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

DATA 2022

Best Paper Award

Detecting Bots in Social-networks using Node and Structural Embeddings
Ashkan Dehghan, Kinga Siuta, Agata Skorupka, Akshat Dubey, Andrei Betlen, David Miller, Wei Xu, Bogumił Kamiński and Paweł Prałat

Best Student Paper Award

Enhancing Biomedical Scientific Reviews Summarization with Graph-based Factual Evidence Extracted from Papers
Giacomo Frisoni, Paolo Italiani, Francesco Boschi and Gianluca Moro

Best PhD Project Award

Towards Efficient Software Comprehension with Code Analysis
Robert Husák

Best Poster Award

Unsupervised Electrodermal Data Analysis Comparison between Biopac and Empatica E4 Data Collection Platforms
Kassy Raymond and Andrew Hamilton-Wright

DATA 2021

Best Paper Award

An Efficient Representation of Enriched Temporal Trajectories
Nieves R. Brisaboa, Antonio Fariña, Diego Otero-González and Tirso V. Rodeiro

Best Student Paper Award

A Graph-based Approach at Passage Level to Investigate the Cohesiveness of Documents
Ghulam Sarwar and Colm O’Riordan

Best Poster Award

Using BPMN for ETL Conceptual Modelling: A Case Study
Bruno Oliveira, Óscar Oliveira and Orlando Belo

DATA 2020

Best Paper Award

Learning Interpretable and Statistically Significant Knowledge from Unlabeled Corpora of Social Text Messages: A Novel Methodology of Descriptive Text Mining
Giacomo Frisoni, Gianluca Moro and Antonella Carbonaro

Best Student Paper Award

On Generating Efficient Data Summaries for Logistic Regression: A Coreset-based Approach
Nery Riquelme-Granada, Khuong A. Nguyen and Zhiyuan Luo

Best PhD Project Award

Data Quality Evaluation using Probability Models
Allen O'Neill

Big Data Analysis Systems in IoT Environments for Managing Privacy and Digital Identity: Pseudonymity, De-anonymization and the Right to Be Forgotten
Emanuela Podda

Best Poster Award

Trading Desk Behavior Modeling via LSTM for Rogue Trading Fraud Detection
Marine Neyret, Jaouad Ouaggag and Cédric Allain

Best Industrial Paper Award

Auxiliary Decision-making for Controlled Experiments based on Mid-term Treatment Effect Prediction: Applications in Ant Financial’s Offline-payment Business
Gang Li and Huizhi Xie

Best PhD Project Award

Data Quality Evaluation using Probability Models
Allen O'Neill

Big Data Analysis Systems in IoT Environments for Managing Privacy and Digital Identity: Pseudonymity, De-anonymization and the Right to Be Forgotten
Emanuela Podda

DATA 2019

Best Paper Award

Farm Detection based on Deep Convolutional Neural Nets and Semi-supervised Green Texture Detection using VIS-NIR Satellite Image
Sara Sharifzadeh, Jagati Tata and Bo Tan

Best Student Paper Award

XAI: A Middleware for Scalable AI
Abdallah Salama, Alexander Linke, Igor P. Rocha and Carsten Binnig

Best Poster Award

Productivity and Impact Analysis of a Research and Technology Development Center using Google Scholar Information
Eric Garcia-Cano, Eugenio López-Ortega and Luis Alvarez-Icaza

Best Industrial Paper Award

Exploring Robustness in a Combined Feature Selection Approach
Alexander Wurl, Andreas Falkner, Alois Haselböck, Alexandra Mazak and Peter Filzmoser

DATA 2018

Best Paper Award

Column Scan Optimization by Increasing Intra-Instruction Parallelism
Nusrat Jahan Lisa, Annett Ungethüm, Dirk Habich, Nguyen Duy Anh Tuan, Akash Kumar and Wolfgang Lehner

Best Student Paper Award

Combining Prediction Methods for Hardware Asset Management
Alexander Wurl, Andreas Falkner, Alois Haselböck, Alexandra Mazak and Simon Sperl

Best Poster Award

Predicting Flare Probability in Rheumatoid Arthritis using Machine Learning Methods
Asmir Vodenčarević, Marlies C. van der Goes, O’Jay A. G. Medina, Mark C. H. de Groot, Saskia Haitjema, Wouter W. van Solinge, Imo E. Hoefer, Linda M. Peelen, Jacob M. van Laar, Marcus Zimmermann-Rittereiser, Bob C. Hamans and Paco M. J. Welsing

DATA 2017

Best Paper Award

SPDC: Secure Proxied Database Connectivity
Diogo Domingues Regateiro, Óscar Mortágua Pereira and Rui L. Aguiar

Best Student Paper Award

ChronoGraph - Versioning Support for OLTP TinkerPop Graphs
Martin Haeusler, Emmanuel Nowakowski, Matthias Farwick, Ruth Breu, Johannes Kessler and Thomas Trojer

DATA 2016

Best Paper Award

Management of Data Quality Related Problems - Exploiting Operational Knowledge
Mortaza S. Bargh, Jan van Dijk and Sunil Choenni

Best Student Paper Award

Comparison of Distributed Computing Approaches to Complexity of n-gram Extraction
Sanzhar Aubakirov, Paulo Trigo and Darhan Ahmed-Zaki

DATA 2015

Best Paper Award

Visitor Dynamics in a Cultural Heritage Scenario
Salvatore Cuomo, Pasquale De Michele, Ardelio Galletti, Francesco Pane and Giovanni Ponti

Best Student Paper Award

From Static to Agile - Interactive Particle Physics Analysis in the SAP HANA DB
David Kernert, Norman May, Michael Hladik, Klaus Werner and Wolfgang Lehner

DATA 2014

Best Paper Award

Improving Data Cleansing Accuracy - A Model-based Approach
Mario Mezzanzanica, Roberto Boselli, Mirko Cesarini and Fabio Mercorio

Best Student Paper Award

Security in Large-Scale Data Management and Distributed Data Acquisition
Alexander Kramer, Wilfried Jakob, Heiko Maaß and Wolfgang Süß

DATA 2013

Best Paper Award

A Generic and Flexible Framework for Selecting Correspondences in Matching and Alignment Problems
Fabien Duchateau

Best Student Paper Award

Subspace Clustering with Distance-density Function and Entropy in High-dimensional Data
Jiwu Zhao and Stefan Conrad

DATA 2012

Best Paper Award

NexusDSS: A System for Security Compliant Processing of Data Streams
Nazario Cipriani, Christoph Stach, Oliver Dörler and Bernhard Mitschang

Best Student Paper Award

Cloud based Privacy Preserving Data Mining with Decision Tree
Echo P. Zhang, Yi-Jun He and Lucas C. K. Hui