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)

AI for Global Challenges: Case Studies in Urban Solar Exposure and Wildfire Management
Giorgos Filandrianos, Angeliki Dimitriou, Vasiliki Kostoula, Nikolaos Chalvantzis, David Caballero, Luis Torres, Michal Kulczewski, Javier Cladellas, Zoltán Horváth, Harald Köstler, Konstantinos Nikas, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Giorgos Stamou

Towards AI-Generated African Textile Patterns with StyleGAN and Stable Diffusion
Christelle Scharff, Samyak Rakesh Meshram, Krishna Mohan Bathula, Fnu Kaleemunnisa, Om Gaikhe

Cybersecurity Concerns of Artificial Intelligence Applications on High-Performance Computing Systems
Rishabh Saxena, Aadesh Baskar, Sameer Haroon, Sameed Hayat, Oleksandr Shcherbakov, Kerem Kayabay, Dennis Hoppe

ChatSEC: Spicing up Vulnerability Scans with AI for Heterogeneous University IT
Mario Hoffmann, Erik Buchmann

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

Monocular Depth Estimation Pre-training for Imitation-based Autonomous Driving
Shubham Juneja, Virginijus Marcinkevicius, Povilas Daniušis

Assessing Privacy Policies with AI: Ethical, Legal, and Technical Challenges
Irem Aydin, Hermann Diebel-Fischer, Vincent Freiberger, Julia Möller-Klapperich, Erik Buchmann, Michael Färber, Anne Lauber-Rönsberg, Birte Platow

Combining Templates and Language Models for the Automatic Creation of Scientific Overviews
Sarah Frank, Andreas Wagner, Christian Gütl

Fuzzy Agent-Based Simulation of Integrated Solutions for Task Allocation and Battery Charge Management for Fleets of Autonomous Industrial Vehicles
Juliette Grosset, Alain-Jérôme Fougères, Moïse Djoko-Kouam, Jean-Marie Bonnin