The paper "Stochastic Shortest Path Problem with Uncertain Delays" won the "Best Student Paper Award" of the 2012 ICORES conference that is given to a paper in which the first author is a registered MSc or PhD student. This was joint work between Stefanie Kosuch and colleagues from Université Paris Sud (Orsay, France).
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Viacheslav (Slava) Izosimov, who obtained his PhD at ESLAB, has won the Outstanding PhD Dissertations Award for 2011, given by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA). EDAA has received a total of 31 nominations in four topics from around the world for the 2011 competition. Slava’s thesis, “Scheduling and Optimization of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Embedded Systems,” was selected as the winner in the topic of “new directions in embedded system design and embedded software.”
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The instant world-wide communication that we are all used to is enabled by an extensive infrastructure. At disasters or in war zones this infrastructure will probably be destroyed and not operational. To enable communication in these environments ad hoc networks can be created. In his PhD thesis, Erik Kuiper proposes a method to send messages in partitioned ad hoc networks provided that all communication parties are location aware.
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