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)

Enhancing Building Retrofit Decision-Making: A Synergistic Approach Combining Calibrated Simulations and Machine Learning
Navid Shirzadi, Meli Stylianou

Highly-Modular and Immersive Human-in-the-Loop Driving Simulators Using the CARLA Simulation Environment
Patrick Rebling, Lars Beeh, Philipp Nenninger, Reiner Kriesten

Generalizable Spatiotemporal Reinforcement Learning Model for Maritime Search Path Planning
Pengcheng Yang, Yingying Gao, Jing Xu, Qingqing Yang

Algorithm for Predicting Radioactivity of Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plant
Changyeon Yoon

Decision Modeling for Unmanned Swarm Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Xiao Hu, Yonglin Lei, Fusong Luo, Hongfei Shi, Jiajun Zhu

Modular and Reproducible Simulator Architecture for Composable Cloud Systems
Rubén Luque, Jose Luis Díaz, Joaquín Entrialgo, Rubén Usamentiaga

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

Traditional Statistics and Machine Learning in Social Network Analysis: A Comparative Reanalysis of Social Network Data on Energy Transition Decisions
Mart Verhoog

A Framework for Demonstrating and Mitigating CAN Injection Attacks in Vector CANoe: a Case Study Using ABS
Uma Vinayak Kulkarni, Sibylle Froeschle

To Study the Variation of Daylight Illuminance Using VELUX Daylight Visualizer Under Overcast and Actual Sky Models
Ankit Bhalla, Mahua Mukharjee

Airline Decision-Making in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Transition: A Hybrid Simulation Modeling Approach
Mohd Shoaib, Fanny Camelia, Ramona Bernhardt, Ashraf Tantawy, Yaseen Zaidi, Ian Marr

Introduction of Reinforcement Learning into Automatic Stacking of Wave-dissipating Blocks
Hao Min Chuah, Tatsuya Yamazaki

PAIRS: Physics-Enabled AI for Real-Time Simulations Surrogates
Zeinab Alfaytarouni, Hamza Ben Ammar

Distributed Simulation of Multi-Agency Coordination in Maritime Emergencies
Jing Xu, Qingqing Yang, Yingying Gao, Pengcheng Yang

Dynamic Uncertainty Simulation for Path Optimization Maritime Search and Rescue
Yingying Gao, Qingqing Yang, Jing Xu, Pengcheng Yang, Yonglin Lei

Spatially Partitioned Robust Optimization for Energy-Efficient Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks under Simulation-Informed Network Conditions
Ozhan Eren, Aysegul Altin-Kayhan

Advanced Simulation Framework for UAV Path Planning Integrating Monte Carlo Prediction and MAPPO
Yingying Gao, Qingqing Yang, Jing Xu, Pengcheng Yang