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.

2022 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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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