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
