❖ Best Presentation Award
Recipients: 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”
❖ Best Reviewer Award
Recipients: 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
Recipients: 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”