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.

9th ICEIS: 12 - 16 June, 2007

Best Paper Award

Area: Databases and Information Systems Integration
Title: A VIRTUALIZATION APPROACH FOR REUSING MIDDLEWARE ADAPTERS
Authors: Ralf Wagner and Bernhard Mitschang

Area: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
Title: DELINEATING TOPIC AND DISCUSSANT TRANSITIONS IN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Authors: Noriko Imafuji Yasui, Xavier Llorà, David E. Goldberg, Yuichi Washida and Hiroshi Tamura

Area: Information Systems Analysis and Specification
Title: DESIGNING AN APPROPRIATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR DIFFERENT SITUATIONS
Authors: David Avison and Jan Pries-Heje

Area: Software Agents and Internet Computing
Title: SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS USING FRACTAL TECHNIQUES
Authors: M. Dolores Ruiz and Antonio B. Bailón

Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Title: SILENT BILINGUAL VOWEL RECOGNITION - Using fSEMG for HCI based Speech Commands
Authors: Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan, Hans Weghorn, Dinesh Kant Kumar and Wai Chee Yau

Best Student Paper Award

Title: ONE-TO-MANY DATA TRANSFORMATION OPERATIONS - Optimization and Execution on an RDBMS
Authors: Paulo Carreira, Helena Galhardas, João Pereira and Andrzej Wichert