ECCS'10 European Conference on Complex Systems

1st prize - 400 Euros (money prize by Springer)

• "A stochastic model of autocatalytic reaction networks"
  Authors: Alessandro Filisetti, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, Rudolf M. Fuchslin, Norman Packard, Stuart A. Kauffman, and Irene Poli
  
  

2nd prize ex aequo - 200 Euros each paper (money prize by Springer)

• "A stochastic model of social interaction in wild house mice"
  Authors: Nicolas Perony, Barbara König, and Frank Schweitzer
  
  
• "Modularity Measure of Networks With Overlapping Modules"
  Authors: Anna Lazar, Danel Abel, and Tamas Vicsek
  
  
• "Population Dynamics on Complex Food Webs"
  Authors: Gian Marco Palamara, Vinko Zlatic, and Guido Caldarelli
  
  
• "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tree-Based Theory for Bond Percolation on Networks with Clustering"
  Authors: Sergey Melnik, Adam Hackett, Mason A. Porter, Peter J. Mucha, and James P. Gleeson
  
  

Special mention - other papers with remarkable overall quality

• "Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent based versus structured metapopulation models"
  Authors: Marco Ajelli, Bruno Gonçalves, Duygu Balcan, Vittoria Colizza, Hao Hu, José J. Ramasco, Stefano Merler, and Alessandro Vespignani
  
  
• "Towards an Integrated Understanding of Protein Graph Characteristics for Protein Folding"
  Author: Susan Khor
  
  
• "A Multi-Agent System for the simulation of urban dynamics"
  Authors: Julien Perret, Florence Curie, Julien Gaffuri, and Anne Ruas
  
  
• "Urban Built Form Grows Critical"
  Authors: Romulo Krafta, Vinicius de Moraes Netto, and Leonardo Lima
  
  
• "A Case Study in the Application of an Agent-Based Approach in the Formulation of Policies for UK Transport Emission Reduction"
  Authors: Araz Taeihagh and René Bañares-Alcántara
  
  
• "Schelling's segregation model for an open city: emergence of physical frontiers from a socio-spatial dynamics"
  Authors: L. Gauvin, J.-P. Nadal, and J. Vannimenus
  
  
• "Effective free energy for individual dynamics"
  Authors: Sébastian Grauwin, Eric Bertin and Pablo Jensen
  
  
• "Cooperation in the International Relations System"
  Author: Matus Halas
  
  
• "Labour mobility, industry evolution and social networks: a co-evolutionary model"
  Author: Ricardo Mamede
  
  
• "HedN Game, a Relational Framework for Network Based Cooperation"
  Authors: Franck Delaplace and Pierre Lescanne
  
  
• "Compensations in the Shapley value and the compensation solutions for forest games"
  Authors: S. Béal, E. Rémila, and P. Solal
  
  
• "Simulating Opinion Dynamics in Heterogeneous Communication Systems"
  Authors: Walter Quattrociocchi, Rosaria Conte, and Elena Lodi
  
  
• "Power-law distributions in scientific publishing and reviewers’ workload"
  Author: Ding-wei Huang
  
  
• "Modeling Settlement Patterns in Real Territories"
  Authors: Joaquim Carvalho, Rui Lopes, and João Tojo
  
  
• "Ecotoxicity risks during influenza pandemic"
  Authors: Andrew C. Singer, Vittoria Colizza, Heike Schmitt, Johanna Andrews, Duygu Balcan, Wei E. Huang, Virginie D. J. Keller, Alessandro Vespignani, and Richard J. Williams
  
  
• "Mixing patterns among epidemic groups"
  Author: Christel Kamp
  
  
• "Spatial sampling in HMRF mapping problems: Static and adaptive algorithms"
  Authors: Nathalie Peyrard and Régis Sabbadin and Daniel Spring and Ralph Mac Nally and Barry Brook
  
  
• "On Coverage Bounds of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks"
  Authors: Joydeep Chandra and Niloy Ganguly
  
  
• "The Web of Data as a Complex System"
  Authors: Christophe Gueret, Shenghui Wang and Stefan Schlobach
  
  
• "Network synchronization interval and local Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy"
  Authors: Acilina Caneco, Sara Fernandes, Clara Grácio and J. Leonel Rocha
  
  
• "The Observatorium – The structure of news: topic monitoring in online media with mutual information"
  Author: David Rodrigues
  
  
• "Integrating Heterogeneous Gene Expression Data for Gene Regulatory Network Modelling"
  Authors: Alina Sîrbu, Heather J. Ruskin and Martin Crane
  
  
• "Estimation of time-variant risks by the slime mold Physarum polycephalum"
  Authors: Bernd Meyer, Cedrick Ansorge, and Toshiyuki Nakagaki
  
  
• "Using wavelet analysis to disentangle the different movement regimes of foraging animals"
  Authors: Arnold Fertin and Vincent Fourcassié
  
  
• "Statistical and Spectral Properties of Self-organizing Macromolecular Systems"
  Authors: Deniz Turgut, Ali Rana Atilgan and Canan Atilgan
  
  
• "How opinion dynamics generates group hierarchies"
  Authors: F.Gargiulo and S.Huet
  
  
• "The soft consensus model: dynamics, complexity, and modularity"
  Authors: G. Campanella, T. V. de Araújo, and R. A. Marques Pereira
  
  
• "Beyond Lyapunov"
  Author: Rui Vilela Mendes
  
  
• "Characterising Steady-State Topologies of SIS Dynamics on Adaptive Networks"
  Authors: Stefan Wieland, Tomas Aquino, Andrea Parisi, and Ana Nunes
  
  
• "Parametric Resonance in Time-Dependent Networks of Hopf Oscillators"
  Authors: Julio Rodriguez and Max-Olivier Hongler
  
  
• "What is the best approach in modeling emergent behavior of complex systems"
  Authors: Maryam Esmaeili, A. Vancheri, and P. Giordano