ICSA 2024
Tue 4 - Sat 8 June 2024 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Dates
Thu 6 Jun 2024
Fri 7 Jun 2024
Tracks
ICSA Early Career Track
ICSA Journal First
ICSA New and Emerging Ideas
ICSA Poster Track
ICSA Research Papers
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Thu 6 Jun

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11:30 - 13:00
Session 2: Modeling and Simulation & PostersPoster Track / Research Papers / New and Emerging Ideas / Early Career Track

Session Chair: Flavio Oquendo, IRISA (UMR CNRS) - Univ. Bretagne-Sud (UBS)
Room: H-105, Himalaya Block

11:30
20m
Research paper
Combining a Functional Simulation with Multi-level Timing Simulation for Software Architecture Models to Improve ExtensibilityNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Sebastian Weber , A: Thomas Weber , A: Robert Heinrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), A: Jörg Henß
12:05
20m
Research paper
Inconsistencies in Production Workflows and How to Model ThemNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
14:00 - 15:30
Session 3A: API and MicroservicesResearch Papers / New and Emerging Ideas

Session Chair: Daniele Di Pompeo, University of L’Aquila
Room: H-105, Himalaya Block

15:15
20m
Research paper
Toward a Collaboration Optimization in Microservice Projects based on Developer PersonalitiesNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Xiaozhou Li , A: Fabio Calefato University of Bari, A: Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu, A: Davide Taibi University of Oulu and Tampere University
14:00 - 15:30
Session 3B: Ethics, Security, Trust and ResponsibilityNew and Emerging Ideas / Research Papers

Session Chair: Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Room: D-101, D-Block, Himalaya Building

14:00
20m
Research paper
Towards Anthropomorphic Trust Management for Digital SocietyNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Hind Bangui Masaryk University, A: Barbora Buhnova Masaryk University
14:20
20m
Research paper
An architecture for ethics-based negotiation in the decision-making of intelligent autonomous systemsNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Mashal Afzal Memon University of L’Aquila, Italy, A: Gian Luca Scoccia Gran Sasso Science Institute, A: Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, A: Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila
14:55
15m
Research paper
A Novel Approach for Security Analysis in Microservices using Graph Neural NetworksNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Chitra Babu , A: Akil Karthikeyan Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, A: Nandakishor Velu , A: Kaarthik Sivakumar , A: Abhishek Pathak
15:10
15m
Research paper
Towards a Single Source of Truth with a Freely Shareable DeltachainNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas

Fri 7 Jun

Displayed time zone: Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi change

14:00 - 15:30
Session 6A: Architecture Design & Rationale 1New and Emerging Ideas / Research Papers

Session Chair: Ingo Weber, TU Munich and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Room: H-105, Himalaya Building

15:15
20m
Research paper
Towards Connecting Bugs and Architecture in Software Systems: A PerspectiveNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: A. Eashaan Rao IIT Tirupati, A: Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati
16:00 - 17:30
Session 7A: Architecture Design & Rationale 2New and Emerging Ideas / Research Papers

Session Chair: Vasudev Varma, Brane Research & IIIT Hyderabad. India
Room: H-105, Himalaya Building

16:50
20m
Research paper
Brain-Inspired Software Architecture: An Adaptive Neural Network SystemsNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Ashish Ranjan , A: Sushant Kumar Pandey Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, A: Tribikram Pradhan , A: Ashwini Kumar Singh
17:10
20m
Research paper
Cyber-Resilient Edge Computing: A Holistic Approach with Multi-Level MAPE-K LoopsNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A: Marco Stadler Johannes Kepler University Linz, A: Johannes Sametinger , A: Michael Riegler Johannes Kepler University Linz

Accepted Papers

Title
An architecture for ethics-based negotiation in the decision-making of intelligent autonomous systemsNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
A Novel Approach for Security Analysis in Microservices using Graph Neural NetworksNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Brain-Inspired Software Architecture: An Adaptive Neural Network SystemsNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Combining a Functional Simulation with Multi-level Timing Simulation for Software Architecture Models to Improve ExtensibilityNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Cyber-Resilient Edge Computing: A Holistic Approach with Multi-Level MAPE-K LoopsNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Inconsistencies in Production Workflows and How to Model ThemNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Toward a Collaboration Optimization in Microservice Projects based on Developer PersonalitiesNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Towards Anthropomorphic Trust Management for Digital SocietyNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Towards a Single Source of Truth with a Freely Shareable DeltachainNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas
Towards Connecting Bugs and Architecture in Software Systems: A PerspectiveNEMI
New and Emerging Ideas

Call for Papers

The goal of the New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) track at ICSA is to encourage the software architecture community to propose new software architecture research visions and ideas, which can potentially challenge the status quo of the software architecture discipline (research and practice) and point to new directions and opportunities.

