The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing

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• SAC 2026 Award Winners:

  Best Paper: AI & Agents
  Aurora: Neuro-Symbolic AI Driven Advising Agent by
  Lorena Amanda Quincoso Lugones, Florida International University, United States
  Christopher Kverne, Florida International University, United States
  Nityam Sharadkumar Bhimani, Northeastern University, United States
  Ana Carolina Oliveira, Florida International University, United States
  Agoritsa Polyzou, Florida International University, United States
  Christine Lisetti, Florida International University,United States
  Janki Bhimani, Florida International University, United States

  Best Paper: Distributed Systems
  ShipNN: On-Device, Ship Identification from Underwater Noise by
  Kainat Altaf, Kiel University, Germany
  Momin Ali1, Kiel University, Germany
  Laura Harms, Kiel University, Germany
  Christian Renner, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
  Olaf Landsiedel, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

  Best Paper: Information Systems
  Advancing Normal Tissue Complication Probability Modeling with Supervised Contrastive Learning for Predicting Osteoradionecrosis by
  Eric Ababio Anyimadu, University of Iowa, United States
  Xinhua Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
  Clifton Fuller, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States
  Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
  Guadalupe Canahuate, University of Iowa, United States

  Best Paper: Software Design & Development
  Supporting Agility at Scale Through an Organization-wide Software Engineering Community of Practice: Insights from a Large Software Development Organization by
  Franziska Tobisch, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  Klaus Häuptle, SAP SE, Germany
  Florian Matthes, Technical University of Munich, Germany

  Best Paper: System Software & Security
  Adaptive Page Migration for Tiered Memory Systems via Working Set Awareness by
  Hyolim Hong, Seoul National University, South Korea
  Hyungsoo Jung, Seoul National University, South Korea

  Best Poster
  Crowdsensing Wayfinding for Urban Mobility Accessibility by
  Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy
  Salvatore Gatto, University of Padua, Italy
  Matteo Noro, University of Padua, Italy
  Lorenzo Perinello, University of Padua, Italy
  Claudio E. Palazzi, University of Padua, Italy

  SRC winners 1st-3rd
  First Place Award) Chandana Priya Nivarthi, TRACE: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection in Photovoltaic Systems
  Second Place Award) Manfredi Napolitano, A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Urban Traffic Management with Digital Twins
  Third Place Award) Maryam Khan, Integrating Large Language Models in Software Engineering Education: A Pilot Study through GitHub Repositories Mining

  Honorable Mention: AI & Agents
  CroSS:Cross-subject Visual Brain Decoding via Soft Alignment and Subject-aware Batch Normalization by
  Jun-Mo Kim, Korea University,South Korea
  WooHyeok Choi, Korea University, South Korea
  Yebin Choi, Korea University, South Korea
  Songha Kim, Korea University, South Korea
  Tae-Eui Kam, Korea University, South Korea

  Honorable Mention: Distributed Systems
  CauseRL: Reinforcement Learning-based Random Walks for Root Cause Analysis in Microservices by
  Jhon Sebastian Rojas Rodriguez, Inria, France
  Abdelkader Lahmadi, Inria, France
  Michaël Rusinowitch, Inria, France
  

  Honorable Mention: Information Systems
  DyCAD: Dynamic Collaborative Online Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series using Adaptive Clustering by
  Ming-Chang Lee, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  Jia-Chun Lin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  

  Honorable Mention: Software Design & Development
  An Analysis of Quality Assessment Methods for Knowledge Graphs by
  Jasmin Kropshofer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  

  Honorable Mention: System Software & Security
  A Practical Solution to Systematically Monitor Inconsistencies in SBOM-based Vulnerability Scanners by
  Martin Rosso, University of Padua, Italy
  Muhammad Asad Jahangir Jaffar, Kineton S.r.l., Italy
  Alessandro Brighente, University of Padua, Italy
  Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
  

  Poster Honorable Mention
  Atomic Action Slicing: Planner-Aligned Options for Generalist VLA Agents by
  Stefan Tabakov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
  Asen Popov, Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria
  S. Ensiye Kiyamousavi, Sofia University, Bulgaria
  Vladimir Hristov, Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria
  Boris Kraychev, Sofia University, Bulgaria
  

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