BESC 2024 will feature several awards to acknowledge distinguished contributors, including the Best Paper Award, the Best Student Paper Award, and the Distinguished Reviewer Award. Each awardee will receive a certificate. In addition, the authors of the best paper and the best student paper will also receive a cash prize sponsored by the Human-centric Intelligent Systems (HCIN) journal (500 USD for the Best Paper and 300 USD for the Best Student Paper).
BESC will invite the papers that receive the best awards (i.e., the Best Paper and the Best Student Paper) for publication in the Human-centric Intelligent Systems (HCIN) journal, subject to additional review by the journal.
Best Paper Award
Using Topic Detection to Analyze Student Reflections in Service-Learning: A Text Mining Method for Understanding Learning GainsYuanyuan Wang, Grace Ngai, Hong Va Leong, Chi Fai Stephen Chan, and Eugene Yujun Fu
Best Paper Runner-Up Award
Temporal Inference of Psychosocial States from Digital Biomarkers for Just-In-Time Adaptive InterventionsAishah Shah and Vladimir Tomberg
Best Student Paper Award
Optimizing Urban Commercial Landscapes with POI Strategic Group Analysis: A Meta-Learning Hypergraph ApproachJiaqi Jiang, Xin Lin, Jiahui Jin, Siyuan Huang, Haoyu Chen, and Xigang Sun
Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award
How Warnings of Product Drawbacks Affect Online Shopping DecisionsElaheh Jafari and Julita Vassileva
Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award
How Do LLMs Generate Emotional Metaphors? A Vector-Based Cognitive InvestigationAnna Mao, Wenqing Zhang, Kai Mao, Kaiping Peng, Honghong Bai, and Song Tong
Best Special Session Paper Award
Early Detection of Multimodal Hot-Topic Misinformation in User-Generated ContentZheng He, Jiawei Li, Zhonghong Ou, Meina Song, Qika Lin, Kaize Shi, and Yifan Zhu
Best Special Session Paper Runner-Up Award
Interpretable Recommendation via Semantic and Syntactic Knowledge Enhanced Aspect-based Sentiment AnalysisYiming Wu, Tangwei Ye, Liang Hu, Qi Zhang, Mana Zhang, Mingzhu Zhou, and Siyi Ma
Best Paper in Special Session "Human-AI Interaction in Educational Settings: Disciplinary Characteristics, Interaction Processes, and Learning Performance"
Theory-Informed vs. Example-Driven Prompting for LLM-Based Qualitative Data Coding in Educational ResearchGuang Chen, Wangda Zhu, Yin Nicole Yang, Daner Sun, and Zhiyuan Wen
Best Paper in Special Session "Knowledge-Driven AI Applications in Healthcare, Mobility, and Social Systems"
Analysis of Tongue Image Data Augmentation and Classification Methods Based on Multi-Attribute FeaturesEntao Chen, Runhe Huang, Chunyu Tu, Zhiyong Yu, and Kaixin Du
Best Paper in Special Session "LLM-Driven Molecular Modeling and Drug Interaction Analysis in Behavioural and Social Computing"
EquiMapLE: High-Fidelity and High-Throughput Molecular Analogue Screening with Equivariant Fingerprints and Learned FusionXinyu Lu, Lingge Gao, Yuhao Zhang, Weiguang Qu, Peirong Ma, Yafei Li, He Huang, and Yanhui Gu
Best Demo Paper Award
An Automated Extraction System for Material Chemistry Experimental ProtocolsFan Yang, Feiyang Xu, Huadong Liang, Xianghui Fan, Linjiang Chen, Kun Zhang, Xin Li, Le Wu, and Shijin Wang
Best Demo Paper Runner-Up Award
Adaptive Cooperative Perception Task Scheduling for Vehicle Platoons via PPO-Based Deep Reinforcement LearningFenghui Zhang, Jiaxin Ma, Ao Zhou, Yu Zong, Qiu Xu, and Huaqiang Xi
AI as Game Designer: Achieving Optimal Level Balance through LLM-based System
Yiwei Huang, Shiwei Zhao, Runze Wu, Jiale Wei, Zhipeng Hu, Ping Wang, Tangjie Lv, Le Li, and Changjie Fan
Best Workshop Paper Award
Collegial Panel Mechanism Legal Judgement Prediction Via Majority Voting and Rationale GenerationChaoyu Wei, Tenan Wu, Juan Xu, Kun Zeng, and Tianyong Hao
Best Reviewer Award
Haoran Yang, Central South University, ChinaXin Yang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
Yao Wan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Zhiyuan Wen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Zubair Shah, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Outstanding Service Award
Shiqing Wu, City University of Macau, Macau SARYu Yang, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR