The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Restrictions Towards the Adoption of Social Media Platforms by Civil Servants
Joshua Ebere Chukwuere, Sikedi Ramawela

Smart Contacts as APIs
Athanasios Priftis, Joel Israel, Jean-Philippe Trabichet

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Text-based Causality Modeling with Emotional Information Embedded in Hierarchic Topic Structure
Takuro Ogawa, Ryosuke Saga

Identifying Latent Toxic Features on YouTube Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Adewale Muyiwa Obadimu, Esther Mead, Nitin Agarwal

Identifying Obstacles in Data Sharing by Automatic Extraction of Problematic Points in Documents
Yan Wan, Yalu Wang, Guanhao Chen, Jinping Gao

Predicting Opinions Across Multiple Issues in Large Scale Cyber Argumentation Using Collaborative Filtering and Viewpoint Correlation
Md Mahfuzer Rahman, Joseph Sirrianni, Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Douglas Adams