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.

2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

ECTA 2023

Best Paper Award

Honorable Mention:
On Switching Selection Methods to Increase Parsimony Pressure
Allan de Lima, Samuel Carvalho, Douglas M. Dias, Joseph P. Sullivan and Conor Ryan

Real-World Optimization Benchmark from Vehicle Dynamics: Specification of Problems in 2D and Methodology for Transferring (Meta-)Optimized Algorithm Parameters
André Thomaser, Marc-Eric Vogt, Thomas Bäck and Anna V. Kononova

Best Student Paper Award

Honorable Mention:
MOEA/D with Adaptive Mutation Operator Based on Walsh Decomposition: Application to Nuclear Reactor Control Optimization
Baptiste Gasse, Sébastien Verel and Jean-Michel Do

Enhancing ε-Sampling in the AεSεH Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm
Yu Takei, Hernán Aguirre and Kiyoshi Tanaka

Best Poster Award

Too Constrained for Genetic Algorithms too Hard for Evolutionary Computing the Traveling Tournament Problem
Kristian Verduin, Sarah L. Thomson and Daan van den Berg

FCTA 2023

Best Paper Award

Honorable Mention:
Semi-Supervised Fuzzy C-Means for Regression
Gabriella Casalino, Giovanna Castellano and Corrado Mencar

Approximations of New MV-Valued Types of Fuzzy Sets
Jiří Močkoř

NCTA 2023

Best Paper Award

Neural Network-Based Approach for Supervised Nonlinear Feature Selection
Mamadou Kanouté, Edith Grall-Maës and Pierre Beauseroy

Best Student Paper Award

Molecule Builder: Environment for Testing Reinforcement Learning Agents
Petr Hyner, Jan Hůla and Mikoláš Janota

ECTA 2022

Best Paper Award

Approaches for Rule Discovery in a Learning Classifier System
Michael Heider, Helena Stegherr, David Pätzel, Roman Sraj, Jonathan Wurth, Benedikt Volger and Jörg Hähner

Best Poster Award

Parameterising the SA-UNet using a Genetic Algorithm
Mahsa Mahdinejad, Aidan Murphy, Patrick Healy and Conor Ryan

FCTA 2022

Best Paper Award

An Ontology-based Possibilistic Framework for Extracting Relevant Terms from Job Advertisements
Albeiro Espinal, Yannnis Haralambous, Dominique Bedart and John Puentes

NCTA 2022

Best Paper Award

Sample-based Uncertainty Quantification with a Single Deterministic Neural Network
Takuya Kanazawa and Chetan Gupta

Best Student Paper Award

Designing RNA Sequences by Self-play
Stephen Obonyo, Nicolas Jouandeau and Dickson Owuor

Best Poster Award

A Haptic Interface for Guiding People with Visual Impairment using Three Dimensional Computer Vision
Kevin Swingler and Chris Grigson

ECTA 2021

Best Paper Award

An Effective Resistance based Genetic Algorithm for Community Detection
Clara Pizzuti and Annalisa Socievole

Best Student Paper Award

The Dynamic Role Mining Problem: Role Mining in Dynamically Changing Business Environments
Simon Anderer, Tobias Kempter, Bernd Scheuermann and Sanaz Mostaghim

FCTA 2021

Best Paper Award

Multiobjective Bimatrix Game with Fuzzy Payoffs and Its Solution Method using Necessity Measure and Weighted Tchebycheff Norm
Hitoshi Yano and Ichiro Nishizaki

NCTA 2021

Best Paper Award

Relaxed Dissimilarity-based Symbolic Histogram Variants for Granular Graph Embedding
Luca Baldini, Alessio Martino and Antonello Rizzi

Best Student Paper Award

Accurate 3D Object Detection from Point Cloud Data using Bird’s Eye View Representations
Nerea Aranjuelo, Guus Engels, David Montero, Marcos Nieto, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Luis Unzueta and Oihana Otaegui

Best Poster Award

Is It Possible to Recognize Apple Employees by Their LinkedIn Profile Picture?
Thanakij Wanavit and Leslie Klieb

ECTA 2020

Best Paper Award

Looking for the Hardest Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Instances
Joeri Sleegers and Daan van den Berg

Best Student Paper Award

Grammar-based Fuzzy Pattern Trees for Classification Problems
Aidan Murphy, Muhammad S. Ali, Douglas M. Dias, Jorge Amaral, Enrique Naredo and Conor Ryan

FCTA 2020

Best Paper Award

Merging Partial Fuzzy Rule-bases
Martina Daňková

Best Student Paper Award

Fuzzy Confidence Intervals by the Likelihood Ratio with Bootstrapped Distribution
Rédina Berkachy and Laurent Donzé

NCTA 2020

Best Paper Award

Improving the Training of Convolutional Neural Network using Between-class Distance
Jiani Liu, Xiang Zhang and Yonggang Lu

Best Student Paper Award

Neural Semantic Pointers in Context
Alessio Plebe and Arianna Pavone

ECTA 2019

Best Paper Award

Evolutionary Techniques in Lattice Sieving Algorithms
Thijs Laarhoven

Best Student Paper Award

Hybrid Kriging-assisted Level Set Method for Structural Topology Optimization
Elena Raponi, Mariusz Bujny, Markus Olhofer, Simonetta Boria and Fabian Duddeck

Best Poster Award

Online Encoder-decoder Anomaly Detection using Encoder-decoder Architecture with Novel Self-configuring Neural Networks & Pure Linear Genetic Programming for Embedded Systems
Gabrielė Kasparavičiūtė, Malin Thelin, Peter Nordin, Per Söderstam, Christian Magnusson and Mattias Almljung

FCTA 2019

Best Paper Award

Uncertainty and Fuzzy Modeling in Human-robot Navigation
Rainer Palm and Achim J. Lilienthal

Best Student Paper Award

Correlation Coefficient of Modal Level Operators: An Application to Medical Diagnosis
Alex Bertei, Renata S. Reiser and Luciana Foss

Best Poster Award

Fuzzy-Based Recommendation System for University Major Selection
Shaima Alghamdi, Nada Alzhrani and Haneen Algethami

NCTA 2019

Best Paper Award

Risk-averse Distributional Reinforcement Learning: A CVaR Optimization Approach
Silvestr Stanko and Karel Macek

Best Student Paper Award

Breast Cancer Automatic Diagnosis System using Faster Regional Convolutional Neural Networks
Lourdes Duran-Lopez, Juan P. Dominguez-Morales, Isabel Amaya-Rodriguez, Francisco Luna-Perejon, Javier Civit-Masot, Saturnino Vicente-Diaz and Alejandro Linares-Barranco

Best Poster Award

Learning Method of Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks to Realize Various Firing Patterns using Particle Swarm Optimization
Yasuaki Kuroe, Hitoshi Iima and Yutaka Maeda

IJCCI 2018

Best Paper Award

Usability of Concordance Indices in FAST-GDM Problems
Marcelo Loor, Ana Tapia-Rosero and Guy De Tré

Best Student Paper Award

Expansion: A Novel Mutation Operator for Genetic Programming
Mohiul Islam, Nawwaf Kharma and Peter Grogono

Best Poster Award

Total Optimization of Smart City by Global-best Modified Brain Storm Optimization
Mayuko Sato, Yoshikazu Fukuyama, Tatsuya Iizaka and Tetsuro Matsui

IJCCI 2017

Best Paper Award

Depth Value Pre-Processing for Accurate Transfer Learning based RGB-D Object Recognition
Andreas Aakerberg, Kamal Nasrollahi, Christoffer B. Rasmussen and Thomas B. Moeslund

Best Student Paper Award

Towards Real-Time Fleet-Event-Handling for the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem
Simon Anderer, Max Halbich, Bernd Scheuermann and Sanaz Mostaghim

Best Poster Award

Emotion Recognition from Speech using Representation Learning in Extreme Learning Machines
Stefan Glüge, Ronald Böck and Thomas Ott

