ICIN Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards

At each ICIN conference the ICIN Technical Programme Committee selects the most outstanding paper in each of three categories: Business Models, New Services and Applications, and Service Enablers and Infrastructure.

Delegates to ICIN also vote to select three Best Presentation awards.

ICIN 2009 Best Paper Awards – sponsored by

 Orange

Best Paper – Business Models

Lessons Learned From Retail: Capturing the IKEA Effect
Erik Kayser, Capgemini, Sweden

Best Paper – New Services and Applications

Visual Search: Advancing Mobile Internet Services with Visual Interaction
Tâm Huỳnh, Elisabeth Felt and Veit Vogel, T-Systems Enterprise Services, Germany
Michael Rohs, Rahul Swaminathan, Michael Nischt and Roland Schwaiger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Best Paper – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

If the Web is the platform, then what is the SDP?
Antonio Manzalini, Roberto Minerva and Corrado Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy

ICIN 2009 Best Presentation Awards – sponsored by

 Orange

Best Presentation – Day 1

If the Web is the platform, then what is the SDP?
Antonio Manzalini, Roberto Minerva and Corrado Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy

Best Presentation – Day 2

Assessing Social Networking Effectiveness: Survey Results from a Large Enterprise
Frederico Figueiredo, Luis Soares and Tiago Pocinho, Nokia Siemens Networks, Portugal

Best Presentation – Day 3

Mining the bit pipes: Discovering and leveraging users' behavior
Michael Brenner, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Daping Wang, Alcatel-Lucent, Australia

ICIN 2008 Best Paper Awards – sponsored by

 Orange

Best Paper – Business Models

Practical quantitative approach for estimating business contribution of enablers and service platforms
Josip Zoric, Telenor Research and Innovation, Norway

Best Paper – New Services and Applications

The OSIP Experience
Rebecca Copeland, Huawei Technologies, UK
Michael Crowther, BT Group CTO, BT, UK

Best Paper – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

Service Delivery Platform Architecture for the Next-Generation Network
Hiroshi Sunaga, Yoji Yamato, Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Masashi Kaneko, Masami Iio, and Miki Hirano, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan

ICIN 2008 Best Presentation Awards – sponsored by

 Orange

Best Presentation – Business Models

An Advertisement-based Platform Business Model for Mobile Operators
Pieter Ballon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Best Presentation – New Services and Applications

Using Video Mashup to Deliver Personalized and Added-Value Video Services
Eric Julien, Hewlett-Packard, France

Best Presentation – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

Fixed-mobile hybrid mashups: experiences and lessons on applying the REST software architecture principles to exposing mobile operator services
Sami Makelainen, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland

ICIN 2007 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper – Business Models

There is a Broker in the Net ... Its name is Google
Roberto Minerva and Tiziana Demaria, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy

Best Paper – New Services and Applications

Delivering Quadruple Play with IPTV over IMS
Bruno Chatras and Mikhael Said, France Telecom Research & Development, France

Best Paper – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

Multi-Access Modular-Services Framework – Supporting SMEs with an innovative Service Creation toolkit based on integrated SDP/IMS infrastructure
B. Freese, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
H. Stein, T-Systems Enterprise Services, Germany
T. Magedanz and S. Dutkowski, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS / Technical University of Berlin, Germany