wei Jiang, Daquan Feng, Yao Sun, Gang Feng, Zhenzhong Wang, and Xiang-Gen Xia, “Joint Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for D2D-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing,” in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1949-1963, May – June 2023.

Transactions on Software Engineering: Zimin Chen, Steve Kommrusch, Martin Monperrus, “Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code,” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 01, pp. 147-165, 2023.

Transactions on Sustainable Computing: Marcos De Melo da Silva, Abdoulaye Gamatié, Gilles Sassatelli, Michael Poss and Michel Robert, “Optimization of Data and Energy Migrations in Mini Data Centers for Carbon-Neutral Computing,” in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 68-81, January – March 2023.

Runners-Up

Computer: Isabelle Hupont, Marina Micheli, Blagoj Delipetrev, Emilia Gómez, Josep Soler Garrido, “Documenting High-Risk AI: A European Regulatory Perspective,” in Computer, vol. 56, no. 05, pp. 18-27, 2023.

Computer Graphics and Applications: Melanie Tory, Lyn Bartram, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Anamaria Crisan, “Finding Their Data Voice: Practices and Challenges of Dashboard Users,” in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 43, no. 01, pp. 22-36, 2023.

Micro: Jack Choquette, “NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPU: Scaling Performance,” in IEEE Micro, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 9-17, May – June 2023.

MultiMedia: Benjamin W. Wah, Jingxi X. Xu, “Optimizing Multidimensional Perceptual Quality in Online Interactive Multimedia,” in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 119-128, July – September 2023.

Pervasive Computing: Vanessa Echeverria, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Lixiang Yan, Linxuan Zhao, Gloria Fernandez-Nieto, Dragan Gašević, Simon Buckingham Shum, “HuCETA: A Framework for Human-Centered Embodied Teamwork Analytics,” in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 39-49, January – March 2023.

Security & Privacy: Lorenzo Cavallaro, Johannes Kinder, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, “Are Machine Learning Models for Malware Detection Ready for Prime Time?,” in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 53-56, March – April 2023.

Software: Darja Smite, Emily Laue Christensen, Paolo Tell, Daniel Russo, “The Future Workplace: Characterizing the Spectrum of Hybrid Work Arrangements for Software Teams,” in IEEE Software, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 34-41, March – April 2023.

Computer Architecture Letters: Theodoros Trochatos, Chuanqi Xu, Sanjay Deshpande, Yao Lu, Yongshan Ding, Jakub Szefer,“A Quantum Computer Trusted Execution Environment” in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 22, no. 02, pp. 177-180, 2023.

Transactions on Computers: Simon Thomann, Paul R. Genssler, Hussam Amrouch, “HW/SW Co-Design for Reliable TCAM- Based In-Memory Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing,” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 2404-2417, August 2023.

Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing: Takahiro Ohyama, Yuichi Kawamoto, Nei Kato, “Quantum Computing Based Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-Aided Cell-Free Network,” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 11, no. 01, pp. 18-29, 2023.

Transactions on Mobile Computing: Pavlos Athanasios Apostolopoulos, Georgios Fragkos, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, and Symeon Papavassiliou, “Data Offloading in UAV-Assisted Multi-Access Edge Computing Systems Under Resource Uncertainty,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 175-190, January 2023.

Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Ayesha Afzal, Georg Hager and Gerhard Wellein, “The Role of Idle Waves, Desynchronization, and Bottleneck Evasion in the Performance of Parallel Programs,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 623-638, February 2023.

Transactions on Services Computing: Amin Mohajer, Mahya Sam Daliri, A. Mirzaei, A. Ziaeddini, M. Nabipour, Maryam Bavaghar, “Heterogeneous Computational Resource Allocation for NOMA: Toward Green Mobile Edge-Computing Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1225-1238, March – April 2023.

Transactions on Software Engineering: Chanathip Pornprasit and Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn, “DeepLineDP: Towards a Deep Learning Approach for Line-Level Defect Prediction” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 01, pp. 84-98, 2023.

Transactions on Sustainable Computing: Lin Gu, Weiying Zhang, Zhongkui Wang, Deze Zeng, and Hai Jin, “Service Management and Energy Scheduling Toward Low-Carbon Edge Computing,” in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 109-119, January – March 2023.

2022 Best Paper Awards

Winners

Hironori Washizaki, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Hironori Takeuchi, Naotake Natori, Takuo Doi, and Satoshi Okuda, “Software-Engineering Design Patterns for Machine Learning Applications in Computer, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 30-39, March 2022

Lieven Eeckhout, “A First-Order Model to Assess Computer Architecture Sustainability” in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 37-140, July-December 2022

Shahid Latif, Hagen Tarner, and Fabian Beck, Talking Realities: Audio Guides in Virtual Reality Visualizations in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 73-83, January/February 2022

Dali Wang, Peter Schwartz, Fengming Yuan, Peter Thornton, and Weijian Zheng, Towards Ultrahigh-Resolution E3SM Land Modeling on Exascale Computers in Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 44-53, November/December 2022

Hafiz Asif, Periklis A. Papakonstantinou, Stephanie Shiau, Vivek Singh, and Jaideep Vaidya, Intelligent Pandemic Surveillance via Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing in IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 88-96, July/August 2022

Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Serena Curzel, Jeff Jun Zhang, Ankur Limaye, Cheng Tan, Vinay Amatya, Marco Minutoli, Vito Giovanni Castellana, Joseph Manzano, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei, and Antonino Tumeo, Bridging Python to Silicon: The SODA Toolchain in IEEE Micro, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 78-88, September/October 2022

Jiong Dong, Kaoru Ota, and Mianxiong Dong, Why VR Games Sickness? An Empirical Study of Capturing and Analyzing VR Games Head Movement Dataset in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 74-82, April-June 2022

Chuan Chen, Lei Zhang, Yihao Li, Tianchi Liao, Siran Zhao, Zibin Zheng, Huawei Huang, and Jiajing Wu, “When Digital Economy Meets Web3.0: Applications and Challenges in IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 3, pp. 233-245, October 2022

Ovidiu-Ciprian Ungurean and Radu-Daniel Vatavu, ‘“I Gave up Wearing Rings:” Insights on the Perceptions and Preferences of Wheelchair Users for Interactions With Wearables’ in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 92-101, July-September 2022

William Enck and Laurie Williams, “Top Five Challenges in Software Supply Chain Security: Observations From 30 Industry and Government Organizations” in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 96-100, March/April 2022

Chris Lamb and Stefano Zacchiroli, “Reproducible Builds: Increasing the Integrity of Software Supply Chains” in IEEE Software, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 62-70, March/April 2022

Peixiang Zhong, Di Wang, and Chunyan Miao, “EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Regularized Graph Neural Networks” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1290-1301 July-September 2022

Pablo R. Bodmann, George Papadimitriou, Rubens L. Rech Junior, Dimitris Gizopoulos, and Paolo Rech, “Soft Error Effects on Arm Microprocessors: Early Estimations versus Chip Measurements” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 2358-2369, October 2022

Deepika Saxena, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, and Rajkumar Buyya, “OP-MLB: An Online VM Prediction-Based Multi-Objective Load Balancing Framework for Resource Management at Cloud Data Center” in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 2804-2816, October-December, 2022

Zubair Md. Fadlullah and Nei Kato, “HCP: Heterogeneous Computing Platform for Federated Learning Based Collaborative Content Caching Towards 6G Networks” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 112-123, January-March 2022

Ming Tang and Vincent W.S. Wong, “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Systems” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1985-1997, June 2022

Christian R. Trott, Damien Lebrun-Grandie, Daniel Arndt, Jan Ciesko, Vinh Dang, Nathan Ellingwood, Rahulkumar Gayatri, Evan Harvey, Daisy S. Hollman, Dan Ibanez, Nevin Liber, Jonathan Madsen, Jeff Miles, David Poliakoff, Amy Powell, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Mikael Simberg, Dan Sunderland, Bruno Turcksin, and Jeremiah Wilke, “Kokkos 3: Programming Model Extensions for the Exascale Era” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 805-817, April 2022

Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Lei Ma, and Yang Liu, “Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 1-36, January 2022

Runners-Up

Emily Wall, Cindy Xiong, and Yea-Seul Kim, “VisHikers’ Guide to Evaluation: Competing Considerations in Study Design” in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 42, no. 3 pp. 29-38, May/June 2022

Jessica D. Bayliss, “The Data-Oriented Design Process for Game Development” in Computer, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 31-38, May 2022

Seunghan Yang, Hyoungseob Park, Junyoung Byun, and Changick Kim, “Robust Federated Learning With Noisy Labels” in IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 35-43 March-April 2022

Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital, Adrian Dziembowskii, Gauthier Lafruit, Franck Thudor, Gwangsoon Lee, and Patrice Rondao Alface, “The MPEG Immersive Video Standard—Current Status and Future Outlook” in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 101-111, July-September 2022

Nicolas Huaman, Sabrina Amft, Marten Oltrogge, Yasemin Acar, and Sascha Fahl; “They Would Do Better If They Worked Together: Interaction Problems Between Password Managers and the Web” in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 49-60, March/April 2022

Liliana Pasquale, Paola Zippo, Cliona Curley, Brian O’Neill, and Marina Mongiello, “Digital Age of Consent and Age Verification: Can They Protect Children?” in IEEE Software, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 50-57, May/June 2022

Siyang Song, Shashank Jaiswal, Linlin Shen, and Michel Valstar “Spectral Representation of Behaviour Primitives for Depression Analysis” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 829-844, April-June 2022

Cunlu Li, Dezun Dong, Xiangke Liao, and John Kim, “Hybrid Memory Buffer Microarchitecture for High-Radix Routers” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 71, no. 11, pp. 2888-2902, November 2022

YaoChong Li, Ri-Gui Zhou, RuiQing Xu, Jia Luo, and She-Xiang Jiang, “A Quantum Mechanics-Based Framework for EEG Signal Feature Extraction and Classification” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 211-222, January-March 2022

John Osorio, Adrià Armejach, Eric Petit, Greg Henry, and Marc Casas, “A BF16 FMA is All You Need for DNN Training” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1302-1314, July-September 2022

Lianbo Ma, Xueyi Wang, Xingwei Wang, Liang Wang, Ying Shi, and Min Huang, “TCDA: Truthful Combinatorial Double Auctions for Mobile Edge Computing in Industrial Internet of Things” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 4125-4138, November 2022

Jidong Zhai, Liyan Zheng, Feng Zhang, Xiongchao Tang, Haojie Wang, Teng Yu, Yuyang Jin, Shuaiwen Leon Song, and Wenguang Chen, “Detecting Performance Variance for Parallel Applications Without Source Code” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 4239-4255, December 2022

Saikat Chakraborty, Rahul Krishna, Yangruibo Ding, and Baishakhi Ray, “Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection: Are We There Yet?” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 3280-3296, September 2022

2021 Best Paper Awards

Winners

S. Furnell, J. Haney and M. Theofanos, “Pandemic Parallels: What Can Cybersecurity Learn From COVID-19?” Computer, vol. 54, no. 03, pp. 68-72, March 2021

P. Gu, J. Han, D. Chen and C. Wang, “Reconstructing Unsteady Flow Data From Representative Streamlines via Diffusion and Deep-Learning-Based Denoising” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 06, pp. 111-121, November – December 2021

B. Granger and F. Perez, “Jupyter: Thinking and Storytelling With Code and Data” Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 23, no. 02, pp. 7-14, March – April 2021

K. Cheng, et al.,”SecureBoost: A Lossless Federated Learning Framework” IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 36, no. 06, pp. 87-98, November – December 2021

M. Gaur, K. Faldu and A. Sheth, “Semantics of the Black-Box: Can Knowledge Graphs Help Make Deep Learning Systems More Interpretable and Explainable?” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 25, no. 01, pp. 51-59, January – February 2021

T. Norrie, et al., “The Design Process for Google’s Training Chips: TPUv2 and TPUv3” IEEE Micro, vol. 41, no. 02, pp. 56-63, March – April 2021

Y. Wu, et al., “Modeling Incongruity between Modalities for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 28, no. 02, pp. 86-95, April – June 2021

O. Bates, C. Lord, H. Alter, A. Friday and B. Kirman, “Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 20, no. 04, pp. 26-34, October – December 2021

W. Ahmad and D. Clark, “A Systems Approach Toward Addressing Anonymous Abuses: Technical and Policy Considerations IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 19, no. 02, pp. 38-47, March – April 2021

J. Bader, S. Seohyun Kim, F. Sifei Luan, S. Chandra and E. Meijer, “AI in Software Engineering at Facebook” IEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 04, pp. 52-61, July – August 2021

Q. Tran, et al., “A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Systems (PPBS) and a Novel PPBS-Based Framework for Smart Agriculture” IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 2, no. 01, pp. 72-84, 2021

G. Yannakakis, R. Cowie and C. Busso, “The Ordinal Nature of Emotions: An Emerging Approach” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 12, no. 01, pp. 16-35, January – March 2021

J. Johnson, M. Douze and H. Jégou, “Billion-Scale Similarity Search with GPUs” IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 7, no. 03, pp. 535-547, July 2021

S. Liang, et al.,”EnGN: A High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient Accelerator for Large Graph Neural Networks” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 09, pp. 1511-1525, September 2021

S. Das and S. Sahni, “Two-Aggregator Topology Optimization Using Single Paths in Data Center Networks” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 9, no. 02, pp. 807-820, April – June 2021

F. Zhang, et al., “An Efficient Parallel Secure Machine Learning Framework on GPUs” IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 09, pp. 2262-2276, September 2021

X. Wang, L. Yang, X. Chen, M. Deen and J. Jin, “Improved Multi-Order Distributed HOSVD with Its Incremental Computing for Smart City Services” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 6, no. 03, pp. 456-468, July – September 2021

V. Manes, et al., “The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 2312-2331, November 2021

Z. Yang, et al.,”CDPath: Cooperative Driver Pathways Discovery Using Integer Linear Programming and Markov Clustering” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 18, no. 04, pp. 1384-1395, July – August 2021

Runners-Up

A. Holzinger and H. Muller, “Toward Human–AI Interfaces to Support Explainability and Causability in Medical AI” Computer, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 78-86, October 2021

M. Karyda, D. Wilde and M. Kjarsgaard, “Narrative Physicalization: Supporting Interactive Engagement With Personal Data” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 01, pp. 74-86, January – February 2021

B. Haworth, et al., “Gamification of Crowd-Driven Environment Design” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 04, pp. 107-117, July – August 2021

S. Pennycook, J. Sewall, D. Jacobsen, T. Deakin and S. McIntosh-Smith, “Navigating Performance, Portability, and Productivity” Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 23, no. 05, pp. 28-38, September – October 2021

V. Moscato, A. Picariello and G. Sperli, “An Emotional Recommender System for Music” IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 36, no. 05, pp. 57-68, September – October 2021

D. Giri, K. Chiu, G. Eichler, P. Mantovani and L. Carloni, “Accelerator Integration for Open-Source SoC Design” IEEE Micro, vol. 41, no. 04, pp. 8-14, July – August 2021

R. de Abreu, D. Mattos, J. Santos, G. Ghinea and D. Muchaluat-Saade, “Toward Content-Driven Intelligent Authoring of Mulsemedia Applications” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 28, no. 01, pp. 7-16, January – March 2021

V. Ang and L. Shar, “COVID-19 One Year on – Security and Privacy Review of Contact Tracing Mobile Apps” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 20, no. 04, pp. 61-70, October – December 2021

S. Eismann, et al.,”Serverless Applications: Why, When, and How?” IEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 01, pp. 32-39, January – February 2021

L. Liu, S. Zhou, H. Huang and Z. Zheng, “From Technology to Society: An Overview of Blockchain-Based DAO” IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 2, no. 01, pp. 204-215, 2021

J. Gideon, M. McInnis and E. Provost, “Improving Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition with Adversarial Discriminative Domain Generalization (ADDoG)” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 12, no. 04, pp. 1055-1068, October – December 2021

J. Santos, T. Syed, M. Naldi, R. Campello and J. Sander, “Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering Using MapReduce” IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 7, no. 01, pp. 102-114, March 2021

W. Wu, et al., “SAFA: A Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning With Low Overhead” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 05, pp. 655-668, May 2021

Y. Zhang, C. Xu, X. Lin and X. Shen, “Blockchain-Based Public Integrity Verification for Cloud Storage against Procrastinating Auditors” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 9, no. 03, pp. 923-937, July – September 2021

C. Wang, Y. Yang and P. Zhou, “Towards Efficient Scheduling of Federated Mobile Devices Under Computational and Statistical Heterogeneity IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 02, pp. 394-410, February 2021

S. Ram, S. Sahoo, B. Das, K. Mahapatra and S. Mohanty, “Eternal-Thing: A Secure Aging-Aware Solar-Energy Harvester Thing for Sustainable IoT” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 6, no. 02, pp. 320-333, April – June 2021

Z. Wan, X. Xia, D. Lo and G. Murphy, “How does Machine Learning Change Software Development Practices?” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 47, no. 09, pp. 1857-1871, September 2021

2020 Best Paper Awards

Winners

L. Allodi, T. Chotza, E. Panina and N. Zannone, The Need for New Antiphishing Measures Against Spear-Phishing AttacksIEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 23-34, March/April 2020.

