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Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

WEBIST 2025

Best Paper Award


Honorable Mention: Evaluating Use of ARQ Strategies in Communication Protocols for Search and Rescue
Antonello Calabrò, Eda Marchetti and Maria Teresa Paratore

Honorable Mention: Developers’ Insight on Manifest v3 Privacy and Security Webextensions
Libor Polčák, Giorgio Maone, Michael McMahon and Martin Bednář

Honorable Mention: A Context-Enriched Hybrid ARIMAX–Deep Learning Framework for Robust Cryptocurrency Price Forecasting
Gerasimos Vonitsanos, Andreas Kanavos and Phivos Mylonas

Best Student Paper Award


Multimodal Large Language Models for Portuguese Alternative Text Generation for Images
Víctor Alexsandro Elisiário and Willian Massami Watanabe

Honorable Mention: AI Model Cards: State of the Art and Path to Automated Use
Ali Mehraj, An Cao, Kari Systä, Tommi Mikkonen, Pyry Kotilainen, David Hästbacka and Niko Mäkitalo

Honorable Mention: Multi-Objective Policy Optimization for Effective and Cost-Conscious Penetration Testing
Xiaojuan Cai, Lulu Zhu, Zhuo Li and Hiroshi Koide

Best Poster Award


Online News Verification: An AI-Based Platform for Assessing and Visualizing the Reliability of Online News Articles
Anne Grohnert, Simon Burkard, Michael John, Christian Giertz, Stefan Klose, Andreas Billig, Amelie Schmidt-Colberg and Maryam Abdullahi

Honorable Mention: A Case Study on Using Generative AI in Literature Reviews: Use Cases, Benefits, and Challenges
Eva-Maria Schön, Jessica Kollmorgen, Michael Neumann and Maria Rauschenberger

Honorable Mention: ACCURATE - eternAl infrastruCture for seCUrity in softwaRe and hArdware developmenT and assessmEnt
Antonello Calabrò, Eda Marchetti and Sanaz Nikghadam-Hojjati

Honorable Mention: Web-Based Crowd Detection and Emotion Analysis for Fashion Retail Using Computer Vision
Fiorella Valencia Rivera, Erik Romero Polli and Efrain Bautista Ubillus

Honorable Mention: Predictive Modelling for Diabetes Mellitus with Respect to Basic Medical History
Patrick Purta, Aryan Mishra, Vishal Reddy Vadde, Ruthvika Bojjala, Gopichand Jagarlamudi and Bonaventure Chidube Molokwu

Best Industrial Paper Award


Honorable Mention: Automated Test Generation Using LLM Based on BDD: A Comparative Study
Shexmo Richarlison Ribeiro dos Santos, Luiz Felipe Cirqueira dos Santos, Marcus Vinicius Santana Silva, Marcos Cesar Barbosa dos Santos, Mariano Florencio Mendonça, Marcos Venicius Santos, Marckson Fábio da Silva Santos, Alberto Luciano de Souza Bastos, Sabrina Marczak, Michel S. Soares and Fabio Gomes Rocha

Honorable Mention: Collective Intelligence with Large Language Models for the Review of Public Service Descriptions on Gov.br
Rafael Marconi Ramos, Pedro Carvalho Brom, João Gabriel de Moraes Souza, Li Weigang, Vinícius Di Oliveira, Silvia Araújo dos Reis, Jose Francisco Salm Junior, Vérica Freitas, Herbert Kimura, Daniel Oliveira Cajueiro, Gladston Luiz da Silva and Victor Rafael R. Celestino

WEBIST 2024

Best Paper Award


DOM-Based Online Store Comments Extraction
Julián Alarte, Carlos Galindo, Carlos Martín and Josep Silva

Best Student Paper Award


Using Chat GPT for Malicious Web Links Detection
Thomas Kaisser and Claudia-Ioana Coste

Honorable Mention: SPACED: A Novel Deep Learning Method for Community Detection in Social Networks
Mohammed Tirichine, Nassim Ameur, Younes Boukacem, Hatem M. Abdelmoumen, Hodhaifa Benouaklil, Samy Ghebache, Boualem Hamroune, Malika Bessedik, Fatima Benbouzid-Si Tayeb and Riyadh Baghdadi

Best Poster Award


Is Generative AI Mature for Alternative Image Descriptions of STEM Content?
Marina Buzzi, Giulio Galesi, Barbara Leporini and Annalisa Nicotera

Honorable Mention: ODKAR: “Ontology-Based Dynamic Knowledge Acquisition and Automated Reasoning Using NLP, OWL, and SWRL”
Claire Ponciano, Markus Schaffert and Jean-Jacques Ponciano

Best Industrial Paper Award


Learning to Predict Email Open Rates Using Subject and Sender
Daniel Vitor de Oliveira Santos and Wladmir Cardoso Brandão

Honorable Mention: Platform-Agnostic MLOps on Edge, Fog and Cloud Platforms in Industrial IoT
Alexander Keusch, Thomas Blumauer-Hiessl, Alireza Furutanpey, Daniel Schall and Schahram Dustdar

WEBIST 2023

Best Paper Award


Honorable Mention: Comparing the Energy Consumption of WebAssembly and JavaScript in Mobile Browsers
Dennis Pockstaller, Stefan Huber and Lukas Demetz

Honorable Mention: Impact of Item Polarity on the Scales of the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ)
Martin Schrepp, Jessica Kollmorgen and Jörg Thomaschewski

Best Student Paper Award


Supporting the Automated Generation of Acceptance Tests of Process-Aware Information Systems
Tales M. Paiva, Toacy C. Oliveira, Raquel M. Pillat and Paulo S. C. Alencar

Honorable Mention: Improved Random Key Cuckoo Search Optimization Algorithm for Community Detection in Social Networks
Randa Boukabene, Fatima Benbouzid-Si Tayeb and Narimene Dakiche

Honorable Mention: Ontology-Driven Intelligent Group Pairing in Project-Based Collaborative Learning
Asma Hadyaoui and Lilia Cheniti-Belcadhi

Best Poster Award


Honorable Mention: Semantic Micro-Front-End Approach to Enterprise Knowledge Graph Applications Development
Milorad Tosic, Nenad Petrovic and Olivera Tosic


WEBIST 2022

Best Paper Award


Few-shot Approach for Systematic Literature Review Classifications
Maísa Kely de Melo, Allan Victor Almeida Faria, Li Weigang, Arthur Gomes Nery, Flávio Augusto R. de Oliveira, Ian Teixeira Barreiro and Victor Rafael Rezende Celestino

Best Student Paper Award


Identifying User Experience Aspects for Voice User Interfaces with Intensive Users
Kristina Kölln, Jana Deutschländer, Andreas M. Klein, Maria Rauschenberger and Dominique Winter

Best Poster Award


Publish and Enrich Geospatial Data as Linked Open Data
Claire Ponciano, Markus Schaffert, Falk Würriehausen and Jean-Jacques Ponciano

WEBIST 2021

Best Paper Award


Memoryless: A Two-phase Methodology for Setting Memory Requirements on Serverless Applications
Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Gabriel Borges, Cristiano André da Costa and Vinicius Facco Rodrigues

Best Student Paper Award


Towards Services Profiling for Energy Management in Service-oriented Architectures
Jorge Andrés Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Yudith Cardinale, Sébastien Laborie and Mauricio Jacobo González

Best Poster Award


An Overview of Conversational Agent: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions
Ahlam Alnefaie, Sonika Singh, Baki Kocaballi and Mukesh Prasad

Best Industrial Paper Award


A Framework for Staging Personal Health Trains in the Cloud
Virginia Graciano Martinez, Luís Ferreira Pires, Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, João Luiz Rebelo Moreira and Renata Guizzardi-Silva Souza

WEBIST 2020

Best Paper Award


Automated Tag Enrichment by Semantically Related Trends
Antonella Arca, Salvatore Carta, Alessandro Giuliani, Maria Madalina Stanciu and Diego Reforgiato Recupero

