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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.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

KDIR 2024

Best Paper Award

Learning to Rank for Query Auto-Complete with Language Modelling in Enterprise Search
Colin Daly and Lucy Hederman

Best Student Paper Award

Knowledge Discovery in Optical Music Recognition: Enhancing Information Retrieval with Instance Segmentation
Elona Shatri and György Fazekas

Best Poster Award

Federated Learning for XSS Detection: A Privacy-Preserving Approach
Mahran Jazi and Irad Ben-Gal

Honorable Mention: Utilizing Data Analysis for Optimized Determination of the Current Operational State of Heating Systems
Ahmed Qarqour, Sahil-Jai Arora, Gernot Heisenberg, Markus Rabe and Tobias Kleinert

KEOD 2024

Best Paper Award

Multidimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings for International Trade Flow Analysis
Durgesh Nandini, Simon Blöthner, Mirco Schoenfeld and Mario Larch

Best Student Paper Award

Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Reason About Event Sets
Svenja Kenneweg, Jörg Deigmöller, Philipp Cimiano and Julian Eggert

Best Poster Award

A Methodology for Interpreting Natural Language Questions and Translating into SPARQL Query over DBpedia
Davide Varagnolo, Dora Melo and Irene Pimenta Rodrigues

KMIS 2024

Best Paper Award

Scientific Claim Verification with Fine-Tuned NLI Models
Miloš Košprdić, Adela Ljajić, Darija Medvecki, Bojana Bašaragin and Nikola Milošević

Best Student Paper Award

Performing Entity Relationship Model Extraction from Data and Schema Information as a Basis for Data Integration
Philipp Schmurr, Andreas Schmidt, Karl-Uwe Stucky, Wolfgang Suess and Veit Hagenmeyer

Best Poster Award

EX-DSS: An Explorative Decision Support System for Designing and Deploying Smart Plug Forecasting Pipelines
Giulia Rinaldi, Lola Botman, Oscar Mauricio Agudelo and Bart De Moor

IC3K 2024

KDIR 2023

Best Paper Award

Evaluating the Use of Interpretable Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Deployment
Harry Rogers, Beatriz De La Iglesia and Tahmina Zebin

Best Student Paper Award

Visual Counterfactual Explanations Using Semantic Part Locations
Florence Böttger, Tim Cech, Willy Scheibel and Jürgen Döllner

Best Poster Award

Collaborative Emotion Annotation: Assessing the Intersection of Human and AI Performance with GPT Models
Hande Aka Uymaz and Senem Kumova Metin

KEOD 2023

Best Paper Award

Ontology-Driven Extraction of Contextualized Information from Research Publications
Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos

Best Student Paper Award

Extending the Meta Model for Enterprise Systems Dynamics from a Software Tooling Perspective
Huda Hussain and Marne de Vries

Best Poster Award

IoT-Enabled Agroecology: Advancing Sustainable Smart Farming Through Knowledge-Based Reasoning
Nicolas Chollet, Naila Bouchemal and Amar Ramdane-Cherif

KMIS 2023

Best Paper Award

Digital Transformation of an OEM Development Process from a Socio-Technical Perspective: A Case Study
Ekin Uhri, Christoph Matz and Ingrid Isenhardt

Best Student Paper Award

Challenges to Implementing Effective Data Governance: A Literature Review
Carlos Alberto Bassi and Solange Nice Alves-Souza

Best Poster Award

Discovering Potential Founders Based on Academic Background
Arman Arzani, Marcus Handte, Matteo Zella and Pedro José Marrón

IC3K 2023

KDIR 2022

Best Paper Award

Safe Screening for Logistic Regression with ℓ –ℓ Regularization
Anna Deza and Alper Atamtürk

Best Student Paper Award

Generalization of Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis to k-partite Graphs
Yohann Salomon and Pietro Pinoli

Best Poster Award

Adapting Transformers for Detecting Emergency Events on Social Media
Emanuela Boros, Gaël Lejeune, Mickaël Coustaty and Antoine Doucet

KEOD 2022

Best Paper Award

Debunking the Stereotypical Ontology Development Process
Achim Reiz and Kurt Sandkuhl

