Alessandro V. Papadopoulos, leader of MARC Research Area 2: Control and Robotics, receives Most Influential Paper Award at SEAMS 2026

26/4/2026

Alessandro V. Papadopoulos, leader of MARC Research Area 2: Control and Robotics, has been recognized at the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2026). His paper, “Model Predictive Control for Software Systems with CobRA,” co-authored with Vítor E. Silva Souza, John Mylopoulos, and Konstantinos Angelopoulos, received the Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award.

The awarded work addresses the challenge of modelling the dynamic relationship between system requirements and possible adaptations. It introduces a controller that leverages this relationship to optimize requirement satisfaction with respect to a defined cost function. The approach is realized through a model-based framework for designing self-adaptive software systems capable of maintaining guaranteed levels of requirement satisfaction over time. This is achieved by dynamically composing adaptation strategies as needed. The framework is demonstrated and evaluated through a simulation based on a Meeting Scheduling System exemplar.

Paper link https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7830545

SEAMS is a CORE-A ranked conference dedicated to advancing software engineering methods, techniques, and tools for building safe, high-performance, and cost-effective self-adaptive and autonomous systems. These systems exhibit self-properties such as self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to explore and address key challenges in engineering self-adaptive and self-managing systems.