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SoSyM Best Paper Awards

Each year the Editors-in-Chiefs announce an award for the regular and theme section paper which had the most influence within the last ten years. The selection is based on the ISI citation index among papers published in SoSyM ten years ago.

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	2024 Ten year most influential regular paper award [CDT14] Vittorio Cortellessa, Antinisca Di Marco & Catia Trubiani An approach for modeling and detecting software performance antipatterns based on first-order logics In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 391–432, Springer, February 2014.
	2024 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [Fra14] Ulrich Frank Multi-perspective enterprise modeling: foundational concepts, prospects and future research challenges In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 941–962, Springer, July 2014.
	2023 Ten year most influential regular paper award [MGS+13] Parastoo Mohagheghi, Wasif Gilani, Alin Stefanescu, Miguel A. Fernandez, Bjørn Nordmoen & Mathias Fritzsche Where does model-driven engineering help? Experiences from three industrial cases In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 619–639, Springer, July 2013.
	2023 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [CDIP13] Antonio Cicchetti, Davide Di Ruscio, Ludovico Iovino & Alfonso Pierantonio Managing the evolution of data-intensive Web applications by model-driven techniques In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 53–83, Springer, February 2013.
	2022 Ten year most influential regular paper award [ABH12] Shaukat Ali, Lionel C. Briand & Hadi Hemmati Modeling robustness behavior using aspect-oriented modeling to support robustness testing of industrial systems In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 633–670, Springer, October 2012.
	2022 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [SDT12] Jim Steel, Robin Drogemuller & Bianca Toth Model interoperability in building information modelling In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 99–109, Springer, February 2012.
	2021 Ten year most influential regular paper award [MW11] Zoltán Micskei & Hélène Waeselynck The many meanings of UML 2 Sequence Diagrams: a survey In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 489–514, Springer, October 2011. Slides: SoSyM-MIP-Award-2021-MW11.pdf
	2021 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [BMP11] Simona Bernardi, José Merseguer & Dorina C. Petriu A dependability profile within MARTE In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 313–336, Springer, July 2011. Slides: SoSyM-MIP-Award-2021-BMP11.pdf
	2020 Ten year most influential regular paper award [OW10] Jeff Offutt & Ye Wu Modeling presentation layers of web applications for testing In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 257–280, Springer, April 2010.
	2020 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [AKM10] Nicolas Anquetil, Uira Kulesza, Ralf Mitschke, Ana Moreira, Jean-Claude Royer, Andreas Rummler & Andre Sousa A model-driven traceability framework for software product lines In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 9, Issue 4, pp. 427–451, Springer, September 2010.
	2019 Ten year most influential regular paper award [LVDT09] Marcello La Rosa, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas & Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede Questionnaire-based variability modeling for system configuration In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 251–274, Springer, April 2009.
	2019 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [DDZ09] Karsten Ehrig, Jochen Malte Kuester & Gabriele Taentzer Generating instance models from meta models In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 8, Issue 4, pp. 479–500, Springer, September 2009.
	2018 Ten year most influential regular paper award [AK08] Colin Atkinson, Thomas Kühne Reducing accidental complexity in domain models In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 345-359, Springer, July 2008.
	2018 Ten year most influential theme section paper award [DDZ08] J. Dingel, Z. Diskin, A. Zito Understanding and improving UML package merge In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 7, Issue 4, pp. 443-467, Springer, October 2008.
	2017 Eight year most influential regular paper award [HM08] David Harel & Shahar Maoz Assert and negate revisited: Modal semantics for UML sequence diagrams In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 237–252, Springer, May 2008.
	2017 Eight year most influential theme section paper award [WP10] Stefan Winkler & Jens von Pilgrim A survey of traceability in requirements engineering and model-driven development In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 9, Issue 4, pp. 529–565, Springer, September 2010.
	2016 Eight year most influential regular paper award [ARV+10] Wil van der Aalst, Vladimir Rubin, Eric Verbeek, Boudewijn van Dongen, Ekkart Kindler & Christian Günther Process mining: a two-step approach to balance between underfitting and overfitting In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 87-111, Springer, January 2010.
	2016 Eight year most influential theme section paper award [ABGR10] Kyriakos Anastasakis, Behzad Bordbar, Geri Georg & Indrakshi Ray On challenges of model transformation from UML to Alloy In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 69-86, Springer, January 2010.
	2015 Eight year most influential regular paper award [IN08] Anne Immonen & Eila Niemelä Survey of reliability and availability prediction methods from the viewpoint of software architecture In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 49-65, Springer, February 2008.
	2015 Eight year most influential theme section paper award [MTR07] Tom Mens, Gabriele Taentzer & Olga Runge Analysing refactoring dependencies using graph transformation In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 269-285, Springer, September 2007.

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