Best Paper Award

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Systems Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose two articles of exceptional quality published in the journal the year prior last year and announce them online by the end of March.

The Prize:
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 300;
– A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)— valid for one year;
– A certificate.

Award FAQ

 
Systems Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Systems will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

 

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

29 pages, 3154 KB  
Article
Using Task Support Requirements during Socio-Technical Systems Design
by Andreas Gregoriades and Alistair Sutcliffe
Systems 2024, 12(9), 348; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090348 - 5 Sep 2024

Award Committee

Prof. Ben Clegg Chairperson
Aston University
Prof. Dr. Emilio Larrodé
University of Zaragoza
Dr. John Robert Turner
Texas A&M University
Prof. Alberto Paucar-Caceres
Manchester Metropolitan University

Winner

24 pages, 4220 KB  
Article
Application of Group Decision Making in Shipping Industry 4.0: Bibliometric Analysis, Trends, and Future Directions
by Yiling Yang, Tiantian Gai, Mingshuo Cao, Zhen Zhang, Hengjie Zhang and Jian Wu
Systems 2023, 11(2), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11020069 - 29 Jan 2023
18 pages, 1309 KB  
Article
Artificial Intelligence and Ten Societal Megatrends: An Exploratory Study Using GPT-3
by Daniela Haluza and David Jungwirth
Systems 2023, 11(3), 120; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11030120 - 24 Feb 2023

Award Committee

Dr. Timothy Ferris
Cranfield University
Dr. Sitalakshmi Venkatraman
Melbourne Polytechnic

Winner

24 pages, 1458 KB  
Article
The Integration of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability into Model-Based Systems Engineering
by Kyle Diatte, Bryan O’Halloran and Douglas L. Van Bossuyt
Systems 2022, 10(4), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10040101 - 15 Jul 2022
17 pages, 10432 KB  
Article
Developing an IoT Identity Management System Using Blockchain
by Sitalakshmi Venkatraman and Sazia Parvin
Systems 2022, 10(2), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10020039 - 18 Mar 2022

Award Committee

Dr. William T. Scherer Chairperson
University of Virginia
Dr. Zhou He
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dr. Maurice Yolles
Liverpool John Moores University
Dr. Sitalakshmi Venkatraman
Melbourne Polytechnic
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