The CC chair congratulates Robert Khasanov and Till Smejkal for receiving a Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at the 26th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, held from December 15 to December 19, 2025, in Nashville, USA.

This award was presented for the paper “HARP: Energy-Aware and Adaptive Management of Heterogeneous Processors”, which is a result of a long-standing collaboration with Prof. Hermann Härtig and the Chair of Operating Systems. Robert Khasanov and Till Smejkal contributed equally to this work; the paper was presented at the conference by Robert Khasanov.

The paper introduces HARP, a resource-management framework for heterogeneous processors that enables coordinated adaptivity between the operating system and applications, leading to improved performance and energy efficiency.

The annual ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference is a major international forum for research on middleware and distributed systems, spanning topics from distributed platforms to resource management and energy-aware computing.