ECSA 2025
Mon 15 - Fri 19 September 2025 Limassol, Cyprus

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 19 Sep 2025 14:45 - 15:00 at Phoenix - Session 8 - Practices and Perspectives

More and more legal norms directly target software-based systems. Although these norms often require some form of legal assessment, such as the data protection impact assessments mandated by the General Data Protection Regulation, they are usually conducted in separated steps before or after development. As legal norms translate to requirements of the system to be developed, they have a profound influence on the software design and architecture, which makes subsequent changes cost intensive. Therefore, it should be ensured that software architects are provided with knowledge that supports them in designing legally compliant systems. In this paper, We derive challenges for legal knowledge transfer and discuss how we address them. As an initial approach, we define a metamodel for structured legal comments and present a first attempt to automatically annotating them within data flow diagrams. The approach is demonstrated with an example system in a real-world legal context, illustrating why supported knowledge transfer is necessary.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 19 Sep

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14:00 - 15:30
Session 8 - Practices and PerspectivesResearch Papers at Phoenix
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
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