Best Student Paper Award

Knowledge Graph-based Product Recommendations on e-Commerce Platforms
André Gomes Regino, Rodrigo Oliveira Caus, Victor Hochgreb and Julio Cesar Dos Reis

Best Poster Award

GLUON: A Reasoning-based and Natural Language Generation-based System to Explicit Ontology Design Choices
Zakaria Mejdoul and Gaëlle Lortal

KMIS 2022

Best Paper Award

Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness
Otmane Azeroual, Joachim Schöpfel, Janne Pölönen and Anastasija Nikiforova

Best Student Paper Award

Exploring the Test Driven Development of a Fraud Detection Application using the Google Cloud Platform
Daniel Staegemann, Matthias Volk, Maneendra Perera and Klaus Turowski

Best Poster Award

Cross-university Platforms as an Enabler for Knowledge Management and Transfer
Claudia Doering, Finn Reiche and Holger Timinger

KDIR 2021

Best Paper Award

Improved Session-based Recommender System by Context Awareness in e-Commerce Domain
Ramazan Esmeli, Mohamed Bader-El-Den, Hassana Abdullahi and David Henderson

Best Student Paper Award

A Case Study and Qualitative Analysis of Simple Cross-lingual Opinion Mining
Gerhard Hagerer, Wing Sheung Leung, Qiaoxi Liu, Hannah Danner and Georg Groh

Best Poster Award

From Implicit Preferences to Ratings: Video Games Recommendation based on Collaborative Filtering
Rosária Bunga, Fernando Batista and Ricardo Ribeiro

KEOD 2021

Best Paper Award

An Ontology based Task Oriented Dialogue
João Quirino Silva, Dora Melo, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, João Costa Seco, Carla Ferreira and Joana Parreira

Best Student Paper Award

Health Ontology for Minority Equity (HOME)
Navya Martin Kollapally, Yan Chen and James Geller

Best Poster Award

Smart Lifts: An Ontological Perspective
D. Slee, S. Cain, P. Vichare and J. I. Olszewska

KMIS 2021

Best Paper Award

Participatory Design in Knowledge Management: An Opportunity to Small and Medium Business
Amanda Carolina Teixeira, Nelson Tenório, Danieli Pinto, Nada Matta and Arthur Gualberto Bacelar da Cruz Urpia

Best Student Paper Award

Allan Variance-based Granulation Technique for Large Temporal Databases
Lorina Sinanaj, Hossein Haeri, Liming Gao, Satya Prasad Maddipatla, Cindy Chen, Kshitij Jerath, Craig Beal and Sean Brennan

Best Poster Award

The Behavior Engineering Model Assesses Knowledge Transfer in the Training Environment: A Call for Performance Feedback
Amy Rosellini and Nicole Bank

KDIR 2020

Best Paper Award

Amharic Document Representation for Adhoc Retrieval
Tilahun Yeshambel, Josiane Mothe and Yaregal Assabie

Best Student Paper Award

The Max-Cut Decision Tree: Improving on the Accuracy and Running Time of Decision Trees
Jonathan Bodine and Dorit S. Hochbaum

Best Poster Award

Moving towards a General Metadata Extraction Solution for Research Data with State-of-the-Art Methods
Benedikt Heinrichs and Marius Politze

KEOD 2020

Best Paper Award

Ontology-based Processing of Dynamic Maps in Automated Driving
Haonan Qiu, Adel Ayara and Birte Glimm

Best Student Paper Award

Emerging Named Entity Recognition in a Medical Knowledge Management Ecosystem
Christian Nawroth, Felix Engel and Matthias Hemmje

Best Poster Award

Annotating Arguments in a Parliamentary Corpus: An Experience
Mare Koit

KMIS 2020

Best Paper Award

Development of a GQM-based Technique for Assessing DevOps Maturity
Thomas Neubrand and Thorsten Haendler

Best Student Paper Award

SatelliteNER: An Effective Named Entity Recognition Model for the Satellite Domain
Omid Jafari, Parth Nagarkar, Bhagwan Thatte and Carl Ingram

Best Poster Award

Evaluation of Cities’ Smartness through Multidimensional Platform of Performance Indicators
Dessislava Petrova-Antonova and Martin Minkov

