Best Paper Awards

The programme committee of VARIABILITY 2026 selected two best paper awards, based on the reviews:

• Do LLMs Know UVL? Quantifying Factual Knowledge and Generative Capabilities in Variability Engineering by José Miguel Horcas Aguilera, Joaquin Ballesteros , Mónica Pinto, and Lidia Fuentes.
• Usability Analysis of Configurator User Interfaces with Multimodal Large Language Models, by Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Adnan Kraljić, Tarik Kraljić, Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Gerhard Leitner, Julian Schwazer, Doris Suppan, Reinhard Willfort, Ivan Dukic, Jeremias Fuchs, and Manuel Henrich.

Congratulations to all the awardees!