Third Edition of the Novática Award

The 3rd Edition of the Novática Award has been presented to the best article published in 2007 by Novática, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática), publisher of UPGRADE on behalf of CEPIS.

From a final shortlist of five articles, the Jury, comprising the 49 editors of Novática's various technical sections, selected the winning one: "Adversarial Information Retrieval in the Web", authored by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Head of the Research Labs of Yahoo! in Santiago, Chile, and Barcelona, Spain), Paolo Boldi (Professor in the Dept. of Information Systems at the University of Milan, Italy) and José-María Gómez-Hidalgo (R&D Director at Optenet, Spain). This article was published in Novática issue no. 185 (January-February 2007), and in UPGRADE, Vol. VIII, issue no. 1 (February 2007).

You can access the English version by clicking here, and the Spanish one by clicking here.

Detailed information about the award, including references to the other four articles that reached the final phase, can be found, in Spanish, by clicking here.

For further information, please contact Llorenç Pagés-Casas, Chief Editor of Novática and UPGRADE, at novatica AT ati DOT es