Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award

Since 2016, the autonomic computing community has named its best paper award after Karsten: Karsten Schwan Award for Best Paper. This tradition began at ICAC and continues at ACSOS. Below is a list of the winners of the Karsten Schwan Award for Best Paper.

ConferenceLocationAcceptance Rate
ACSOS 2021Virtual Conference25%
Swarmalators with Stochastic Coupling and Memory
Udo Schilcher, Jorge F. Schmidt, Arke Vogell, and Christian Bettstetter

ACSOS 2020Virtual Conference25%
Reconfigurable Embedded Devices Using Reinforcement Learning to Develop Action-Policies
Alwyn Burger, David King, and Gregor Schiele

ICAC 2019Umeå, Sweden30%
CoPPer: Soft Real-time Application Performance Using Hardware Power Capping
Connor Imes, Huazhe Zhang, Kevin Zhao, and Henry Hoffmann

ICAC 2018Trento, Italy30%
Cloud Application Predictability through Integrated Load-Balancing and Service Time
Tommi Nylander, Marcus Thelander Andrén, Karl-Erik Årzén, and Martina Maggio

ICAC 2017Columbus, Ohio, USA19%
Efficient Utility-Driven Self-Healing Employing Adaptation Rules for Large Dynamic Architectures
Sona Ghahremani, Holger Giese, and Thomas Vogel

ICAC 2016Würzburg, Germany34%
NetKV: Scalable, Self-Managing, Load Balancing as a Network Function
Wei Zhang, Timothy Wood, and Jinho Hwang

Karsten Schwan was an computing pioneer. He spearheaded research on distributed computing, high performance computing (see HPDC), autonomic computing (see ACSOS), and translation research that impact industry. He was also a staunch supporter of broadening participation and access to computing.

Picture of Karsten Schwan

Karsten was an early and influential voice in the field of Autonomic Computing. His 2005 paper spotlighted streaming applications before the rise of “big data,” sparking a research trend that continues today. His 2009 paper vManage spotlighted the need for lightweight virtualization in support of autonomic computing, again predating a key trend that ultimately brought about Docker, network virtualization and other critical cloud infrastructure. These papers reflect Karsten’s vision for autonomic computing and his committement to engage the world’s greatest researchers in realizing the vision. He inculcated in all of us the idea that the community’s mission was first and foremost to be a venue for the highest-quality work on self-managing systems. To Karsten, maintaining a high standard did NOT mean continuing to do what we did last year. He was always innovating.

Picture of Karsten Schwan

More about Karsten Schwan’s life and research can be found at the following links:

Karsten Schwan’s Wikipedia Page

Karsten’s Research Website maintained by Georgia Tech

The Memorial Published in ICAC 2016