The ICSA 2024 NEMI track seeks the following types of contributions:

New Ideas

  • Visions or exciting new directions supported by a robust and well-motivated scientific foundation or practical application with concrete plans going forward
  • Arguments or results that challenge established results or beliefs, providing evidence that calls for fundamentally new directions, opening up new research avenues or software architecture practices
  • Thought-provoking reflections, bold and unexpected results, and reflections that can help us look at current research directions in a new light, calling for new directions for future research; bold revisits of current research directions that may be somehow misguided
  • Radically new approaches, techniques, or theories that can bring new results to software architecture research or practice; may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results, but are nonetheless supported by strong and well-argued scientific intuitions as well as concrete plans going forward

Emerging Results

  • Not yet fully mature research results, which may lack full validation however they should be supported by initial evidence. These initial results should point to important scientific novelty or gaps that can stimulate reflection.
  • Startling new results that come in conflict with established results or beliefs, supporting a call for fundamentally new research directions
  • Papers that trigger discussion and raise awareness and reflection on specific topics in research and/or practice

Scope of NEMI Track

NEMI provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking insights in software architecture to accelerate the exposure of the community to early and ongoing yet promising and potentially inspiring innovations in both industry and academia. A NEMI track paper is not just a scaled-down version of an ICSA research track paper. The NEMI track is reserved for first-class contributions that provide novel, soundly motivated directions and emerging results in research and practice.

In principle, the track addresses the same software architecture topics of interest as those of the research track. However, NEMI authors are encouraged to combine those topics in new ways to establish connections to other fields outside of classical software architecture, push the boundaries of software architecture to new avenues, as well as to argue for the importance of software architecture research and practice in areas not explicitly listed.

Out of Scope

A NEMI submission should not be just incremental results on existing research, nor disguised advertisements for previously published results, products, tools or methods, or experience reports. ICSA 2023 offers several tracks and workshops where such work can be submitted for the benefits of the ICSA community.

Expected Content

NEMI papers must clearly motivate and illustrate a rationale for changing current practice and/or research in software architecture. Evaluation results are not required for NEMI papers (but if such results exist, they may be presented if only to give the reviewers insights into the evaluation plan). Strong argumentation and reasoning are expected to inspire the readers.

Papers must include, in the abstract and the introduction, a clear statement about the claimed contribution, i.e., “New Ideas”or “Emerging Results”.

NEMI submissions must include a section titled “Discussion”, including a critical reflection on the new idea or emerging results that explicitly addresses relevant aspects for discussion during the conference. These aspects include, for example, the potential societal impact of the vision, ideas, and/or results proposed; alternatives and their pros and cons in comparison with the proposal; aspects going beyond technical barriers that may affect the feasibility of the submitted proposal, and others. Finally, we require all submissions to the NEMI track to include a section titled “Future Plans”, where the authors outline the work they plan on doing to turn their new idea or emerging results into a full-length paper in the future.

Evaluation

Each submission will be reviewed and evaluated in terms of the following quality criteria:
  • Value: the problem is worth exploring, ideally inspired by real-world use;
  • Impact: the potential for disruption of current practice and/or research;
  • Originality: the novelty of insights or ideas/visions; the extent to which the contributions are sufficiently original with respect to the state-of-the-art;
  • Scholarship: appropriate consideration of the current literature;
  • Evaluation: appropriate consideration of relevant literature and/or research evaluation to demonstrate originality, arguments, and limitations; and
  • Quality: overall manuscript quality and how the paper’s quality of writing meets the high standards of ICSA, including explicit descriptions, as well as adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions

New Ideas will also be evaluated based on: Rationale: soundness of the justification, reasoning, and argumentation

Emerging Results will also be evaluated based on: Evaluation: initial evidence; appropriate consideration of relevant literature and/or research evaluation to demonstrate originality, arguments, and limitations

Formatting and Submission

All NEMI submissions must conform to the author Instructions (including the instructions under “Expected Content” above) and must not exceed 5 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. No double-blind, but single-blind review will apply to NEMI papers. All papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair (track: ICSA 2024 New and Emerging Ideas) , by the submission deadline. Submissions must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for ICSA 2023 NEMI track. Note that in addition to an oral plenary presentation at the conference, authors of accepted papers may also bring a poster describing their work further to showcase their work to a broader ICSA audience.

Important Dates

  • Abstract Submission: Feb 11th, 2024
  • Paper Submission: Feb 18th, 2024
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 17th, 2024
  • Camera-ready Submission: March 31st, 2024

Publication and Attendance

All accepted contributions will be published in ICSA 2024 Companion proceedings and will appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Note that at least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register and present the work at the conference. In the absence of restrictions (such as those due to Covid-19), an in-person presentation is required. All submissions must conform to the IEEE paper formatting and submission instructions and must not exceed 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two additional pages containing only references are permitted. The submissions must conform to the author instructions as well as to the IEEE Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text

All papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system by the submission deadline, and must not have been published before or be submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration at ICSA. All submissions will be checked with an anti-plagiarism tool.

New and Emerging Ideas Track Chairs

Nelly Bencomo, Durham University, UK
Damian Andrew Tamburri, Eindhoven University of Technology – JADS, NL & Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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