April 16, 2019
Associate Professor Hideyuki Kawashima of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and Mina Sakamura of the Graduate School of Media and Governance (Ph.D. program) have received the 2018 Yamashita SIG Research Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
The Yamashita SIG Research Award is given to particularly outstanding papers from among those presented at research meetings (Special Interest Groups, or SIGs) and SIG-sponsored symposiums of the IPSJ. In fiscal year 2018, the award was presented to a total of 57 outstanding papers nominated by 40 SIGs. The awards were presented at a ceremony during the 81st National Convention held at Fukuoka University on March 15.
Associate Professor Kawashima was recognized for his paper titled "Speeding up RAMP Transaction Processing by Applying RDMA," in which his proposed method demonstrated high effectiveness, and for the paper's excellent structure.
Mina Sakamura's paper, "Lokemon: A Participatory Sensing Method via Monsters Lurking on the Spot," was recognized for its initiative to simultaneously solve issues in participatory sensing, such as privacy protection, participant motivation, and ensuring the quality of transmitted content. The paper was praised for proposing an extremely novel and highly useful new information dissemination model and for bringing valuable insights to the field of ubiquitous computing.
Comment from Associate Professor Kawashima
I am truly honored to receive the Yamashita SIG Research Award. Transaction processing is a technology that ensures database consistency in various situations, from bank ATMs and credit cards to metadata updates deep within a file system. Distributed transaction processing is a technology that makes this process high-performance and robust using multiple machines. In my research, I accelerated distributed transaction processing using a high-speed communication technique called remote direct memory access (RDMA). In today's world of massive data volumes, data system technologies, including transactions, are becoming increasingly important. I hope to continue contributing to society by making various big applications more efficient and robust through the advancement of data system research with my students.
Comment from Ms. Sakamura
I am truly honored to have received the 2018 Yamashita SIG Research Award. This research has previously been recognized for the novelty and feasibility of its ideas at top-tier international and domestic conferences ( see related article ). The paper summarizing the evaluation of its effectiveness through experiments has now been recognized with this award. The results of the experiments not only provided insights into the increase and decrease in the number of posts from a location but also led to the discovery of a new form of online communication. My future goal is to conduct experiments in a wider range of settings with people from different cultures and with different ways of thinking. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone in my laboratory for their daily guidance and to all who cooperated in the experiments.
From: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office