Based on the reviewers' comments and the presentation quality,the best paper award is given to:

Amir Abedi, Reza Monsefi and Davood Zabih Zadeh

for the paper entitled "Weighted Semi-Supervised Manifold Clustering via Sparse Representation".

Authors will receive a $300 award.   

The following papers also deserve recognition and will be awarded the certificate of merit. The extended versions will be considered for publication at CKE journal.

• "A Dynamic Special-Purpose Scheduler for Scheduling Concurrent Kernels on GPU"

Authors: Rasoul Mohammadi, Kazem Shekofteh, Mahmood Naghibzadeh, Hamid Noori

• "Modular-based Measuring Semantic Quality of Ontology"

Authors: Mina Ardakani Movaghati, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh Barforoush

• "Cool Elevator: A Thermal-Aware Routing Algorithm for Partially Connected 3D NoCs"

Authors: Ebadollah Taheri, Ahmad Patooghy, Karim Mohammadi

• "Towards a Spiking Deep Belief Network for Face Recognition Application"

Authors: Mazdak Fatahi, Mahmood Ahmadi, Arash Ahmadi, Mahyar Shahsavari, Philippe Devienne