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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011

SIMULTECH 2024

Best Paper Award

Coupling Agent-Based Simulations and VR Universes: the Case of GAMA and Unity
Alexis Drogoul, Patrick Taillandier, Arthur Brugière, Louis Martinez, Léon Sillano, Baptiste Lesquoy and Huynh Q. Nghi

Best Student Paper Award

Enhancing Continuous Optimization with a Hybrid History-Driven Firefly and Simulated Annealing Approach
Sina Alizadeh and Malek Mouhoub

Best Poster Award

A Simulation Analysis of Economic and Environmental Factors in the Design of an Electric Vehicle Battery Reverse Supply Chain
Melissa V. Vallejos, Andrew Greasley and Aristides Matopoulos

SIMULTECH 2023

Best Paper Award

A Digital Twin Simulator Approach as a Support to Develop an Integrated Observatory of the Epidemic Risk in a Rural Community in Senegal
Jean Le Fur, Moussa Sall and Jean-Marie Dembele

Best Student Paper Award

Metrics and Metamodels for Mission-Based Assessment of Multi-Aircraft Force Compositions
Julian Seethaler, Michael Strohal and Peter Stütz

Best Poster Award

Using Analytical Methods and Simulation to Estimate the Magnitude of Errors in Calculations for Recovery in Washed Red Blood Cells
John Blake, Jason Acker and Cherie Mastronardi

SIMULTECH 2022

Best Paper Award

Sitar: A Cycle-based Discrete-Event Simulation Framework for Architecture Exploration
Neha Karanjkar and Madhav Desai

Best Student Paper Award

Analyzing Age of Information in Prioritized Status Update Systems using Probabilistic Hybrid Discipline
Tamer E. Fahim, Sherif I. Rabia, Ahmed A. El-Malek and Waheed K. Zahra

Best Poster Award

Monte Carlo Simulation of Pathogen Reduced Platelet Production
John T. Blake and Ken McTaggart

SIMULTECH 2021

Best Paper Award

A System Dynamics Model Approach for Simulating Hyper-inflammation in Different COVID-19 Patient Scenarios
Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Enrique Hernández-Jiménez and David F. Nettleton

Best Student Paper Award

A Novel Technique for Modeling Vehicle Crash using Lumped Parameter Models
Gulshan Noorsumar, Svitlana Rogovchenko, Kjell G. Robbersmyr, Dmitry Vysochinskiy and Andreas Klausen

Best Poster Award

Simulating Live Cloud Adaptations Prior to a Production Deployment using a Models at Runtime Approach
Johannes Erbel, Alexander Trautsch and Jens Grabowski

SIMULTECH 2020

Best Paper Award

Simu5G: A System-level Simulator for 5G Networks
Giovanni Nardini, Giovanni Stea, Antonio Virdis and Dario Sabella

Best Student Paper Award

Investigation of the Dynamic Loads on Tower Cranes During Slewing Operations
Manuel Stölzner, Michael Kleeberger, Marcel Moll and Johannes Fottner

Best Poster Award

Evolution of Robotic Simulators: Using UE 4 to Enable Real-World Quality Testing of Complex Autonomous Robots in Unstructured Environments
Patrick Wolf, Tobias Groll, Steffen Hemer and Karsten Berns

SIMULTECH 2019

Best Paper Award

IFOSMONDI: A Generic Co-simulation Approach Combining Iterative Methods for Coupling Constraints and Polynomial Interpolation for Interfaces Smoothness
Yohan Éguillon, Bruno Lacabanne and Damien Tromeur-Dervout

Best Student Paper Award

HintCO – Hint-based Configuration of Co-simulations
Cláudio Gomes, Bentley J. Oakes, Mehrdad Moradi, Alejandro T. Gámiz, Juan C. Mendo, Joachim Denil, Hans Vangheluwe and Stefan Dutré

Best Poster Award

Explorations and Lessons Learned in Building an Autonomous Formula SAE Car from Simulations
Dean Zadok, Tom Hirshberg, Amir Biran, Kira Radinsky and Ashish Kapoor

