ECSA 2025
Mon 15 - Fri 19 September 2025 Limassol, Cyprus
Fri 19 Sep 2025 15:00 - 15:15 at Phoenix - Session 8 - Practices and Perspectives Chair(s): Valentina Lenarduzzi

In software engineering of self-adaptive systems, uncertainties arise from the inherent complexity of these systems (i.e., the limitation to foresee all aspects related to their development and operation) and the unpredictability of the execution environments (i.e., the limitation to predict all the events), among other sources. Several taxonomies and specification languages have been proposed for uncertainties. However, they remain at a theoretical level and are hardly applied in practice. We believe the underlying problem is that researchers and practitioners lack best practices and concrete examples of how to apply the proposed taxonomies and languages in real systems. To address this gap, we contribute a catalog of uncertainties. All the uncertainties in the catalog have been extracted from concrete artifacts. Each uncertainty is described using the same template and associated with requirements specified in the RELAX language. Our objective is to provide an initial version of a catalog of uncertainties and requirements that can be (re)used as prototypical examples in different architectural solutions in various application domains. This will illustrate the strength and versatility of the chosen taxonomy and language, helping to facilitate their adoption. We believe this will also consolidate the terminology and provide a solid basis for tracing uncertainties from design to implementation and eventually to runtime. We envision that this catalog can be extended with more examples and enhanced by uncertainty patterns and corresponding adaptation strategies, providing much-needed guidance to practitioners.

Fri 19 Sep

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14:00 - 15:15
Session 8 - Practices and PerspectivesResearch Papers at Phoenix
Chair(s): Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu
14:00
30m
Full-paper
From Lab to Market: Architectural Evolution in Open Source TransitionResearch Track Paper
Research Papers
Sven Thielen Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Björn Salgert University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Thomas Franz University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
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14:30
15m
Short-paper
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Architecture Research?Research Track Paper
Research Papers
Everton Cavalcante Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa University of São Paulo, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Thais Batista Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
14:45
15m
Short-paper
Towards Legal Knowledge Transfer Based on Software ArchitectureResearch Track Paper
Research Papers
Nicolas Boltz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Janne Wagner University of Bamberg, Leonie Sterz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Oliver Raabe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Christopher Gerking Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
15:00
15m
Short-paper
SURE! A Catalog of Uncertainties and RELAXed Requirements for Self-Adaptive SystemsResearch Track Paper
Research Papers
Claudia Raibulet Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Osman Abdelmukaram Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam