Research PapersECSA 2023

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 17th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2023) will be held from September 18 to 22, 2023.

ECSA 2023 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful and historic city of İstanbul in Turkey.

Scope

The special theme for ECSA 2023 is “Software Architectures for Engaging Responsibility”. We are interested in learning about how software architecture principles and practices are evolving and being applied to engage software architects in societal and environmental responsibility. This raises questions such as: What are current research and practice results in developing and evolving software architecture principles for systems that include responsible design solutions? What are current research and practice results in developing and evolving software architecture principles for promoting responsibility in different domains such as collaborative, autonomous and heterogeneous systems, as well as other emerging applications? What are good/bad examples and case studies in the context of responsible software architectures? How have software architecture courses changed to accommodate responsibility in design decisions, team skills, and underlying technologies?

The Program Committee of 17th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture including, but not limited to:

• Foundational principles of software architecture
• Linking requirements engineering and software architectures
• Quality attributes and software architectures
• Architecture design, analysis and feedback
• Architecture description languages and meta-models
• Architecture verification and validation
• Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale
• Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture
• Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems
• Architectural concerns of autonomic systems
• Architecture patterns, styles and tactics; reference architectures
• Architecture viewpoints and views
• Architecture conformance
• Software architecture virtualization and visualization
• Architecture-centric process models and frameworks
• Software architecture and agility, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevOps tools
• Component-based models and deployment; middleware
• Software architecture and system architecture
• Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering
• Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social and managerial aspects of software architecture
• Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas such as the cloud/edge-cloud, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems of systems, energy-aware software, quantum computing
• Architecture and technical debt
• Software architecture education
• Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture.

Paper Submissions

ECSA 2023 seeks four types of papers for the research track:

• Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated)
• Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies, experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture
• Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations, novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software architecture research advances to practical situations and systems
• Short papers(max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in-progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training. Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full.

All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected.

To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work.

The research track of ECSA 2023 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are encouraged:

• To make their artifact available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous repository) – and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or
• To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and
• To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available upon acceptance, if that is the case.

All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Page limits include figures and references.

Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2023 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2023.

Please indicate ECSA’23 Research Papers in the Track field.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

We plan to organize a JSS Special Issue on the theme “Software Architectures for Engaging Responsibility” and to invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their research.

Important Dates

Main Conference:

• Abstract submission: May 5, 2023  May 11, 2023 (Extended)
• Paper submission: May 12, 2023  May 18, 2023 (Extended)
• Acceptance notifications: June 16, 2023   June 23, 2023 (Extended)
• Camera-ready: June 30, 2023

Submission dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth).

Organizers

• Program Co-Chair, Chouki Tibermacine, University of Montpellier,France
• Program Co-Chair, Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy