This year, in ConfWS 2026, the Best Paper Award winner were:

  • Best Paper Award: Authoring Automotive Configurations with Internal DSLs by Carsten Sinz.
  • Best Student Paper Award: Learning to Solve and Optimize by Evolving Code by Veronika Semmelrock, Benedetta Strizzolo, Francesco Zuccato, Gerhard Friedrich, Patrick Rodler and Konstantin Schekotihin.