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.

2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

WEBIST 2021

Best Paper Award

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

Best Student Paper Award

Towards Services Profiling for Energy Management in Service-oriented Architectures
Jorge A. Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Yudith Cardinale, Sébastien Laborie and Mauricio J. 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 S. Santos, João R. Moreira and Renata G. Souza

WEBIST 2020

Best Paper Award

Automated Tag Enrichment by Semantically Related Trends
Antonella Arca, Salvatore Carta, Alessandro Giuliani, Maria M. Stanciu and Diego R. Recupero

Best Student Paper Award

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

Best Poster Award

Automatic Detection of Terms and Conditions in German and English Online Shops
Daniel Braun and Florian Matthes

Best Industrial Paper Award

What Web Users Copy to the Clipboard on a Website: A Case Study
Ilan Kirsh

WEBIST 2019

Best Paper Award

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

Extending Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering for Context-aware, Mobile Event Recommendations
Daniel Herzog and Wolfgang Wörndl

Best Poster Award

Analyzing Social Media Discourse - An Approach using Semi-supervised Learning
Álvaro Figueira and Luciana Oliveira

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

Enhanced Information Access to Social Streams Through Word Clouds with Entity Grouping
Martin Leginus, Leon Derczynski and Peter Dolog

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

The One Hand Wonder - A Framework for Enhancing One-handed Website Operation on Touchscreen Smartphones
Karsten Seipp and Kate Devlin

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

Classifying Short Messages on Social Networks using Vector Space Models
Ricardo Lage, Peter Dolog and Martin Leginus

WEBIST 2012

Best Paper Award

DEVELOPING A CROSS-PLATFORM MOBILE SMART METER APPLICATION USING HTML5, JQUERY MOBILE AND PHONEGAP
Alexander Zibula and Tim A. Majchrzak

Best Student Paper Award

GROWING HIERARCHICAL SELF-ORGANISING MAPS FOR ONLINE ANOMALY DETECTION BY USING NETWORK LOGS
Mikhail Zolotukhin, Timo Hämäläinen and Antti Juvonen

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

CLASSIFYING WEB PAGES WITH VISUAL FEATURES

Best Student Paper Award

AUTOMATIC TEXT ANNOTATION FOR QUESTIONS