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Awards and Recognitions

This page lists some of the awards and recognitions this group and its members have received in the past years. The list includes awards for publications as well as advancement awards, fellowships and recognition of service awards.

Fellowships / Advancement Awards

  • VMware Academic Research Award (S. Kounev and S. Spinner) from VMware, Inc., USA for a 3-year project to be carried out at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, July 2012.
  • Distinguished Dissertation Award (K. Sachs) from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) for his doctoral dissertation titled “Performance Modeling and Benchmarking of Event-Based Systems” supervised by Samuel Kounev, December 22, 2011. [more]
  • Emmy Noether Career Award (S. Kounev) from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for excellent young scientists, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, April 2009. [more]
  • Research Fellowship (S. Kounev) from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for 6-month project to be carried out at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, June 2008.
  • Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement (S. Kounev) from the Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e.V. for the PhD dissertation "Performance Engineering of Distributed Component-Based Systems - Benchmarking, Modeling and Performance Prediction". Awarded in Darmstadt on April 28, 2006. [more]
  • Research Fellowship (S. Kounev) from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for 24-month project to be carried out at the University of Cambridge, UK, November 2005.
  • Best Graduate Award (S. Kounev) in the Master of Science Program “Mathematics and Computer Science”, University of Sofia, 1999. Average grade from the 50 exams passed during the five years of study: 5.95 (6.00 being the highest).

Best Paper Awards

  • Best Paper Award (1/1) (N. Huber, M. von Quast, M. Hauck, and S. Kounev) for the paper "Evaluating and Modeling Virtualization Performance Overhead for Cloud Environments". 2011 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, pp. 563-573, May 7-9, 2011. Acceptance Rate (Full Paper): 11% (18/164). [ bib | http | .pdf ]
  • Best Paper Award (1/1) (S. Kounev, K. Bender, F. Brosig, N. Huber, and R. Okamoto) for the paper "Automated Simulation-Based Capacity Planning for Enterprise Data Fabrics". 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 29.8% (23/77) [ bib | slides | .pdf ]
  • Best Paper Award (1/4) (S. Kounev and A. Buchmann) for the paper Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Large-Scale J2EE Applications, 29th International Conference of the Computer Measurement Group on Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems (CMG-2003), Dallas, USA. [ bib | .pdf | .pdf ]
  • Best Paper Award (1/1) (S. Kounev and A. Buchmann) for the paper "Performance Modeling of Distributed E-Business Applications using Queueing Petri Nets", 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2003), Austin, USA. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf ]
  • Best Paper Nominations
    • ACM QoSA 2011 (B. Klatt, C. Rathfelder, and S. Kounev)
    • IEEE ISORC 2008 (S. Kounev, K. Sachs, J. Bacon, and A. Buchmann)
    • VLDB 2002 (S. Kounev and A. Buchmann)

Recognition of Service Awards

  • SPECtacular Contributor Award (Q. Noorshams) for Technical Leadership: RG Release Manager, RG Website/Tool Development, January 2013. Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Oracle Corporation) on January 23, 2013 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, USA.
  • SPECtacular Contributor Award (S. Kounev) for Technical Leadership: Research Group Establishment, ICPE Development, January 2013. Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Oracle Corporation) on January 23, 2013 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, USA.
  • SPECtacular Award (F. Brosig), for outstanding service as ICPE’11 Local Organization Co-Chair, 2011.
  • SPECtacular Award (N. Huber), for outstanding service as ICPE’11 Local Organization Co-Chair, 2011.
  • ACM Recognition of Service Award (S. Kounev) for service as General Chair of the 2011 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2011), March 14-16, 2011.
  • SPECtacular Award (S. Kounev) in recognition for service as Founder of the SPEC Research Group (SPEC RG). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Oracle Corporation) on January 26, 2011 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in Houston, USA.
  • SPECtacular Award (K. Sachs) for service as Program Chair of the SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2010 as well as co-founder of ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays on January 27, 2010 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in San Jose, USA. [more]
  • SPECtacular Performance Award (S. Kounev) in recognition for service as Co-Founder of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) as well as the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Oracle Corporation) on January 27, 2010 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, USA. [more]
  • SPECtacular Performance Award (K. Sachs) for serving as SPECjms2007 benchmark architect, designer and lead developer. Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 30, 2008 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
  • SPECtacular Performance Award (S. Kounev) for leadership in driving and bringing SPECjms2007 to market. Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 30, 2008 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, USA.
  • SPECtacular Award (K. Sachs) for service as Lead Developer of the SPECjms2007 Benchmark developed by SPEC's Open Systems Group (OSG). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 24, 2007 at SPEC's Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.
  • SPECtacular Award (S. Kounev) for service as Chair of the SPEC JMS Working Group of SPEC’s Open Systems Group (OSG). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 24, 2007 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in Austin, USA.
  • SPECtacular Award (S. Kounev) for continued contributions to the Java Subcommittee of SPEC’s Open Systems Group (OSG). Awarded by the Chair of the Java Subcommittee Ricardo Morin (Intel) on January 25, 2006 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in Austin, USA.
  • SPECtacular Award (S. Kounev) for outstanding contributions to the Java Subcommittee of SPEC’s Open Systems Group (OSG). Awarded by the SPEC President Walter Bays (Sun Microsystems) on January 27, 2005 at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in Sunnyvale, USA.
  • Elected BEA Technical Director (S. Kounev), BEA Systems, Inc., April 2004.
  • SPECtacular Performance Award (S. Kounev) for contributions to the specification and development of the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. Awarded on January 28, 2004 by the SPEC President Kaivalya Dixit (IBM) at SPEC’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, USA.

