Best Student Paper Award

Description

To recognize excellence in the Necsys Workshop paper whose primary contributor(s) is a (are) Student.

Eligibility

Primary contributor(s) of a paper, who was a (were) student(s) at the time of original submission.

Basis for Judgement

Originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical applications or theoretical foundations of estimation and control in networked systems.

Presentation:

The winner will be announced during the banquet dinner.

Nomination

The nomination must be requested by email by July 30th, 2012, to the address below from the student’s professor (advisor), specifying paper’s title and certifying that primary contributor(s) to the paper was a (were) student(s) at the time of the paper’s original submission.

Contact Information and Awarding Committee

Sandro Zampieri
Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova, Italy
(sandro dot zampieri at dei dot unipd dot it)

Hideaki Ishii
Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Girish Nair
Department of Electric and Electrical Engineering
University of Melbourne

Luca Schenato
Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova, Italy

Finalists

  1. “Convex Stability Conditions for Interconnected/Networked Linear Multi-agent Systems” by Kwang-Ki K. Kim, Richard D. Braatz

  2. “Bio-inspired Source Seeking with no Explicit Gradient Estimation” by Wencen Wu, Iain D. Couzin, Fumin Zhang

  3. “On the Optimal Step-size Selection for the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers” by Euhanna Ghadimi, Andre’ Teixeira, Iman Shames and Mikael Johansson

Winner

  1. “Consensus in the Presence of an Adversary” by Ali Khanafer, Behrouz Touri, Tamer Başar