The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Exploring the Creation and Added Value of Manufacturing Control Systems for Software Factories
Herwig Mannaert, Koen De Cock, Jeroen Faes

Design Elements for a Space Information Network Operating System
Anders Fongen

A Software Engineer's Oath: Perceptions of Computer Ethics in a Multicultural Classroom [POSTER]
Simona Vasilache

Design Pattern Detection in Code: A Hybrid Approach Utilizing a Bayesian Network, Machine Learning with Graph Embeddings, and Micropattern Rules
Roy Oberhauser, Sandro Moser

Prerequisites for Simulation-Based Software Design and Deployment
Radek Koci, Vladimir Janousek

Engineering IoT-based Software Systems for Forestry: A Case Study
Marko Jäntti, Markus Aho

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Source Code Analysis of GitHub Projects from E-Commerce and Game Domains
Doga Babacan, Tugkan Tuglular

INTERACT: a Tool for Unit Test Based Integration of Component-based Software Systems
Nils Wild, Horst Lichter

Combining Retrieval and Classification: Balancing Efficiency and Accuracy in Duplicate Bug Report Detection
Qianru Meng, Xiao Zhang, Guus Ramackers, Visser Joost

An Empirical Investigation of Usability Measurement in Canvas Educational Applications
Shabbab Algamdi, Stephanie Ludi

Towards Improving Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Leveraging Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network for Mammogram Analysis
Marwa Ben Ammar, Dorra Zaibi, Faten Labbene Ayachi, Riadh Ksantini, Halima Mahjoubi