Call For Nominations - MIP

VL/HCC MOST INFLUENTIAL PAPER AWARD

Dear Colleague,

This year the VL/HCC community is continuing the tradition of honoring research papers whose appearance in this conference had important influences on VL/HCC research or commerce (see http://conferences.computer.org/VLHCC/). Because having an important influence can only be determined over time, the papers being nominated must be from the past decades. In previous years, starting in 2008, we had two award categories each year, one for paper from 10 years ago (+/- 1 year) and one for papers from 20 years ago (+/- 1 year). Since the 10-years category of 2008 and later would now start to coincide with the 20-years category, the VL/HCC Steering Committee decided to drop the 20-years category and to continue just the 10-years category.

This year, papers are eligible that are fully refereed papers and that appeared at:

Lists of eligible papers are available at PDF and XLS format.

We have added numbers of citations according to Google Scholar and Scopus. Please note that the numbers differ as Google Scholar also counts other papers derived from the VL/HCC papers, e.g., extended Journal versions.

We need your help in nominating papers from these conferences that have had a truly important, long-term impact on VL/HCC research or commerce. As the long-term visionary group, we think you're more likely than anyone to know of well qualified papers. Please nominate some!

This is an important award to our community. It's a way to help us attain recognition for our field and for the most important works that have appeared in our conference. We hope it will also be motivational and inspiring for younger researchers.

To nominate a paper, just send an email containing answers to the following questions to vlhcc18mip@gmail.com.

The questions/criteria are:

• VL/HCC full paper title and authors (must be a refereed full paper at VL/HCC -- not a keynote, not a panel, not a short paper, etc.)
• What year did the paper appear?
• What was the paper's big, long-term, or unique impact on VL/HCC research or commerce?
• The paper awarded can win the award in one of these two ways:
  1. It is the only, or first, or first important paper on the influential topic.
  2. It is just one of a sequence of papers published multiple places that had a big influence on VL/HCC research or commerce.
Which of the above was it -- 1 or 2 ? Please explain.

However, if there have been multiple communities where the work has been published, the research needs to be strongly situated in the VL/HCC community by virtue of many papers on the topic having been published at VL/HCC. Of course, the nominated paper must satisfy all the other above criteria as well.

Note: Concrete evidence of impact would be very helpful (e.g., Google Scholar citation counts, Scopus citation counts, etc.).

The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, July 17, 2018

The VL/HCC community has begun a tradition in 2008. Each year, a voting group consisting of all members of the current steering committee, current program committee, and program chairs of the VL/HCC conferences of the years being considered, review the papers from the VL/HCCs held one decade ago and two decades ago, to select the papers from these decades that have had the most influence on VL/HCC research or commerce.

The voting group considers technical papers presented at VL/HCC approximately one decade ago and approximately two decades ago. All community members are invited to nominate papers from these years and, once a shortlist of nominated papers is produced, the voting group members who do not have conflicts with the nominees review and vote for the most influential paper from each decade.

Following this process, the voting group voted to award the Most Influential Paper Awards to the following papers: