Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Computers 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Computers from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality, significance and number of citations and downloads of the papers, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Automated Machine Learning for Healthcare and Clinical Notes Analysis
By Akram Mustafa and Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi
Computers 2021, 10(2), 24; doi: 10.3390/computers10020024

One Article:
Gamification as a Strategy to Increase Motivation and Engagement in Higher Education Chemistry Students
By Guillermo M. Chans and May Portuguez Castro
Computers 2021, 10(10), 132; doi: 10.3390/computers10100132

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Computers in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Computers 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Computers.

Kind regards,
Computers Editorial Office

 
Computers 2021 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Computers will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

31 pages, 2116 KiB  
Review
A Critical Review of Blockchain Acceptance Models—Blockchain Technology Adoption Frameworks and Applications
by Hamed Taherdoost
Computers 2022, 11(2), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers11020024 - 8 Feb 2022
17 pages, 3901 KiB  
Article
Comparison of On-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning A2C with Off-Policy DQN in Irrigation Optimization: A Case Study at a Site in Portugal
by Khadijeh Alibabaei, Pedro D. Gaspar, Eduardo Assunção, Saeid Alirezazadeh, Tânia M. Lima, Vasco N. G. J. Soares and João M. L. P. Caldeira
Computers 2022, 11(7), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers11070104 - 24 Jun 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Paolo Bellavista Chairman
University of Bologna
Prof. Robertas Damaševičius
Dr. Aditya Kumar Sahu
Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, Amaravati (Amrita University)
Dr. M. Ali Dewan

Winner

31 pages, 580 KiB  
Review
Automated Machine Learning for Healthcare and Clinical Notes Analysis
by Akram Mustafa and Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi
Computers 2021, 10(2), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers10020024 - 22 Feb 2021
24 pages, 33634 KiB  
Article
Gamification as a Strategy to Increase Motivation and Engagement in Higher Education Chemistry Students
by Guillermo M. Chans and May Portuguez Castro
Computers 2021, 10(10), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers10100132 - 16 Oct 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Paolo Bellavista Chairman
University of Bologna

Winner

26 pages, 1881 KiB  
Review
Recommendations for Integrating a P300-Based Brain–Computer Interface in Virtual Reality Environments for Gaming: An Update
by Grégoire Cattan, Anton Andreev and Etienne Visinoni
Computers 2020, 9(4), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9040092 - 14 Nov 2020
14 pages, 2525 KiB  
Article
Improving Internet of Things (IoT) Security with Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
by Abdullah Al Hayajneh, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan and Ian McAndrew
Computers 2020, 9(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9010008 - 7 Feb 2020

Award Committee

Prof. Paolo Bellavista Chairman
University of Bologna

Winner

27 pages, 1365 KiB  
Article
BlendCAC: A Smart Contract Enabled Decentralized Capability-Based Access Control Mechanism for the IoT
by Ronghua Xu, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch and Genshe Chen
Computers 2018, 7(3), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers7030039 - 13 Jul 2018
28 pages, 2836 KiB  
Article
Mobile Educational Augmented Reality Games: A Systematic Literature Review and Two Case Studies
by Teemu H. Laine
Computers 2018, 7(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers7010019 - 3 Mar 2018
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