Awards | José Miguel Horcas Aguilera

2025

🥈 Best Research Paper Award Candidate

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

(1/3) José Miguel Horcas, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes

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

🗺️ Sep 2025 • A Coruña, Spain

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.

2021

🏆 Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado

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

(1/1) José Miguel Horcas

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

🗺️ Dec 2021 • Málaga, Spain

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

🏆 Premio Nacional SISTEDES a la mejor Tesis Doctoral

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

(1/1) José Miguel Horcas

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

🗺️ Sep 2021 • Málaga, Spain

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

Premio Nacional SISTEDES a la mejor Tesis Doctoral

🥇 Best Paper Award

Monte Carlo simulations for variability analyses in highly configurable systems

(1/4) José Miguel Horcas, A. Germán Márquez, José A. Galindo, David Benavides

23rd International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS)

🗺️ Sep 2021 • Vienna, Austria

Best Paper Award.

🥇 Best Research Paper Award

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

(1/5) José Miguel Horcas, José A. Galindo, Ruben Heradio, David Fernandez-Amoros, David Benavides

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

🗺️ Sep 2021 • Leicester, UK

Best Research Paper Award.

2018

🥇 Award for a Best Paper

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

(3/4) Inmaculada Ayala, Mercedes Amor, José Miguel Horcas, Lidia Fuentes

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

🗺️ Sep 2018 • Granada, Spain

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.

2017

🥇 Hitachi Young Best Paper Award

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

(1/3) José Miguel Horcas, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes

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

🗺️ Sep 2017 • Seville, Spain

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).

2016

🥇 Best Paper Award

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

(2/4) Inmaculada Ayala, José Miguel Horcas, Mercedes Amor, Lidia Fuentes

14th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES)

🗺️ Sep 2016 • Klagenfurt, Austria

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

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