Best Student Paper Award


Completeness Issues in Mobile Crowd-sensing Environments
Souheir Mehanna, Zoubida Kedad and Mohamed Chachoua

Best Poster Award


Best Industrial Paper Award


WEBIST 2019

Best Paper Award


CATI: An Active Learning System for Event Detection on Mibroblogs’ Large Datasets
Gabriela Bosetti, Előd Egyed-Zsigmond and Lucas Okumura Ono

Best Student Paper Award


Of the Utmost Importance: Resource Prioritization in HTTP/3 over QUIC
Robin Marx, Tom De Decker, Peter Quax and Wim Lamotte

Best Poster Award


Power Plants Failure Reports Analysis for Predictive Maintenance
Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Vincenzo di Martino and Niccolo Consoli

WEBIST 2018

Best Paper Award


An Approach for Generating and Semantically Enriching Dataset Profiles
Natacha Targino, Damires Souza and Ana Carolina Salgado

Best Student Paper Award


Machine Learning-based Query Augmentation for SPARQL Endpoints
Mariano Rico, Rizkallah Touma, Anna Queralt and María S. Pérez

Best Poster Award


Assessment of Generic Skills through an Organizational Learning Process Model
Antonio Balderas, Juan Antonio Caballero-Hernández, Juan Manuel Dodero, Manuel Palomo-Duarte and Iván Ruiz-Rube

WEBIST 2017

Best Paper Award


A Serendipity-Oriented Greedy Algorithm for Recommendations
Denis Kotkov, Jari Veijalainen and Shuaiqiang Wang

Best Student Paper Award


Automatic Integration of Spatial Data into the Semantic Web
Claire Prudhomme, Timo Homburg, Jean-Jacques Ponciano, Frank Boochs, Ana Roxin and Christophe Cruz

Best Poster Award


SIAS: Suicidal Intentions Alerting System
Georgios Domalis, Christos Makris, Pantelis Vikatos, Anastasios Papathanasiou, Efterpi Paraskevoulakou and Manos Sfakianakis

WEBIST 2016

Best Paper Award


Triple-based Sharing of Context-Aware Composite Web Applications for Non-programmers
Gregor Blichmann, Carsten Radeck, Robert Starke and Klaus Meißner

Best Student Paper Award


Best Poster Award


WEBIST 2015

Best Paper Award


Knowing the past to Plan for the Future - An In-depth Analysis of the First 10 Editions of the WEBIST Conference
Giseli Rabello Lopes, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Luiz André P. Paes Leme, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Marco A. Casanova

Best Student Paper Award


WEBIST 2014

Best Paper Award


Product Feature Taxonomy Learning based on User Reviews
Nan Tian, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li, Ahmad Abdel-Hafez and Audun Josang

Best Student Paper Award


WEBIST 2013

Best Paper Award


Pre-order Compression Schemes for XML in the Real Time Environment
Tyler Corbin, Tomasz Müldner and Jan Krzysztof Miziołek

SerfSIN: Search Engines Results' Refinement using a Sense-driven Inference Network
Christos Makris, Yannis Plegas, Giannis Tzimas and Emmanouil Viennas

Best Student Paper Award


Watermarking Images in the Frequency Domain by Exploiting Self-inverting Permutations
Maria Chroni, Angelos Fylakis and Stavros D. Nikolopoulos

WEBIST 2012

Best Paper Award


Best Student Paper Award


WEBIST 2011

Best Paper Award


GRAPH-BASED MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITIES OF WEB SERVICE REGISTRIES
Olfa Bouchaala, Mohamed Sellami, Walid Gaaloul, Samir Tata and Mohamed Jmaiel

Best Student Paper Award


VIZGR - Combining Data on a Visual Level
Daniel Hienert, Benjamin Zapilko, Philipp Schaer and Brigitte Mathiak

WEBIST 2010

Best Paper Award


Best Student Paper Award


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