We are proud to present the following awards:

Best Paper Award

James Bailey, Michael E. Houle and Xingjun Ma
Relationships between Local Intrinsic Dimensionality and Tail Entropy

Best Student Paper Award

Miriama Jánošová, David Procházka and Vlastislav Dohnal
Organizing Similarity Spaces using Metric Hulls

Best PhD Symposium Paper Award

Luca Zecchini
Progressive Query-driven Entity Resolution

Best Paper Candidates

The following papers were in close consideration for the best paper awards, and will be invited to submit an extended version to the special issue:

Miloš Savić, Vladimir Kurbalija and Miloš Radovanović
Local Intrinsic Dimensionality and Graphs: Towards LID-aware Graph Embedding Algorithms

Lucia Vadicamo, Claudio Gennaro and Giuseppe Amato
On Generalizing Permutation-Based Representations for Approximate Search

Jonatan Møller Nuutinen Gøttcke, Arthur Zimek and Ricardo José Gabrielli Barreto Campello
Non-Parametric Semi-Supervised Learning by Bayesian Label Distribution Propagation