MFI 2016 Awards The MFI 2016 organization team is delighted to offer the Best Paper Award (winning paper and two runners-up) Best Student Paper Award (winning paper and two runners-up). All awards will be presented at the MFI 2016 Gala Dinner in the evening of Tuesday, September 20.

MFI 2016 Best Paper Award This award recognizes excellence among researchers and scientists in information MFI, which was a central theme throughout Jean-Pierre Le Cadre's distinguished career. In addition to the best paper award, as judged by the Awards Committee, there will also be awards for the two runners-up. All awardees will receive certificates and cash prices.

MFI 2016 Best Student Paper Award This award encourages the involvement of young researchers and scientists in information MFI. It honors Tammy L. Blair's commitment to our society. In addition to the best student paper, as judged by the Awards Committee, two runners-up will be recognized. All awardees will receive certificates and cash prices. Student authors of award papers are required to attend the MFI conference. For more information, see http://isif.org/isif-young-investigator-award.

ISIF 2016 Yaakov Bar-Shalom Award for a Lifetime of Excellence in Information MFI This award is sponsored by the International Society for Information MFI (ISIF) to recognize a researcher or engineer for outstanding contributions to the field of information MFI throughout their career. Contributions include technical advances, technical vision and leadership, education and mentoring, novel applications of information MFI and the associated engineering achievements, and service to ISIF. This award may be given annually, if outstanding candidates are nominated, but it is expected to be given at least once every 3 years because individuals with the anticipated level of contributions to information MFI throughout a career will be rare. The award will be presented at the annual International Conference on Information MFI. For more information see http://isif.org/isif-yaakov-bar-shalom-award-lifetime-excellence-information-MFI

ISIF 2016 Young Investigator Award This annual award is sponsored by the International Society of Information MFI (ISIF). The purpose of this award is to grant international recognition for outstanding contributions to the art of information MFI by a young ISIF member. The goals of the ISIF in granting this award are to encourage individual effort and to foster increased participation by developing researchers and engineers. This ISIF award consists of a commemorative recognition plaque and travel grant to receive the award. The ISIF Young Investigator Award will be honored at the annual International Conference on Information MFI. For more information, see http://isif.org/isif-young-investigator-award

Springer Book Prizes We are proud to announce that our sponsor Springer will present additional book prizes to the above mentioned awardees. The prizes will be in the form of vouchers, so that the awardees can freely select appropriate books after the conference.

Awards Committee The awards at MFI 2016 are selected by an Awards Committee headed by the two Awards Chairs X. Rong Li Roy Streit and comprises the following seven members Henk Blom Chee-Yee Chong Dale Lambert Simon Maskell Pramod Varshney Yunmin Zhu