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 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

ECTA 2024

Best Paper Award

Sampling in CMA-ES: Low Numbers of Low Discrepancy Points
Jacob de Nobel, Diederick Vermetten, Thomas H. W. Bäck and Anna V. Kononova

Honorable Mention: Testing Emergent Bilateral Symmetry in Evolvable Robots with Vision
Michele Vannucci, Satchit Chatterji and Babak H. Kargar

Best Student Paper Award

Real-Time IoMT-driven Optimisation for Large-Scale Home Health Care Planning
Seyedamirhossein Salehiamiri, Richard Allmendinger and Arijit De

Honorable Mention: Hybrid Genetic Programming and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Low-Complexity Robot Arm Trajectory Planning
Quentin Vacher, Nicolas Beuve, Paul Allaire, Thibaut Marty, Mickaël Dardaillon and Karol Desnos

Best Poster Award

L-SAGA: A Learning Hyper-Heuristic Architecture for the Permutation Flow-Shop Problem
Younes Boukacem, Hatem M. Abdelmoumen, Hodhaifa Benouaklil, Samy Ghebache, Boualem Hamroune, Mohammed Tirichine, Nassim Ameur and Malika Bessedik

ECTA 2023

Best Paper Award

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

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

Best Student Paper Award

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

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

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

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

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

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 Sarmad Ali, Douglas Mota Dias, Jorge Amaral, Enrique Naredo and Conor Ryan

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

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

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

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

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

IJCCI 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

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

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

Best Student Paper Award

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

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

Early Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Detection using Multi-subnetworks of the Brain
Jaroslav Rokicki, Hiyoshi Kazuko, Francois-Benoit Vialatte, Andrius Ušinskas and Andrzej Cichocki

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

IJCCI 2011

Best Paper Award

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

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

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

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

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

EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES FOR THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM BALANCED PROBLEM
Lorna V. Rosas-Tellez, Jose L. Martínez-Flores and Vittorio Zanella-Palacios

ECTA 2011

Best Paper Award

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

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

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