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.
| Conference | Location | Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|
| ACSOS 2021 | Virtual Conference | 25% |
| Swarmalators with Stochastic Coupling and Memory Udo Schilcher, Jorge F. Schmidt, Arke Vogell, and Christian Bettstetter | ||
| ACSOS 2020 | Virtual Conference | 25% |
| Reconfigurable Embedded Devices Using Reinforcement Learning to Develop Action-Policies Alwyn Burger, David King, and Gregor Schiele | ||
| ICAC 2019 | Umeå, Sweden | 30% |
| CoPPer: Soft Real-time Application Performance Using Hardware Power Capping Connor Imes, Huazhe Zhang, Kevin Zhao, and Henry Hoffmann | ||
| ICAC 2018 | Trento, Italy | 30% |
| Cloud Application Predictability through Integrated Load-Balancing and Service Time Tommi Nylander, Marcus Thelander Andrén, Karl-Erik Årzén, and Martina Maggio | ||
| ICAC 2017 | Columbus, Ohio, USA | 19% |
| Efficient Utility-Driven Self-Healing Employing Adaptation Rules for Large Dynamic Architectures Sona Ghahremani, Holger Giese, and Thomas Vogel | ||
| ICAC 2016 | Würzburg, Germany | 34% |
| 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.
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.
More about Karsten Schwan’s life and research can be found at the following links:
Karsten Schwan’s Wikipedia Page