Awards

Following awards and STGs were announced during IFIP/IEEE IM 2015:

Dan Stokesberry Memorial Award
Rolf Stadler - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Young Professional Award
Carol Fung - Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Dissertation Digest Award
Resource Allocation and Management in Cloud Computing
Amir Nahir, Ariel Orda, Danny Raz - Technion, Israel

Best Paper Award
Detecting Performance Interference in Cloud-Based Web Services
Yasaman Amannejad, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Behrouz Far - University of Calgary, Canada

Best Student Paper Award
Piecing Together the NFV Provisioning Puzzle: Efficient Placement and Chaining of Virtual Network Functions
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Bays, Luciana Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary - UFRGS, Brazil

Best Experience Paper Award
Benefits Brought by the Use of OpenFlow/SDN in the AmLight Inter-Continental Research and Education Network
Julio Ibarra, Jeronimo Bezerra, Heidi Alvarez - Florida International University, USA,
Luis Fernandez Lopez - USP ­ FM, ­ Brazil, Donald Cox - Vanderbilt University, ­ USA,
Michael Stanton, Iara Machado, Eduardo Grizendi, RNP - Brazil

Best Demo Award
SDN Interactive Manager: An OpenFlow-Based SDN Manager
Pedro Heleno Isolani, Juliano Wickboldt - UFRGS, Brazil,
Cristiano Both - UNISC, Brazil,
Juergen Rochol, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville - UFRGS, Brazil

Best Reviewer Award
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Comsoc Sponsored STGs
Alexandru-Florian Antonescu - University of Bern, Switzerland
Andreas Blenk - Technische Universität München, Germany
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Thomas Vanhove - Ghent University, Belgium

IFIP Sponsored STGs
Gabriele Lospoto - Roma Tre University, Italy
Jeroen Van der Hooft - Ghent University, Belgium
Jessica Steinberger - University of Twente, Netherlands
Matías Richart - University of the Republic, Uruguay

IM 2015 Sponsored STGs
Christian Sieber - Technische Universität München, Germany
Daniël van der Steeg - University of Twente, Netherlands
Olivier van der Toorn - University of Twente, Netherlands
Rajat Kandoi - Aalto University, Finland
Ryo Hamamoto - Hiroshima City University, Japan
Wazen Shbair - University of Lorraine, France