The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Small Data: Applications and Architecture
Cheng-Kang Hsieh, Faisal Alquaddoomi, Fabian Okeke, John P. Pollak, Lucky Gunasekara, Deborah Estrin

Design and Implementation of Candlestick Chart Retrieval Algorithm for Predicting Stock Price Trend
Yoshihisa Udagawa

A New Representation of Air Traffic Data Adapted to Complexity Assessment
Georges Mykoniatis, Florence Nicol, Stephane Puechmorel

Monitoring of Coastal Environments Using Data Mining
Corneliu Octavian Dumitru, Gottfried Schwarz, Mihai Datcu

On the Number of Conditions in Mining Incomplete Data Using Characteristic Sets and Maximal Consistent Blocks
Patrick G. Clark, Cheng Gao, Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Teresa Mroczek

A Big Data Quality Preprocessing and Domain Analysis Provisioner Framework Using Cloud Infrastructures
Dirk Hölscher, Timo Bayer, Philipp Ruf, Christoph Reich, Frank Gut

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Application of Event Sourcing in Research Data Management
Jedrzej Rybicki

Wine Critic Scores and Consumer Behavior in a Major USA Metropolitan Market
Andrew Snow, Gary Weckman

A Data Clustering Approach for Automated Optical Inspection of Metal Work Pieces
Ruth Tesfaye Zibello, Stephan Trahasch, Tobias Lauer

Optimizing Mixed Fuzzy-Rule Formation by Controlled Evolutionary Strategy
Matthias Lermer, Hendrik Kuijs, Christoph Reich