WASA 2025

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In the modern automotive landscape, the integration of software and electronics has catalyzed innovations that enhance safety, security, driver experience, and vehicular automation. As the horizon of innovation expands, encompassing developments like self-adaptive algorithms and sophisticated driving automation, the quest for fully autonomous vehicles intensifies. This surge in software dependency has precipitated a paradigmatic shift, necessitating automotive companies to harness architectural and model-based development techniques. While model-based tools and methodologies are gaining traction as standard languages and tools for crafting automotive control software, broader system and software architecture methodologies remain less universally embraced. A notable exception is the AUTOSAR standard, which delineates the lexicon for designing and configuring automotive software architectures and demarcates principal architectural constituents of automotive systems.

This workshop is dedicated to confronting challenges associated with refining and standardizing automotive system/software architecture and engineering techniques for broader industry acceptance. In alliance with the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) - a vanguard in the software architecture realm – the Workshop on Automotive System/Software Architecture (WASA) seeks to amalgamate insights from both researchers and practitioners. We aspire that this confluence will not only spotlight novel research trajectories, challenges, and roadmaps but also foster enduring partnerships bridging academia and industry well beyond the workshop’s conclusion.

Call for Papers

The program committee of the 10th WASA edition seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research, new methods, approaches, and processes, novel applications, approaches for education and training in automotive system/software architecture, and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture including, but not limited to:

Automotive system/software architecture
- architecture description languages
- hardware/software co-design
- design patterns
- communication infrastructure
- centralized/zonal architectures
- influence of AI on architecture
- security, Over-the-air updates
- service-oriented architectures
Automotive software & systems engineering:
- software quality, safety, security
- model-based design, component-based design
- CI/CD, agile processes
- software ecosystems
- hybrid & fully electric vehicles
- cooperative and automated driving
- data analytics
- systems engineering
Assessment, Verification & Validation:
- safety assurance and assessment
- verification & validation techniques
- challenges and solutions for AI-based services
- compliance management of standards or regulations

Types of Submissions

Full papers (max. 10 pages in IEEE Computer Science proceedings format) presenting novel research ideas, significant empirical studies, successful industrial applications, or important perspectives.
Industrial papers (max. 6 pages in IEEE Computer Science proceedings format) sharing industrial experience, challenges, research or technical problems, case studies.
Position or future trend papers (max. 4 pages in IEEE Computer Science proceedings format) raising new ideas, challenges, ongoing research or early research results, and future trends.

Submissions must follow the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format, as workshop proceedings will be published in ICSA 2025 Companion proceedings, and appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Papers need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair.

Important Dates

All dates are AoE.

Paper submission: December 20, 2024 January 4, 2025 (extended)
Paper notification: January 20, 2025
Camera-ready workshop papers due: January 27, 2025
Workshop dates: March 31 or April 1, 2025

Program

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Committees

Organizing Committee

Stefan Kugele, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany, stefan.kugele@thi.de
Yanja Dajsuren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Alessio Bucaioni, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
Jasmin Jahić, University of Cambridge, UK

Program Committee (tentative)

Klaus Becker, Continental, Germany
Christian Berger, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Darko Durisic, Volvo Cars, Sweden
Thomas Galla, Elektrobit, Germany
Philipp Obergfell, BMW Group, Germany
Ramesh S, General Motors, USA
Miroslaw Staron, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Andreas Vogelsang, University of Cologne, Germany
Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-B (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore), India
Aditya A. Paranjape, TCS Research, India
Elena Lisova, VCE, Sweden
Predrag Filipovikj, Scania, Sweden