André Ribeiro — former masters student in computer science and engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) — and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva — Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at IST and researcher at INESC-ID — have received the “Most Influential Paper” Award at the QUATIC 2022 conference.

Ribeiro and Silva received the award — given to the article with the greatest impact and influence in the Information Technology Quality community ten years after its publication — for the article Survey on Cross-Platforms and Languages ​​for Mobile Apps. The winning paper focuses on multi or cross-platform applications and Domain Specific Languages (DSL), which facilitate the development of cross-platform mobile applications, while tackling the current state of affairs in this area.

“A forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques and tools for supporting quality approaches to ICT engineering and management”, the 15th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology — QUATIC 2022 — was organized by the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, and took place from 12-14 September 2022.