D. Offenhuber, What We Talk About When We Talk About Data PhysicalityIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 25-37, Nov./Dec. 2020.

F. González-Arias, T. Reddy, J. E. Stone, J. A. Hadden-Perilla and J. R. Perilla, Scalable Analysis of Authentic Viral Envelopes on FRONTERAComputing in Science & Engineering, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 11-20, Nov./Dec. 2020.

I. Tomkos, D. Klonidis, E. Pikasis and S. Theodoridis, Toward the 6G Network Era: Opportunities and ChallengesIT Professional, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 34-38, Jan./Feb. 2020.

X. Tang, E. Giacomin, B. Chauviere, A. Alacchi and P. Gaillardon, OpenFPGA: An Open-Source Framework for Agile Prototyping Customizable FPGAsIEEE Micro, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 41-48, July/Aug. 2020.

V. Vakkuri, K. Kemell, J. Kultanen and P. Abrahamsson, The Current State of Industrial Practice in Artificial Intelligence EthicsIEEE Software, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 50-57, July/Aug. 2020.

Z. Akata et al., A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial IntelligenceComputer, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 18-28, Aug. 2020.

Y. Li, B. Zou, S. Deng and G. Zhou, Using Feature Fusion Strategies in Continuous Authentication on SmartphonesIEEE Internet Computing, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 49-56, March/April 2020.

J. E. Bardram and A. Matic, A Decade of Ubiquitous Computing Research in Mental HealthIEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 62-72, Jan.-March 2020.

I. Comşa et al., Do I Smell Coffee? The Tale of a 360° Mulsemedia ExperienceIEEE MultiMedia, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 27-36, Jan.-March 2020.

C. Kumar et al., Post-Silicon MicroarchitectureIEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 26-29, Jan.-June 2020.

T. Song, W. Zheng, P. Song and Z. Cui, EEG Emotion Recognition Using Dynamical Graph Convolutional Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 532-541, July-Sept. 2020.

R. Li, B. Wu, M. Ying, X. Sun and G. Yang, Quantum Supremacy Circuit Simulation on Sunway TaihuLightIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 805-816, April 2020.

Z. Du, C. Wu, T. Yoshinaga, K. -L. A. Yau, Y. Ji and J. Li, Federated Learning for Vehicular Internet of Things: Recent Advances and Open IssuesIEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 1, pp. 45-61, 2020.

M. Yasin, B. Mazumdar, O. Sinanoglu and J. Rajendran, Removal Attacks on Logic Locking and Camouflaging TechniquesIEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 517-532, April-June 2020.

W. Zhang et al.Deep Model Based Transfer and Multi-Task Learning for Biological Image AnalysisIEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 322-333, June 2020.

Y. Zhan, S. Guo, P. Li and J. Zhang, A Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Offloading Game in Edge ComputingIEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 883-893, June 2020.

J. Ni, K. Zhang, Q. Xia, X. Lin and X. S. Shen, Enabling Strong Privacy Preservation and Accurate Task Allocation for Mobile CrowdsensingIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1317-1331, June 2020.

Q. Xiao et al., Identifying lncRNA and mRNA Co-Expression Modules from Matched Expression Data in Ovarian CancerIEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 623-634, March/April 2020.

S. Hajiamini, B. Shirazi, A. Crandall and H. Ghasemzadeh, A Dynamic Programming Framework for DVFS-Based Energy-Efficiency in Multicore SystemsIEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-12, Jan.-March 2020.

Runners-Up

K. Koumaditis, F. Chinello, P. Mitkidis and S. Karg, Effectiveness of Virtual Versus Physical Training: The Case of Assembly Tasks, Trainer’s Verbal Assistance, and Task ComplexityIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 41-56, Sept./Oct. 2020.

P. Bajpai and R. Enbody, Attacking Key Management in RansomwareIT Professional, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 21-27, March/April 2020.

F. S. Ali, M. Aloqaily, O. Alfandi and O. Ozkasap, Cyberphysical Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Energy TradingComputer, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 56-65, Sept. 2020.

V. Pejović, M. Gjoreski, C. Anderson, K. David and M. Luštrek, Toward Cognitive Load Inference for Attention Management in Ubiquitous SystemsIEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 35-45, April-June 2020.