Best Industrial Paper Award

Driving the Bus: A Radiology Case Study Utilizing Rich Picture Diagramming and CATWOE to Capture Staff Perceptions and Inform Service Improvement Scenarios
Mary Conlon, Owen Molloy and Nora ZolzerBryce

IC3K 2020

Best PhD Project Award

System of Systems: Trade Space Exploration: with Ontology and Description Logic Reasoning
Ludvig Knöös Franzén

KDIR 2019

Best Paper Award

A Discretized Enriched Technique to Enhance Machine Learning Performance in Credit Scoring
Roberto Saia, Salvatore Carta, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Gianni Fenu and Marco Saia

Best Student Paper Award

Chemical Named Entity Recognition with Deep Contextualized Neural Embeddings
Zainab Awan, Tim Kahlke, Peter J. Ralph and Paul J. Kennedy

Best Poster Award

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning Proceedings in Energy Consumption
Nédra Mellouli, Mahdjouba Akerma, Minh Hoang, Denis Leducq and Anthony Delahaye

KEOD 2019

Best Paper Award

Multi-criteria Modelling Approach for Ambient Assisted Coaching of Senior Adults
Martin Žnidaršič, Bernard Ženko, Aljaž Osojnik, Marko Bohanec, Panče Panov, Helena Burger, Zlatko Matjačić and Mojca Debeljak

Best Student Paper Award

Ontological Integration of Semantics and Domain Knowledge in Energy Scenario Co-simulation
Jan Sören Schwarz and Sebastian Lehnhoff

Best Poster Award

Towards the Prokaryotic Regulation Ontology: An Ontological Model to Infer Gene Regulation Physiology from Mechanisms in Bacteria
Citlalli Mejía-Almonte and Julio Collado-Vides

KMIS 2019

Best Paper Award

Case Model for the RoboInnoCase Recommender System for Cases of Digital Business Transformation: Structuring Information for a Case of Digital Change
Hans-Friedrich Witschel, Marco Peter, Laura Seiler, Soyhan Parlar and Stella Gatziu Grivas

Best Poster Award

Knowledge Management in Healthcare: Information Requirements When Creating a Decision Support Tool in Radiology
Mary Conlon and Owen Molloy

IC3K 2019

Best PhD Project Award

Towards a Knowledge-based Decision Support System for Source Water Protection
Jérôme Cerutti, Irène Abi-Zeid, Luc Lamontagne, Roxane Lavoie and Manuel Rodriguez

KDIR 2018

Best Paper Award

Iterated Algorithmic Bias in the Interactive Machine Learning Process of Information Filtering
Wenlong Sun, Olfa Nasraoui and Patrick Shafto

Best Student Paper Award

Graph Convolutional Matrix Completion for Bipartite Edge Prediction
Yuexin Wu, Hanxiao Liu and Yiming Yang

KEOD 2018

Best Paper Award

Automated Compliance Verification in ATM using Principles from Ontology Matching
Audun Vennesland, Joe Gorman, Scott Wilson, Bernd Neumayr and Christoph G. Schuetz

Best Student Paper Award

Redefining Hearst Patterns by using Dependency Relations
Ahmad Issa Alaa Aldine, Mounira Harzallah, Berio Giuseppe, Nicolas Béchet and Ahmad Faour

KMIS 2018

Best Paper Award

Exploring RDF Datasets with LDscout
Anna Goy, Diego Magro and Francesco Conforti

KDIR 2017

Best Paper Award

Deriving Realistic Mathematical Models from Support Vector Machines for Scientific Applications
Andrea Murari, Emmanuele Peluso, Saeed Talebzadeh, Pasqualino Gaudio, Michele Lungaroni, Ondrej Mikulin, Jesus Vega and Michela Gelfusa

Best Student Paper Award

An Information Theory Subspace Analysis Approach with Application to Anomaly Detection Ensembles
Marcelo Bacher, Irad Ben-Gal and Erez Shmueli

KEOD 2017

Best Paper Award

Onto.KOM - Towards a Minimally Supervised Ontology Learning System based on Word Embeddings and Convolutional Neural Networks
Wael Alkhatib, Leon Alexander Herrmann and Christoph Rensing

Best Student Paper Award

Towards a Complex Interaction Scenario in Worker-cobot Reconfigurable Collaborative Manufacturing via Reactive Agent Ontology - Case-study: Two Workers in Cooperation with One Cobot
Ahmed R. Sadik and Bodo Urban

KMIS 2017

Best Paper Award

Factors Influencing the Participation of Information Security Professionals in Electronic Communities of Practice
Vivek Agrawal, Pankaj Wasnik and Einar Arthur Snekkenes

Best Student Paper Award

Linking Knowledge Creating Capabilities, IT Business Value and Digital Business Value: An Exploratory Study in Japanese SMEs
Christian Riera and Junichi Iijima

KDIR 2016

Best Paper Award

Unsupervised Irony Detection: A Probabilistic Model with Word Embeddings
Debora Nozza, Elisabetta Fersini and Enza Messina

Best Student Paper Award

A Machine Learning Approach for Layout Inference in Spreadsheets
Elvis Koci, Maik Thiele, Oscar Romero and Wolfgang Lehner

KEOD 2016

Best Paper Award

Proactive Prevention of False-Positive Conflicts in Distributed Ontology Development
Lavdim Halilaj, Irlán Grangel-González, Maria-Esther Vidal, Steffen Lohmann and Sören Auer

Best Student Paper Award

A Smart System for Haptic Quality Control - Introducing an Ontological Representation of Sensory Perception Knowledge
Bruno Albert, Cecilia Zanni-Merk, François de Bertrand de Beuvron, Jean-Luc Maire, Maurice Pillet, Julien Charrier and Christophe Knecht

KMIS 2016

Best Paper Award

Business Intelligence Solution for an SME: A Case Study
Raghavendra Raj, Shun Ha Sylvia Wong and Anthony J. Beaumont

Best Student Paper Award

How Can We Facilitate the Diffusion of Electric Vehicles in Japan? - Consumer Characteristics and Perceived Innovation Attributes
Taiyu Sato and Miki Saijo

IC3K 2016

Best PhD Project Award

Barriers and Perceived Benefits to IT Service Management Adoption in SMEs – A Literature Review
David Molamphy

KDIR 2015

Best Paper Award

Leveraging Entity Linking to Enhance Entity Recognition in Microblogs
Pikakshi Manchanda, Elisabetta Fersini and Matteo Palmonari

Best Student Paper Award

An Approach for Semantic Search over Lithuanian News Website Corpus
Tomas Vileiniškis, Algirdas Šukys and Rita Butkienė

KEOD 2015

Best Student Paper Award

Predicting the Empirical Robustness of the Ontology Reasoners based on Machine Learning Techniques
Nourhène Alaya, Sadok Ben Yahia and Myriam Lamolle

KMIS 2015

Best Paper Award

Designing the Content of a Social e-Learning Dashboard - The Study is based on Novel Key Performance Indicators
Paolo Avogadro, Silvia Calegari and Matteo Dominoni

Best Student Paper Award

Recommending Access Policies in Cross-domain Internet
Nuno Bettencourt, Nuno Silva and João Barroso

IC3K 2015

Best PhD Project Award

UFO-L: A Core Ontology of Legal Concepts Built from a Legal Relations Perspective
Cristine Leonor Griffo

KDIR 2014

Best Student Paper Award

Cross-domain Text Classification through Iterative Refining of Target Categories Representations
Giacomo Domeniconi, Gianluca Moro, Roberto Pasolini and Claudio Sartori

KEOD 2014

Best Paper Award

Using Hypergraph-based User Profile in a Recommendation System
Hilal Tarakci and Nihan Kesim Cicekli

Best Student Paper Award

Data-driven Diachronic and Categorical Evaluation of Ontologies - Framework, Measure, and Metrics
Hlomani Hlomani and Deborah A. Stacey

KMIS 2014

Best Paper Award

“Made with Knowledge” - Disentangling the IT Knowledge Artifact by a Qualitative Literature Review
Federico Cabitza and Angela Locoro

Best Student Paper Award

An Ontology Roadmap for Crowdsourcing Innovation Intermediaries
Cândida Silva and Isabel Ramos

