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ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award

Presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at a SIGSOFT sponsored or co-sponsored conference held at least 10 years prior to the award year. In including all of SIGSOFT's conferences in the competition, this award recognizes the breadth and vitality of the software engineering community. The papers are judged by their influence since their publication. The award includes a $1000 honorarium to be split amongst the authors as they choose, a award certificate of recognition for each author, an invitation for the authors to present a retrospective keynote talk at the current year's annual SIGSOFT Foundations of Software conference, as well as inclusion of a full-length retrospective paper in the SIGSOFT conference proceedings. Travel support in the amount of $2000 will be provided, split amongst the attending authors as they choose. A public citation for the award paper will be placed on the SIGSOFT web site.

The award given in year N is for a highly influential paper presented at a conference held in calendar year N-10 or prior. A selection committee and selection committee chair will be selected by the current SIGSOFT Executive Committee. The committee chair shall adjudicate conflicts of interest, appointing substitutes to the committee as necessary. For purposes of continuity, committee members may remain on the committee for up to three years. The award committee shall be no less than three people in size.

Nominations should be made electronically to carlo.ghezzi@polimi.it in December of each year. The results will be announced in August.

Previous Recipients of the Impact Paper Award and Paper Name

2008 Rosenblum, D. S. and Wolf, A. L. A design framework for Internet-scale event observation and notification. In Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Conference Held Jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (Zurich, Switzerland, September 22 - 25, 1997). M. Jazayeri and H. Schauer, Eds. Foundations of Software Engineering. Springer-Verlag New York, New York, NY, 344-360.

 

Retrospective Awards

Harel, D., Lachover, H., Naamad, A., Pnueli, A., Politi, M., Sherman, R., and Shtul-Trauring, a. STATEMATE: a working environment for the development of complex reactive systems. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering (Singapore, April 11 - 15, 1988). International Conference on Software Engineering. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 396-406.
Ungar, D. Generation Scavenging: A non-disruptive high performance storage reclamation algorithm. SIGPLAN Not. 19, 5 -- ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments, (May. 1984), 157-167.
Parnas, D. L., Clements, P. C., and Weiss, D. M. The modular structure of complex systems. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering (Orlando, Florida, United States, March 26 - 29, 1984). International Conference on Software Engineering. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 408-417.
Weiser, M. Program slicing. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering (San Diego, California, United States, March 09 - 12, 1981). International Conference on Software Engineering. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 439-449.
Liskov, B., Snyder, A., Atkinson, R., and Schaffert, C. Abstraction mechanisms in CLU. In Proceedings of An ACM Conference on Language Design For Reliable Software (Raleigh, North Carolina, March 28 - 30, 1977). D. B. Wortman, Ed., 140.