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WIC Awards

Brain Informatics Ten-Year Outstanding Contribution Award

Neural Representations of Language Meaning
International Conference on Brain Informatics, 2017
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

WI-IAT Ten-Year Most Influential Paper Award

Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), pp. 207-214.
Eytan Adar and Lada A. Adamic, University of Michigan, USA

WI-IAT Twenty-Year Most Influential Paper Award

Predicting the Future with Social Media
International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent
Agent Technology, 2010
Sitaram Asur, Salesforce, USA
Bernardo Huberman, CableLabs, USA

The 20th Anniversary of WI Awards

Frank Harmelen, Vrije U Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joseph Sifakis, EPFL, Switzerland
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, USA

Contribution Awards

2023 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
2022 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
2019 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
2018 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Yong Shi , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2017 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Raj Reddy , Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2016 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, USA
2015 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Joseph Sifakis, EPFL, Switzerland
2015 WIC Outstanding Technology Contributions Award:
Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
2014 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Tsinghua University, China
2014 WIC Outstanding Technology Contributions Award:
Karl Friston, University College London, UK
2013 WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award:
John Hopcroft, Cornell University, USA
2013 WIC Outstanding Technology Contributions Award:
Scott E. Fahlman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2012 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
2011 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
2010 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
2009 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
John R. Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2008 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
2007 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck/Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria
2006 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2005 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
2004 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA
2003 WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award:
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Service Awards

2023 WIC Outstanding Service Awards
Claudio Lucchese, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Salvatore Orlando, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
2022 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
Jiashu Zhao, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
2019 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Payam Bamaghi, University of Surrey, UK
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile
Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
2017 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Bjorn Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany
2016 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Deepak Khazanchi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
2015 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Ah-Hwee Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2014 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Dominik Slezak, The University of Warsaw, Poland
Marcin Szczuka, The University of Warsaw, Poland
2013 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Shinichi Motomura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
2012 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Zhiguo Gong, University of Macau, Macau, China
Ryan Leong Hou U, University of Macau, Macau, China
2011 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Mohand-Said Hacid, Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France
2010 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
2009 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
2008 WIC Outstanding Service Award:
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
2007 WIC Outstanding Service Awards:
Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Tsau Young Lin, San José State University/UC Berkeley, USA
2006 WIC Outstanding Service Awards:
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
WI-IAT-ICDM'06 Local Organization
(Yiu-ming Cheung, William Kwok-wai Cheung, Xiaowen Chu, Kelvin Chi-kuen Wong, and Jianliang Xu)
2005 WIC Outstanding Service Awards:
Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland

Conference Awards

WI-IAT23 Best Paper Award
Into the Dynamics of Interpersonal Relationships from Diachronic Documents: Text-based Temporal Social Network Construction
by Chieh Yu Lee, Christian Henriot, Hua-Yuan Hsueh, Jyi-Shane Liu, and Hen-Hsen Huang

WI-IAT23 Best Student Paper Awards
Proposing a new security game with reward and penalty
by Riku Yoshioka, Yuko Sakurai, Satoshi Oyama, and Masato Shinoda

HGExplainer: Explainable Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network
by Grzegorz P. Mika, Amel Bouzeghoub, Katarzyna Węgrzyn-Wolska, and Yessin Neggaz

In-Training Explainability Frameworks: A Method to Make Black-Box Machine Learning Models More Explainable
by Cagla Acun and Olfa Nasraoui

Multi-channel Graph Neural Networks with Contrastive Learning for Social Recommendation
by Ping Liu and Jian Yang

BI 2023 Best Paper Award
Fusing simultaneously acquired EEG and fMRI via hierarchical deep transcoding
by Xueqing Liu and Paul Sajda

