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For WWW10, certificates were awarded for Best Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Poster, Best Student Poster and Best Presentation.
Prize Sponsors
Many thanks to our prize sponsors, who generously donated prizes to recognise the achievements of the researchers presenting at WWW10. Prizes were supplied by the following companies:
- IBM Research
- O'Reilly Books
- WWW2002
- WWW10 Ltd
Best Paper
Best Paper Award
The Program Committee used votes by the paper reviewers to select the Best Paper. The award was presented to:
Engineering Server Driven Consistency for Large Scale Dynamic Web Services
- Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin, and Arun IyengarPrize: Certificate, WWW2002 Passport courtesy of WWW2002, Books Voucher courtesy of O'Reilly Books, Inc.
Best Paper: Runner Up
The Program Committee found that two other papers were worthy of special recognition. Certificates were awarded to:
- WebViews: Access to Personalized Web Content and Services
- Juliana Freire, Bharat Kumar, Daniel Lieuwen- Seeing the Whole in Parts: Text Summarization for Web Browsing on Handheld Devices
- Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina,Andreas PaepckeCommended Papers
During the refereeing process, the very large number of papers submitted were divided into theme areas to help with the selection process. Each of the theme areas were considered by a panel who were asked to nominate the best paper from their area. The following papers were selected for commendation and awarded a certificate:
- Application & UI area: "Web-based Personalization and Management of Interactive Video", by Hjelsvold, Vdaygiri, and Léauté.
- Browsers and Tools area: "WebViews: Accessing Personalized Web Content and Services", by Freire, Kumar, and Lieuwen.
- Content and Coding area: "Function-based Object Model Towards Website Adaptation", by Chen, Zhou, Shi, Zhang, and Fengwu.
- Culture area: "On Representation of a Highlight on the Web: the Amber Room as a Cultural Phenomenon in Progress", by Bogomazova and Malevanov.
- Hypermedia area: "Finding Authorities and Hubs From Link Structures on the World Wide Web", by Borodin, Roberts, Rosenthal, and Tsaparas.
- Languages and Standards area: "Keys for XML", by Buneman, Davidson, Fan, Hara, and Tan.
- Mobile Agents and Wireless Access area: "Seeing the Whole in Parts: Text Summarization for Web Browsing on Handheld Devices", by Buyukkokten, Garcia-Molina, and Paepcke.
- Performance, Reliability, Scalability area: "Distributed Cooperative Apache Web Server", by Li and Moon.
- Practice and Experience area: "Engineering Server-Driven Consistency for Large Scale Dynamic Web Services", by Yin, Alvisi, Dahlin, and Iyengar.
- Searching, Querying and Indexing area: "Rank Aggregation Methods for the Web", by Dwork, Kumar, Naor, and Sivakumar.
- Web and Education area: "A Component Model for Standardized Web-based Education", by Anido-Rifón, Llamas-Nistal, Fernández-Iglesias, Caeiro Rodríguez, Santos Gago, Rodríguez Estévez.
Best Student Papers
The Program Committee used votes by the paper reviewers to select the two Best Student Papers from the papers where the first author was a student at the time of submission. The awards were presented to:
- Distributed Cooperative Apache Web Server
- Quanzhong Li- PicASHOW: Pictorial Authority Search by Hyperlinks on the Web
- Ronny LempelTwo Prizes: Certificate, $1250 courtesy of IBM Research
Best Poster
Best Poster Award
The best poster at WWW10 was selected in a ballot of attendees. The award was presented to:
Trovatore: Towards a Highly Scalable Distributed Web Crawler
- Paolo Boldi, Bruno Codenotti, Massimo Santini and Sebastiano VignaPrize: Certificate, WWW2002 Passport courtesy of WWW2002, Books Voucher courtesy of O'Reilly Books, Inc.
Best Student Poster
The best student poster at WWW10 was selected in a ballot of attendees. The award was presented to:
Spoken Query for Web Search and Navigation
- Huixiang Gu, Jianming Li, Ben Walter and Eric ChangPrize: Certificate, $1000 courtesy of WWW10 Ltd, Books Voucher courtesy of O'Reilly Books, Inc.
Best Presentation
The best presentation at WWW10 was selected by the Awards Chair, Simon Phipps, using the appraisals of a volunteer panel of judges. The award was presented to:
Amit Singhal presenting "A Case Study in Web Search using TREC Algorithms"Prize: Certificate, WWW2002 Passport courtesy of WWW2002, Books Voucher courtesy of O'Reilly Books, Inc.
Best Presentation Panel:
Andrei Broder, Leslie Carr, Soumen Chakrabati, Yih-Farn Robin Chen, Michele Colajanni, Wendy Hall, Pieter Hartel, Yoelle Maarek, Xing Li, Daniel Schwabe, David Singer, Aya Soffer, Michael Weber, Bebo White, Erik Wilde, Mary Ellen Zurko
Participant Prizes
At the closing plenary session, ballot papers from the Best Poster and Best Student Poster ballots were drawn and the winners given Chinese memorabilia.
Any enquiries about the awards should be directed to the Awards Chair, Simon Phipps - www10-awards@sphipps.com
