Workshops/TutorialsECSA 2023

Scope and Goal

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European forum for presenting and discussing software architecture research and practice.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2023. Workshops and tutorials will be held on 18 and 19 of September 2023 (right before the main conference on 20-22 September 2023). The plan at the moment is to organize the workshops and tutorials as an in person/physical event.

ECSA workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage.

In addition, ECSA edition 2023 hosts tutorials on topics related to software architecture from theoretical foundations to practical applications. Tutorials at ECSA provide a valuable opportunity for conference participants to expand their knowledge and skills in specific research and practical topics under the umbrella of software architecture.

Topics of interests may include but not limited to:

• Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems
• Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems
• Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing
• Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems
• Software Architecture challenges in DevOPS and MLOPS
• Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering
• Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures
• Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design
• Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures
• Sustainability in Software Architectures
• Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency
• Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design
• Architecting the Digital Twin
• Continuous Architecting

Types of submission

Tutorial Proposal Submissions

A tutorial proposal must not exceed 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below). Proposals must follow the outline below:

• Tutorial title
• Contact information of tutorial presenter(s), including name, affiliation, email
• Tutorial summary (up to 350 words) for ECSA 2023 website (if tutorial is accepted)
• Detailed description of tutorial
  • Covered topics
  • Learning objectives
  • Key take-aways for audience
  • Relevance of topic for ECSA
  • Indented target audience, required experience, and desired number of participants
• Implementation of tutorial
  • Duration - half day or full day (considering that tutorials will be as in-person/physical)
  • Preliminary schedule including estimated times (considering potentially different time zones of participants)
  • How tutorial will be conducted (e.g., lecture, hands-on exercises, facilitated group discussion, group activities, role playing, games), including materials to be included in tutorial notes
• Background of presenters
  • Relevant biographical information (250 words maximum), as well as summaries of the presenters’ subject matter experience and experience in teaching the tutorial topic, other tutorials, courses, etc.
• Previous editions of tutorial
  • Where and when the tutorial has been offered previously and numbers of attendees.

Workshop Proposal Submissions

All proposals must conform to and must be maximum 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices and figures.
Proposal must include the following information, in the order specified:

• Workshop title and acronym
• Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact
• Abstract (up to 200 words) for ECSA 2023 website (if workshop is accepted)
• Motivation and Objectives
  • Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture
  • Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies)
• Format
  • Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions
  • Duration - half day, one day or two days
  • Preliminary workshop schedule
  • Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints
• Participation
  • Target Audience and expected background
  • Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation
  • Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants
  • Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination
• Submission
  • Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number.
  • Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions
  • Program committee, including tentative and already committed members
  • Strategy for the proceedings
• Organizers
  • Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops
  • Brief organizers’ bios
• Previous editions
  • Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees
  • Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any)
• Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page)

Submission instructions

Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2023 Workshop&tutorial track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2023).

Publication and proceedings

ECSA 2023 will use a two-step process for workshop proceedings. Online proceedings (available before the start of the conference) will include all the accepted papers to the workshops and will be published online on the ECSA 2023 web page (no proceedings). The accepted papers will be accessible only by the ECSA 2023 workshop participants and the format should ,conform to LNCS (see the ECSA 2023 submission format).

After the conference, we will organize post-proceedings of selected and extended papers of workshops that will be published in a Springer LNCS volume (up to 16 pages). Candidate papers for post-proceedings need to be identified during the initial paper review and workshop paper reviewers need to indicate if an extended and revised version of an accepted submission should be considered for publication in the post-proceedings of LNCS. Workshop chairs will then be asked to nominate papers of their workshop to be invited for submission for the post-proceedings (e.g., based on the initial review reports, the preference of the reviewers to consider the paper for post-proceedings, as well as the workshop itself). Summaries of accepted tutorials can also be considered for extension in the LNCS volume. Workshop papers submitted for the post-proceedings will undergo through a minor revision cycle where the extensions with respect to the workshop versions will be checked by the reviewers. Workshop organizers must include this two-step process in their Call for Paper.

The page limit for the workshop papers is:

• 12 pages for full research papers in LNCS format + 2 extra pages for references;
• 8 pages for short research papers in LNCS format + 2 extra pages for references.

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs

• Romina Spalazzese, Malmö University, Sweden
• Hasan Sozer, Ozyegin University, Turkey

Important Dates

• Workshop/tutorial proposals due: March 24, 2023
• Notification of Workshop/tutorial proposals: March 31, 2023
• Workshop/tutorial webpages up: April 07, 2023
• Workshop papers due: June 30, 2023  July 7, 2023 (Extended)
• Notification of workshops papers: July 28, 2023
• Workshop papers (LNCS) camera-ready: August 4th, 2023
• Workshop/tutorial summaries (LNCS) camera-ready: August 4th, 2023
• Workshop/tutorial: September 18-19, 2023