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The IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award
for Excellence in Software: Theory and Practice

The Award

Technical Committee 2  of IFIP annually recognises excellence in its area by means of an award made to an outstanding researcher in software, theory are practice.
  1. The award is known as the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award.
  2. The award consists of a certificate and an amount of money to the value of 1024 euro.
  3. The award is issued annually to a natural person, or group, for a single (possibly joint) paper published in the proceedings of a suitable conference yearly so assigned by IFIP TC2.
  4. The selection is done by the Program Committee Chair(s) of the conference, and the award must be personally and publicly issued to the laureate at the event.
  5. The motto of the prize is "For excellence in Software: Theory and Practice" according to the scope of the TC2 working groups, see www.ifiptc2.org.
  6. Members of TC2 are not eligible, when member is taken as on 1st of January of the award year, but members of Working Groups are eligible.
  7. At the discretion of the committee members, there may be no award or more than one award in each year.
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The 2005 Awards

In 2005, two awards will be made, as Best Paper Awards to conferences chosen by TC2. These are:

EuroSpi2 - European Software Process Improvement and Innovation
Budapest, Hungary, 9-11 November 2005 www.eurospi.net

Winner
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)
Agia Napa Cyprus, 31 Oct-4 Nov 2005 www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/

Winner
          Stephanie Rinderle and Manfred Reichert, IS Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
          "On The Controlled Evolution of Access Rules in Cooperative Information Systems"
          to be presented as part of CoopIS'05 on Thursday Nov.3 at 11:00

Paper Award Sub-Committee
John Mylopoulos, CS, University of Toronto, Canada (subcommittee chair)
Ozalp Babaoglu, Università di Bologna, Italy
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université de Lyon,France
Arno Jacobsen, EECG, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Kifer, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Joe Loyall, BBN, USA
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland

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 memebr of WG2.2 (Formal Descreiption 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.




About IFIP TC2: Software Theory and Practice

established 1962, revised 1982, 1990

AIMS
To obtain a deeper understanding of programming concepts in order to improve the quality of software by studying all aspects of the software development process, both theoretical and practical. 

SCOPE
The scope of the committee encompasses all aspects of the software development process including the specification, design, implementation and validation of software systems. Areas of present activity are:
WORKING GROUPS
Previous winners
 
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 pp365-389 endorsed by WG2.2 (Formal Description of Programming Concepts) click to view in postscript or in pdf with a 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: 555-563 endorsed by WG2.4 (Software Implementation Technology). on the ACM Digital Library

Award committee: Carlo Ghezzi, University of Milan, Italy; Jan Vitek, University of Purdue, USA; Reino Kurki-Suonio, University of Tampere, Finland; Armando Haeberer, Chairman, TC2; Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa