Each year an award will be given by the Best Paper Award Committee for a contribution which is outstanding in its scientific quality.
In addition to a certificate, the award includes a prize of free registration at a future ECMS conference.
The award is presented in the closing session of the conference.
Awards given:
The ECMS 2023 Best Paper Committee decided on
BEST PAPER:
OCMS-29:
Predicting HVAC-Based Demand Flexibility in Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Utilizing Deep Neural Networks
by Italo Aldo Campodonico Avendano, Amin Moazami, Behzad Najafi, Farzad Dadras Javan (NTNU – Aalesund)
SPECIAL STUDENT AWARD 2023:
SSTMS-10:
Implementation and Evaluation of an Arthroscopic Tracker System for Intraoperative Motion Tracking and Force Registration
by Oystein Bjelland, Lars Ivar Hatledal, Martin Steinert, Robin T. Bye (NTNU – Aalesund)
The ECMS 2022 Best Paper Committee decided on
2 BEST PAPER AWARDS:
DIS-75:
Formal Verification of Neural Networks: a Case Study about Adaptive Cruise Control
by Stefano Demarchi, Dario Guidotti, Andrea Pitto, Armando Tacchella (Italy)
and
FDEM-18:
Application of the finite element method to determine the velocity profile in an open channel
by Daria Wotzka (Poland)
SPECIAL STUDENT AWARD 2022:
FDEM-78:
Application of the Extended Finite Element Method in the Aim of Examination of Crack Propagation in Railway Rails
by Dániel Bóbis, Peter Tamas Zwierczyk, Tamás Máté (Hungary)
nominated for this award in 2022 besides the winners:
SST-46: Heuristic Techniques for Reducing Energy Consumption of Household
by Sarah Daragemh, Anniken T. Karlsen , Ibrahim Hameed (Norway)
SST-79: Learned Parameterized Convolutonal Approximation of Image Filters
by Olga Chaganova, Anton Grigoryev (Russia)
ECMS 2021 – WEB-BASED CONFERENCE AT KUWAIT COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
BEST PAPER AWARD:
FES-13:
Demographic And Statistical Modelling Of Grandfatherhood In Russia
by Oksana Shubat, Mark Shubat (Russia)
nominated for this award in 2021 besides the winner:
OCMS-40: MCX – An Open-Source Framework For Digital Twins
by Sajad Shahsavari, Eero Immonen, Mohammed Rabah, Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan, Juha Plosila (Finland)
ECMS 2020 – PUBLICATION ONLY – DUE TO WORLD WIDE PANDEMIC
BEST PAPER AWARD:
FDEM-35:
Failure Analysis Of A Custum-Made Acetabular Cage With Finite Element Method
by Martin O. Doczi, Robert Szoedy, Peter T. Zwierczy (Hungary)
nominated for this award in 2020 besides the winner:
IS-68: Optimal Receiver Configuration Of Short-Baseline Localisation Systems Using Particle Swarm Optimisation
by Christoph Tholen, Tarek El-Mihoub, Lars Nolle, Oliver Ralle,Robin Rofallski (Germany)
SIMO-18: Influence Of Company Sizes In Adapted Master Production Scheduling For Improving Human Working Conditions
by Marco Trost, Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann (Germany)
FES-43: Clustering EU Countries Based On Death Probabilities
by Kolos Csaba Agoston, Agnes Vaskoevi (Hungary)
BEST PAPER AWARD:
FES-48:
Simulating Bankruptcy – The Effects Of Bailouts
by Agnes Vidovics-Dancs, Janos Szaz, Andras Nemeth, Marta Fekete (Hungary)
Special Student Award 2019:
IBTS-24:
Evaluating Exclusive Lanes For Autonomous Vehicle Platoons
by Eduardo Santana, Gustavo Covas, Fabio Kon (Brazil)
nominated for this award in 2019 besides the winners:
FES-44: Decreasing Progressive Tax Rates With Basic Income: The Golden Mean?
