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)

Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Emergency Management Training - Creating Efficient and Realistic Scenarios with ChatGPT
Lasse Berntzen, Jarle Løwe Sørensen, Marius Rohde Johannessen, Lauritz Rauer Nilsen, Lene Sandberg, Eric Carlström, Amir Khorram-Manesh

Smart City Road Maintenance: A LiDAR and AI-Driven Approach for Detecting and Mapping Road Defects
Giovanni Nardini, Roberto Nucera, Alessandro Ulleri, Stefano Cordiner, Eugenio Martinelli, Arianna Mencattini, Iulian Gabriel Coltea

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

Enhancing Smart City Sustainability: Anaerobic Treatment of Semiconductor Industry Wastewater for Improved Efficiency and Environmental Impact
Bruno Escobar, Ana Santos, Flavio Silva, Helena Nadais

On-the-Edge Inference Enabled Vision System for Smart Cities
Carmelo Scribano, Ignacio Sanudo Olmedo, Micaela Verucchi, Danda Pani Paudel, Marko Bertogna, Luc Van Gool