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.
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
CLOSER 2022
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
Offline Mining of Microservice-based Architectures
Jacopo Soldani, Javad Khalili and Antonio Brogi
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
A Novel Weight-assignment Load Balancing Algorithm for Cloud Applications
Adekunbi A. Adewojo and Julian M. Bass
Best Poster Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
Planning for Software System Recovery by Knowing Design Limitations of Cloud-native Patterns
Alireza Hakamian, Floriment Klinaku, Sebastian Frank, André van Hoorn and Steffen Becker
Best Industrial Paper Award
Area:
Services Science
Semantic Code Clone Detection Method for Distributed Enterprise Systems
Jan Svacina, Vincent Bushong, Dipta Das and Tomas Cerny
CLOSER 2021
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
DynamoML: Dynamic Resource Management Operators for Machine Learning Workloads
Min-Chi Chiang and Jerry Chou
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
RT-MongoDB: A NoSQL Database with Differentiated Performance
Remo Andreoli, Tommaso Cucinotta and Dino Pedreschi
Best Poster Award
Area:
Edge Cloud and Fog Computing
Modelling Energy Consumption of IoT Devices in DISSECT-CF-Fog
Andras Markus and Attila Kertesz
CLOSER 2020
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
Comparative Evaluation of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-performance Inter-container Communications
Gabriele Ara, Tommaso Cucinotta, Luca Abeni and Carlo Vitucci
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Quality of Service in Cloud Computing Environments with Multitenant DBMS
Manuel I. Capel, Oscar I. Aporta and María C. Pegalajar-Jiménez
CLOSER 2019
Best Paper Award
Area:
Service Modelling and Analytics
Cost-evaluation of Cloud Portfolios: An Empirical Case Study
Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach and Erich Schikuta
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Edge Cloud and Fog Computing
FUSE: A Microservice Approach to Cross-domain Federation using Docker Containers
Tom Goethals, Dwight Kerkhove, Laurens Van Hoye, Merlijn Sebrechts, Filip De Turck and Bruno Volckaert
Best Poster Award
Area:
Service Modelling and Analytics
A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Security at Runtime
Igor Ivkic, Harald Pichler, Mario Zsilak, Andreas Mauthe and Markus Tauber
CLOSER 2018
Best Paper Award
Area:
Services Science
A Model-based Architecture for Autonomic and Heterogeneous Cloud Systems
Hugo Bruneliere, Zakarea Al-Shara, Frederico Alvares, Jonathan Lejeune and Thomas Ledoux
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Edge Cloud and Fog Computing
Scheduling Latency-Sensitive Applications in Edge Computing
Vincenzo Scoca, Atakan Aral, Ivona Brandic, Rocco De Nicola and Rafael Brundo Uriarte
Best Poster Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
A Data-Science-as-a-Service Model
Matthias Pohl, Sascha Bosse and Klaus Turowski
CLOSER 2017
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Operations and Analytics
Towards a Generic Autonomic Model to Manage Cloud Services
Jonathan Lejeune, Frederico Alvares and Thomas Ledoux
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Services Science
Predictive Failure Recovery in Constraint-aware Web Service Composition
Touraj Laleh, Joey Paquet, Serguei Mokhov and Yuhong Yan
Best Poster Award
Area:
Services Science
A Concept for Interoperable IoT Intercloud Architectures
Philipp Grubitzsch, Thomas Springer, Tenshi Hara, Iris Braun and Alexander Schill
CLOSER 2016
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
SemNaaS: Semantic Web for Network as a Service
Mohamed Morsey, Hao Zhu, Isart Canyameres, Samuel Norbury, Paola Grosso and Miroslav Zivkovic
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
A Scalable Architecture for Distributed OSGi in the Cloud
Hendrik Kuijs, Christoph Reich, Martin Knahl and Nathan Clarke
Best Poster Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Disruption-resilient Publish and Subscribe
Noor Ahmed and Bharat Bhargava
Best PhD Project Award
Prospects of Cloud and Mobile Computing Adoption for Dissemination of Agricultural Information in Developing Countries
Edore Akpokodje and Chris Price
CLOSER 2015
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Cloud Provider Transparency - A View from Cloud Customers
Daniela Cruzes and Martin Gilje Jaatun
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
A Many-objective Optimization Framework for Virtualized Datacenters
Fabio López Pires and Benjamín Barán
Best PhD Project Award
Towards Domain Model Optimized Deployment and Execution of Scientific Applications in Cloud Environments
Fabian Glaser
CLOSER 2014
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
Robust Performance Control for Web Applications in the Cloud
Hector Fernandez, Corina Stratan and Guillaume Pierre
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Services Science Foundation for Cloud Computing
Cloud Asset Pricing Tree (CAPT) - Elastic Economic Model for Cloud Service Providers
Soheil Qanbari, Fei Li, Schahram Dustdar and Tian-Shyr Dai
CLOSER 2013
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
Characterising the Power Consumption of Hadoop Clouds - A Social Media Analysis Case Study
Javier Conejero, Omer Rana, Peter Burnap, Jeffrey Morgan, Carmen Carrion and Blanca Caminero
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
Migrating to the Cloud - A Software Product Line based Analysis
Jesús García-Galán, Omer Rana, Pablo Trinidad and Antonio Ruiz-Cortés
CLOSER 2012
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
M4CLOUD - GENERIC APPLICATION LEVEL MONITORING FOR RESOURCE-SHARED CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS
Toni Mastelic, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer and Ivona Brandic
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
CLOUD STORAGE IN A PRIVATE CLOUD DEPLOYMENT - Lessons for Data Intensive Research
Victor Chang, Robert John Walters and Gary Wills
CLOSER 2011
Best Paper Award
Area:
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
EVALUATING AND MODELING VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS
Nikolaus Huber, Marcel von Quast, Michael Hauck and Samuel Kounev
Best Student Paper Award