A. Grzech, P. Światek, und P. Rygielski. Proceedings of the 16th Polish Teletraffic Symposium (PTS 2009), Seite 53--56. Technical University of ŁódŹ, (September 2009)<b>Young Author Best Paper Award</b>.
N. Huber, M. von Quast, M. Hauck, und S. Kounev. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), Seite 563 -- 573. SciTePress, (Mai 2011)Acceptance Rate: 18/164 = 10.9\%, <b>Best Paper Award</b>.
S. Kounev, K. Bender, F. Brosig, N. Huber, und R. Okamoto. 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools 2011), March 21--25, 2011, Barcelona, Spain, (März 2011)Acceptance Rate (Full Paper): 29.8\% (23/77), <b>ICST Best Paper Award</b>.
S. Kounev, und A. Buchmann. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2002), Hong Kong, China, August 20--23, 2002, Seite 574--585. VLDB Endowment, Morgan Kaufmann, (2002)Acceptance Rate (Full Paper): 14\% <b>Best-Paper-Award Nomination</b>.
S. Kounev, und 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, Seite 143--155. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (März 2003)<b>Best-Paper-Award</b>.
S. Kounev, und 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, Seite 273--283. Computer Measurement Group (CMG), (Dezember 2003)<b>Best-Paper-Award</b>.
S. Kounev, K. Sachs, J. Bacon, und A. Buchmann. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Object Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, May 5-7, 2008, Seite 13--22. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2008)Acceptance Rate (Full Paper): 30\%, <b>Best-Paper-Award-Nomination</b>.
A. Milenkoski, B. Payne, N. Antunes, M. Vieira, und S. Kounev. Proceedings of The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2014) --- Research Track, Washington DC, USA, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, (November 2014)Acceptance Rate: 25\%, <b>Best Paper Award Nomination</b>.
P. Rygielski, und P. Światek. Applications of Systems Science, Exit, ul. Maszynowa 5/9, 02-392 Warszawa, Poland, <b>Most Promising Student Paper Award</b>.(September 2010)
J. von Kistowski. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, Master Thesis, (März 2014)<b>Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers (GFFT) Prize "Best Master Thesis"</b>.
J. von Kistowski, N. Herbst, und S. Kounev. Proceedings of the Symposium on Software Performance 2014, Seite 131--140. University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, (November 2014)<b>Best Poster Award</b>.