by Erzsébet Teréz Varga (Hungary)
IS-78: Border Strategies Of The Bison Algorithm
by Anezka Kazikova, Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova, Michal Pluhacek, Roman Senkerik
(Czech Republic)
SIMO-8: A Hybrid Heuristic Based On Self-Organising Maps And Binary Linear Programming Techniques For The Capacitated P-Median Problem
by Mike Steglich (Germany)
SIMO-39: Adapted Master Production Scheduling: Potential For Improving Human Working Conditions
by Marco Trost, Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann (Germany)
BEST PAPER AWARD:
SIMO-876:
Ground Vehicle Localization With Particle Filter Based On Simulated Road Marking Image
by Oleg Shipitko, Anton Grigoryev (Russia)
nominated for this award in 2018 besides the winner:
SIMO-809: Positivity And Stability Of Descriptor Continuous-Time Linear Systems With Interval State Matrices
by Thadeusz Kaczorek (Poland)
MFEM-807: Modeling And Simulation Of Bioheat Powered Subcutaneous Thermoelectric Generator
by Ujjwal Verma, Dennis Hohlfeld, Jakob Bernhardt (Germany)
MCT-843: Control Of Temperature Inside Plug-Flow Chemical Reactor Using 1DOF And 2DOF Adaptive Controller
by Jiri Vojtesek, Lubos Spacek, Frantisek Gazdos (Czech Republic)
BEST PAPER AWARD:
DIS-123: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MASSIVELY DISTRIBUTED MICROSERVICES BASED APPLICATIONS
by Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, Daniele Manini (Italy)
Special Student Award 2017:
IBTS-108: A SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION TOOL FOR THE METAL ACCESSORY SUPPLIERS IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY
by Virginia Fani (student), Romeo Bandinelli, Rinaldo Rinaldi (Italy)
nominated for this award in 2017 besides the winners:
Probstat-36: USING INTER-ARRIVAL TIMES FOR SCHEDULING IN NON-OBSERVABLE QUEUES
by Mikhail Konovalov, Rostislav Razumchik (Russia)
IS-27: ON THE EFFECT OF NEIGHBORHOOD SCHEMES AND CELL SHAPE ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF CELLULAR AUTOMATA APPLIED TO THE SIMULATION OF SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE
by Christoph Tholen, Lars Nolle, Oliver Zielinski (Germany)
MCT-55 (Student paper): 1DOF GAIN SCHEDULED PH CONTROL OF CSTR
by Adam Krhovják, Stanislav Talaš and Lukáš Rušar (Czech Republic)
BEST PAPER AWARD:
DIS-84: Towards Secure Non-Deterministic Meta-Scheduling For Clouds
by Agnieszka Jakobik, Daniel Grzonka, Joanna Kolodziej, Horacio Gonzalez-Velez (Poland)
Special Student Award:
SVT-120: On Usage Of EEG Brain Control For Rehabilitation Of Stroke Patients
by Tom Verplaetse(student), Filippo Sanfilippo, Adrian Rutle, Ottar L. Osen, Robin T. Bye (Norway)
nominated for this award in 2016 besides the winners:
SVT-127: Intelligent Computer-Automated Crane Design Using An Online Crane Prototyping Tool
by Ibrahim A. Hameed, Robin T. Bye, Ottar L. Osen, Birger Skogeng Pedersen,Hans Georg Schaathun (Norway)
DIS-125: Three Layers Network Influence On Cloud Data Center Performances
by Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, Daniele Manini
DIS-118 (student): Cloud Implementation Of Agent-Based Simulation Model In Evacuation Scenarios
by Andrzej Wilczynski (student), Joanna Kolodziej (Poland)
BEST PAPER AWARD:
IS-124:
Self-Adaptive Stepsize Search Applied To Robust Engineering Design Optimisation
by Ralph Krause, Lars Nolle, Richard J. Cant (United Kingdom / Germany)
nominated for this award in 2015 besides the winner:
PROBSTAT-31: On The Effective Bandwidth Estimation In Communication Network
by Evsey V. Morozov, Ksenia A. Kalinina (Russia)
PROBSTAT-17: On Sharp Bounds Of The Rate Of Convergence For Some Queueing Models
by Alexander Zeifman, Galina Shilova, Victor Korolev, Sergey Ya. Shorgin (Russia)
BEST PAPER AWARD:
ESE-74:
A Ship Motion Short Term Time Domain Simulator And Its Application To Costa Concordia Emergency Manoeuvres Just Before The January 2012 Accident
by Paolo Neri, Mario Piccinelli, Paolo Gubian, Bruno Neri (Italy)
Special Student Award:
ABS-117:
