{"id":15480,"date":"2026-11-10T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:20:54","slug":"best-paper-award-young-scientist-pro-ve-2026-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/best-paper-award-young-scientist-pro-ve-2026-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy J. Figueroa wins the Young Scientist Best Paper Award at PRO-VE 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upv.es\/ficha-personal\/ajfigavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy J. Figueroa<span class=\"u-sr\"> (opens in a new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a researcher at CIGIP, has received the Best Paper Award in the Young Scientist category at <a href=\"https:\/\/pro-ve2026.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRO-VE 2026<span class=\"u-sr\"> (opens in a new tab)<\/span><\/a>, the 27th IFIP\/SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, held in Padua (Italy) from 26 to 28 October. The award recognises the paper \u201cCollaborative Agents for Production Negotiation in a Manufacturing-as-a-Service Environment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, co-authored with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upv.es\/ficha-personal\/beaanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatriz Andr\u00e9s<span class=\"u-sr\"> (opens in a new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upv.es\/ficha-personal\/rpoler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ra\u00fal Poler<span class=\"u-sr\"> (opens in a new tab)<\/span><\/a> and Paco Santacatalina, presents a multi-agent system that works alongside people in production negotiation processes in Manufacturing-as-a-Service environments. The agents support the negotiation, while people remain at the centre of decision-making, in line with the Industry 5.0 vision.<\/p>\n<p>The research has been carried out within the <a href=\"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/maasai-en\/\">MaaSAI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/ai-multi-agent-system-autonomous-decision-making-en\/\">AIMAS<\/a> projects, both focused on the use of artificial intelligence agents for decision-making in manufacturing. At this edition of the conference, CIGIP also organised a <a href=\"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/special-session-agri-food-networks-pro-ve-2026\/\">special session on agri-food networks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MaaSAI is funded by the European Union&#8217;s Horizon Europe programme (GA 101177368). AIMAS (PID2025-168493OB-I00) is funded by MICIU\/AEI\/10.13039\/501100011033 and by ERDF, EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award-winning paper presents a multi-agent system that negotiates production alongside people in Manufacturing-as-a-Service environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[932,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}