The purpose of the Best Paper Award is to recognize and promote quality contributions to academic research and writing among scholars and students who present papers at the SIF conference. All papers submitted and presented in the SIF conference are eligible for competition for the Best Paper Award. The paper receiving the highest score by the Scientific Committee members will be awarded as the Best Paper Award.
The winner of the Best Paper Award was Dr. Carlos Couto, University of Aveiro, with the paper:
RESISTANCE MODELS FOR THIN-WALLED STEEL BEAMS UNDER NON-UNIFORM TEMPERATURE USING MACHINE LEARNING
Authors: Carlos Couto, Qi Tong, Thomas Gernay