The International Workshop on Flexible Software Architecture for Embedded Computing Systems (SARECS) will be held at the 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). SARECS aims to explore the need, design, and application of adaptive software architectures for embedded computing systems. It will bring together researchers and developers on adaptive software architecture and embedded computing systems as well as related research fields in order to discuss how the software architectures can be made customizable for runtime adaptation, what triggers the architecture adaptation and how to secure efficiency of the architecture changes. The workshop will also explore cutting-edge techniques to create computing software systems that are more flexible and scalable, as well as practical tools for implementing adaptivity in real-world embedded systems.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: January 20, 2025
• Camera-Ready Submission: January 27, 2025

Topics

The topics include, but not limited to:

• Dynamic reconfiguration of embedded systems: Techniques and strategies to dynamically adapt software components based on system or environmental changes.
• Self-adaptive systems in embedded computing: Methods for embedding decision-making capabilities to autonomously adapt to operational conditions.
• Architectural patterns for adaptive systems: Exploring design patterns and best practices for modular, scalable and flexible embedded architectures.
• Resource-aware adaptation: Balancing performance and power consumption in resource-constrained embedded systems.
• Real-time constraints and adaptivity: Ensuring reliability and timing guarantees while allowing flexibility in system behavior.
• Application of machine learning in adaptive embedded systems: Leveraging AI for autonomous decision-making and system optimization.
• Quality driven adaptive software systems.

Submission

We solicit the submission of technical research papers that describe original and significant results of both theoretical and empirical work in flexible software architectures for embedded computing systems.

• Full technical papers (including industry experience papers), which should not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.
• Short position papers (including industry experience papers), which should not exceed 6 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.

The submissions will be evaluated based on novelty, soundness, significance/relevance, and presentation quality. All submissions must be written in English, adhere to the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format, and be submitted through EasyChair (SARECS Workshop). The papers must not have been published before or be submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration at SARECS.

Publication

The Workshop papers will be published with IEEE in ICSA 2025 companion proceedings. Note that at least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register and present the work at the conference. 

Track Chairs

• Jalil Boudjadar, Aarhus University, jalil@ece.au.dk
• Mahyar T. Moghaddam, University of Southern Denmark, mtmo@mmmi.sdu.dk

Program Committee

• Rodrigo Santos
• Saif Ul Islam
• Hugo Daniel Macedo
• To complete.