ICWS 2006 has announced paper awards as follows:

Best Paper Award:
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William R. Cook & Janel Barfield
“Web Services versus Distributed Objects: A Case Study of Performance and Interface Design”

Best Student Paper Award:
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Wei Zhang & Robert van Engelen
“A Table-Driven Streaming XML Parsing Methodology for High-Performance Web Services”

Runners-up:
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Refik Molva, Fredric Montagut
“Augmenting Web Services Composition with Transactional Requirements”

Dhaval Thakker, Daniel Lazer, Ghislain Deleplanque, Taha Osman
“Semantic-Driven Matchmaking of Web Services Using Case-Based Reasoning”