Y. Zhang, Y. Jin, J. Chen, S. Kan, Y. Cen and Q. Cao, PGAN: Part-Based Nondirect Coupling Embedded GAN for Person ReidentificationIEEE MultiMedia, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 23-33, July-Sept. 2020.

S. Krishnan et al., The Sky Is Not the Limit: A Visual Performance Model for Cyber-Physical Co-Design in Autonomous MachinesIEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 38-42, Jan.-June 2020.

S. Taylor, N. Jaques, E. Nosakhare, A. Sano and R. Picard, Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow’s Mood, Stress, and HealthIEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 200-213, April-June 2020.

Q. Kang et al., Improving MPI Collective I/O for High Volume Non-Contiguous Requests With Intra-Node AggregationIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 2682-2695, Nov. 2020.

Q. Wu, K. He and X. Chen, Personalized Federated Learning for Intelligent IoT Applications: A Cloud-Edge Based FrameworkIEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 1, pp. 35-44, 2020.

D. Kondor, B. Hashemian, Y. -A. de Montjoye and C. Ratti, Towards Matching User Mobility Traces in Large-Scale DatasetsIEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 714-726, Dec. 2020.

A. Ankit et al., PANTHER: A Programmable Architecture for Neural Network Training Harnessing Energy-Efficient ReRAMIEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 1128-1142, Aug. 2020.

S. Varsamopoulos, K. Bertels and C. G. Almudever, Comparing Neural Network Based Decoders for the Surface CodeIEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 300-311, Feb. 2020.

2019 Best Paper Awards

Winners

Diego Valsesia, Giulio Coluccia, Tiziano Bianchi, and Enrico Magli, “ToothPic: Camera-Based Image Retrieval on Large Scales,” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019, pp. 33-43.

Thierry Moreau, Tianqi Chen, Luis Vega, Jared Roesch, Eddie Yan, Lianmin Zheng, Josh Fromm, Ziheng Jiang, Luis Ceze, Carlos Guestrin, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, “A Hardware–Software Blueprint for Flexible Deep Learning Specialization,” IEEE Micro, vol. 39, no. 5, 2019, pp. 8-16.

Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Georgiana Levinta, and Marcin Floryan, “Spotify Guilds: How to Succeed With Knowledge Sharing in Large-Scale Agile Organizations,” IEEE Software, vol. 36, no. 2, 2019, pp. 51-57.

Florian Daniel, Cinzia Cappiello, and Boualem Benatallah, “Bots Acting Like Humans: Understanding and Preventing Harm,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 23, no. 2, 2019, pp. 40-49.

Marie Hicks, “Hacking the Cis-tem,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 41, no.1, pp. 20-33, 2019.

Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Benjamin R. Cowan, and Leigh Clark, “Revolution or Evolution? Speech Interaction and HCI Design Guidelines,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, 2019, pp. 33-45.

Victor Dibia and Cagatay Demiralp, “Data2Vis: Automatic Generation of Data Visualizations Using Sequence-to-Sequence Recurrent Neural Networks,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 39, no. 05, pp. 33-46, 2019.

Jian Liu, Wenting Li, Ghassan O. Karame, and N. Asokan, “Scalable Byzantine Consensus via Hardware-Assisted Secret Sharing,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 139-151, 2019.

Bradley Denby and Brandon Lucia, “Orbital Edge Computing: Machine Inference in Space,” IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 18, no. 1, 2019, pp. 59-62.

Zeyi Wen, Jiashuai Shi, Bingsheng He, Jian Chen, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, and Qinbin Li, “Exploiting GPUs for Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Training,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 30, no. 12, 2019, pp. 2706-2717.

Jun Wu, Mianxiong Dong, Kaoru Ota, Jianhua Li, and Zhitao Guan, “FCSS: Fog-Computing-Based Content-Aware Filtering for Security Services in Information-Centric Social Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, 2019, pp. 553-564.

Runners-Up

Yue Cao, Ning Wang, Celimuge Wu, Xu Zhang, and Chakkaphong Suthaputchakun, “Enhancing Video QoE Over High-Speed Train Using Segment-Based Prefetching and Caching,” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 26, no. 4, 2019, pp. 55-66.

Ei Pa Pa Pe-Than, Alexander Nolte, Anna Filippova, Christian Bird, Steve Scallen, and James D. Herbsleb, “Designing Corporate Hackathons With a Purpose: The Future of Software Development,” IEEE Software, vol. 36, no. 1, 2019, pp. 15-22.

