PATTERNS 2018 - The Tenth International Conference on Pervasive Patterns and Applications
	February 18, 2018 - February 22, 2018
 PATTERNS 2018: Awards
The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.
Awarded Papers
How an Optimized DB-SCAN  Implementation Reduces Execution Time and Memory Requirements for Large Data  Sets
Ole Kristian Ekseth, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd
Control Transition Interfaces in  Level 3 Automated Vehicles: Four Preliminary Design Patterns
Alexander G. Mirnig, Manfred Tscheligi
On the Evolvability of Code  Generation Patterns: The Case of the Normalized Systems Workflow Element
Herwig Mannaert, Peter De Bruyn, Koen De Cock, Tim Van Waes
Massively Parallel Optical Flow  using Distributed Local Search
Abdelkhalek Mansouri, Jean-Charles Creput, Fabrice Lauri, Hongjian Wang
 
The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.
     Papers Invited for IARIA Journals
     Finding and Implementing Patterns  for Creative Spaces
Christian Kohls
     Colon Blood Vessel Detection Based  on U-net
       Hiroyasu Usami, Yuji Iwahori, Naotaka Ogasawara, Kunio Kasugai
     Improved Gas Detection Algorithm for  FTIR-Based Hyperspectral Imaging System Using Normalized Matched Filter
       Hyeong-Geun Yu, Jae-Hoon Lee, Dong-Jo Park, Hyeon-Woo Nam, Byeong-Hwang Park
     On the Variability Dimensions of  Normalized Systems Applications: Experiences from an Educational Case Study
       Peter De Bruyn, Herwig Mannaert, Philip Huysmans
     Evolvable Documents – an Initial  Conceptualization
       Marek Suchánek, Robert Pergl