S. Kounev, and C. Dutz. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER), Special Issue on Tools for Computer Performance Modeling and Reliability Analysis, (March 2009)
S. Kounev, and A. Buchmann. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2003), Austin, Texas, USA, March 6-8, 2003, page 143--155. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (March 2003)<b>Best-Paper-Award</b>.
S. Kounev, and A. Buchmann. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the Computer Measurement Group on Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems (CMG 2003), Dallas, Texas, USA, December 7-12, 2003, page 273--283. Computer Measurement Group (CMG), (December 2003)<b>Best-Paper-Award</b>.
S. Kounev, and A. Buchmann. chapter On the Use of Queueing Petri Nets for Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems, Advanced Robotic Systems International, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria, (February 2007)
S. Kounev, F. Brosig, N. Huber, and R. Reussner. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), July 5-10, Miami, Florida, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (July 2010)
S. Kounev, K. Bender, F. Brosig, N. Huber, and R. Okamoto. 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools 2011), March 21--25, 2011, Barcelona, Spain, (March 2011)Acceptance Rate (Full Paper): 29.8\% (23/77), <b>ICST Best Paper Award</b>.