ICETE 2017

ECTA 2016

Best Paper Award

Evolution of Generic Square Calculations in Cellular Automata
Michal Bidlo

Best Student Paper Award

The Optional Prisoner's Dilemma in a Spatial Environment: Coevolving Game Strategy and Link Weights
Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan and Josephine Griffith

Best Poster Award

Integrating Expectations into Jason for Appraisal in Emotion Modeling
Joaquín Taverner, Bexy Alfonso, Emilio Vivancos and Vicente Botti

FCTA 2016

Best Paper Award

Hyperresolution for Propositional Product Logic
Dušan Guller

Best Student Paper Award

Classification Confusion within Nefclass Caused by Feature Value Skewness in Multi-dimensional Datasets
Jamileh Yousefi and Andrew Hamilton-Wright

NCTA 2016

Best Paper Award

Modelling the Grid-like Encoding of Visual Space in Primates
Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters

Best Student Paper Award

Neural Model for the Influence of Shading on the Multistability of the Perception of Body Motion
Leonid Fedorov, Joris Vangeneugden and Martin Giese

ECTA 2015

Best Paper Award

Design of an Autonomous Intelligent Demand-Side Management System by using Electric Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage Units by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms
Edgar Galván-Lopez, Marc Schoenauer and Constantinos Patsakis

Best Student Paper Award

A Heuristic Solution for Noisy Image Segmentation using Particle Swarm Optimization and Fuzzy Clustering
Saeed Mirghasemi, Ramesh Rayudu and Mengjie Zhang

FCTA 2015

Best Paper Award

An Order Hyperresolution Calculus for Gödel Logic with Truth Constants and Equality, Strict Order, Delta
Dušan Guller

Best Student Paper Award

Choosing Suitable Similarity Measures to Compare Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets that Represent Experience-Based Evaluation Sets
Marcelo Loor and Guy De Tré

NCTA 2015

Best Paper Award

A Heteroassociative Learning Model Robust to Interference
Randa Kassab and Frédéric Alexandre

Best Student Paper Award

A Comparison of Learning Rules for Mixed Order Hyper Networks
Kevin Swingler

ECTA 2014

Best Paper Award

Evolutionary Tuning of Optimal Controllers for Complex Systems
Jesús-Antonio Hernández-Riveros, Jorge-Humberto Urrea-Quintero and Cindy Carmona-Cadavid

Best Student Paper Award

Applications of Genetic Algorithm on Optimal Sequence for Parrondo Games
Degang Wu and Kwok Yip Szeto

FCTA 2014

Best Paper Award

Fuzzy Signal Processing of Sound and Electromagnetic Environment by Introducing Probability Measure of Fuzzy Events
Akira Ikuta and Hisako Orimoto

Best Student Paper Award

Evaluating Relevant Opinions within a Large Group
Ana Tapia-Rosero and Guy De Tré

NCTA 2014

Best Paper Award

Derivative Free Training of Recurrent Neural Networks - A Comparison of Algorithms and Architectures
Branimir Todorović, Miomir Stanković and Claudio Moraga

Best Student Paper Award

Artificial Neural Network Models of Intersegmental Reflexes
Alicia Costalago Meruelo, David M. Simpson, S. Veres and Philip L. Newland

ECTA 2013

Best Paper Award

Model Complexity Control in Straight Line Program Genetic Programming
César L. Alonso, José Luis Montaña and Cruz Enrique Borges

Best Student Paper Award

A PSO/Snake Hybrid Algorithm for Determining Differential Rotation of Coronal Bright Points
E. Shahamatnia, I. Dorotovic, R. A. Ribeiro and J. M. Fonseca

FCTA 2013

Best Paper Award

A DPLL Procedure for the Propositional Product Logic
Dušan Guller

NCTA 2013

Best Paper Award

Growing Surface Structures
Hendrik Annuth and Christian-A. Bohn

Best Student Paper Award

Magnitude Sensitive Image Compression
Enrique Pelayo, David Buldain and Carlos Orrite

IJCCI 2013

Best PhD Project Award

Stability-aware Cognitive Packet Network Routing Protocol for MANET
A. Alharbi, A. Aldhalaan and M. Alrodhaan

