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)

PosePrompt: Soft-Prompted Large Language Models for Natural Language Description of Human Motion from 2D Pose
Liyun Gong, Oluwapelumi Alagbe, Sheldon McCall, Philp Williams, Huizhi Liang, Miao Yu

Mitigating Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Stateful Agentic Workflows
Zahra Fakoor Harehdasht, Marius Schönberger, Silke Vaas

Evaluating Policies to Improve Relational-Level Learning in Engineering Mathematics: An Approach based on Machine Learning and the Monte Carlo Method
Isaac Caicedo-Castro, Rubby Castro-Púche, Oswaldo Vélez-Langs

A Narrative Exploration of the Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Managerial Functions in Africa
Edward Phele, Pako Ntchupetsang, Modammed Aqil Malek, Aadil Malek, Nathan Davids, Anita Ratlou, Joshua Ebere Chukwuere, Richard Abolade Akinkunmi