The research, titled “Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems”, presents a theory of architectural techical debt, a software development phenomenon which causes losses in the order of millions to IT companies each year.
The research was selected among the top 0.3% of all submissions.
More information on the prize is availabe here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/announcements/jss-2021-top-papers.