The paper "From Parity to Preference: Learning with Cost-effective Notions of Fairness" by MPI-SWS researchers, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Cambridge and MPI-IS, has been accepted to NIPS 2017, the flagship conference in machine learning. NIPS will take place in Long Beach (CA, USA) in December 2017.
MPI-SWS researchers—faculty members Krishna Gummadi and Peter Druschel and former SWS doctoral students Alan Mislove and Massimiliano Marcon—have received the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for their IMC 2007 paper on "Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks." The work was done in collaboration with Bobby Bhattacharjee of the…
The paper entitled "An Exact and Sustainable Analysis of Non-Preemptive Scheduling" by MPI-SWS researchers Mitra Nasri and Björn Brandenburg was accepted into the program of the 38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2017). RTSS 2017 will be held from December 6 to December 8 in Paris, France.
Amaury Pouly, a postdoc in Joël Oukanine's Foundations of Automatic Verification Group, has received the 2017 Ackermann Award for his PhD thesis, “Continuous-time computation models: From computability to computational complexity.” The Ackermann Award is an international prize presented annually to the author of an exceptional doctoral dissertation in the field…
MPI-SWS researchers made a very strong showing at PLDI and ECOOP in Barcelona this year. They received two Best Paper Awards, one from PLDI and one from ECOOP, for the following two papers: PLDI 2017: Repairing Sequential Consistency in C/C++11, by Ori Lahav, Viktor Vafeiadis, Jeehoon Kang, Chung-Kil Hur, and…
