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.
2025 Ten year most influential regular paper award
[RW15] Lukman Ab. Rahim & Jon Whittle A survey of approaches for verifying model transformations
In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 1003–1028, Springer, May 2015.
2025 Ten year most influential theme section paper award
[KSW+15] Angelika Kusel, Johannes Schönböck, Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel, Werner Retschitzegger & Wieland Schwinger Reuse in model-to-model transformation languages: are we there yet?
In: Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 537–572, Springer, May 2015.
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.
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 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.
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 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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