The publication Collaborative Ranking Function Training for Web Search Personalization by Giorgos Giannopoulos, Theodore Dalamagas and Timos Sellis received the best paper award at PersDB 2009

The publication Providing Universal Access to History Textbooks: A Modified GIS Case by Dieter Pfoser received the best paper award at 9th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems W2GIS 2009