IM 2017 Awards

Following awards and STGs were announced during IFIP/IEEE IM 2017:

Dan Stokesberry Memorial Award
Nikos Anerousis (IBM, USA)

NSM Young Researchers and Professionals Award
Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

Best Paper Award
Using Residual Resource Consumption to Resample Top-k Monitoring Reports
Thomas Gschwind (IBM Research - Switzerland), Metin Feridun (IBM Research - Switzerland)

Best Student Paper Award
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation and Provisioning for In-Memory Database Clusters
Karsten Molka (Imperial College London - Great Britain), Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London - Great Britain)

Best Experience Paper Award
NFV Service Dynamicity with a DevOps approach: Insights from a Use-case Realization
Steven Van Rossem (Ghent University - iMinds, BE), Xuejun Cai (Ericsson Research, SE), Ivano Cerrato (Politecnico di Torino, IT), Felicián Németh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Bertrand Pechenot (Acreo Swedish ICT, SE), Istvan Pelle (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Fulvio Risso (Politecnico di Torino, IT), Sachin Sharma (NEC Laboratories Europe, DE), Pontus Sköldström (Acreo Swedish ICT, SE), Wolfgang John (Ericsson Research, SE)

Best Dissertation Digest Award
Understanding the Impact of Network Infrastructure Changes using Large-Scale Measurement Platforms
Vaibhav Bajpai (TU Munich - Germany), Juergen Schoenwaelder (Jacobs University Bremen - Germany)

Best Demo Award
Dynamic Cloud Service Placement for Live Video Streaming with a Remote-Controlled Drone
Florian Wamser (University of Würzburg – DE), Frank Loh (University of Würzburg – DE), Michael Seufert (University of Würzburg – DE), Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Würzburg – DE), Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Genoa Research Unit - IT), Paolo Lago (CNIT, Genoa Research Unit & University of Genoa - IT)

Best Reviewer Award
Alberto Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

IFIP Sponsored STGs
Wolfgang Braun (University of Tuebingen – Germany)
Satoru Kobayashi (University of Tokyo – Japan)
Yona Lopes (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil)

Comsoc Sponsored STGs
Taís Rocha Silva (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológico de Minas Gerais – Brazil)
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli (UFRGS - Brazil)
Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury (University of Waterloo – Canada)

IM 2017 Sponsored STGs
Mouhamad Dieye (Université du Québec A Montréal - Canada)
Patrick Bosch (University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium)
Kallol Krishna Karmakar (Macquarie University - Australia)