Most Influential Paper Award 2016 of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) for the paper DiaGen: A Generator for Diagram Editors Providing Direct Manipulation and Execution of Diagrams, 1995 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages. [pdf, web]
EATCS Best Paper Award at ICGT 2015, the 8th International Conference on Graph Transformation (L'Aquila, Italy, July 21-23, 2015) for the paper Frank Drewes, Berthold Hoffmann, and Mark Minas: Predictive Top-Down Parsing for Hyperedge Replacement Grammars. [web, pdf]
Most Influential Paper Award 2008 of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) for the paper Diagram editing with hypergraph parser support, 1997 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages. [pdf, web]
Best Tool Presentation of the Workshops Application of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance 2003 (AGTIVE 2003). [pdf]
Wolfgang-Finkelnburg-Award 2001 for the habilitation thesis Spezifikation und Generierung graphischer Diagrammeditoren. [web]