The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

Best Paper Award
COMBINING METAHEURISTICS FOR THE JOB SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH SEQUENCE DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES
Miguel A. González, María R. Sierra, Camino R. Vela, Ramiro Varela and Jorge Puente

Best Student Paper Award
EXPLORING FEASIBILITY OF SOFTWARE DEFECTS ORTHOGONAL CLASSIFICATION
Davide Falessi and Giovanni Cantone

Best Paper Award
AN APPROXIMATION-AWARE ALGEBRA FOR XML FULL-TEXT QUERIES
Giacomo Buratti and Danilo Montesi

Best Student Paper Award
THE TOP-TEN WIKIPEDIAS - A Quantitative Analysis Using WikiXRay
Felipe Ortega, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles

Best Paper Award
IMPROVING QUALITY OF RULE SETS BY INCREASING INCOMPLETENESS OF DATA SETS - A Rough Set Approach
Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse and Witold J. Grzymala-Busse

Best Student Paper Award
SCALA ROLES - A Lightweight Approach towards Reusable Collaborations
Michael Pradel and Martin Odersky

Best Paper Award
A SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION ALGORITHM - For Clusters of Middleware Appliances
Mursalin Habib, Yannis Viniotis, Bob Callaway and Adolfo Rodriguez

Best Student Paper Award
SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE TESTING - A Systematic Review
Beatriz Perez Lamancha, Macario Polo Usaola and Mario Piattini Velthius