The Computer Journal Wilkes Award

The paper "A Multi-Objective Load Balancing System for Cloud Environments". by Fahimeh Ramezani, Jie Lu, Javid Taheri, Albert Zomaya, The Computer Journal, Volume 60, Issue 9, Pages 1316–1337, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxw109. received the “Computer Journal Wilkes Award 2018”.

The Wilkes Award is given once a year to the authors of the best paper published in the volume of The Computer Journal from the previous year. It is based on originality, quality and treatment of theme.

The Wilkes Award is named after Sir Maurice Wilkes, who was Director of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory throughout the whole development of stored program computers starting with EDSAC; inventor of labels, macros and microprogramming; with David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, the inventor of a programming system based on subroutines. Criteria for the Award are originality and quality of theme and treatment. 

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