Manfred Paul Award
Award Coordinator
Dr. Will Tracz, ACM
Awardees
The 2024 award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2024 was granted to Kashif Rabbani (Aalborg University), Matteo Lissandrini (University of Verona), and Katja Hose (TU Wien) for their paper "Extraction of Validating Shapes from very large Knowledge Graphs".
The 2020 Award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2020 was granted to Vadim Zaytsev from Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, for his paper: Software Language Engineers’ Worst Nightmare, which appeared in the proceedings of SLE ’20, November 16–17, 2020.
“For his boldness in seeking real-world test cases for modern software language engineering tools by mining languages from the distant past.”
The 2014 Award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2014 was granted to the authors of the best paper of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering held in Västerås Sweden.
The paper selected by the ASE 2014 Programme Committee was:
Samuel J. Ellis, Eric R. Henderson, Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, Robyn R. Lutz, Divita Mathur, and Andrew S. Miner:
Automated Requirements Analysis for a Molecular Watchdog Timer
ASE 2014 Programme Committee was chaired by Marsha Chechik University of Toronto, Canada and Paul Grünbacher Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria.
The 2011 Award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2011 was granted to the authors of the best paper of the CEE-SET'2011 Conference held in Debrecen, Hungary.
The paper selected by the CEE-SET Award Committee was:
Simona Jeners, Horst Lichter, Carlos Augusto Gomez Rosenkranz: Efficient Adoption and Assessment of Multiple Process Improvement Reference Models
The CEE-SET Award Committee was:
- Miklos Biro (IFIP TC2)
- Jerzy Nawrocki (IFIP TC2)
The 2010 Award
The 2010 Award was handed out by Bertrand Meyer at ICSE'2010 (32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering) for the paper:
Jacob Burnim and Koushik Sen: DETERMIN: Inferring Likely Deterministic Specifications of Multithreaded Programs
The members of the Award Committee were: Bertrand Meyer, Prem Devanbu, Sebastian Uchitel
The 2009 Award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2009 was granted to the authors of the best paper of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009.
The paper selected by the ICSE 2009 Programme Committee was
Westley Weimer, ThanhVu Nguyen, Claire Le Goues, Stephanie Forrest: Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming
ICSE 2009 Programme Committee was chaired by Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada and Paola Inverardi, University of Aquila, Italy.
The 2007 Award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2007 was granted to the authors of the best paper of the CEE-SET'2007 Conference held in Poznan, Poland.
The paper selected by the CEE-SET Award Committee was:
Adam Trendowicz, Michael Ochs, Axel Wickenkamp, Juergen Muench, Yasushi Ishigai and Takashi Kawaguchi.: An integrated approach for identifying relevant factors influencing software development productivity
The CEE-SET Award Committee consisted of:
- Miklos Biro (IFIP TC2) – Chairman
- Zbigniew Huzar
- Lech Madeyski
- Jerzy Nawrocki (IFIP TC2)
- Krzysztof Sacha
- Bartosz Walter
- Jaroslav Zendulka
The 2006 Award
The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for 2009 was granted to the authors of the best paper of RE'06 - 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 11-15 September, 2006
The paper selected by the RE Award Committee was:
Jane Cleland-Huang, Raffaella Settimi, Xuchang Zou, and Peter Solc (DePaul University, USA): The Detection and Classification of Non-Functional Requirements with Application to Early Aspects
Paper Award Sub-Committee
- Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland (chair)
- Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, UK
- Alistair Sutcliffe, University of Manchester, UK
Awards page, see
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/req/events/RE06/ConferenceProgram/Awards.html
The 2005 Award
In 2005, two awards were made, as Best Paper Awards to conferences chosen by TC2.
EuroSpi2
EuroSpi2 - European Software Process Improvement and Innovation, Budapest, Hungary, 9-11 November 2005
The paper selected by the EuroSpi2 Award Committee was:
Martin McAnallen, MIT Systems, Ireland and Gerry Coleman, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland: Tailoring Extreme Programming for Legacy Systems: Lessons Learnt
Paper Award Sub-Committee
- Richard Messnarz, General Chair, EuroSPI2
- Scott Ambler, Ronin International, Canada
- Taz Daughtrey, James Mason University, USA
- Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Pekka Abrahamsson, VTT, Finland
- Alec Dorling, INTERSPICE, UK
OnTheMove Federated Conferences (DOA, ODBASE and CoopIS)
OnTheMove Federated Conferences (DOA, ODBASE and CoopIS) Agia Napa Cyprus, 31 Oct-4 Nov 2005
The 2001 Award
Winner:
Dr. Naoki Kobayashi from the Tokyo Institute of Technology for his paper entitled: Type Systems for Concurrent Processes: From Deadlock-Freedom to Livelock-Freedom, Time-Boundedness, IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science 2000 pp 365-389, endorsed by WG2.2 (Formal Description of Programming Concepts)
Runner-up:
Dr. Ivan Bowman, originally at the University of Waterloo, for his paper Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt, Neil V. Brewster: Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software Architecture. ICSE 1999: pp 555-563, endorsed by WG2.4 (Software Implementation Technology).
About Manfred Paul
Manfred Paul was chairman of TC2 from 1977 to 1986, and has been the representative for Germany since 1973. He was a founder member of WG2.1 (Algorithmic languages and Calculi) and chairman from 1969 to 1975, and a founder member of WG2.2 (Formal Description of Programming Concepts). He was awarded the IFIP Silver Core in 1974. One of Prof Paul's many accomplishments is that he was the author of the ALGOL compiler "ALCOR MUNICH Z22" for the ZUSE Z22, an early commercially available computer in Europe. This compiler was one of the first handling full recursion in a high level programming language. Manfred Paul passed away on September 18, 2021.