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Newsletter issue #16
2012's first newsletter contains on the SPINE2 framework, co-operative Air Traffic Management, the makeSende project and SCHNEIDER's member profile.
Call for Papers: CONET 2012
The Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects is organized again by CONET and will be co-located with CPSWeek 2012. Submission deadline is January 30th, 2012.
EWSN 2012/CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards
*** Extended deadline for applications: December 31st, 2011 *** The Chairs of the 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award...
2011 Master and PhD Thesis Awards
The third CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards were handed over at EWSN 2011. Theses in the area of Cooperating Objects that were completed during the year 2011 at an official European university were assessed by a jury of CONET members with respect to scientific originality, scientific significance for the field of Cooperating Objects, quality of the presentation and potential for practical application.
PhD Academic Award
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues from the University of Porto, Portugal for his PhD thesis titled 
Learning from Ubiquitous Data Streams: Clustering Data and Data Sources.
PhD Industrial Award
Ivan Maza from the University of Seville, Spain for his PhD thesis titled Distributed Architecture for the Cooperation of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Civil Applications.
Academic MSc Award
Maissa BenJamaa from the National school of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia with joint co-supervision with CISTER-ISEP, Portugal for his MSc thesis titled "An Experimental Study for the Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks".
(The picture shows Mario Alves receiving the award on behalf of Maissa.)
PhD Honourable Mention
Besides these awards, the jury decided to give a Honourable Mention to Ruan He from TELECOM ParisTech for his PhD thesis titled "Security Architecture and Mechanisms for Self-protection of Pervasive Systems" due to its industrial relevance.