Meg Jones, “The Development of Consent to Computing,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 41, no. 4, 2019, pp. 34-47.

Alex Mariakakis, Edward Wang, Shwetak Patel, and Mayank Goel, “Challenges in Realizing Smartphone-Based Health Sensing,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, 2019, pp. 76-84.

Lei Li, Hongbo Fu, and Chiew-Lan Tai, “Fast Sketch Segmentation and Labeling With Deep Learning,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 38-51, 2019.

Fabian Schuiki, Michael Schaffner, Frank K. Gurkaynak, and Luca Benini, “A Scalable Near-Memory Architecture for Training Deep Neural Networks on Large In-Memory Datasets,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 484-497, 2019.

Xubin Tan, Jaume Bosch, Carlos Alvarez, Daniel Jimenez-Gonzalez, Eduard Ayguade, and Mateo Valero, “A Hardware Runtime for Task-Based Programming Models,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 30, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1932-1946.

2018 Best Paper Awards

Winners

Stephanie Dick and Daniel Volmar, “DLL Hell: Software Dependencies, Failure, and the Maintenance of Microsoft Windows,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 40, no. 4, 2018.

Yu Gan and Christina Delimitrou, “The Architectural Implications of Cloud Microservices,” IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, 2018, pp. 155-158.

Mike Davies, Narayan Srinivasa, Tsung-Han Lin, Gautham Chinya, Yongqiang Cao, Sri Harsha Choday, Georgios Dimou, Prasad Joshi, Nabil Imam, Shweta Jain, Yuyun Liao, Chit-Kwan Lin, Andrew Lines, Ruokun Liu, Deepak Mathaikutty, Steven McCoy, Arnab Paul, Jonathan Tse, Guruguhanathan Venkataramanan, Yi-Hsin Weng, Andreas Wild, Yoonseok Yang, and Hong Wang, “Loihi: A Neuromorphic Manycore Processor with On-Chip Learning,” IEEE Micro, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 82-99.

Huadong Ma and Wu Liu, “A Progressive Search Paradigm for the Internet of Things,” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 25, no. 1, 2018, pp. 76-86.

Yair Meidan, Michael Bohadana, Yael Mathov, Yisroel Mirsky, Asaf Shabtai, Dominik Breitenbacher, and Yuval Elovici, “N-BaIoT—Network-Based Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks Using Deep Autoencoders,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 17, no. 3, 2018, pp. 12-22.

Brian A. Scriber, “A Framework for Determining Blockchain Applicability,” IEEE Software, vol. 35, no. 4, 2018, pp. 70-77.

Tiago Gama Rodrigues, Katsuya Suto, Hiroki Nishiyama, Nei Kato, and Katsuhiro Temma, “Cloudlets Activation Scheme for Scalable Mobile Edge Computing with Transmission Power Control and Virtual Machine Migration,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 67, no. 9, 2018, pp. 1287-1300.

Peyman Pouyan, Esteve Amat, and Antonio Rubio, “Memristive Crossbar Memory Lifetime Evaluation and Reconfiguration Strategies,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, 2018, pp. 207-218.

Xiang Zhou, Xin Peng, Tao Xie, Jun Sun, Chao Ji, Wenhai Li, and Dan Ding, “Fault Analysis and Debugging of Microservice Systems: Industrial Survey and Empirical Study,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2018.

Runner-Up

Eric Chung, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Adrian Caulfield, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Daniel Lo, Shlomi Alkalay, Michael Haselman, Maleen Abeydeera, Logan Adams, Hari Angepat, Christian Boehn, Derek Chiou, Oren Firestein, Alessandro Forin, Kang Su Gatlin, Mahdi Ghandi, Stephen Heil, Kyle Holohan, Ahmad El Husseini, Tamas Juhasz, Kara Kagi, Ratna Kovvuri, Sitaram Lanka, Friedel van Megen, Dima Mukhortov, Prerak Patel, Brandon Perez, Amanda Rapsang, Steven Reinhardt, Bita Rouhani, Adam Sapek, Raja Seera, Sangeetha Shekar, Balaji Sridharan, Gabriel Weisz, Lisa Woods, Phillip Yi Xiao, Dan Zhang, Ritchie Zhao, and Doug Burger, “Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave,” IEEE Micro, vol. 38, no. 2018, pp. 8-20.