The paper “DEECO: An Ensemble-Based Component System” won the Most Influential Paper at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture, the premier conference on Software Architecture.
The study is available here and it has been conducted in 2013 by: Tomas Bures, Ilias Gerostathopoulos (VU Amsterdam), Petr Hnetynka, Jaroslav Keznikl, Michal Kit and Frantisek Plasil.