ECTA 2012

Best Paper Award

Using Self-organized Criticality for Adjusting the Parameters of a Particle Swarm
Carlos M. Fernandes, Juan Julián Merelo and Agostinho C. Rosa

Best Student Paper Award

Evolving Art using Measures for Symmetry, Compositional Balance and Liveliness
Eelco den Heijer

FCTA 2012

Best Paper Award

Towards an Approach to Select Features from Low Quality Datasets
José Manuel Cadenas, María del Carmen Garrido and Raquel Martínez

Best Student Paper Award

Non-commutative Fuzzy Logic psMTL - An Alternative Proof for the Standard Completeness Theorem
Denisa Diaconescu

NCTA 2012

Best Paper Award

Artificial Intelligence Methods in Reactive Navigation of Mobile Robots Formation
Zenon Hendzel, Marcin Szuster and Andrzej Burghardt

ECTA 2011

Best Paper Award

MONITORING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH GAMES WITH SOCIAL DILEMMA
Roman Gorbunov, Emilia Barakova, Rene Ahn and Matthias Rauterberg

FCTA 2011

Best Paper Award

ON THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF TRAPEZOIDAL FUZZY NUMBERS AND THE MANHATTAN DISTANCE OF FUZZY VECTORS
Julio Rojas-Mora, Jaime Gil-Lafuente and Didier Josselin

Best Student Paper Award

CONSTRUCTING FUZZY PARTITIONS FROM IMPRECISE DATA
José M. Cadenas, M. Carmen Garrido and Raquel Martínez

NCTA 2011

Best Paper Award

DESIGN OF RECURRENT FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK AND GENERAL REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLER FOR TRAVELING-WAVE ULTRASONIC MOTOR
Tien-Chi Chen, Tsai-Jiun Ren and Yi-Wei Lou

Best Student Paper Award

NEUROFUZZY MIN-MAX NETWORKS IMPLEMENTATION ON FPGA
Alessandro Cinti and Antonello Rizzi

ICEC 2010

Best Paper Award

EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITY OF A PROPOSED RECURSIVE MEASURE OF RECOMBINATIONAL DISTANCE
Robert Collier and Mark Wineberg

Best Student Paper Award

COLLECTIVE PERCEPTION IN A SWARM OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Giuseppe Morlino, Vito Trianni and Elio Tuci

ICFC 2010

Best Paper Award

DEVELOPMENT OF A FUZZY CALCULATOR FOR CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS OF NON-INTERACTIVE FUZZY VARIABLES
Karolien Scheerlinck, Hilde Vernieuwe and Bernard De Baets

Best Student Paper Award

TOWARDS FUZZY GRANULARITY CONTROL IN PARALLEL/DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
T. Trigo de la Vega, P. Lopez-García and S. Muñoz-Hernandez

ICNC 2010

Best Paper Award

SMART GROWING CELLS
Hendrik Annuth and Christian-A. Bohn

Best Student Paper Award

CORTICAL RHYTHMS INDUCED BY TMS STIMULATION - Analysis with a Neural Mass Model
Filippo Cona, Melissa Zavaglia, Mauro Ursino and Mario Rosanova

ICEC 2009

Best Paper Award

A STUDY OF GENETIC PROGRAMMING VARIABLE POPULATION SIZE FOR DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS

Best Student Paper Award

A HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE TERMINAL ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM

ICFC 2009

Best Paper Award

FUZZY MUTUAL INFORMATION FOR REVERSE ENGINEERING OF GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS

Best Student Paper Award

FUZZY TOPOGRAPHIC MODELING IN WIRELESS SIGNAL TRACKING ANALYSIS

ICNC 2009

Best Paper Award

A COMBINATION OF CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE THE OPTIMAL DOMAIN FOR STELLAR SPECTRA SIGNAL PROCESSING

Best Student Paper Award

A NOVEL DUAL ADAPTIVE NEURO-CONTROLLER BASED ON THE UNSCENTED TRANSFORM FOR MOBILE ROBOTS