The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

ICAART 2020

Best Paper Award

The Bias-Expressivity Trade-off
Julius Lauw, Dominique Macias, Akshay Trikha, Julia Vendemiatti and George D. Montañez

Best Student Paper Award

Generative Locomotion Model of Snake Robot with Hierarchical Networks for Topological Representation
Yoonkyu Hwang and Masato Ishikawa

Best Poster Award

Hybrid Tiled Convolutional Neural Networks (HTCNN) Text Sentiment Classification
Maria M. Truşcǎ and Gerasimos Spanakis

Best Industrial Paper Award

Lost and Found: Predicting Airline Baggage At-risk of Being Mishandled
Herbert van Leeuwen, Yingqian Zhang, Kalliopi Zervanou, Shantanu Mullick, Uzay Kaymak and Tom de Ruijter

ICAART 2019

Best Paper Award

LSTM Neural Networks for Transfer Learning in Online Moderation of Abuse Context
Avi Bleiweiss

Best Student Paper Award

A Reinforcement Learning Method to Select Ad Networks in Waterfall Strategy
Reza R. Afshar, Yingqian Zhang, Murat Firat and Uzay Kaymak

Best Poster Award

Adaptive Serendipity for Recommender Systems: Let It Find You
Miriam K. Badran, Jacques B. Abdo, Wissam Jurdi and Jacques Demerjian

ICAART 2018

Best Paper Award

Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Neural Networks in Continuous Games
Gabriel Leuenberger and Marco A. Wiering

Best Student Paper Award

PERSEUS: A Personalization Framework for Sentiment Categorization with Recurrent Neural Network
Siwen Guo, Sviatlana Höhn, Feiyu Xu and Christoph Schommer

Best Poster Award

Pipeline Pattern for Parallel MCTS
S. Ali Mirsoleimani, Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat and Jos Vermaseren

ICAART 2017

Best Paper Award

A Generic Agent Architecture for Cooperative Multi-agent Games
João Marinheiro and Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Where is that Button Again?! – Towards a Universal GUI Search Engine
Sven Hertling, Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek and Andreas Dengel

Best Student Paper Award

Quantitative Robustness – A Generalised Approach to Compare the Impact of Disturbances in Self-organising Systems
Jan Kantert, Sven Tomforde, Christian Müller-Schloer, Sarah Edenhofer and Bernard Sick

Assured Reinforcement Learning with Formally Verified Abstract Policies
George Mason, Radu Calinescu, Daniel Kudenko and Alec Banks

Best PhD Project Award

Assured Reinforcement Learning for Safety-critical Applications
George Mason, Radu Calinescu, Daniel Kudenko and Alec Banks

ICAART 2016

Best Paper Award

Social Utilities and Personality Traits for Group Recommendation: A Pilot User Study
Silvia Rossi and Francesco Cervone

On the Decomposition of Min-based Possibilistic Influence Diagrams
Salem Benferhat, Hadja Faiza Khellaf-Haned and Ismahane Zeddigha

Best Student Paper Award

Adaptive Two-stage Learning Algorithm for Repeated Games
Wataru Fujita, Koichi Moriyama, Ken-ichi Fukui and Masayuki Numao

Recursive Reductions of Internal Dependencies in Multiagent Planning
Jan Tožička, Jan Jakubův and Antonín Komenda

ICAART 2015

Best Paper Award

DipBlue: A Diplomacy Agent with Strategic and Trust Reasoning
André Ferreira, Henrique Lopes Cardoso and Luis Paulo Reis

How to Decrease and Resolve Inconsistency of a Knowledge Base?
Dragan Doder and Srdjan Vesic

Best Student Paper Award

A Modal Logic for the Decision-Theoretic Projection Problem
Gavin Rens, Thomas Meyer and Gerhard Lakemeyer

Thompson Sampling in the Adaptive Linear Scalarized Multi Objective Multi Armed Bandit
Saba Yahyaa, Madalina Drugan and Bernard Manderick

ICAART 2014

Best Paper Award

Accurate Synchronization of Gesture and Speech for Conversational Agents using Motion Graphs
Jianfeng Xu, Yuki Nagai, Shinya Takayama and Shigeyuki Sakazawa

Semantic Anonymisation of Set-valued Data
Montserrat Batet, Arnau Erola, David Sánchez and Jordi Castellà-Roca

Best Student Paper Award

Contour-Net - A Model for Tactile Contour-tracing and Shape-recognition
André Frank Krause, Thierry Hoinville, Nalin Harischandra and Volker Dürr

Solving Single Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Windows and Capacity Constraints using Nested Monte-Carlo Search
Stefan Edelkamp and Max Gath

Best PhD Project Award

Leveraging Adaptive Sessions Based on Therapeutic Empathy Through a Virtual Agent
Adrián Bresó, Juan Martínez-Miranda and Juan Miguel García-Gómez

ICAART 2013

Best Paper Award

Hierarchical Roadmap Approach to Rough Terrain Motion Planning
Michael Brunner, Bernd Brüggemann and Dirk Schulz

Magic Loops in Simple Temporal Networks with Uncertainty - Exploiting Structure to Speed Up Dynamic Controllability Checking
Luke Hunsberger

Best Student Paper Award

Exploring Assignment-Adaptive (ASAD) Trading Agents in Financial Market Experiments
Steve Stotter, John Cartlidge and Dave Cliff

Enhancing Attentive Task Search with Information Gain Trees and Failure Detection Strategies
Kristin Stamm and Andreas Dengel

ICAART 2012

Best Paper Award

NEW REASONING FOR TIMELINE BASED PLANNING - An Introduction to J-TRE and its Features
Riccardo De Benedictis and Amedeo Cesta

POSSESSED ROBOT: HOW TO FIND ORIGINAL NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION STYLE IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
Hirotaka Osawa and Michita Imai

Best Student Paper Award

LET’S TALK TOPICALLY WITH ARTIFICIAL AGENTS! - Providing Agents with Humanlike Topic Awareness in Everyday Dialog Situations
Alexa Breuing and Ipke Wachsmuth

FLEXIBLE COMMAND INTERPRETATION ON AN INTERACTIVE DOMESTIC SERVICE ROBOT
Stefan Schiffer, Niklas Hoppe and Gerhard Lakemeyer

ICAART 2011

Best Paper Award

CONDITIONAL GAME THEORY - A Generalization of Game Theory for Cooperative Multiagent Systems
Wynn C. Stirling

A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CROSS-VALIDATION AND VAPNIK BOUNDS ON GENERALIZATION OF LEARNING MACHINES
Przemysław Klęsk

Best Student Paper Award

KEY POINTS FOR REALISTIC AGENT-BASED FINANCIAL MARKET SIMULATIONS
Iryna Veryzhenko, Philippe Mathieu and Olivier Brandouy

INTEREST-BASED PREFERENCE REASONING
Wietske Visser, Koen V. Hindriks and Catholijn M. Jonker

ICAART 2010

Best Paper Award

MIPITS - An Agent based Intelligent Tutoring System


MODEL-FREE LEARNING FROM DEMONSTRATION


A CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO GENERALIZATION IN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING


SPCD - SPATIAL COLOR DISTRIBUTION DESCRIPTOR - A Fuzzy Rule based Compact Composite Descriptor Appropriate for Hand Drawn Color Sketches Retrieval