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)

Stochastic Compartment Model of Epidemic Spreading in Complex Networks with Mortality and Resetting
Thomas Michelitsch, Bernard Collet, Michael Bestehorn, Alejandro Riascos, Andrzej Nowakowski

Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence Empowered People Analytics: A Novel Framework Towards Sustainability
Otabek Khamidov, Les Sztandera

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

Statistical and Predictive Analysis to Identify Risk Factors and Effects of Post COVID-19 Syndrome
Milad Leyli-abadi, Sonja van Ockenburg, Axel Tahmasebimoradi, Jean-Patrick Brunet

Integrating Social Media Sentiment and Clinical Records for Pandemic Mental Health Analytics: Towards Real-Time Early Warning and Intervention Systems [PRESENTATION]
Sujata Patil, Les Sztandera