BI 2023 Best Student Paper Award
MMDF-ESI: Multi-Modal Deep Fusion of EEG and MEG for Brain Source Imaging
by Meng Jiao, Shihao Yang, Boyu Wang, Xiaochen Xian, Yevgeniy R. Semenov, Guihong Wan, and Feng Liu
BI 2023 Best Application Paper Award
EEG source imaging of hand movement-related areas: An evaluation of the reconstruction accuracy with optimized channels
by Andres Soler, Eduardo Giraldo, and Marta Molinas
WI-IAT 2022 Best Paper Award:
NLI-based Filtering for Data Augmentation in Topic Classification
byYanan Chen
WI-IAT 2022 Best Student Paper Award:
Improving generalization to new environments and removing catastrophic forgetting in Reinforcement Learning by using an eco-system of agents
byOlivier Moulin
WI-IAT 2022 Best Student Paper Award:
Multiple Neighbor Relation Enhanced Graph Collaborative Filtering
by Riwei Lai
BI 2022 Best Paper Award
Estimating the Temporal Evolution of Synaptic Weights from Dynamic Functional Connectivity
by Marco Celotto, Stefan Lemke, and Stefano Panzeri
BI 2022 Best Student Paper Award
Prediction of Neuropsychological Scores from Functional Connectivity Matrices Using Deep Autoencoders
by Delfina Irarte, Alberto Testolin, Michele De Filippo De Grazia, and Marco Zorzi
BI 2022 Best Application Paper Award
Towards Machine Learning Driven Self-guided Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Based on Arousal State Detection from Multimodal Data
by Muhammad Arifur Rahman, David Brown, Matthew Harris, Nicholas Shopland, Zakia Batool Turabee, Nadja Heym, Alexander Sumich, Brad Standen, David Downes, Yangang Xing, Carolyn Thomas, Sean Haddick, Preethi Premkumar, Andrew Burton, Simona Nastase, James Lewis, and Mufti Mahmud
WI-IAT 2021 Best Paper Award:
Clustering-based Location Authority Deep Model in the Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation
by Tianxing Wang, Can Wang, Hui Tian, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, and Yunwei Zhao
WI-IAT 2021 Best Paper Award Runner-up
Evolving Multi-view Autoencoders for Text Classification
by Tuan Ha and Xiaoying Gao
WI-IAT 2021 Best Student Paper Award
Assessing the use of attention weights to interpret BERT-based stance classification
by Fransois Torregrossa, Robin Allesiardo, Vincent Claveau, and Guillaume Grovier
WI-IAT 2021 Best Student Paper Award Runner-up
Assessing the use of attention weights to interpret BERT-based stance classification
by Carlos Abel Córdova Sáenz and Karin Becker
WI-IAT 2021 Best Paper in Theory
Tri-skill variant Simplex and strongly polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming
by Pei-Zhuang Wang, Si-Cong Guo, H o-Chung Lui,Jing He, Qi-Wei Kong and Yong Shi
WI-IAT 2021 Best Paper in Industry
TTNet: Tabular Transfer Network for Few-samples Prediction
by Zhao Li, Donghu Ding, Xuanwu Liu, Peng Zhang, Youxi Wu, and Lingzhou Ma
BI 2021 Best Paper Award
Spectral Properties of Local Field Potentials and Electroencephalograms as Indices for Changes in Neural Circuit Parameters
by Pablo Martinez-Canada and Stefano Panzeri
BI 2021 Best Student Paper Award
Exploring the Brain Information Processing Mechanisms from Functional Connectivity to Translational Applications
by Hongzhi Kuai, Jianhui Chen, Xiaohui Tao, Kazuyuki Imamura, Peipeng Liang, and Ning Zhong
BI 2021 Best Application Paper Award
Development of an Artefact Removal Module for Extracellular Neuronal Signals in a Matlab-based Open-Source Toolbox
by Marcos Fabietti, Mufti Mahmud and Ahmad Lotfi
BI 2020 Best Paper Award
Effect of the Gamma Entrainment Frequency in Pertinence to Mood, Memory and Cognition
by Ryan Sharpe and Mufti Mahmud
BI 2020 The 1st Runner Up of the Best Paper Award
Sequence learning in Associative Neuronal-Astrocytic Networks
by Leo Kozachkov and Konstantinos Michmizos
BI 2020 The 2nd Runner Up of the Best Paper Award
A Systematic Assessment of Feature Extraction Methods for Robust Prediction of Neuropsychological Scores from Functional Connectivity Data
by Federico Calesella, Alberto Testolin, Michele De Filippo De Grazia, and Marco Zorzi
WI 2019 Best Paper Award:
Bayesian Deep Learning with Trust and Distrust in Recommendation System
by Dimitrios Rafaillidis
WI 2019 Best Student Paper Award:
Graph-based Knowledge Tracing: Modeling Student Proficiency Using Graph Neural Networ
by Hiromi Nakagawa, Yusuke Iwasawa, and Yutaka Matsuo
WI 2019 Best Demo Award:
Predictive personalization of conversational customer communications with data protection by desig
by Alexandros Deligiannis, Charalampos Argyriou, and Dimitrios Kourtesis
BI 2019 Best Student Paper Award:
Imaging EEG Extended Sources based on Variation Sparsity with L1-norm Residual
by Furong Xu, Ke Liu , Xin Deng, and Guoyin Wang
WI 2018 Best Paper Award:
Distributional Semantics Approach to Detech Intent in Twitter Conversations on Sexual Assaults
by Rahul Pandeym Hemant Purohit, Bonnie Stabile, and Aubrey Grant
WI 2018 Best Student Paper Award:
LASAGNE: Locality And Structure Aware Graph Node Embeddings
by Evgeniy Faerman, Felix Borutta, Kimon Fountoulakis, and Michael W. Mahoney
BI 2018 Best Paper Award:
Estimating Latent Brain Sources with Low-Rank Representation and Graph Regularization
by Feng Liu, Shouyi Wang, Jing Qin, Yifei Lou, and Jay Rosenberger
BI 2018 Best Student Paper Award:
Automatic Recognition of Resting State fMRI Networks with Dictionary Learning
by Debadatta Dash, Bharat Biswal, Anil Kumar Sao, and Jun Wang
WI 2017 Best Paper Award:
Topical Term Weighting based on Extended Random Sets for Relevance Feature Selection
by Abdullah Alharbi, Yuefeng Li, and Yue Xu
WI 2017 Best Student Paper Award:
Preference-driven Similarity Join
by Chuancong Gao, Jiannan Wang, Jian Pei, Rui Li, and Yi Chang

