VARIABILITY 2026
Tue 29 September - Fri 2 October 2026

The SPLC’25 MIP Award goes to “FeatureIDE: An extensible framework for feature-oriented software development” by Thomas Thüm, Christian Kästner, Fabian Benduhn, Jens Meinicke, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich, which was published in the Science of Computer Programming journal in 2014.



The MIP award committee selected the SPLC’16 paper Using machine learning to infer constraints for product lines, authored by Paul Temple, José Angel Galindo, Mathieu Acher, and Jean-Marc Jézéquel, as the recipient of the VARIABILITY 2026 Most Influential Paper award. Congratulations to the authors.



Best Paper Awards(Mon 27 Oct 2025)

Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000.

SPLC'25 MIP Award AnnouncedFri 28 Aug 2026
Early-bird Registration ends August 31Wed 26 Aug 2026
VARIABILITY 2026 Most Influential Paper Award Announced Wed 26 Aug 2026
Preliminary program is availableWed 26 Aug 2026
Best Paper AwardsMon 27 Oct 2025