Best Paper Award
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Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya (Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering) and Hui Li received the Best Paper Award at the 3rd IEEE
International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing for their work on
model-driven simulation of grid scheduling strategies. The paper was co-authored
by a visiting research student from Leiden University, The Netherlands. The award
was presented on 13 December by M.V. Rajashekaran, Union Minister of State for
Planning Commission, Government of India.

Best Research Demo Award
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Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya (Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering) and his team members, Jia Yu and Mustafizur Rahman, have won the Best
Research Demo Award at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid
Computing (e-Science 2007) for their software technology "Gridbus Workflow
Engine". This award was presented for live and innovative demonstration of their
Gridbus technology and its application to fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging) problems by utilising world-wide Grid resources from Australia, Japan,
and USA.

As appeared in VCs January month message
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Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya (Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering) won two awards at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science
and Grid Computing.  He received the Best Paper Award with Hui Li for their work
on model-driven simulation of grid scheduling strategies as well as the Best
Research Demo Award with team members Jia Yu and Mustafizur Rahman for a live and
innovative demonstration of their Gridbus technology and its application to
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging problems by utilising world-wide Grid
resources from Australia, Japan and US.  IEEE is the world's leading professional
association for the advancement of technology.