ICSA 2025
Mon 31 March - Fri 4 April 2025 Odense, Denmark

This program is tentative and subject to change.

For future regulatory compliance, organizations must assess and report on the state of sustainability in terms of its impacts over time. Sustainability, being a multidimensional concern, is complex to quantify. This complexity further increases with the interdependencies of the quality concerns across different sustainability dimensions. The research literature lacks a holistic way to evaluate sustainability at the software architecture level. With this study, our aim is to identify quality attribute (QA) trade-offs at the software architecture level and quantify the related sustainability impact. To this aim we present an improved version of the Sustainability Impact Score (SIS), building on our previous work. The SIS facilitates the identification and quantification of trade-offs in terms of their sustainability impact, leveraging a risk- and importance-based prioritization mechanism. To evaluate our approach, we apply it to an industrial case study involving a multi-model framework for integrated decision-making in the energy sector. Our study reveals that technical quality concerns have significant, often unrecognized impacts across sustainability dimensions. The SIS coupled with QA trade-offs can help practitioners make informed decisions that align with their sustainability goals. Early evaluations can help organizations mitigate sustainability risks by taking preventive actions.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 3 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change

10:30 - 11:30
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Software ArchitectureResearch Papers / Software Architecture in Practice at Main Hall (O100)
Chair(s): Vasilios Andrikopoulos University of Groningen
10:30
15m
Research paper
On the Effectiveness of Microservices Tactics and Patterns to Reduce Energy Consumption: An Experimental Study on Trade-Offs
Research Papers
Xingwen Xiao , Chushu Gao Software Improvement Group, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print
10:45
15m
Paper
Using Sustainability Impact Scores for Software Architecture Evaluation
Software Architecture in Practice
Iffat Fatima Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vasilios Andrikopoulos University of Groningen, Bram van der Waaij TNO
Pre-print
11:00
15m
Research paper
Investigating the Impact of Software Design Patterns on Energy Consumption
Research Papers
Adel Noureddine University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Olivier Le Goaër LIUPPA, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
11:15
15m
Research paper
A Comprehensive Experimentation Framework for Energy-Efficient Design of Cloud-Native Applications
Research Papers
Sebastian Werner TU Berlin, Germany, Karl Wolf , Maria C Borges Technische Universität Berlin, Stefan Tai Technische Universität Berlin
Pre-print
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