Springer Best Paper Award

Springer Verlag has kindly provided the amount of 1000 EUR for awarding the Springer Best Paper Award. The decision about the best paper will be made by the conference chairs and the PC, based on a short list of papers ranked top in the regular refereeing process.

There will be a single track Best Papers Session (Tue, Sep 11, 14:00) featuring the three papers that have been shortlisted for the Springer best paper award. And the winner is: ... (to be announced during the conference)

Pinpointing in the Description Logic EL+
Franz Baader, Rafael Penaloza and Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn
Relational Neural Gas
Barbara Hammer and Alexander Hasenfuss
A Stochastic Local Search Approach to Vertex Cover
Silvia Richter, Malte Helmert and Charles Gretton

Addendum (post-conference): As announced during the conference, the award was given to the paper by Hammer and Hasenfuss.