❖ 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award
Recipients: Antonio Filieri, Martina Maggio, Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Nicolás D’Ippolito, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Andreas B. Hempel, Henry Hoffmann, Pooyan Jamshidi, Evangelia Kalyvianaki, Cristian Klein, Filip Krikava, Sasa Misailovic, Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Suprio Ray, Amir Molzam Sharioo, Stepan Shevtsov, Mateusz Ujma, Thomas Vogel
Venue: 20th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
Awarded for the Paper: Software Engineering Meets Control Theory
❖ ICSA Diversity and Inclusion Award
Recipient: Patricia Lago
Venue: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2025)
Awarded for: “Her leadership in advancing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment in the software architecture community, inspiring equitable participation in science and engineering.”
❖ KHMW Young Talent Thesis Prize 2024
Recipients: Eloise Zhang
Supervisors: Justus Bogner and Patricia Lago
Thesis Title: How Relevant and Applicable are Green Architectural Tactics for ML-enabled Systems? A Case Study
Awarded by: Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
❖ Distinguished Reviewer Award
Recipient: Ilias Gerostathopoulos
Venue: 18th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2024)
❖ Distinguished Reviewer Award
Recipient: Justus Bogner
Venue: 18th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2024)
❖ Distinguished Open Artifact Award
Recipient: Iffat Fatima and Patricia Lago
Venue: 18th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2024)
Awarded for the Atrifact: “Software Architecture Assessment for Sustainability: A Case Study“
❖ Best Paper Award
Recipient: Ivano Malavolta, Sofia Migliorini, Roberto Verdecchia, Enrico Vicario and Patricia Lago
Venue: 18th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2024)
Awarded for the Paper: “Architectural Views: The State of Practice in Open-Source Software Projects“
❖ Most Influential Paper Award
Recipient: Emitza Guzman and Walid Maalej
Venue: 2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Awarded for the Paper: “How Do Users Like This Feature? A Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis of App Reviews“
❖ Spring 2025 Editor’s Choice Paper for the FGCS journal
Recipient: Achim Guldner and Rabea Bender and Coral Calero and Giovanni S. Fernando and Markus Funke and Jens Gröger and Lorenz M. Hilty and Julian Hörnschemeyer and Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann and Dennis Junger and Tom Kennes and Sandro Kreten and Patricia Lago and Franziska Mai and Ivano Malavolta and Julien Murach and Kira Obergöker and Benno Schmidt and Arne Tarara and Joseph P. {De Veaugh-Geiss} and Sebastian Weber and Max Westing and Volker Wohlgemuth and Stefan Naumann
Venue: Future Generations of Computer Systems
Awarded for the Paper: “Development and Evaluation of a Reference Measurement Model for Assessing the Resource and Energy Efficiency of Software Products and Components—Green Software Measurement Model (GSMM)“
❖ VERSEN Master Thesis Award
Recipients: Christos Petalotis
Supervisor: Ivano Malavolta
Thesis Title: A First Investigation Into the Detection of Energy-related Issues in Microservice-based Systems via Anomaly Detection and Root-Cause Analysis
Awarded by: VEReniging Software Engineering Nederland
❖ Distinguished Reviewer Award
Recipient: Fernanda Madeiral
Venue: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024)
❖ 2023 Outstanding Associate Editor
Recipient: Ivano Malavolta
Venue: Frontiers in Robotics and AI international journal
❖ Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2024
Recipient: Ivano Malavolta
Awarded by: the ICT research platform Netherlands (IPN), COMMIT\, and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW)
❖ Distinguished Reviewer Award
Recipient: Ivano Malavolta
Venue: 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2023)
❖ Most Influential Paper Award
Recipient: Tomas Bures, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Petr Hnetynka, Jaroslav Keznikl, Michal Kit and Frantisek Plasil
Venue: 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2023)
Awarded for the Paper: “DEECO: An Ensemble-Based ComponentSystem“
❖ IEEE TCSE New Directions Award
Recipient: Patricia Lago
Venue: 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023)
Awarded for: “Her pioneering work in sustainable software”
❖ Best Presentation Award
Recipient: Elvin Alberts
Venue: Context-aware, Autonomous and Smart Architecture Workshop@ECSA
Awarded for the Paper: “MockSAS: Facilitating the Evaluation of Bandit Algorithms in Self-Adaptive Systems”
❖ SoSyM-first paper award at MODELS 2022
Recipient: Istvan David, Malvina Latifaj, Jakob Pietron, Weixing Zhang, Federico Ciccozzi, Ivano Malavolta, Alexander Raschke, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Regina Hebig
Venue: ACM / IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2022)
Awarded for the Paper: “Blended Modeling in Commercial and Open-source Model-Driven Software Engineering Tools: A Systematic Study”
❖ Best Reviewer Award
Recipient: Roberto Verdecchia
Venue: European Conference on Software Architecture
❖ Best Paper Award at the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
Recipients: Roberto Verdecchia, Philippe Kruchten, Patricia Lago, Ivano Malavolta
Venue: Best Paper Award at the Journal of Systems and Software
Awarded for the project: “Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems”
❖ Facebook Research Award
Recipients: Roberto Verdecchia, Breno Miranda, Antonia Bertolino, Emilio Cruciani
Venue: Facebook Research Call for Proposals on Agent-based User Interaction Simulation to Find and Fix Integrity and Privacy Issues
Awarded for the project: “Testing non-testable programs using association rules”
❖ Best Reviewer Award
Recipient: Patricia Lago
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture 2021 (ICSA)
❖ Best Presentation Award
Recipients: Justus Bogner, Roberto Verdecchia, Ilias Gerostathopoulos
Venue: 4th International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)
Awarded for the Paper: “Characterizing Technical Debt and Antipatterns in AI-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study”
❖ Distinguished Paper Award
Recipients: Michael Peters, Gian Luca Scoccia, Ivano Malavolta
Venue: 21st IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (IEEE SCAM 2021)
Awarded for the Paper: “How does Migrating to Kotlin Impact the Run-time Efficiency of Android Apps?“
❖ Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award
Recipients: Roberto Verdecchia, Breno Miranda, Emilio Cruciani, Antonia Bertolino
Venue: Facebook Testing and Verification Symposium 2019 (Facebook TAV 2019)
Awarded for the project: “Static Prediction of Test Flakiness”
❖ ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Recipients: Emilio Cruciani, Breno Miranda, Roberto Verdecchia, Antonia Bertolino
Venue: 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Awarded for the Paper: “Scalable Approaches for Test Suite Reduction”
❖ Best Paper Award
Recipients: Patricia Lago, Jia F. Cai, Remco de Boer, Philipe Kruchten, Roberto Verdecchia
Venue: 52th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Awarded for the Paper: “DecidArch: Playing Cards as Software Architects”
❖ ISSIP-IBM-CBA Student Paper Award for Best Industry Studies Paper
Recipients: Patricia Lago, Jia F. Cai, Remco de Boer, Philipe Kruchten, Roberto Verdecchia
Venue: 52th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Awarded for the Paper: “DecidArch: Playing Cards as Software Architects”
❖ Runner-up Best Paper Award
Recipients: Roberto Verdecchia, René A. Saez, Giuseppe Procaccianti, and Patricia Lago
Venue: 5th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2018)
Awarded for the paper: “Empirical Evaluation of the Energy Impact of Refactoring Code Smells”
❖ Best Paper Award
Recipients: Patricia Lago, Grace Lewis
Venue: IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) & CompArch 2016
Awarded for the Paper: “A Decision Model for Cyber-foraging Systems”