The best papers have been decided selected by a small committee consisting of Phil Gibbons, Frank Tompa, and Johannes Gehrke. The best paper award goes to:
Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning
Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus, Samuel Madden, Katherine J. Hollenbach
(to be presented in Research Session 10, Wednesday Sep 26, 11:00-13:00, Room 28)
The runner-up for best paper goes to:
Depth Estimation for Ranking Query Optimization
Karl Schnaitter, Joshua Spiegel, Neoklis Polyzotis
(to be presented in Research Session 22, Thursday Sep 27, 14:30-16:00, Room 30)
The Ten Year Best Paper Award has been selected by a committee consisting of Alon Halevy, Beng Chin Ooi, and Yannis Ioannidis. The award goes to:
An Efficient Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server
Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya
The paper Self-Tuning Database Systems: A Decade of Progress is presented as 10 Year Best Paper Award Talk (Thursday Sep 27, 09.00-10.30, Auditorium Maximum).