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ICPE Most Influential Paper Award - Diego Perez-Palacin & Raffaela Mirandola

The Most Influential ICFP Paper Award is presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the ICFP held 10 years prior to the award year. The papers are judged by their influence over the past decade. This year, the award went to Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University & Raffaela Mirandola, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Most conferences have the Best Paper Award, but not as many go back in time to see which papers had the most influence over the years, especially not in the timeframe of a decade.

Diego Perez-Palacin & Raffaela Mirandola have been working together since 2010. The award-winning paper Uncertainties in the modeling of self-adaptive systems: a taxonomy and an example of availability evaluation was written when Diego worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Raffaela at Politecnico di Milano. The collaboration has lasted over the years. Raffaela has been a guest professor at Linnaeus University, with the support of the KK-foundation, and most recently, Diego has been a guest researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The duo received the award during the 15th annual International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) in South Kensington, London, from May 7-11th.

"Getting this kind of recognition feels remarkably satisfying. The award states the positive influence that some of our publications have on other researchers' work, which, of course, makes us feel proud as members of a research community. It encourages us to continue our research in this area, and it also brings an excellent opportunity to look back and reflect on how the area has evolved over the last ten years", says Diego.