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.
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009
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
Area:
Fuzzy Computation
Usability of Concordance Indices in FAST-GDM Problems
Marcelo Loor, Ana Tapia-Rosero and Guy De Tré
Best Student Paper Award
Area:
Evolutionary Computation
Expansion: A Novel Mutation Operator for Genetic Programming
Mohiul Islam, Nawwaf Kharma and Peter Grogono
Best Poster Award
Area:
Evolutionary Computation
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
Area:
Neural Computation
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
Area:
Evolutionary Computation
Towards Real-Time Fleet-Event-Handling for the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem
Simon Anderer, Max Halbich, Bernd Scheuermann and Sanaz Mostaghim
Best Poster Award
Area:
Neural Computation
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