Use Of Agent Based Modeling To Simulate Complex Ecological Systems In Contexts With Poor Information; The Case Of The Winton Wetlands In Victoria, Australia
by Luisa Perez-Mujica, Terry Bossomaier, Roderick Duncan, Max C. Finlayson
nominated for this award in 2014 besides the winners:
EEE-95: Current Control Of A VSI-FED Induction Machine By Predictive Technique
by Sergiu Ivanov,Vladimir Rasvan, Eugen Bobasu, Dan Popescu, Florin Stinga
IS-35: Towards Evolutionary Deep Neural Networks
by Tomas H. Maul, Andrzej Bargiela, Siang-Yew Chong, Abdullahi S. Adamu
DIS-139: Realistic Mobility Simulator For Smart Traffic Systems And Applications
by Cosmin-Stefan Stoica, Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop
IS-85: Reusable Reinforcement Learning for Modular Self Motivated Agents by Jaroslav Vitku, Pavel Nahodil
BEST PAPER AWARD:
LT-183:
E-Learning Based Competence Development In Logistics Software Application For Simulation And Visualization
by Gaby Neumann, University of Applied Science Wildau, Germany
nominated for this award in 2013 besides the winner:
SIMO-86: Simulation Of Robust Master Production Scheduling In An Industrially Relevant
Planning Environment
y Julian Englberger, Frank Herrmann, Thorsten Claus
IS-182: Analytic Programming In The Task Of Evolutionary Synthesis Of The Robust
Controller For Selected Discrete Chaotic Systems
by Roman Senkerik, Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova, Ivan Zelinka, Michal Pluhacek,
Czech Republic
BEST PAPER AWARD:
ESE-89:
High-Precision Robust Cascade Model for Closed-Loop Control of Ceramic Glow Plug Surface Temperature in a Diesel Engine
by Ramita Suteekarn, Martin Sackmann, Bernd Last, Clemens Gühmann
nominated for this award in 2012 besides the winner:
ABS-67: Variance in System Dynamics and Agent Based Modelling using the SIR Model of Infectuous Disease
by Aslam Ahmed, Julie Greensmith, Uwe Aikelin
CSM-106: eRAMZES–Novel Approach for Simulation of Reactive Molding Process
by Lukasz Matysiak, Robert Platek, Michal Banas, Robert Sekula
BEST PAPER AWARD:
ABS 104:
Simulating entrepreneurial strategies in a global knowledge economy
by Martin Ihrig, Germany
nominated for this award in 2011 besides the winner:
LT 21: Optimized multi-echelon inventory policies in robust distribution networks
by Katja Klingebiel, Cong Li
EEE 75: Useful software tool for simulating switched reluctance motors
by V. Chindris, R. Terec, M. Ruba, L. Szabo, P. Rafajdus
ABS 94: Modelling decisions under uncertainty in a behavioural queuing system
by C. Delgado, A. van Ackere, E. Larsen, K. Sankaranarayanan
BEST PAPER AWARD:
A Study on Lamarckian and Baldwinian Learning on Noisy and Noiseless Landscapes
by Cheng Wai Kheng, Meng Hiot Lim, Siang Yew Chong
nominated for this award in 2010 besides the winner:
FE18: Behavioral Microsimulation of a Dual Income Tax: A Mixed-Logic Approach
by Gerhard Wagenhals (paper was not presented due to illness of the author)
ABS45: A Spatial Simulation Model for the Diffusion of a Novel Biofuel on the Austrian Market
by Elmar Kiesling, Markus Günther, Christian Stummer, Rudolf Vetschera, Lea M. Wakolbinger
MCT22: Modelling and Control of Hot Air System under Conditions of Uncertainty
by Radek Matušů, Roman Prokop, Czech Republic
ECMS 2009 IN MADRID
BEST PAPER AWARD:
An Applied Step In Forest Fire Spread Modelling
by Yves Dumond
Student award:
Automatic Traffic Detection System
by Michal Lyczek, Agata Chrobak, Anna Kulka, Lukasz Kaminski
Buffer Management for Automated Material Handling Systems
in Semiconductor Industries
by Roland Wertz, Christian Fischmann, Fabian Böttinger, Christian Kunz, Fraunhofer Institute Stuttgart, Germany
BEST PAPER AWARD:
PARTICLE BASED MODELLING OF MECHANICAL ALLOYING BY PARALLEL MONTE CARLO METHODS
by Roland Reichardt, Fred Weinhold, Wolfgang Wiechert, University of Siegen, Germany
Student award:
CREATING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS BY MEANS OF ANALYTIC PROGRAMMING
by Zuzana Oplatková, Ivan Zelinka, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic
of Magdeburg, Germany