DS-RT Awards
The DS-RT Conference has established the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to recognize a senior researcher for sustained and outstanding contributions to distributed simulation and real-time applications. The award honors internationally recognized leaders whose research, publications, and service have had a lasting impact on the field and the DS-RT community. The recipient is selected by the Award Committee of the current year, and the award is presented at the Conference Banquet in recognition of the recipient’s remarkable career achievements and enduring influence.
2026
Prof. Helen Karatza
in appreciation for her outstanding lifetime achievement and contribution to modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation of distributed systems.
Helen Karatza is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2025
Prof. Libero Nigro
for his sustainable and pioneering research contributions to M&S and Distributed Simulation.
Libero Nigro is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Mathematical Engineering (DIMES) at the University of Calabria in Rende, Italy, and heads the Software Engineering group at the university.
Best Paper Awards
2026
DS-RT 2026 Best Paper Award
Closing the Loop in Scene Reconstruction: Automated Evaluation and Guided Data Collection
Joakim Lindén (Malardalen University, Sweden); Ludwig Karlsson (Saab, Sweden); Håkan Forsberg and Masoud Daneshtalab (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
DS-RT 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Sys-SL: a Framework for Distributed Simulation of Systems Specified in SysML v2
Paolo Bocciarelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Andrea D'Ambrogio (University of Rome TorVergata, Italy)
A Thin Edge-Thick Core Architecture for Deterministic SIP Communications over Overlay VPN Networks: Mitigating NAT Traversal and Local I/O Bottlenecks
Antonio Francesco Gentile (Icar-Cnr, Italy); Davide Macrì (ICAR CNR, Italy); Emilio Greco (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