SIMULTECH 2018

Best Paper Award

Particle based Waterfall Simulation with Spray Cloud Emerging from Basin
Nobuhiko Mukai, Yuto Hizono and Youngha Chang

Best Student Paper Award

Extension of the Model-based Pre-step Stabilization Method for Non-iterative Co-simulation - Including Direct-feedthrough
Simon Genser and Martin Benedikt

Best Poster Award

Modelling of Quantum Key Distribution Protocols in Communicating Quantum Processes Language with Verification and Analysis in PRISM
Satya Kuppam

SIMULTECH 2017

Best Paper Award

Learning from Simulated World - Surrogates Construction with Deep Neural Network
Zong-De Jian, Hung-Jui Chang, Tsan-sheng Hsu and Da-Wei Wang

Best Student Paper Award

Framework for Fair Comparisons of Underwater Vehicle Controllers - Showcasing the Robustness Properties of a Model-free Sliding Mode Controller Tuned with a Random-forest-based Bayesian Optimization Approach
Musa Morena Marcusso Manhães, Sebastian A. Scherer, Luiz Ricardo Douat, Martin Voss and Thomas Rauschenbach

Best Poster Award

A Semantic Web Engine for Biorefining Model Integration
Edlira Kalemi, Linsey Koo and Franjo Cecelja

SIMULTECH 2016

Best Paper Award

Searching Vaccination Strategy with Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Computing
Zong-De Jian, Tsan-Sheng Hsu and Da-Wei Wang

Best Student Paper Award

An Image Generator Platform to Improve Cell Tracking Algorithms - Simulation of Objects of Various Morphologies, Kinetics and Clustering
Pedro Canelas, Leonardo Martins, André Mora, Andre S. Ribeiro and José Fonseca

Best Poster Award

Towards Multi-Level-Simulation using Dynamic Cloud Environments
Stefan H. A. Wittek, Michael Göttsche, Andreas Rausch and Jens Grabowski

SIMULTECH 2015

Best Paper Award

A Model-Driven Engineering Process for Agent-based Traffic Simulations
Alberto Fernández-Isabel and Rubén Fuentes-Fernández

Best Student Paper Award

Modeling and Simulation of MAS-based Management System for Smart Grid with Smart Homes
Chen Miao, Tai Nengling and Ji Kang

SIMULTECH 2014

Best Paper Award

A Hybrid Model for the Analysis of a Surgical Pathway
Roberto Aringhieri and Davide Duma

Best Student Paper Award

Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping and Nonlinear Hebbian Learning for Modeling, Simulation and Assessment of the Climate System, Based on a Planetary Boundaries Framework
Iván Paz-Ortiz and Carlos Gay-Garcia

Best PhD Project Award

GIS-based Backcasting - A Method for Parameterisation of Sustainable Spatial Planning and Resource Management
Eva Haslauer, Thomas Blaschke and Markus Biberacher

SIMULTECH 2013

Best Paper Award

Social Layers and Population Models Directed by Intelligent Agents for Estimating the Impact of Operations and Investments
Agostino G. Bruzzone, Marina Massei, Christian Bartolucci and Lorenzo Capponi D’Agostino

Best Student Paper Award

Tensor Systems - Multilinear Modeling and Applications
G. Pangalos, A. Eichler and G. Lichtenberg

SIMULTECH 2012

Best Paper Award

Dynamic Simulation of Opioid Misuse Outcomes
Alexandra Nielsen and Wayne Wakeland

Best Student Paper Award

Simulation of Photovoltaics for Defence Applications - Power Generation Assessment and Investigation of the Available Integration Areas of Photovoltaic Devices on a Virtual Infantryman
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos and Emmanuel Tsekleves

SIMULTECH 2011

Best Paper Award

SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR DIFFUSION ON A SPHERE
Yuri N. Skiba and Denis M. Filatov

Best Student Paper Award

SIMULATION ASSISTED, MODEL-BASED DEVELOPMENT OF SAFETY RELATED INTERLOCKS
Timo Vepsäläinen and Seppo Kuikka