From Distributed Software Systems Group, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Research Excellence Award (April 2009). Chonho Lee received a research excellence award at the 2nd Doctoral Research Symposium of UMass Boston's Computer Science Department.

Research Excellence Awards

Research Excellence Awards

• Best paper award (June 2008). Pruet Boonma and Jun Suzuki received a best paper award at the 11th IEEE/SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS). The paper is entitled "Exploring Self-star Properties in Cognitive Sensor Networking." This was one of the three best paper awards of 60 accepted papers.

SPECTS Best Paper award 2008

• Research Excellence Awards (May 2008). Hiroshi Wada and Pruet Boonma received research excellence awards at the 1st Doctoral Research Symposium of UMass Boston's Computer Science Department.

Hiroshi Wada	Pruet Boonma
Research Excellence Awards	Research Excellence Awards

• UMass Boston College of Science and Mathematics Outstanding Achievement Award for Research in the 2006/2007 academic year (February 2008). Jun Suzuki received one of the two outstanding research awards throughout the College of Science and Mathematics, which consists of seven departments.

• The most creative and well-prepared poster awards (September 2007). Paskorn Champrasert received two awards at at the 1st annual conference hosted by GBOTS (Greater Boston Organization of Thai Students and Scholars). The poster's content is based on a paper that Paskorn recently published: "Building Self-Configuring Network Systems with Cross Layer Coevolution." These awards were two of the four awards of 36 accepted posters.

The Most Creative Award

The Most Well-Presented Award

• Best student paper award (July 2007). Hiroshi Wada and Jun Suzuki received a best paper award at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. The paper is entitled "A Feature Modeling Support for Non-Functional Constraints in Service Oriented Architecture`." This was one of the two best paper awards of 29 accepted papers. This conference's paper acceptance rate was 20%.

SCC Best Student Paper Award 2007

• Luise Bronner Scholarship (March 2007). Pruet Boonma received the 2006-2007 Luise Bronner Fund, which supports students studying sciences or languages. Pruet was the only graduate recipient. This decision was made based on his good academic standing and active research work.

• Best paper award (January 2007). Chonho Lee and Jun Suzuki won a best paper award at the 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. The paper is entitled "An Immunologically-Inspired Adaptation Mechanism for Evolvable Network Applications." This was one of the two best paper awards of 140 accepted papers.

Best paper award 2007

• Best paper award (September 2006). Hiroshi Wada and Jun Suzuki won a best paper award at the doctoral symposium of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications Conference. The paper is entitled "A Domain Specific Modeling Framework for Secure Network Applications."

Best Paper award 2006

• Robert W. Spayne Research Grant (April 2006). Paskorn Champrasert received the 2006 Robert W. Spayne Research Grant, which supports MS thesis research. Paskorn was one of the two recipients throughout the campus.

• Best paper award (July 2005). E. M. M. Babu, A. Malinowski and J. Suzuki won a best paper award at the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The paper is entitled "Matilda: A Distributed UML Virtual Machine for Model-Driven Software Development."

• Best paper award (July 2005). Hiroshi Wada and Jun suzuki won a best paper award at the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The paper is entitled "A Model Transformation Framework for Domain Specific Languages: An Approach Using UML and Attribute-Oriented Programming."

• Best paper award (March 2005). Hiroshi Wada and Jun suzuki won a best paper award at the 8th JSSST Conference on Systems Programming and its Applications. The paper is entitled "Leveraging Metamodeling and Attribute-Oriented Programming to Build a Model-driven Framework for Domain Specific Languages."