Best Paper Award

(endowed by Springer)

Criteria: scientific quality

Title: Escaping Local Optima With Local Search: A Theory-Driven Discussion

Authors: Tobias Friedrich, Timo Kötzing, Martin S. Krejca and Amirhossein Rajabi

Best Student Paper Award

(endowed by Springer)

 Criteria: scientific quality

 Title: Increasing the Diversity of Benchmark Function Sets through Affine Recombination

Authors: Konstantin Dietrich and Olaf Mersmann

Best Poster Award

(endowed by Computer Science Alumni, Dortmund)

Criteria: quality of graphical composition/artwork and how easy the poster transports the scientific content to the viewer

Title: Escaping Local Optima With Local Search: A Theory-Driven Discussion

Authors: Tobias Friedrich, Timo Kötzing, Martin S. Krejca and Amirhossein Rajabi

Presenter: Martin S. Krejca