An Evaluation of Models for Runtime Approximation in Link Discovery
by Kleanthi Georgala, Michael Hoffmann, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
BI 2017 Best Paper Award:
Group Guided Sparse Group Lasso Multi-Task Learning for Cognitive Performance Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease
by Xiaoli Liu, Peng Cao, Jinzhu Yang, Dazhe Zhao, and Osmar Zaiane
WI 2016 Best Paper Award:
A Social Curiosity Inspired Recommendation Model to Improve Precision, Coverage and Diversity
by Qiong Wu, Siyuan Liu, Chunyan Miao, Yuan Liu, and Cyril Leung
WI 2016 Best Student Paper Award:
Inferring Your Expertise from Twitter: Integrating Sentiment and Topic Relatedness
by Yu Xu, Dong Zhou, and Seamus Lawless
BIH 2016 Best Paper Award:
Clique Identication and Propagation for Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation
by Sidong Liu, Yang Song, Fan Zhang, Dagan Feng, Michael Fulham, and Weidong Cai
BIH 2016 Best Student Paper Award:
Thought Chart: Tracking Dynamic EEG Brain Connectivity with Unsupervised Manifold Learning
by Mengqi Xing, Olusola Ajilore, Ouri E. Wolfson, Christopher Abbott, Annmarie MacNamara, Reza Tadayonnejad, Angus Forbes, K. Luan Phan, Heide Klumpp, and Alex Leow
BIH 2015 Best Paper Award:
Classification Accuracy Improvement of Chromatic and High-Frquency Code-modulated Visual Evoked Potential-based BCI
by Daiki Aminaka, Shoji Makino, and Tomasz Rutkowski
WI 2014 Best Paper Award:
GeoECHO: Inferring User Interests from Geotag Reports in Network Traffic
by Ning Xia, Stanislav Miskovic, Mario Baldi, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Antonio Nucci
IAT 2014 Best Paper Award:
Testing Carlo Cipolla's Laws of Human Stupidity with Agent-Based Modeling
by Andrea G.B. Tettamanzi and Celia da Costa Pereira
WI-IAT 2014 Best Student Paper Award:
Using Extended Random Set to Find Specific Patterns
by Mubarak Albathan, Yuefeng Li, and Yue Xu
AMT 2014 Best Paper Award:
Mining False Information on Twitter for a Major Disaster Situation
by Keita Nabeshima, Junta Mizuno, Naoaki Okazaki, and Kentaro Inui
BIH 2014 Best Paper Award:
Shift of Brain-State during Recovery from Discomfort Induced by Aversive Pictures
by Yang Yang, Emi Tosaka, Xiaojing Yang, Kazuyuki Imamura, Xiuya Lei, Gang Wang, Bin Hu, Shengfu Lu, and Ning Zhong
AMT-BIH 2014 Best Student Paper Award:
P3 Component Detection using HHT: Improvement of EMD with Additional Stopping Criteria
by Tomas Prokop, and Roman Moucek
WI 2013 Best Paper Award:
An Analytical Model for the Propagation of Social Influence
by Xiaoguang Fan, Guolin Niu, and Victor O.K. Li
WI 2013 Best Student Paper Award:
Incorporating Structural Diversity of Neighbors in a Diffusion Model for Social Networks
by Qing Bao
IAT 2013 Best Paper Award:
Predicting the Performance of Opponent Models in Automated Negotiation
by Tim Baarslag, Mark Hendrikx, Koen Hindriks, and Catholijn Jonker
IAT 2013 Best Student Paper Award:
Agent-based Small-scale Energy Consumer Models for Energy Portfolio Management
by Antonios Chrysopoulos
AMT 2013 Best Paper Award:
Lexical-Syntactical Patterns for Subjectivity Analysis of Social Issues
by Mostafa Karamibekr and Ali A. Ghorbani
BHI 2013 Best Paper Award:
Combining Two Visual Cognition Systems Using Confidence Radius and Combinatorial Fusion
by Amy Batallones, Kilby Sanchez, Brian Mott, Cameron McMunn-Coffran, and D. Frank Hsu
