ECSA 2025
Mon 15 - Fri 19 September 2025 Limassol, Cyprus
Thu 18 Sep 2025 15:00 - 15:30 at Phoenix - Session 5 - Architectures for MLOps Chair(s): Daniel Feitosa

Machine Learning Enabled Systems (MLS) are becoming integral to real-world applications, but ensuring their sustainable performance over time remains a significant challenge. These systems operate in dynamic environments and face runtime uncertainties like data drift and model degradation, which affect the sustainability of MLS across multiple dimensions: technical, economical, environmental, and social. While Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) addresses technical dimension by streamlining the ML model lifecycle, it overlooks other dimensions. Furthermore, some traditional practices, such as frequent retraining, incur substantial energy and computational overhead, thus, amplifying the sustainability concerns. To address them, we introduce HarmonE, an architectural approach that enables self-adaptive capabilities in MLOps pipelines using the MAPE-K loop. HarmonE allows system architects to define explicit sustainability goals and adaptation thresholds at design time, and performs runtime monitoring of key metrics, such as prediction accuracy, energy consumption, and data distribution shifts, to trigger appropriate adaptation strategies. We validate our approach using a Digital Twin (DT) of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), focusing on traffic flow prediction as our primary use case. The DT employs time series ML models to simulate real-time traffic and assess various flow scenarios. Our results show that HarmonE adapts effectively to evolving conditions while maintaining accuracy and meeting sustainability goals.

Thu 18 Sep

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14:00 - 15:30
Session 5 - Architectures for MLOpsResearch Papers at Phoenix
Chair(s): Daniel Feitosa University of Groningen
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An Approach for Integrated Development of an MLOps ArchitectureResearch Track Paper
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Petra Heck Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Jacco Snoeren Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Merel Veracx Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Manon Peeters Fontys University of Applied Sciences
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MLOps in Practice: Requirements and a Reference Architecture from IndustryResearch Track Paper
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Indika Kumara Tilburg University, Rowan Arts JADS, Tilburg University, Renato Cordeiro Ferreira JADS, Tilburg University, Dario Di Nucci University of Salerno, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Damian Andrew Tamburri University of Sannio - JADS/NXP Semiconductors, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel JADS/Tilburg University
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HarmonE: A Self-Adaptive Approach to Architecting Sustainable MLOpsResearch Track Paper
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Hiya Bhatt IIIT Hyderabad, Shaunak Biswas IIIT Hyderabad, Srinivasan Rakhunathan Microsoft, India, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad