ICSA 2026
Mon 22 - Fri 26 June 2026

Award winners will be announced on Wednesday, 5:35 pm, at Theatre 2.

Most Influential Paper Award Candidates

  • “The Blockchain as a Software Connector” Xiwei Xu, Cesare Pautasso, Liming Zhu, Vincent Gramoli, Alexander Ponomarev, An Binh Tran, Shiping Chen WICSA’16
  • “Relating Architectural Decay and Sustainability of Software Systems” Duc Minh Le, Carlos Carrillo, Rafael Capilla, Nenad Medvidovic WICSA’16
  • “A Multiple Case Study of Continuous Architecting in Large Agile Companies: Current Gaps and the CAFFEA Framework” Antonio Martini, Jan Bosch WICSA’16
  • “Fuzzy Self-Learning Controllers for Elasticity Management in Dynamic Cloud Architectures” Pooyan Jamshidi, Amir Molzam Sharifloo, Claus Pahl, Hamid Arabnejad, Andreas Metzger, Giovani Estrada QOSA’16
  • “Architectural Knowledge for Technology Decisions in Developer Communities: An Exploratory Study with StackOverflow” Mohamed Soliman, Matthias Galster, Amr R. Salama, Matthias Riebisch WICSA’16

Distinguished Paper Award Candidates

Research Papers

  • “A Layered Control Loop Architecture for Transparent Self-Adaptation”
  • “Evaluating Large Language Models for Detecting Architectural Design Rules Violations”
  • “Changing Nothing, Yet Changing Everything: Exploring Rug Pulls in GitHub Workflows”

Software Architecture in Practice

  • “Team-Driven Architecture Evaluation with LASR”
  • “Towards Federated Architecture Knowledge Management: Practices for Scalable, Collaborative Modeling”
  • “Five Years of Microfrontends at Kiavi”

New and Emerging Ideas

  • “Design-First Governance for Reliable AI-Assisted Software Development”
  • “Rethinking MVC Violations as Security-Aware Architectural Smells in Android Applications”
  • “A Trust Governance Architecture for Ethical-Aware Autonomous Systems in Smart Ecosystems”

Distinguished Reviewer Award Candidates

Research Papers

  • Justus Bogner
  • Remco de Boer

Software Architecture in Practice

  • Frank Buschmann
  • Anton Jansen
  • Ged Byrne
  • Siddharth Santurkar

New and Emerging Ideas

  • Martina De Sanctis
  • Alessandra Somma
  • Reiner Weinrich

Distinguished Workshop Paper Awards

SAGAI

  • “Automating Domain-Driven Design: Experience with a Prompting Framework” Tobias Eisenreich, Husein Jusic, and Stefan Wagner

MDE4SA

  • “Automating Change Propagation in Software Applications for Heterogeneous Computing” Simone Bauco, Guglielmo De Angelis, and Alessandro Pellegrini

GreenArch

  • “Feature Degradation for Frugality: A Case Study of Overleaf Application” Lucas Gazeau and Thomas Ledoux

Best Poster Award

  • “AI Engineering Blueprint for On-Premises Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems” Nicolas Weeger, Annika Stiehl, Joakim von Kistowski, Christian Uhl, Stefan Geißelsöder, and Jakob Winkler
  • Best Artifact Award Candidates

    • “Supporting Architecture-Level Resilience Analysis with an Integrated Chaos and Load Experimentation Framework”
    • “LLM-based Automated Architecture View Generation: Where Are We Now?”
    • “Changing Nothing, Yet Changing Everything: Exploring Rug Pulls in GitHub Workflows”
    • “A microservices-based architecture for machine learning systems dedicated to predictive maintenance”
    • “Architectural Design Decisions for Federated Computational Governance in Data Meshes”

    Open Science Challenge

    • “CIAO – Code In Architecture Out: Automated Software Architecture Documentation with Large Language Models” Marco De Luca, Tiziano Santilli, Domenico Amalfitano, Anna Rita Fasolino, and Patrizio Pelliccione