BHI 2013 Best Student Paper Award:
An Approximation Approach to Measurement Design in the Reconstruction of Functional MRI Sequences
by Shulin Yan, Lei Nie, Chao Wu, and Yike Guo
WI 2012 Best Paper Award:
Extracting Web News Using Tag Path Patterns
by Gongqing Wu and Xindong Wu
IAT 2012 Best Paper Award:
Improving Asynchronous Partial Overlay
by Roger Mailler
AMT 2012 Best Paper Award:
Extraction of Human Social Behavior from Mobile Phone Sensing
by Minshu Li, Haipeng Wang, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu
BI 2012 Best Paper Award:
Decoding of EEG Activity from Object Views: Active Detection vs. Passive Visual Tasks
by Sudhir Sasane and Lars Schwabe
BI 2012 Runner-Up Award:
Estimation of Visual Feedback Contributions to Limb Stiffness in Visuomotor Control
by Yuki Ueyama and Eizo Miyashita
ISMIS 2012 Best Paper Award:
An Anti-tampering Algorithm Based on an Artificial Intelligence Approach
by Andrea Moio, Attilio Giordana, and Dino Mendola
ISMIS 2012 Runner-Up Award:
The Problem of Finding the Sparsest Bayesian Network for an Input Data Set is NP-Hard
by Pawel Betlinski and Dominik Slezak
WI 2011 Best Paper Award:
Diversifying Product Review Rankings: Getting the Full Picture
by Ralf Krestel and Nima Dokoohaki
IAT 2011 Best Paper Award:
Influence of Personality Traits on the Rational Process of Cognitive Agents
by FranC'ois Bouchet and Jean-Paul Sansonnet
WI 2010 Best Paper Award:
Niche Product Retrieval in Top-N Recommendation
by Mi Zhang and Neil Hurley
WI 2010 Best Student Paper Award:
The Effects of Query Bursts on Web Search
by Ilija Subasic and Carlos Castillo
IAT 2010 Best Paper Award:
DLB-SDPOP: A Multiagent Pseudo-tree Repair Algorithm for Load Balancing in WLANs
by Shanjun Cheng, Anita Raja, Jiang (Linda) Xie and Ivan Howitt
IAT 2010 Best Student Paper Award:
Collaborative Learning of Ontology Fragments by Co-operating Agents
by Heather S. Packer, Nick Gibbins, and Nicholas R. Jennings
WI 2009 Best Paper Award:
From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns
by Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, and Sebastiano Vigna
WI 2009 Best Student Paper Award:
All You Can "Eat" Ontology-Building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc
by Samuel Sarjant, Catherine Legg, Michael Robinson, and Olena Medelyan
IAT 2009 Best Paper Award:
Attention Manipulation for Naval Tactical Picture Compilation
by Tibor Bosse, Rianne van Lambalgen, Peter-Paul van Maanen, and Jan Treur
IAT 2009 Best Student Paper Award:
Extending Algorithms for Mobile Robot Patrolling in the Presence of Adversaries to More Realistic Settings
by Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti, Thomas Rossi, Sofia Ceppi, and Francesco Amigoni
WI 2008 Best Paper Award:
DL Reasoning and AI Planning for Web Service Composition
by Freddy Lecue, Alain Leger, and Alexandre Delteil
IAT 2008 BestPaper Award:
Beyond Quasi-linear Utility: Strategy/False-name-proof Multi-unit Auction Protocols
by Yuko Sakurai, Yasumasa Saito, Atsushi Iwasaki and Makoto Yokoo
WI 2007 Best Paper Award:
Geographically-Sensitive Link Analysis
by Hyun Chul Lee, Haifeng Liu, and Renee J. Miller
IAT 2007 Best Paper Award:
Revisiting ADOPT-ng and its Feedback Schemes
by Marius Silaghi and Makoto Yokoo
WI-IAT 2006 Best Paper Awards:
Plans as Products of Learning
by GSamin Karim, Budhitama Subagdja, and Liz Sonenberg

