Cercia researchers, Peter Lewis (student), Paul Marrow (honorary research fellow) and Xin Yao (supervisor), won the second prize of the 2010 BT Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation, announced at the 2010 BT Innovation Awards ceremony on 5 July 2010, for their paper:

P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and X. Yao, “Resource Allocation in Decentralised Computational Systems: An Evolutionary Market-Based Approach,” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 21, Number 2, 143-171, September 2010.

The three researchers had also filed a patent (held by BT) on “Load balancing in a data network.” European Patent Application No. 08252953.8, filed September 2008. UK Patent Application No. 0905439.6, filed March 2009. US / Canadian Patent Application No. PCT/GB2009/002135, filed September 2009. Korean Patent Application No. A31728 KRw, filed September 2009.