Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is the recipient of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX/Middleware 10-Years Best Paper Award, for her paper The peer sampling service: Experimental evaluation of unstructured gossip-based implementations (Middleware 2004), co-authored with Márk Jelasity, Rachid Guerraoui, and Maarten van Steen.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is the recipient of the WISE 2014 Best Paper Award, for her paper [18] , co-authored with Alexandra Olteanu and Karl Aberer.

• Michel Raynal is the recipient of the PODC 2014 Best Paper Award, for his paper [34] , co-authored with Achour Mostefaoui and Moumen Hamouna.

• The MediEgo recommendation engine was demonstrated at Le Web 14 in partnership with FranceTV.

Best Papers Awards :

[18] Comparing the Predictive Capability of Social and Interest Affinity for Recommendations in 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2014).

O. Alexandra, A.-M. Kermarrec, K. Aberer.



[34] Signature-Free Asynchronous Byzantine Consensus with t<n/3 and O(n2) Messages in ACM PODC.

A. Mostefaoui, M. Hamouna, M. Raynal.