Awards | José Miguel Horcas Aguilera

🥈Best Research Paper Award Candidate

🗺️Sep 2025 • A Coruña, Spain

Exploring variability modeling challenges in UVL with a dataset from the restaurant industry

29th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)

José Miguel Horcas • Mónica Pinto • Lidia Fuentes

Recognized as one of the top candidates for the Best Research Paper Award at the SPLC 2025. Selected for outstanding research quality and professional excellence among all submissions.

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🏆Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado

🗺️Dec 2021 • Málaga, Spain

WeaFQAs: A software product line approach for customizing and weaving efficient functional quality attributes

Universidad de Málaga (UMA) • Programa de Doctorado en Tecnologías de la Información

José Miguel Horcas

Extraordinary Doctoral Award, in the Information Technology PhD Program, for theses defended during the 2017/2018 academic year.

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🏆Premio Nacional SISTEDES a la mejor Tesis Doctoral

🗺️Sep 2021 • Málaga, Spain

WeaFQAs: A software product line approach for customizing and weaving efficient functional quality attributes

Sociedad de Ingeniería de Software y Tecnologías de Desarrollo de Software (SISTEDES)

José Miguel Horcas

Best PhD Thesis Award in the field of SISTEDES, 2020.

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Premio Nacional SISTEDES a la mejor Tesis Doctoral

🥇Best Paper Award

🗺️Sep 2021 • Vienna, Austria

Monte Carlo simulations for variability analyses in highly configurable systems

23rd International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS)

José Miguel Horcas • A. Germán Márquez • José A. Galindo • David Benavides

Best Paper Award.

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🥇Best Research Paper Award

🗺️Sep 2021 • Leicester, UK

Monte Carlo Tree Search for feature model analyses: a general framework for decision-making

25th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)

José Miguel Horcas • José A. Galindo • Ruben Heradio • David Fernandez-Amoros • David Benavides

Best Research Paper Award.

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🥇Award for a Best Paper

🗺️Sep 2018 • Granada, Spain

Model Driven Evolution of an Agent-Based Home Energy Management System

17th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques (SoMeT)

Inmaculada Ayala • Mercedes Amor • José Miguel Horcas • Lidia Fuentes

Award for a Best Paper in recognition of professional excellence as one of the best papers of the conference. Congratulated and recognized for the excellent research work reported in the paper.

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🥇Hitachi Young Best Paper Award

🗺️Sep 2017 • Seville, Spain

Extending the Common Variability Language (CVL) engine: A practical tool

21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) • Data, Demonstrations and Tools track

José Miguel Horcas • Mónica Pinto • Lidia Fuentes

Award sponsored by Hitachi for the best tool in the Data, Demonstrations, and Tools track at the leading international conference on Software Product Lines (SPLC).

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🥇Best Paper Award

🗺️Sep 2016 • Klagenfurt, Austria

Using models at runtime to adapt self-managed agents for the IoT

14th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES)

Inmaculada Ayala • José Miguel Horcas • Mercedes Amor • Lidia Fuentes

Best Paper Award in recognition of the excellent research reported in the paper.

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