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)

Identification and Characterization of Content Traps in YouTube Recommendation Network
Monoarul Bhuiyan, Nitin Agarwal

Defect Prevention Review by Process Relationship Matrix
Shuichiro Yamamoto

Fair Learning for Bias Mitigation and Quality Optimization in Paper Recommendation
Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi, Susan Gauch

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

Heuristic Search Using Language Models and Reinforcement Learning
Carolina Carvalho, Paulo Quaresma

Optimizing Resource Management in Algerian Traditional Brick Manufacturing (SNG) Using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts with Solidity
Aimene Boughrira, Samia Aitouche, El Hocine Grabsi, Hichem Aouag, Kamel Taouririt, Khireddine Bourmel

VAULT: Verified Access Control for LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Querying
Maximilian Stäbler, Tobias Müller, Frank Köster, Chris Langdon

Stance-Conditioned Modeling for Rumor Verification
Gibson Nkhata, Susan Gauch

Measuring Tacit Knowledge Hiding in IT Consulting Firms
Jason Triche

ColBERT-Based User Profiles for Personalized Information Retrieval
Aleena Ahmad, Gibson Nkhata, Abdul Rafay Bajwa, Hannah Marsico, Bryan Le, Susan Gauch