We are pleased to announce that the JACIII Awards of 2019 have been decided by the JACIII Editorial Board. This year, the award winning papers were severely and fairly selected among 399 papers published in JACIII Vols. 20 (2016) to 22 (2018). The awarding achievements of 2019 are as follows:

JACIII BEST PAPER AWARD 2019

Title: Analyzing Potential of Personal Values-Based User Modeling for Long Tail Item Recommendation

Authors: Yasufumi Takama, Yu-Sheng Chen, Ryori Misawa, and Hiroshi Ishikawa

J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.22 No.4, pp. 506-513, July 2018

JACIII YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD 2019

Title: Characteristics of Rough Set C-Means Clustering

Authors: Seiki Ubukata, Keisuke Umado, Akira Notsu, and Katsuhiro Honda

J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.22 No.4, pp. 551-564, July 2018

JACIII BEST REVIEW PAPER AWARD 2019

Title: A Survey of Video-Based Crowd Anomaly Detection in Dense Scenes

Authors: Junjie Ma, Yaping Dai, and Kaoru Hirota

J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.21 No.2, pp. 235-246, March 2017