Best Paper Award winners of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation

ECMS INTERNATIONAL Conference on Modelling and Simulation

Best Paper award

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 will be presented in the closing session of the conference.

Awards given:

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 ꟷ An Open-Source Framework For Digital Twins
by Sajad Shahsavari, Eero Immonen, Mohammed Rabah, Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan, Juha Plosila (Finnland)

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)

ECMS 2019 iN CASERTA

BEST PAPER AWARD:

FES-48:
Simulating Bankruptcy - The Effects Of Bailouts
by Agnes Vidovics-Dancs, Janos Szaz, Andras Nemeth, Marta Fekete (Hungary)

nominated for this award in 2019 besides the winner:

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)

Special Student Award 2019:

IBTS-24:
Evaluating Exclusive Lanes For Autonomous Vehicle Platoons
by Eduardo Santana, Gustavo Covas, Fabio Kon (Brazil)

ECMS 2018 iN Wilhelmshaven

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)

ECMS 2017 iN Budapest

BEST PAPER AWARD:

DIS-123:
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MASSIVELY DISTRIBUTED MICROSERVICES BASED APPLICATIONS
by Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, Daniele Manini (Italy)

nominated for this award in 2017 besides the winner:

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)

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)

ECMS 2016 in REGENSBURG

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 winner:

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

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

ECMS 2015 in Albena

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

PROBSTAT-17: On Sharp Bounds Of The Rate Of Convergence For Some Queueing Models

by Alexander Zeifman, Galina Shilova, Victor Korolev, Sergey Ya. Shorgin

ECMS 2014 in Brescia

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

nominated for this award in 2014 besides the winner:

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

BEST STUDENT PAPER 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 winner:

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

ECMS 2013 in Ålesund

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
                   by Julian Englberger, Frank Herrmann, Thorsten Claus, University of Applied Sciences
                   Regensburg, Innovation Centre for Factory Planning, and Technical University Dresden,
                   IHI Zittau, Germany

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,
                   Tomas Bata University in Zlin , Faculty of Applied Informatics and Faculty of
                   Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VB-TUO, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

ECMS 2012 in Koblenz

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
DTSquare GmbH,Stuttgart, BorgWarner BERU Systems GmbH, Ludwigsburg, TU Berlin, Germany

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 (Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Research Group University of Nottingham)

CSM-106: eRAMZES--Novel Approach for Simulation of Reactive Molding Process
by Lukasz Matysiak, Robert Platek, Michal Banas, Robert Sekula (ABB Corporate Research, Krakow, Poland)

ECMS 2011 in KrAków

ABS 104:
Simulating entrepreneurial strategies in a global knowledge economy
by Martin Ihrig
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA

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
Technical University of Dortmund and Fraunhofer Institute, Dortmund

EEE 75: Useful software tool for simulating switched reluctance motors
by V. Chindris, R. Terec, M. Ruba, L. Szabo, P.Rafajdus
Technical University of Cluj and University of Zilina

ABS 94: Modelling decisions under uncertainty in a behavioural queuing system
by C. Delgado, A. van Ackere, University of Lausanne
E.Larsen, K. Sankaranarayanan, University of Lugano

ECMS 2010 in Kuala Lumpur

A Study on Lamarckian and Baldwinian Learning on Noisy and Noiseless Landscapes
by Cheng Wai Kheng, Meng Hiot Lim, Siang Yew Chong
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia

nominated for this award in 2010 besides the winner:

FE18: Behavioral Microsimulation of a Dual Income Tax: A Mixed-Logic Approach
by Gerhard Wagenhals, Stuttgart (paper wasn't 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, Vienna

MCT22: Modelling and Control of Hot Air System under Conditions of Uncertainty
by Radek Matušů, Roman Prokop, Zlín

ECMS 2009 in MadriD

An Applied Step In Forest Fire Spread Modelling
by Yves Dumond, University of Savoie, France

Student award:
Automatic Traffic Detection System
by Michal Lyczek, Agata Chrobak, Anna Kulka, Lukasz Kaminski
University of Warsaw, Poland

ECMS 2008 in Nicosia

Buffer Management for Automated Material Handling Systems
in Semiconductor Industries
by Roland Wertz, Christian Fischmann, Fabian Böttinger, Christian Kunz, Fraunhofer Institute Stuttgart, Germany

ECMS 2007 in Prag

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

ECMS 2006 in Bonn, St. Augustin

ECMS 2005 in Riga

ECMS 2004 in Magdeburg

ECMS(fOrmer ESM) 2003 in Nottingham

Rapid Prototyping of Human Interface Technologies using Simulation
by Maria F. Grabovac, David A. Craven and James W. Meehan, Defense Science Org., Australia

Simulation Modelling of UML Software Architectures
by Simonetta Balsamo and M.oreno Marzolla, University of Venezia, Italy

ESS 2002 iN Dresden

A New Paradigm for the Numerical Simulation of Stochastic Petri Nets with General Firing Times
by Graham Horton, University of Magdeburg, Germany