ICCPS 2026 Test-of-Time Award - Call for Nominations (Deadline: April 17, 2026)

ICCPS 2026 Test-of-Time Award - Call for Nominations
The ICCPS 2026 organizers invite nominations for the ICCPS Test-of-Time Award, which recognizes an outstanding paper published at the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) in 2016 or earlier.
The Test-of-Time Award honors research that has demonstrated enduring impact and vision, including but not limited to:
  • initiating new directions of research,
  • significantly influencing the foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS),
  • enabling or shaping use-inspired research and real-world CPS applications, and
  • fostering the growth of connected research communities across CPS, control, systems and computing.
The award is selected by a committee of internationally recognized scientists who have made significant contributions to the CPS field and to the ICCPS community. The decision to grant the award, as well as the selection of the awardee(s), is made at the sole discretion of the selection committee, based on careful evaluation of the nominated papers.
The current committee includes Chenyang Lu (Chair), Abhishek Dubey, Lu Feng, Karl Henrik Johansson, Arvind Easwaran.
Important Dates:
  • Nomination Deadline: April 17, 2026
Eligibility Rules:
  • The paper must have been published at ICCPS in 2016 or earlier.
  • The paper must not be co-authored by any member of the selection committee.
Nomination Rules:
  • A paper can be nominated by anyone who has been part of any ICCPS Technical Program Committee, except members of the selection committee.
  • A nominator can nominate at most 1 paper.
  • Self-nominations are not allowed; nominators may not nominate papers on which they are co-authors.
  • Members of the selection committee may solicit nominations.
Award Selection Committee:
Each year, the ICCPS Steering Committee shall appoint a Chair of the ToT Awards Committee who will then appoint two or more additional committee members.
Committee members shall typically be selected from among current or former ICCPS Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chairs and other established members of the ICCPS community.
To ensure continuity and fairness, at least one member of the committee shall continue to serve on the following year’s committee. However, no individual may serve on the ToT Awards Committee for more than three consecutive years.
Members of the ToT Awards Committee must adhere to the highest standards of integrity and impartiality. A committee member shall be considered to have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination if the member has a close personal, professional, or financial relationship with a nominee or other relationship that could reasonably be perceived as influencing judgment.
Any member with a conflict of interest must disclose the conflict to the Chair (or to the Steering Committee if the Chair has a conflict) and shall recuse themselves from all discussions, evaluations, and voting related to the affected nomination.
Nomination Procedure:
Nominations must be submitted using the official Google Form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMA06EG1XTam3CN1Qvdu0RkIuDQv5L2E0OED-6yvPr9nIRZg/viewform?pli=1
Each nomination should contain approximately 500 words total, including:
  • Paper Information:
    • Title of the paper
    • Full list of authors
    • Year of publication
  • Context and Community Impact:
    • A paragraph describing the broader context in which the work is relevant.
    • An explanation of how the paper influenced the CPS community, related disciplines, or connected research areas (e.g., control, systems, networking, verification, Artificial Intelligence for CPS).
    • Both foundational CPS research and use-inspired CPS research are eligible and encouraged.
  • Evidence of Impact:
    • A paragraph describing the technical, experimental, or conceptual strength of the work.
    • Concrete evidence of impact must be provided, which may include:
      • Citation counts (e.g., Google Scholar),
      • Adoption in tools, systems, standards, or deployments,
      • Follow-on research directions, sub-fields or communities initiated,
      • Impact on regions and cities and communities, showing the benefit of the use-inspired work,
      • Evidence of how the paper helped shape or sustain a research community.
    • Both quantitative metrics and well-substantiated qualitative evidence are acceptable.
Background
The ICCPS conference series is a premier venue for research on the foundations, systems, and applications of cyber-physical systems, bringing together perspectives from computer science, control, and engineering. The ICCPS Test-of-Time Award was established to recognize papers whose influence has grown and persisted over a decade, shaping the evolution of CPS research and practice.
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