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Canada [ change ]English - FrançaisSearchHomeSolutionsServicesCAS Worldwide HomepageHomeAwardsCAS SitesProductsSupport & downloadsCAS Canada ResearchSpeaker PresentationsMediaMy IBMCASCON20th AnniversarySessions of NoteWorkshopsPapersExhibitsPeopleCASCON Breaking NewsCASCON 2010Speaker PresentationsWorkshopsFind out what our keynote and plenary speakershad to say at CASCON 2010.Provided workshop presentations now available.Learn moreFind them hereCASCON facebook pageFollow us on facebookCASCON MediaAwardsCAS research innovation impact presentations,Program Guide, Proceedings, videos, photos andour twitter feed are now available.Discover the winners of 2010 IBM Canada CASResearch Awards.Find out moreClick here for the breakingnews from CASCONCASCON Mailing ListPlease subscribe to theCASCON mailing list forsubmission details andimportant information.read onsubscribe hereCASCON OverviewCASCON 2010 is the 20th Annual International Conference hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies Research, IBM CanadaSoftware Laboratory. This "Meeting of Minds" provides an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in the everexpanding and critical fields of software engineering and computing. The CASCON 2010 program will include keynotepresentations; technical papers; position papers; workshops; and a technology showcase. The technical papers program willfeature experience reports and original research papers. The technology showcase will feature poster presentations anddemonstrations on research in progress. As such, CASCON 2010 will be an excellent venue for presenting original work,exchanging new ideas, sharing results and experiences, and networking with over 1200 researchers and practitioners fromacademia, industry, and government.Friends of CASCONSponsored byCENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES RESEARCHIBM CANADA SOFTWARE LABORATORYHave any questions aboutCASCON?Email us atcasinfo@ca.ibm.com.in partnership withNATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADANavigation & ResourcesCASCON ResourcesRelated LinksFollow CASCASCON ArchivesCAS Canada ResearchCAS TweetsCASCON 2009 ProceedingsCAS Worldwide HomepageIBM CAS Canada Research GroupCASCON 2008 ProceedingsHigh School ProgrammingContact Us

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Canada [ change ]English - FrançaisSearchHomeSolutionsCAS Worldwide HomepageHomeAwardsServicesCAS SitesProductsSupport & downloadsCAS Canada ResearchSpeaker PresentationsMediaMy IBMCASCON20th AnniversarySessions of NoteWorkshopsPapersExhibitsPeopleCASCON Breaking News2010 IBM Canada CAS Research AwardsCAS Research awards recognize individuals who best epitomize our mission, as set out in the following four statements:Facilitate the exchange of academic research knowledge and real world industry challenges towards enhancing IBM products,processes & servicesEstablish IBM as the partner and employer of choice for top students as they learn and develop skills to create the technology ofthe futureBuild and foster relationships among researchers, funding agencies, IBM, and customersExpose IBM developers to current research directions, and identify new and emerging technology issues for academic researchClick here for the breakingnews from CASCONCASCON facebook pageFollow us on facebookCASCON Mailing List2010 Collaborator of the Year2010 Faculty Fellow of the Year2010 Innovation Impact of the Year2010 innovator of the Year2010 Project of the YearPlease subscribe to theCASCON mailing list forsubmission details andimportant information.subscribe here2010 Student of the YearCASCON 2010 Best Exhibit AwardFriends of CASCONCASCON 2010 Best Paper AwardCASCON 2010 Best Student Paper Award2010 Technology Showcase People's Choice AwardFirst Decade High Impact PapersSpecial Contribution Award for Hausi MüllerSpecial Contribution Award to Mark Chignell, Jim Cordy and Yelena Yesha2010 collaborator of the YearCollaborator of the Year is an IBM developer chosen for enabling innovation impact to IBM products by:making an outstanding contribution to a CAS research projectinvesting time to nurture the harvesting of research resultspromoting CAS research and commercialization modelsThe winner of this award was:Allen Chan, IBM Canada Lab, Toronto; STSM, Lead Architect, WebSphere Integration Developer andWebSphere Message Broker ToolkitAllen has been a great CAS Research collaborator and a strong technical leader who knows what the relevantContact UsHave any questions aboutCASCON?Email us atcasinfo@ca.ibm.com.

problems of today's enterprise systems are. In the CAS research project on "SLA Management and Monitoring inService-oriented Architectures.", Allen gave insightful technical advice; shaped the direction of research and alignthe project with respect to strategic developments at IBM to enhance IBM's product portfolio with state-of-the-artresearch findings resulting from the collaboration. This exemplifies the CAS Research and collaboration model. To date, the projecthas lead to the filing of several patents (3), with potential for further disclosures in the months to come. Development is underway toprove some of the concepts developed in the research within the IBM software stack. On several occasions, Allen presented tograduate students at the University of Toronto on Service-oriented Architectures and the Service Component Architecture (SCA).His lectures were very interesting, highly relevant, and thought provoking. He also covered "pain points" to help stimulate furtherresearch.Thank you Allen for being the living role model of how CAS Research impact the advancement of science that brings significantbusiness results.Back to top2010 Faculty Fellow of the YearThe Faculty Fellow of the Year award goes to an individual who best impacts the goals and reputation of IBM and CAS Research asan ambassador in academia. With the breadth of expertise and the high caliber of the faculty with whom CAS has partnerships, therewere many deserving people.One long-standing relationship has this year's distinction:Marin Litoiu, York UniversityMarin has been contributing to 2 key focus areas of CAS Research.In the CAS research project "Real time monitoring and simulations of business processes", Marin played anextremely valuable role in transforming the reserach results from this project into a working prototype inWebsphere Business Modeler.Marin worked very closely with technical leaders and engineers of the Websphere Business Modelerdevelopment team, transforming product pain-points relating to process simulation into research problems, ultimately shaping theresearch result into a consumable form. The results from this project provides a unique competitive edge in the landscape of processsimulation. The paper publication submission resulting from this project further attest to the work Marin's done.In Cloud Computing, Marin continued his leading academic role in defining a reference architecture for layered cloud performancemodelling and optimisation. Together with his CAS Research collaborators he developed new methods and techniques for cloudoptimization. This work resulted in several prototypes and co-authored papers. With his CAS collaborators, he got the Best PaperAward at ACM SAC 2010.He also worked tirelessly to expand the CAS Research Cloud Computing community through presentations, workshops and byworking with local and federal government agencies to fund research projects in the cloud computing area.Back to top2010 Innovation Impact of the YearCAS Research Innovation Impact of the Year, was introduced as part of the CAS Technology Incubation Lab (TIL). This award ispresented to CAS Research Fellowship Projects or Strategic Research Grants which have produced output ready to go into TIL forharvesting, AND/OR output that has already been included in the product. This year's winner was:High Scale, Low Touch Cloud ManagementResearchers: Gabriel Iszlai and Andrew Trossman, IBM Canada Ltd.; Dmitrijs Palcikovs, JackYang, Johan Harjono and Madalin Mihailescu, University of TorontoHigh Scale Low Touch is a massively scalable implementation of an Infrastructure as a Servicecloud. Using peer to peer parallel and distributed techniques the system is extremely fast andreliable. It shows near linear scalability from a handful of systems to over a hundred and isexpected to scale well into the thousands. Low human administration is achieved by themanagement system itself dynamically reacting to prevent, detect, and correct failures. This project demonstrates a breakthrough inmanagement systems design and is expected to influence a broad set of management products in the future. In concert with SWG,the CAS Technology Incubation Lab created, experimented, and delivered this breakthrough technology.Back to top2010 innovator of the YearInnovator of the Year is an award category which was introduced in 2008 as part of the CAS Technology Incubation Lab torecognize the contribution of CAS Affiliates. CAS Affiliates are individuals who take time, sometimes personal time, to work with uson innovative, ground-breaking projects, while building on their technical vitality and development.The person who best exemplified these qualities was:

Jin Li, IBM Canada Lab, Toronto; User Experience Architect, Rational softwareAs a long-time partner of CAS and an active CAS Affiliate, Jin's tireless dedication to and passion for innovation areexemplary. In spite of his demanding job as the Rational User Experience Architect, Jin is always ready to work onCAS research projects, even to the extent of giving up his personal time. His invaluable contributions were imperativeto the successful delivery of several key projects. Living up fully as a Master Inventor, Jin never stops inventing andfiling new patents. He is truly an innovator at heart and well deserved of this award.Back to top2010 Project of the YearThis project is chosen for best epitomizing the missions of CAS Research. This year's winner was:A Strategy for Efficient Crawling of Rich Internet ApplicationsResearchers:Dr. Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Associate Professor, University of OttawaDr. Gregor von Bochmann, Professor, University of OttawaDr. Iosif Viorel Onut, CAS Research Staff Member, IBM CanadaEmre Dincturk, Ph.D. Student, University of OttawaKamara Benjamin, M.Sc. Student, University of OttawaThe primary goal of this project is to develop an efficient crawling strategy for Rich Internet Applications. This project was vital indesigning and implementing a prototype for the Rational AppScan Enterprise and Rational Policy Tester products that is able tocrawl and understand Ajax-based web applications. In 2009-2010, this project resulted in five patent disclosures currently beingevaluated by IBM, one master's thesis, one publication, and several presentations and demos to the IBM development team.Back to top2010 Student of the YearThe Student of the Year award goes to the student who has shown outstanding insight and perspective that has contributed to IBMin a matter of great importance. Among so many fine students, the winner was:Michael Xiao, PhD student, Queen's UniversityMichael's work in service composition based on context has resulted in establishing key components in thepersonal web infrastructure. In addition, Michael has contributed novel ideas in the area of combining ontologieswhich plays a vital role in the personal web framework.Michaels' work in the CAS research project "Service City: An End-User Centric Infrastructure for ServiceDiscovery, Composition, and Sharing" has resulted in a number of publications.Back to top2010 CAS Canada Best Exhibit AwardThe Best Exhibit is awarded to the best exhibit out of the 72 featured in the Technology Showcase, which has themost research value that is useful to the field.This year's winner was:"Generating and Validating Abstract Summaries of Conversations" by Giuseppe Carenini and GabrielMurray from the University of British Columbia.Back to topCASCON 2010 Best Paper AwardThe Best Paper Award is given to the best paper out of the 24 technical papers found in the CASCON 2010proceedings.This year's winner was:"Testing Sequence Diagram to Colored Petri Nets Transformation: An Immune System Metaphor" byMarouane Kessentini and Houari Sahraoui, Université de Montréal; Mounir Boukadoum, Université duQuébec à Montréal.

