Workshops/TutorialsECSA 2024

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 2024. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 2-3, 2024 (right before the main conference on 4-5 September 2024).

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

Topics of interest are, but are 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

Workshop Proposal Submissions

All proposals must conform to a maximum of eight pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures.
The 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 2024 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 2024 Workshop&tutorial track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2024).

Publication and proceedings

ECSA 2024 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8, and the maximum is 16 pages.

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield
• Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal: February 8, 2024   February 15, 2024 (Extended)
• Workshop proposal notification: March 7, 2024
• Workshop papers submission: June 6, 2024 (23h59, AoE)
• Workshop papers notification: June 27, 2024
• Camera-ready copy: July 4, 2024
• Workshop: September 18-19, 2023