Best paper award
The Best Paper Award at ANTS 2006 continues a grand tradition started at ANTS 2002
Only full-length papers were eligible for the award. Each ANTS~2006 participant was given ten votes to distribute among up to three articles. The paper that received the most votes was declared the winner.
The prize winner received a certificate signed by the conference organizers and a sculpture of an ant expressly created for the ANTS workshop by the Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese.
The finalists were as follows:- A Framework and Model for Soft Routing
Martin Roth
- An Analysis of the Different Components of the AntHocNet Routing Algorithm
Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni A. Di Caro, and Luca Maria Gambardella
- Negotiation of goal direction for cooperative transport
Alexandre Campo, Shervin Nouyan, Mauro Birattari, Roderich Groß, and Marco Dorigo
- On the Invariance of Ant System
Mauro Birattari, Paola Pellegrini, and Marco Dorigo
- PLANTS: Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Structure-Based Drug Design
Oliver Korb, Thomas Stützle, and Thomas E. Exner
- PLANTS: Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Structure-Based Drug Design
Oliver Korb, Thomas Stützle, and Thomas E. Exner
Our congratulations to the winners!
Matteo Pugliese's sculpture awarded to the best paper presented
at ANTS 2006
 Gianni di Caro casts his vote |
 Alcherio Martinoli invites the finalists onto the podium |
 Alcherio Martinoli announces the winner |
 Thomas Stützle receives the prize |