According to the PPSN tradition, two Best Paper Awards were given: for the best paper in general and for the paper which the first author is a PhD student.

In this edition, Best Paper Award went to
Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt
for the paper
General Scheme for Analyzing Running Times of Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms.
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Best Student Paper Award went to
Nicola Beume, Marco Laumanns and Guenter Rudolph
for the paper
Convergence Rates of (1+1) Evolutionary Multiobjective Algorithms.
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