Student Awards

  • Best Diploma Thesis Prize (N. Herbst) from FZI Karlsruhe (Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe) for the thesis "Workload Classification and Forecasting" by Nikolas Herbst (supervised by Nikolaus Huber und Erich Amrehn), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, July 2013. [more]
  • Best Graduate Award (S. Spinner): S. Spinner was awarded as the best graduate from the Faculty of Informatics for his MSc thesis with the title “Evaluating Approaches to Resource Demand Estimation” and his overall outstanding achievements in the MSc program at the Faculty of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, October 2012.
  • Award of the Faculty (R. Krebs) "Preisträger des Fachbereichs Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik" for his excellent certificate and Siemens Award for "sehr gute Leistungen im Studium und sehr guter Abschlussarbeit", Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2011.
  • Best Diploma Thesis Prize (B. Klatt) in the category “Foundations of the Discipline” from ObjektForum Karlsruhe for the thesis "Modelling and prediction of event-based communication in component-based architectures" by Benjamin Klatt (supervised by C. Rathfelder and S. Kounev), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, May 2011.
  • Certificate of Recognition (Q. Noorshams) from ObjektForum Karlsruhe for the thesis "Focusing the optimization of software architecture models using non-functional requirements" by Qais Noorshams (supervised by A. Koziolek nee Martens), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, May 2011.
  • Research Student Award (D. Funke) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for his work on a game theoretic approach towards a truthful resource reservation mechanism. [more]
  • Research Student Award (F. Gorsler) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for his work on an approach to estimate resource demands in virtualized environments. [more]
  • Best Diploma Thesis Prize (P. Meier) from FZI Karlsruhe (Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe) for the thesis "Automated Transformation of Palladio Component Models to Queueing Petri Nets" by Philipp Meier (supervised by S. Kounev and H. Koziolek), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, July 2011. [more]

  • System z Application Award (N. Herbst) from IBM Informatics Innovation Center (IIC), Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2011. [more]
  • GSE Academic Award (F. Gorsler) from the IBM user group Guide Share Europe (GSE) for the project "DetOnBan: a Novel Approach for Detailed Online Banking and Bookkeeping", September 2011. [more]
  • Best Computer Science Graduate (Q. Noorshams) (among the top 10%) of the year 2010/2011. [more]
  • Best Computer Science Graduate (M. Faber) (among the top 10%) of the year 2010/2011. [more]
  • Best Computer Science Graduate (P. Meier) (among the top 10%) of the year 2010/2011. [more]
  • Certificate of Recognition (F. Brosig) from ObjektForum Karlsruhe for the thesis "Automated Extraction of Palladio Component Models from Running Enterprise Java Applications" by Fabian Brosig (supervised by S. Kounev and K. Krogmann), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, December 2010. [more]
  • Best Diploma Thesis Prize (F. Brosig) from FZI Karlsruhe (Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe) for the thesis "Automated Extraction of Palladio Component Models from Running Enterprise Java Applications" by Fabian Brosig (supervised by S. Kounev and K. Krogmann), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, July 2010. [more]
  • Best Diploma Thesis Prize (N. Huber) from GFFT e.V. (Gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers e.V.) for the thesis "Performance Modeling of Storage Virtualization" by Nikolaus Huber (supervised by C. Rathfelder), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, February 2010. [more]
  • Best Computer Science Graduate (F. Brosig) (among the top 10%) of the year 2009/2010.