Workshops and Tutorials Track ECSA 2026

Call For Workshops and Tutorials

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
• Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software
• 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
• Agile Software Architecting
• Human Aspects of Software Architecting
• Software Architecture Assessment
• AI assisted Software Architecting
• Agile Modeling

Workshop Proposal Submissions

All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format, 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 2026 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)
• 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 (16 pages for full papers and 8 pages for short papers)
• 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)

The organisers of the workshops are not permitted to submit a paper for the workshop they are organising.

At least one workshop organizer must register and attend it.

Tutorial Proposal Submissions

A tutorial proposal must not exceed 8 pages following the LNCS format, including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified:

• Tutorial title
• Contact information of tutorial presenter(s), including name, affiliation, email
• Tutorial summary (up to 350 words) for ECSA 2026 website (if tutorial is accepted)
• Detailed description of tutorial: Covered topics, Learning objectives, Key take-aways for audience, Relevance of topic for ECSA, Intended 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 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.

At least one workshop organizer must register and attend it.

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

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. Page limits include figures and references must not exceed 8 pages. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2026 Workshops and Tutorial Track. Please select the “Workshops and Tutorial Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click “Continue”.

Important Dates

Workshops

• Workshop proposal: January 16, 2026
• Workshop proposal notification: January 30, 2026
• Workshop papers abstracts: May 01, 2026
• Workshop papers submission: May 08, 2026
• Notification: June 08, 2026
• Camera-ready paper: TBD

Tutorials

• Tutorial papers submission: May 08, 2026
• Notification: June 08, 2026
• Camera-ready paper: TBD

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