IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009

Best Paper Awards have been selected by the individual symposium Program Chairs as follows:

2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life - Best Paper Award
Title: "Using Real-Time Recognition of Human-Robot Interaction Styles for Creating Adaptive Robot Behaviour in Robot-Assisted Play"
Authors: Dorothee Francois, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Daniel Polani

2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life - Best Student Paper Award
Title: "Dude, Where is My Sex Gene? - Persistence of Sex over Evolutionary Time in Cellular Automata"
Authors: Nicolas Oros and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Best Paper Award
Title: "Improved Prediction of Trans-Membrane Spans in Proteins using an Artificial Neural Network"
Authors: Julia Koehler, Ralf Mueller and Jens Meiler

2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Best Student Paper Award
Title: "Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships"
Authors: Mariusz Butkiewicz, Ralf Mueller, Danilo Selic, Eric Dawson and Jens Meiler

2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications - Best Paper Award
Title: "Transforming Traditional Iris Recognition Systems to Work on Non-ideal Situations"
Authors: Zhi Zhou, Yingzi Du and Craig Belcher

2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security - Best Student Paper Award
Title: "Characterizing Comment Spam in the Blogosphere through Content Analysis"
Authors: Archana Bhattarai, Vasile Rus and Dipankar Dasgupta

2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering - Best Student Paper Award
Title: "A Calibration Method for Structural Models of Credit Risk with Reporting Bias"
Author: Agostino Capponi

2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing - Best Student Paper Award
Title: "Tactile or Visual?: Stimulus Characteristics Determine Receptive Field Type in a Self-organizing Map Model of Cortical Development"
Authors: Choonseog Park, Yoon H. Bai and Yoonsuck Choe

2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems - Best Student Paper Award
Title: "Modelling Evolving User Behaviours"
Authors: Jose Antonio Iglesias, Plamen Angelov, Agapito Ledezma and Araceli Sanchis