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Previous Awards

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.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

ICAART 2024

Best Paper Award

Efficient and Flexible Topic Modeling Using Pretrained Embeddings and Bag of Sentences
Johannes Schneider

Best Student Paper Award

Second-Order Learning with Grounding Alignment: A Multimodal Reasoning Approach to Handle Unlabelled Data
Arnab Barua, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shaibal Barua, Shahina Begum and Andrea Giorgi

Best Poster Award

Towards Efficient Quantum Anomaly Detection: One-Class SVMs Using Variable Subsampling and Randomized Measurements
Michael Kölle, Afrae Ahouzi, Pascal Debus, Robert Müller, Daniëlle Schuman and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Best Industrial Paper Award

LIDL4Oliv: A Lightweight Incremental Deep Learning Model for Classifying Olive Diseases in Images
Emna Guermazi, Afef Mdhaffar, Mohamed Jmaiel and Bernd Freisleben

Best PhD Project Award

Unsupervised Representation Learning of Complex Time Series for Maneuverability State Identification in Smart Mobility
Thabang Lebese

ICAART 2023

Best Paper Award

MRNN: A Multi-Resolution Neural Network with Duplex Attention for Deep Ad-Hoc Retrieval
Tolgahan Cakaloglu, Xiaowei Xu and Roshith Raghavan

Best Student Paper Award

Reinforcement Learning Explained via Reinforcement Learning: Towards Explainable Policies through Predictive Explanation
Léo Saulières, Martin C. Cooper and Florence Bannay

Best Poster Award

VoronoiPatches: Evaluating a New Data Augmentation Method
Steffen Illium, Gretchen Griffin, Michael Kölle, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Nüßlein and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Best Industrial Paper Award

Generation-Based Data Augmentation Pipeline for Real-Time Automatic Gesture Recognition
Mingxi Cheng, Fatima Zohra Daha, Amit Srivastava and Ji Li

Best PhD Project Award

More Accessible Explainable Artificial Intelligence with Human-in-the-Loop Approach
Maciej Mozolewski

ICAART 2022

Best Paper Award

Deceptive AI Explanations: Creation and Detection
Johannes Schneider, Christian Meske and Michalis Vlachos

Best Student Paper Award

Grouping of Maintenance Actions with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Graph Convolutional Networks
David Kerkkamp, Zaharah A. Bukhsh, Yingqian Zhang and Nils Jansen

Best Poster Award

Balancing Multiplayer Games across Player Skill Levels using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Conor Stephens and Chris Exton

Solving Large Steiner Tree Problems in Graphs for Cost-efficient Fiber-To-The-Home Network Expansion
Tobias Müller, Kyrill Schmid, Daniëlle Schuman, Thomas Gabor, Markus Friedrich and Marc Geitz

Best Industrial Paper Award

Towards a Robust, Distributed and Decentralised Smart Energy Management of Microgrids
Sandra Garcia-Rodriguez and Hassan A. Sleiman

ICAART 2021

Best Paper Award

Exploring Narrative Economics: An Agent-based-modeling Platform that Integrates Automated Traders with Opinion Dynamics
Kenneth Lomas and Dave Cliff

Best Student Paper Award

HNAS: Hyper Neural Architecture Search for Image Segmentation
Yassir Houreh, Mahsa Mahdinejad, Enrique Naredo, Douglas Mota Dias and Conor Ryan

Best Poster Award

Cycle4Value: A Blockchain-based Reward System to Promote Cycling and Reduce CO2 Footprint
Alexander K. Seewald, Mihai Ghete, Thomas Wernbacher, Mario Platzer, Josefine Schneider, Dietmar Hofer and Alexander Pfeiffer

Best Industrial Paper Award

A Deep Q-learning based Path Planning and Navigation System for Firefighting Environments
Manish Bhattarai and Manel Martínez-Ramón

Best PhD Project Award

Assured Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning using Quantitative Verification
Joshua Riley

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 Mihaela 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 Refaei Afshar, Yingqian Zhang, Murat Firat and Uzay Kaymak

Best Poster Award

Adaptive Serendipity for Recommender Systems: Let It Find You
Miriam El Khoury Badran, Jacques Bou 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