IEEE SERVICES 2013IEEE 9th World Congress on Services
June 27-July 2, 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA (Center of Silicon Valley)

The Winners of Cloud Cup 2013

The winners receive a certificate and a check from the IEEE Computer Society. The prize value for this year: $500 for the first place, $400 for the second place, and $300 for the third place.

First Prize

Gueyoung Jung (Xerox Research Center Webster US), Tridib Mukherjee (Xerox Research Center India ), Shruti Kunde (Xerox Research Center India), Hyunjoo Kim (Xerox Research Center), Naveen Sharma (Xerox), and Frank Goetz (Xerox), CloudAdvisor: A Recommendation-as-a-Service Platform for Cloud Configuration and Pricing.

Second Prize

Hongbin Lu, Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, and Marin Litoiu (School of Information Technology, York University, Toronto, Canada ), Pattern-based Deployment Service for Next Generation Clouds.

Third Prize

Michael Smit, Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu (School of Information Technology, York University, Toronto, Canada), Enabling an Enhanced Data-as-a-Service Ecosystem.

Rajaraman Kanagasabai (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Le Duy Ngan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Yuzhang Feng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Anitha Veeramani (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Chan Chee Keong (NTU ), Flora Tsai (SUTD, Singapore), and Artur Andrzejak (Heidelberg University, Germany), EC2BargainHunter: It's Easy to Hunt for Cost Savings on Amazon EC2!.