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IFToMM World Congress 2023 bestows three different categories of Best Paper Awards as below.
Best Research Paper
The IFToMM Best Research Paper Award recognizes an exceptionally significant achievement in any of IFToMM areas. The achievement must be an important advance upon which subsequent work has been built or is expected to be built. It may be an invention, an experimental finding, a theoretical development, or a methodological or software framework.
Best Application Paper
The IFToMM Best Application Paper Award recognizes an exceptionally significant application in any of IFToMM areas. The application must be an important advance that has been realized with outstanding results in a practical implementation. It may be a methodology, a technique, a design solution, an experiment and/or a software framework that has/have been validated on real system(s), showing impressive performance.
Best Student Paper
The IFToMM Best Student Paper Award Recognizes an exceptionally significant achievement of a student-based work in any of IFToMM areas. The achievement must be an important result of student work upon which subsequent work has been built or is expected to be built. It may be a result of a young author (preferably a student) alone or a result of a team in which one or more young authors had an essential role.