KDIR 2013

Best Student Paper Award

Mapping Text Mining Taxonomies
Katja Pfeifer and Eric Peukert

KEOD 2013

Best Paper Award

Universal Enterprise Adaptive Object Model
David Aveiro and Duarte Pinto

Best Student Paper Award

An Approach to Manage the Web Knowledge
Filippo Eros Pani, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giulio Concas and Gavina Baralla

KMIS 2013

Best Paper Award

Knowing More about Knowledge Management at ESA
Roberta Mugellesi Dow, Damiano Guerrucci, Raul Cano Argamasilla, Diogo Bernardino and Siegmar Pallaschke

Best Student Paper Award

A Risk Diagnosing Methodology Web-based Tool for SME’s and Start-up Enterprises
Luís Pereira, Alexandra Tenera, João Bispo and João Wemans

IC3K 2013

Best PhD Project Award

Bridging the Semantic Gap between Sensor Data and High Level Knowledge
Marjan Alirezaie and Amy Loutfi

KDIR 2012

Best Paper Award

String Searching in Referentially Compressed Genomes
Sebastian Wandelt and Ulf Leser

KEOD 2012

Best Student Paper Award

Ontology Alignment for Classification of Low Level Sensor Data
Marjan Alirezaie and Amy Loutfi

KMIS 2012

Best Paper Award

Improving Supply-Chain-Management based on Semantically Enriched Risk Descriptions
Sandro Emmenegger, Emanuele Laurenzi and Barbara Thönssen

Best Student Paper Award

Facilitating Experience Sharing in Groups - Collaborative Trace Reuse and Exploitation
Qiang Li, Marie-Hélène Abel and Jean-Paul Barthès

KDIR 2011

Best Paper Award

A MULTI-SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT ALGORITHM FOR WEB TEMPLATE DETECTION
Filippo Geraci and Marco Maggini

Best Student Paper Award

A WEAKLY SUPERVISED APPROACH FOR LARGE-SCALE RELATION EXTRACTION
Ludovic Jean-Louis, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Adrien Durand

KEOD 2011

Best Paper Award

SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF UNKNOWN WORDS BASED ON GRAPH-BASED SEMI-SUPERVISED CLUSTERING
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

KMIS 2011

Best Paper Award

A FEATURE-BASED ANALYSIS OF OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR ENTERPRISE 2.0 - Open Source Tools for Team Collaboration in SMEs
Bettina Schauer, Michael Zeiller and Robert Matzinger

KDIR 2010

Best Paper Award

GENERATING LITERATURE-BASED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERIES IN LIFE SCIENCES USING RELATIONSHIP ASSOCIATIONS
Steven B. Kraines, Weisen Guo, Daisuke Hoshiyama, Haruo Mizutani and Toshihisa Takagi

Best Student Paper Award

VISUALLY SUMMARIZING THE EVOLUTION OF DOCUMENTS UNDER A SOCIAL TAG
André Gohr, Myra Spiliopoulou and Alexander Hinneburg

KEOD 2010

Best Paper Award

THEOREM PROVING IN THE ONTOLOGY LIFECYCLE
Megan Katsumi and Michael Grüninger

Best Student Paper Award

A SYSTEMIC DESIGN OF REGULATION ENABLING ONTOLOGY
Anshuman B. Saxena and Alain Wegmann

KMIS 2010

Best Paper Award

SEMANTICS AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF JUDICIAL COURT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
E. Fersini, E. Messina, D. Toscani, F. Archetti and M. Cislaghi

Best Student Paper Award

A SECURE AND EFFICIENT ORDER PRESERVING ENCRYPTION SCHEME FOR RELATIONAL DATABASES
Hasan Kadhem, Toshiyuki Amagasa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa

KDIR 2009

Best Paper Award

SUMMARIZING SETS OF CATEGORICAL SEQUENCES - Selecting and Visualizing Representative Sequences

Best Student Paper Award

TRIGRAMS’N’TAGS FOR LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION

KEOD 2009

Best Paper Award

DESIGNING A SYSTEM FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC POPULATION OF KNOWLEDGE BASES FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXT

Best Student Paper Award

EVALUATING ONTOLOGIES WITH RUDIFY

KMIS 2009

Best Paper Award

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR COUNTERTERRORISM

Best Student Paper Award

EXPLORING THE VALUE OF ENTERPRISE WIKIS - A Multiple-Case Study