A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies
by Sik Chun Lam, Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman, and Wamberto Vasconcelos
WI 2005 Best Paper Award:
A Method of Web Search Result Clustering Based on Rough Sets
by Ngo Chi Lang and Nguyen Hung Son
IAT 2005 Best Paper Award:
Analyzing Myopic Approaches for Multi-Agent Communication
by Raphen Becker, Victor Lesser, and Shlomo Zilberstein
WI 2005 Best Student Paper Award:
Social Computing and Weighting to Identify Member Roles in Online Communities
by Robert Nolker and Lina Zhou
WI/IAT 2005 Best Demo Award:
A-globe: Multi-Agent Platform with Advanced Simulation and Visualization Support
by David Sislak, Martin Rehak, and Michal Pechoucek
WI/IAT 2004 Best Application Paper Award:
An Online Recommender System for LargeWeb Sites
by Ranieri Baraglia and Fabrizio Silvestri
WI/IAT 2004 Best Student Paper Award:
Improving Modeling of Other Agents using Tentative Stereotypes and Compactification of Observations
by Jorg Denzinger and Jasmine Hamdan
WI/IAT 2004 Best Demo Award:
SimMarket - Agent-based Supermarket Simulation
by Bjorn P. Stahmer and Arndt Schwaiger
WI/IAT 2003 Best Paper Awards:
Dynamic Stochastic Capacity Pricing for Resource Allocation
by Alain G. Njimolu Anyouzoa, Theo D'Hondt, D.C. Akoa, and Mamour Ba

Exploiting a Search Engine to Develop More Flexible Web Agents
by Shou-de Lin and Craig A. Knoblock
WI/IAT 2001 Best Paper Awards:
An Intelligent Channel Allocation Scheme for Mobile Networks: An Application of Agent Technology
by Eliane J. Bodanese and Laurie G. Guthbert

Collecting, Visualizing, and Exchanging Personal Interests and Experiences in Communities
by Yasuyuki Sumi and Kenji Mase
WI/IAT 2001 Best Demo Award:
InfoPipes: A Flexible Framework for M-Commerce Applications
by Robert Baumgartner, Sergio Flesca, Georg Gottlob, Marcus Herzog, and Alois Waser


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