Previous Winners of the Wilkes Award
The Wilkes Award is given once a year to the authors of the best paper published in the volume of The Computer Journal from the previous year.
The Wilkes Award is named after Sir Maurice Wilkes, who was Director of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory throughout the whole development of stored program computers starting with EDSAC; inventor of labels, macros and microprogramming; with David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, the inventor of a programming system based on subroutines.
Criteria for the Award are originality and quality of theme and treatment.
2023 winner
Two-Hop Relay Deployment Based on User Trajectory in Wireless Networks
Zhiyao Li, Siru Ouyang, Xiaofeng Gao, Guihai Chen
2022 winner
Terminating Exploration Of A Grid By An Optimal Number Of Asynchronous Oblivious Robots
Stéphane Devismes, Anissa Lamani, Franck Petit, Pascal Raymond, Sébastien Tixeuil
2022 honourable mentions
Improving Human Action Recognition Using Hierarchical Features And Multiple Classifier Ensemble
Mohammad Farhad Bulbul, Saiful Islam, Yatong Zhou, Hazrat Al
2021 winner
RIoT: A Routing Protocol for the Internet of Things†
Muhammad Omer Farooq
2020 winner
Topological and Spectral Properties of Small-World Hierarchical Graphs
Yi Qi, Yuhao Yi, Zhongzhi Zhang
2019 winner
Formalization of Block Pruning: Reducing the Number of Cells Computed in Exact Biological Sequence Comparison Algorithms
Edans F O Sandes, George L M Teodoro, Maria Emilia M T Walter, Xavier Martorell, Eduard Ayguade, and Alba C M A Melo
2018 winner
A Multi-Objective Load Balancing System for Cloud Environments
Fahimeh Ramezani, Jie Lu, Javid Taheri, and Albert Y. Zomaya
2017 winner
Energy Efficient Content Distribution
J. Araujo, F. Giroire, J. Moulierac, Y. Liu, and R. Modrzejewski
2016 winners
Cost-Aware Capacity Provisioning for Internet Video Streaming CDNs
Huajun He, Yang Zhao, Jinfu Wu, and Ye Tian
MAC-REALM: A Video Content Feature Extraction and Modelling Framework
Minaz Parmar and Marios C. Angelides
2015 winners
On Correcting XML Documents with Respect to a Schema
Joshua Amavi, Béatrice Bouchou and Agata Savary
Extracting and Displaying Temporal and Geospatial Entities from Articles on Historical Events
Rachel Chasin, Daryl Woodward, Jeremy Witmer, and Jugal Kalita
2014 winners
A Movable Architecture for Robust Spatial Computing
David H. Ackley, Daniel C. Cannon, and Lance R. Williams
On Selecting the Nonce Length in Distance-Bounding Protocols
Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Pedro Peris-Lopez, Christos Dimitrakakis, and Serge Vaudenay
2012 winner
Enforcing role-based access control for secure data storage in the cloud
Lan Zhou, Vijay Varadharajan, and Michael Hitchens
2011 winner
An Abstract Interpretation Approach for Enhancing the Java Bytecode Verifier
Roberto Barbuti, Nicoletta De Francesco, and Luca Tesei
2010 winner
Integrating Wireless Sensors and RFID Tags into Energy-Efficient and Dynamic Context Networks
Tomás Sánchez López, Daeyoung Kim, Gonzalo Huerta Canepa, and Koudjo Koumadi
2009 winner
Computing with time: from neural networks to sensor networks
Dr Boleslaw K. Szymanski and Dr Gilbert G. Chen
2009 honourable mentions
The Collective Index: A Technique for Efficient Processing of Progressive Queries
Qiang Zhu, Brahim Mediahed, Anshuman Sharma, and Henry Huang
On the Behavioral Equivalence Between k-data Structures
Manuel A. Martins
2008 winner
A Proof of Revised Yahalom Protocol in the Bellare and Rogaway (1993) Model
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
2007 winner
Unconditionally Secure Anonymous Encryption and Group Authentication
Goichiro Hanaoka, Junji Shikata, Yumiko Hanaoka and Hideki Imai
2006 winner
Analytical honeycomb geometry for raster and volume graphics
Reneta P. Barneva and Valentin E. Brimkov
2005 winner
Building Footprint Simplification Techniques and their Effects on Radio Propagation Predictions
Zhongqiang Chen, Alex Delis and Henry L. Bertoni
2004 winner
Byzantine fault detectors for solving consensus
Kim Kihlstrom, Louise E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
2004 honourable mention
Algorithms for moving objects databases
Ralf Hartmut Güting, JA Cotelo Lema, L Forlizzi, RH Gueting, E Nardelli and M Schneider
