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)

Concept of Ecosystem for Smart Agriculture: Millimeter-Wave Information-Centric Wireless Visual Sensor Network
Shintaro Mori

Cooperation between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Wireless Cellular System
Vicente Casares-Giner, Xiaohu Ge, Yuxi Zhao

Simultaneous Localization, Mapping, and Moving Object Tracking Using Helmet-Mounted Solid-State LiDAR
Ikuro Inaga, Masafumi Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi

Quantized Rank Reduction: A Communications-Efficient Federated Learning Scheme for Network-Critical Applications
Dimitrios Kritsiolis, Constantine Kotropoulos

Inducing and Detecting Anchoring Bias via Game-Play in Time-extended Decision-Making Tasks
Prithviraj Dasgupta, John Kliem, Mark Livingston, Jonathan Decker

AI Explain: AI-Generated Graphic Storytelling for Explaining AI Across Cultures
Petra Ahrweiler, Gayathri Geetha Rajan

Deep Learning Approach for Shadow Removal Using Semantic Segmentation and Attention Mechanism
Po-Chin Chang, Shi-Jinn Horng

Does Johnny Get the Message? Evaluating Cybersecurity Notifications for Everyday Users
Victor Jüttner, Erik Buchmann

Informational Analysis of Time Series of Sentinel-1 Vegetation Indices for Discerning Pest-affected Vegetation Sites: the case of Toumeyella Parvicornis
Luciano Telesca, Nicodemo Abate, Michele Lovallo, Rosa Lasaponara

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

EMMA: Extended Multimodal Alignment for Robust Object Retrieval
Rahul Agarwal

Redefining Leadership: AI Literacy is a Strategic Imperative for 21st Century Leaders
Claudette McGowan, Salah Sharieh, Alexander Ferworn

Methodology for Integrated Mapping of Radiation and Light Intensity in Power Transmission Lines
Maria Luiza Stedile, João Henrique Soares, Davi do Valle, Andre de Oliveira, Ronnier Rohrich

RGB-D Object Classification System for Overhead Power Line Maintenance
José Mário Nishihara, Heitor Lopes, Thiago Silva, André Lazzaretti, Andre de Oliveira, Ronnier Rohrich

Psychological Issues for Designing XR Spaces: From Usability to Humability
Britta Essing, Dennis Paul, René Reiners

Optimizing Neural Networks for Activity Recognition in Daily Living: A Case Study Using Signal Processing and Smartwatch Sensors
Klemens Waldhör, Philipp Müller

Early Response Prediction for H2 Sensors
Raduan Sarif, Carlo Tiebe, Christian Herglotz

Progressively Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
Evgenii Ostanin, Nebojsa Djosic, Fatima Hussain, Salah Sharieh, Alexander Ferworn, Malek Sharieh

Geozone-Aware Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Path Planning Using RRT* and Jellyfish-Inspired Optimization for Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
Judit Salvans Baucells, Elham Fakhraian, Ivana Semanjski