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 (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Bridging the Domain Gap: Evaluating Fact-Grounded Knowledge Graph Narratives for Explainable AI in Clinical Decision Support
Valentin Göttisheim, Holger Ziekow, Peter Schanbacher, Djaffar Ould-Abdeslam

Identifying Confusion Trends in Concept-based XAI for Multi-Label Classification
Haadia Amjad, Kilian Göller, Steffen Seitz, Carsten Knoll, Ronald Tetzlaff

RanXplain: Explaining Rankings in Recommendation Systems
Atakan Yilmaz, Nuray Eylul Erler, Emre Atilgan, Melisa Bal Aslan

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

CAT in the Box: A CausalAI – Tsetlin Machine Duo Enabling explainable Stroke Diagnosis and Prevention
Jalpa Soni, Emelian Gurei, Jaime Lopez Sahuquillo, Sergio Garcia Gomez, Victor M Saenger, Manuel Rodriguez Yañez, Francisco Campos Perez

Explainability Analysis for Skill Execution
Khatina Sari, Paul G. Plöger, Alex Mitrevski

Explaining the Medical Record: a Research Agenda for Non-medical Practitioners
Ray B. Jones, Aled Jones, Sally Abby, Patricia Schofield, Joanne Paton, Jill Shawe, Jenny Freeman, Avril Collinson, Nicholas Peres, John Downey, Sheena Asthana