Tools and Demos TrackECSA 2026

Call For Tools and Demos

The Tools and Demos Track at ECSA 2026 provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent advances, ideas, experiences, and challenges in the field of Software Architecture by means of Tools and Demos presentations.

Types of Contributions

Tools and Demos papers are intended to address any aspect of: (i) tool support for software architectures, or (ii) demonstrate results about the application of architectural approaches. Papers submitted to this track can belong to two distinct categories:

• Tool paper (max. 8 pages in LNCS style): papers about academic or industrial artifacts with a specific purpose and that can be used by others. Papers may present new tools, extensions of existing tools, and/or evaluations of tools. Papers should show how scientific approaches related to the software architecture and architecting process are transferred into working tools and how they advance the current state of the practice.

• Demo paper (max. 8 pages in LNCS style): papers about academic or industrial results that explain how a novel or existing approach related to software architecting has been applied and possibly benchmarked. The focus is on presenting practical applications of implemented architectural approaches. Papers may present hardware and software systems, concepts, and/or techniques related to software architectures and architecting. The emphasis should be on the benefits and potential of specific architectural solutions that may be demonstrated, e.g., through live demonstrations, prototypes, and/or simulations.

Tools and Demos papers should clearly state the envisioned users as well as the high level process that users should follow.

Tools and Demos Papers contribute to the advancement of the field by providing insights, experiences, and practical solutions related to software architectures. Tools and Demos should not be used as a means for commercial advertisement. We will strive to keep ECSA’s tradition of selecting the Best Tools and Demos Paper, awarded during the conference. The selection of the Best Tools and Demos paper will be made based on the votes of the attendees of the conference.

Review and Ethics Policy

All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous single-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on relevance, soundness, originality, and quality. 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.

Submission

Tools and Demos submissions should provide a link to a video, with audio commentary, of three to five minutes length, with high resolution (e.g., details of the tool’s functionality should be visible). The video must be uploaded on a server (e.g., YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox), and the link must be included in the submission for its evaluation (as a footnote on the first page of the submission or as links after the abstract of the submission). In addition, it is possible to provide open material, e.g., source code and/or a running instance of the tool. The links to the video and (if applicable) the additional material should be included in the contribution after the abstract and before the introduction sections.

To foster reuse, as well as ease the reviewers’ job, authors are highly encouraged to share their tool in a ready-to-use form. This could be achieved through, e.g., a permanently online website with a reasonable response time, a virtual machine image, a software container (e.g., Docker), or a system configuration (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Salt, CFEngine). 

All contributions need to be written in English, must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. If accepted, each contribution needs to be presented by one of the authors who is registered at the conference.

All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 8 pages including figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2026 Tools and Demos Track. Please select the “Tools and Demos Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click “Continue”.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: April 24, 2026
• Paper submission: May 01, 2026
• Notification: June 05, 2026
• Camera-ready paper: TBD

All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth).