BCS SGAI
The Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
AI-2026: The Forty-sixth SGAI International Conference
15th-17th December 2026

Best Papers in Each Stream

Technical Stream

Best Paper

Empirical Performance Evaluation of Synchronous and Asynchronous Particle Swarm Optimization and Population based Hill Climbing on Engineering Optimization Problems
Christoph Tholen (Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Lars Nolle (Jade University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Best Student Paper

JSONSeqBench: Towards better schema design
Shankar Palamootil and J Grobler (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Application Stream

Best Paper

On Adapting Time Series Foundation Models for Stress Detection
Jae-Eun Nam and S. Meyer-Nieberg (University of the Bundeswehr, Neubiberg, Germany)

Best Student Paper

Forecasting High Speed 2 Construction Environmental Impacts
Xu Feng, K.A. Nguyen, J. Ahluwalia (Royal Holloway University of London, UK), M. Tye (High Speed 2, UK)


BCS SGAI
The Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
AI-2026: The Forty-sixth SGAI International Conference
15th-17th December 2026