Back to topCASCON 2010 Best Student Paper AwardThe Best Student Paper Award is given to the best paper written by a current student out of the 24technical papers found in the CASCON 2010 proceedings.This year's winner was:"Integrating MapReduce and RDBMSs" by Natalie Gruska and Patrick Martin from Queen'sUniversityBack to top2010 CAS Canada the Technology Showcase People's Choice AwardThe People's Choice Award was given to the exhibit with the most votes from CASCON attendees.This year's winner was:"Fair Bargaining in One-to-One Web Services Negotiation" by Xianrong Zheng, PatrickMartin, Kathryn Brohman, Wendy Powley from Queen's UniversityBack to topFirst Decade High Impact PapersAs part of CASCON's 20th anniversary celebration this year, we are pleased to announce aspecial category of award, the First Decade High Impact Paper Award. This special award is torecognize past papers presented at CASCON which had delivered high industrial and academicimpact. Headed by Hausi Müller, CAS Research's Visiting Scientist from the University ofVictoria, a specially created 13-member selection committee was tasked with evaluating 425papers published during the first decade. The high impact paper selection criteria were adaptedfrom the ACM SIGSoft Impact Project and the Journal of the American Society for InformationScience (JASIST) published by John Wiley & Sons. Impact and professional merits were the 2key criteria used to produce a balanced mix of academic and industrial papers. The selection process had 2 phases and took 2arduous months to complete. CAS Research would like to take this opportunity to thank the selection committee for theirconsiderable time and effort. There are 14 winners for this First Decade High Impact Papers Award. All the selected papers arefeatured in a special CASCON proceedings volume.Back to top2010 CAS Canada Special Contribution Award for Hausi MüllerTo recognize the hard work and dedication put in for our twentieth anniversary celebrations, CAS Researchpresented a special contributions award to Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, for his leadership in regards to theFirst Decade High Impact Paper Award and the Twenty Years of Impact panel, and his ideas for the vintagedemonstrations in the Technology Showcase area, all done in addition to his duties as Program co-chair ofCASCON 2010.Back to topSpecial Contribution Award to Mark Chignell, Jim Cordy and Yelena YeshaThis award is to recognize the CAS Research Visiting Scientists who have been instrumental in enabling the publication of the firstvolume of the CAS Research Book Series. The CAS Research Book Publication is a significant expression of the impact of researchdone by the CAS Research community. It also captures the research credential of CAS Research as an organization.This first CAS Research book volume is on "The Smart Internet". The book captures the advancementof sciences that empower users to integrate and conduct simple tasks on an every day basis usingweb as a platform, yet without programming requirements. With services available on the cloud, withanalytics available, with data that has meaning to the user, the internet can just be so much smarterfor its users at all levels. These users may be small and large enterprises, local governments,individuals, etc, all together, enabling smarter health care, smarter cities, and smarter lives. Thanks toMark Chignell, University of Toronto, Jim Cordy, Queen's University and Yelena Yesha, University ofMaryland, Baltimore County, for making this possible.

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Back to topTuesday, November 2, 2010Enabling Smarter BPM through Business Entities with LifecyclesCASCON 2010 Keynote Speaker: Richard Hull, IBM Research Manager, IBM T.J.WatsonResearch CenterKeynote SlidesCAS Research in the Era of a Smarter PlanetCASCON 2010 Frontier of Software Practices (FoSP) Speaker: Joanna Ng, Head of ResearchIBM Canada Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada LabFoSP SlidesBack to top

Wednesday, November 3, 2010Smarter Infrastructure for a Smarter PlanetCASCON 2010 Keynote Speaker: Kristof Kloeckner, VP of Strategy & Enterprise InitiativesSystem and Software, & CTO of Cloud Computing, IBM USKeynote SlidesRes

Websphere Business Modeler. Marin worked very closely with technical leaders and engineers of the Websphere Business Modeler development team, transforming product pain-points relating to process simulation into research problems, ultimately shaping the research result into a consumable